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After arriving into Sydney yesterday morning we change our flight that was booked straight to Melbourne to fly to the Gold Coast instead where I live most of the time and the remainder of the time in Melbourne.
After 11 days of parties and holidays, I feel I need at least one day to rest and relax at home on the Gold Coast, on the water is the most ideal place for that.
I only moved there from Sydney at Christmas. Time for a change to see if I’d like the slower pace.
I can say it’s been ten times better than expected and I think it will be hard to get me to leave the Gold Coast.
I’m fortunate enough to have a Tennis court at the house and being a tennis fan I have my friends over every Wednesday night for a big night of tennis which is always a blast and quite competitive.
One of my mates, after playing with us for a few weeks, we discover he used to be a professional tennis player and had been pretending not to be able to play that well, but always managing to beat us when it counts.
So now he has become a free tennis coach to many of us who are all trying to improve our game secretly to beat the others next time around.
I’ve managed to lose 5 kilos from playing tennis in last 2 months alone so it’s also great exercise.
I also have a salt water pool which I like to swim in regularly as swimming in the canal is out of the question without due to the aggressive bull sharks, and I have an outdoor Jacuzzi which is my place to relax and is a form of meditation for me.
I also have a great gym room, however it doesn’t get used nearly enough.
My typical day generally starts with going outside to the tennis court to collect the papers that are thrown over the fence earlier in the morning.
I’m an avid reader so I’ll generally start the day reading the Financial Review on my outside lounge overlooking the water while having breakfast.
And I also read the Australian Newspaper.
Plus I have the Sydney Telegraph delivered as well as I’m a mad rugby league fan and it’s the best paper for reading all the football action and following my beloved bulldogs.
It used to be a dream to one day be able to buy the Bulldogs football team, however after seeing how much Russell Crowe losses every year financially since buying Sth Sydney, and after Richard Branson shared how expensive it was when he owned a Rugby League team in London known as the London Broncos, I’ve decided remaining a supporter rather than an owner is a much better idea.
After breakfast I often go for a swim in the pool and then head into my home office to do some work.
I don’t use a computer whatsoever as I have all my emails come to my blackberry so often I’ll work on my deck lounge outside overlooking the water.
I don’t take phone calls whatsoever unless a special phone meeting is planned or my mum calls as I feel phone calls waste my day.
I’ve trained all my managers and business partners to email me as they will get a response much quicker than if they phone.
With email, I find it makes people think first what they need and allows others to get back to them when they can rather then play phone tag all day or to forward it on to others to deal with.
This year I’ve cut my workload back dramatically, and many days now I’ll deliberately do very little work and I’m learning to get over the guilt of not working all the time, which isn’t easy for high achievers who often feel like they must be doing something.
What I love about the Gold Coast is it’s great to jump in my Ferrari and drive down to the beach and go for a swim and just be present and content doing bugger all.
I can see why surfies are so into their lifestyle as its very fulfilling not that I can surf.
I am taking lessons though. So my days aren’t always typical.
For one week a month I’ll generally be in Melbourne at our Head office.
And one day every 5 to 6 weeks I spend with my managers doing management meeting.
I think we should film these meetings as it would make a great reality show.
The dramas and day to day challenges of running a group of companies is never boring and I’ve found managers meetings to be very productive.
Every manager gets their turn to present to all other managers what their division has accomplished since the last meeting, their targets for the month ahead and any challenges.
Then anyone can ask them questions and this is where the fun starts as its hard for a manager to BS a whole room. So if they are telling a story that others don’t buy, which most people do at times due to their limiting beliefs, then this becomes very apparent and gives some managers a quick reality check to see that maybe their reasons things can’t be done are not valid and it is possible to improve results.
It is also invaluable for managers to understand what’s happening in each department and company and how this all affects everyone and to get the team working as a team and not against each other.
Generally, one day is barely enough and meetings tend to go to 7pm and sometimes as late as 9pm.
Also every 6 weeks I’m generally doing a seminar so that takes a week out of my schedule, the time I arrive on the Wednesday or Thursday before and finish on the Monday.
We always have a team party on the Monday night of 4 day seminar, which are a total blast where the team can celebrate their 4 or so days of hard work and little sleep.
We generally have a DJ and caterers and the partying is still usually going by 3am in the morning.
The parties in Fiji and Queenstown are generally the wildest and the 21st Century team love to dance and party hard.
It’s also a good time to recognise top achievers and speakers and we have the Academy Awards and prizes given out.
