As I mentioned a few weeks ago I had been putting into place some big news and finally after some hard work and late night phone call’s I can now make my move to London official. I am planning to relocate to the UK for a few months beginning in November. I have booked an important speaking engagement in London on the 13th of November and I will stay on for a few more months before heading over to New York for some important meetings.

I see this move as the next step in my career and I am very excited about the future and what it holds. This is by no way a permanent move though and I will be back in Australia in 2009. However if all goes to plan I will be looking at spending time each year speaking in Europe and America.

I’m sitting writing this post in Cape Tribulation in the middle of the majestic Daintree rainforest  in far North Queensland. I’m up here at this amazing hostel built right in the rain forest. My room is only a wooden frame with the walls and ceiling made of a tarp like material, which means I can lay on my bed at night and listen to the rainforest come alive with all types of wonderful animals. Its a very peaceful and beautiful place.

Yesterday we had an incredible day as we made our way up from Cairns. We stopped about 90min north of Cairns to spend the day with an Aboriginal family to learn about their traditional customs and rituals. These people still live pretty much off the land and soon after arriving we were in the middle of the mangroves knee deep in water with a spear in my hand hunting lunch. It was incredible to see how accurate my new friends were as they speared mud crab after mud crab, I on the other hand need a few more practise shots.

As we were making our way in from the water I saw a sudden movement only 4 meters away I turned quickly to see a fin sliding across the water towards us. I immediately panicked as the 2 meter  bronze whaler shark hovered near by. I started to run the other way as my friends started to move towards the shark. They then said the words I think you never want to hear while meters away from a shark….”it’s too big to spear”. As you can imagine this only made me move quicker to their amusement. We left the shark behind and made our way back through the mangroves for a well deserved lunch, along the way we picked up 15 mangrove mussels the size of my hand and went back to cook it all up. Over lunch I heard the dreaming stories of their people and they spoke of how the traditional customs still have such relevance today. I bid them farewell and continued North.

We are volunteering in the rain forest for the next 2 days, planting trees and removing noxious weed that is threatening the local flora. Thursday I leave here for Cairns and then fly to Melbourne to speak for PricewaterhouseCoopers at a luncheon on Friday. I’ll be in Melbourne over the weekend as I am speaking at the convention center on Monday at the Step to the Future youth forum. Tuesday ill be back in Sydney and later in the week I’m again speaking for PricewaterhouseCoopers and then for the Australian Israel Chamber of Commerce before heading back to Victoria for a few more speaking engagements.

Every now and then you have one of those really special moments where everything just seems to fall into place and your own little universe seems  just perfect and on Sunday evening I had one of those moments.

I was booked to speak for a group of Americans on Sunday who are out here for 3 weeks on an adventure holiday. We discussed where would be the best location for me to present and we decided that if the weather was right we would look at an outdoor venue. Sydney did not let us down and it turned on one of those classic warm winter days. I had spent the day with the group walking around the harbour fore shore and as the sun set over the Harbour Bridge I spoke to the group as they sat at Mrs Macquaries chair.

I guess I often take for granted this beautiful city I call home, however Sunday night certinaly made me realise just what an amazing place Sydney is!!

I remember when I got this site up and running I wanted to keep a detailed account of the busy and at times odd going on’s of my life. However my blog at times often gets a little neglected as other things take priority but over the next few months I am planning on rectifying this.

Again as always things have been quite busy over the last month I have had plenty of speaking jobs right across Australia including Sydney, Central Coast, Melbourne and Darwin. Last week I had a great mini tour where I got to speak to over 2500 kids out in the central west. In between all of this I have been busy with plans for the future and over the last few days I have made a pretty big decision that will equal a huge change in my life latter in the year, I won’t say to much more now as I still need to tell some pretty important people before I make things public.

I am speaking for a group of American students on Friday and then spending some time with them around Sydney before heading up the Barrier Reef to do some sailing with them. Then it’s back on the road speaking for another few weeks through Victoria, Alice Springs, Darwin and then down the coast of Western Australia. The frequent flyer miles are clocking up