Some of the awards are very funny and it’s always hilarious.
It’s certainly not a typical corporate boring culture, but more of a family friendly culture which I think the team love as opposed to many jobs which are bland and boring.
Maintaining this culture though as the Group has grown to over 100 staff, has been more of a challenge though.
The day after the 4 days finish we always do a team day where we take the team out on a boat to a tropical island when say in Fiji and play beach volleyball and other activities.
Or in Queenstown we always do the Luge riding down the mountain which is always popular and highly competitive and sometimes quite dangerous.
Several years ago one of my NZ business partners had to be helicoptered off the mountain after breaking his hip and many other bones in his body.
If you go to Queenstown Luge ride you’ll see a whole section of the track shut off and that’s why since he crashed there.
We used to have team days the day before the seminar until this accident but now we find its best the day after.
We also often go Go Kart racing as many of the team and speakers love to do this.
And Tuesday night sometimes are card nights where, what’s left of the team before flying home, plays card games such as cheat or better known as “Bullshit”
Events like Fiji or Queenstown I generally stay a week or longer after the event and holiday and many of the team and speakers do as well which is always a lot of fun.
We also invite our volunteer team who are past participants at our 4 day programs to help out at the 4 day events and join us for Team Party and Team day.
It’s a great way also for them to network with speakers and many of them have become good friends and part of the 21st Century family over the years.
March 12th Thursday
I’m flying off to Melbourne as I have a 4 day seminar to conduct starting tomorrow.
It’s the first major 4 day of the year an event I conduct about 8 to 10 of a year in Australia mainly and one in Queenstown NZ and also one in Fiji.
Seminars are very physically demanding as I start on stage from 9.30am and get off generally by 8pm.
In the early days, I used to do an entire seminar by myself and go till 1.30am in the morning. However these days I’ve learnt to pace myself and invite over 18 key speakers to deliver more content and mix the seminar up more. Now I ensure I am finished by 8pm at night and let the other speakers go til midnight or later sometimes.
It’s an intense seminar and participants have made massive life and financial changes as a result, and its one of the key reasons I still do the seminars despite the physical effort involved.
However, in saying that, I’ll be overseas living in Europe part of the year, and I have a dozen other companies to run. I’ve now trained someone else to do my segments at events and they’ve worked just as well, so this allows me to share some of the events with another great speaker who the attendees absolutely love.
My biggest goal is to get people into action at the events as I’ve only accomplished so much in life at a young age because I don’t talk about things, I just implement ideas immediately. I hear so many intelligent people think about it, and delay or hesitate, when all it comes down to is taking massive and immediate intelligent action. And then noticing what’s working and not working and continually refining ones approach until the desired result is achieved.
If you’ve never been to a 4 day Education for Life event , then I encourage you to check one out.
Apart from being life changing and empowering they are a lot of fun and a great opportunity to network with likeminded people
Visit www.21stcenturyacademy.com to check out dates and more detail.
March 11th Wednesday
Arrive back from LA on “ V” Australia flight early into Sydney .
I was able to get a decent sleep on board as the beds are quiet flat so it made the 14hour flight go quick. Unlike the trip over when Richard Branson was onboard and the Bar was full on, this was a much quieter trip.
Had flown from Miami on a 5hour flight to connect in LA for the Australian return trip.
We were on American airlines to LA who managed to lose our bags, thus they promise to put them on a Qantas flight later that night to Australia.
My partner isn’t impressed, however, I’ve learnt not to let these things bother you as travelling a lot it does eventually happen.
The last few days in Miami were great. Out partying every night.
The Sunday we were laying around the pool and heard a hell of a party occurring at next door hotel, so we thought, “best to check it out!”.
The hotel next door was the famous “Shore Club” which is renowned for its Sunday pool parties and I can see why.
A beautiful sunny day by the pool with 500 young people many bikini clad women partying from sunrise to sunset.
I immediately sms’d my mate to come join us as I know he wouldn’t want to miss such a party.
Afterwards we head to the Delano another famous hotel for a great dinner and off to Niki beach dance club and finally to bed.
The day before we headed down Lincoln Drive in Sth Beach for some shopping and late lunch.
A friend joins us and a lunch turns into 6 hours at a very cool outdoor Egyptian restaurant where we try the Hisha Pipes.
My partner being Egyptian decent, loves it and we have a great afternoon.
She meets a Dubai Prince and speaks Arabic for sometime which means I have no idea what they’re saying as I know about two Arabic words.
We head out to a great club for the night and meet up with some Brazilian girls who are friends of my mate.
Miami is a great place to party and consider adding it to the Itinerary for an upcoming boys trip I have just planned for June.
A lot of my mates have already confirmed there in and my partner also organises a girls trip the same time with the friends so while they head off to New York and Miami, us boys head of to Cuba and Las Vegas and catch up in LA at the end of the trip.
I think it’s great for ‘the boys’ to hang out together at times whether single or in a relationship and the same for girls.
Very few friends decline the offer to join the trip so it’s obviously popular.
I’ve been to Cuba once before, and inform my friends to go now before it changes forever. Once Obama removes some of the restrictions for Americans to travel their it will change, no doubt forever, and become commercialised like most tourist places left in the world, rather than a unique place where you can almost travel back in time to the 1950s and explore a whole different way of life.
America is certainly feeling the recession; however there is still a tremendous amount of wealth there.
And prices of restaurants in many places are still ridiculously expensive and some Hotels.
It was only last July I recall exchanging Australian dollars for 99 cents to the US so being now only 64cents certainly makes the US still relatively expensive.
For instance a one bedroom condo in Miami is $6500 a mth to rent being $10,000 a mth AUD.
Where as to rent a 2 bedroom ocean front apartment twice the size and much more luxurious, in say the Q1 on the Gold Coast, is only about $3000 a mth AUD, so we are very lucky in Australia to still have a much better quality of living despite high property prices.
Saturday March 7th
After arriving into Miami the night before at around midnight as we only have 3 nights in Miami. We decide to quickly go to our hotel on Sth Beach Miami and then head out to the clubs to catch up with one of my best mates who I haven’t actually seen for 18months.
We are staying at the Setai in a condominium right on the beach next to the famous shore club.
Miami is a fun place and there is always something happening every night.
We meet my friend at the Fountain Bluea Resort at the Liv night club.
Miami is like a Gold Coast, however much more upmarket, cultured and sophisticated and is the playground of America.
My mate is an amazing guy who just became a certified astronaut and is due to go into space as the first Australian civilian astronaut and only the 5th ever in the world.
He shares some of the gruelling training he has had to ensure to be trained as an astronaut to be fully prepared for his mission.
Most astronauts are government funded but in Russia they allow civilians to be trained.
It costs $3million US just to go through the training alone which takes several years and you must pass intense medical tests ongoing otherwise you forfeit your entire $3million training fee. Then to go into space is a further $27million US so it’s an expensive dream and hobby, but my mate is a thrill seeker and adventure who makes things happen.
His friend just returned from a month in space. He said when he landed he was very pale and disorientated and took several days to even learn how to walk again as in space there is no gravity so your muscles break down quickly from lack of resistance. And this is only after 30 days in space where some astronauts stay up to the maximum of 6 months.
My mates friend who spent the $30million US to be the 4th civilian ever into space made $100million in his twenties as a dot com entrepreneur.
However as the $100million was in shares and held in escrow, by the time he could access his shares the dot com crash had occurred making his $100m worthless.
So he was able to convince his 300 staff that if they would work for free for 3mths as the company had no money to pay salaries at the end of the 3 months he would promise them a job.
He managed to convince them and rebuild the company and this time being smarter sold the company for $60million but in cash not shares.
He took $30million to pay for his trip into space and invested the rest into US share market before the crash.
Since the crash apparently his remaining $30million is worth about $1m so the guy has certainly a story of rags to riches to rags again.
My mate, as part of his training to go into space, has had to solo parachute from 30,000 feet [that's height jumbos fly at] into the middle of Siberia at minus 35 solo with two of his space crew. When they land they then have to find each other and survive 5 days in the Siberian wilderness at minis 35.
My mate said, he unfortunately landed over one kilometre away from the others and had to walk in soft snow with heavy gear on in freezing conditions. They are provided with limited food and have to learn to source their own food including catching and eating squirrels which he doesn’t recommend.
All this training is critical as on re-entry to earth they may have to parachute from their capsule at 30,000 feet and need to be able to survive for at least 5 days in case it takes that long to find them.
He also had to do a similar exercise escaping from the capsule in the middle of the ocean in case they land in water and have to survive up to 7 days.
We have a great night out in Miami and my partner can see herself living here part of the year, as she loves the culture & Being only 7 hours from Europe and 4hrs from La, and the best winter weather you could imagine one can see why Sth Beach Miami is a popular spot to hang out for part of the year.
We hit the sheets around 4am which is actually 8pm Australian time so it’s easy on this time zone to stay up late and sleep in late.
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Friday March 6th
Depart Las Vegas today for Miami via Dallas Texas.
I’ve never been to Dallas before and I recall watching the hit TV show from the 80s called Dallas about the oil rich families of Texas.
I squeeze in a conference call before I depart the hotel at 12pm with a US Company I market in Australia.
I was meant to meet them in Texas for a meeting however due to my tight schedule this was not going to be possible so we settle for a conference call which ends up being productive.
I started this company 2 years ago promoting a US product and turned over almost $10million in its first year and has been a very successful company.
I had been considering selling it and had been meeting with several Public Companies who were interested in acquiring the company from me.
Before the Global Financial Crisis it was valued at $12million, however, due to the downturn, $5 to $6million Australian was the best I could expect to get for it so I’ve been in two minds whether to sell. It has a lot of potential and if supplier relations can be improved then its worth more to me to keep for now, until the market rebounds.
Many people ask do I gamble especially when I’m in Las Vegas.
I’ve got to admit I’m a far better investor then a gambler.
My partner tends to do well whenever she goes into a casino and made $2,000 US last night at the roulette table.
To me gambling is a bit of fun and I’m quite conservative when it comes to gambling.
I’d bet no more than a few hundred dollars and be happy to make $300.
I find it a hard way to make money gambling, when I can do trades in the share market with a far greater degree of certainty of make money. So gambling makes little sense to me other then occasional fun.
At least in Vegas you get free drinks while at the tables, unlike Australian casinos.
A good friend of mine joined us in Vegas from LA who is a big roulette fan so him and my partner hit the tables at every chance to boost their winnings
My partner has a general rule, that any money she wins she has to donate to the dress or shoe stores within 24hours. So at least she helped out the American economy.
My dad was always very anti gambling. Thus growing up I’ve always been reluctant to ever spend much at the gambling tables, however if I do play it will generally be blackjack.
We fortunately get to meet Steve Wynn for a short chat and photo on our way to dinner.
For those who don’t know who Steve Wynn is he virtually built Las Vegas including casinos, such as Bellagio and Mirage, which he then sold and now has Wynn’s Casino in Vegas which just opened Encore next door where we are staying.
We stayed also in Macau last year in his replica Wynn casino there.
He recognises our Australian accent and asks if we know Solomon Lew from Australia who must be well known at his casinos.
Kerry Packer is still well known in Las Vegas with most taxi drivers still able to share legendary stories about Kerry’s huge gambling days.
Apparently the night Kerry passed away he had his Lear jet on standby for one last trip to Vegas to go out with a bang.
I’m not sure how Kerry would feel about his son James Packers huge gambles with buying US casinos, which has cost the Packer Empire a large fortune with the Stock Market Crash reportedly reducing Packers wealth from over $7 billion to $2billion. Many in Vegas don’t understand why he has bought such casinos which tend to be low profile smaller operations and at such high prices.
I’m sure his dad would have had more fun betting $5billion at the casinos and probably would have come out better.
Steve Wynn mentions he is very good friends with Tony Robbins and Sage his wife and they were staying as guests of Steve only last week.
I recall when I was in Las Vegas several years ago Tony mentioned him and Steve were good friends.
After dinner we headed off to Tryst nightclub at the Wynn which is one of the best clubs in Vegas overlooking a huge waterfall.
In the 15 years I’ve been going to Vegas it’s the quietest I’ve ever seen it and its clear the recession is taking its toll on Vegas.
The Trump Tower which is now complete across the street from Wynn’s casino is apparently offering rooms from only $69 US a night.
They believe soon the casinos from Mondays to Wednesdays will start giving rooms away for free to simply get people to them as they make their money on food drinks and gambling.
The huge Venetian casino next door is apparently about to file for bankruptcy.
So if you’re looking for an inexpensive holiday then Vegas should soon be that.
March 4th Wednesday.
After a relaxing morning I head down to Encores pool.
A windy mild day, too cold for a swim, so I head indoors to check out their Jacuzzis at the spa. I could spend hours here but only have 30mins.
The Encore has only been open since late December and is in immaculate condition so if you’re heading to Vegas it’s worth staying here. Just ask for Leanne Watson and shell take good care of you.
A young Australian girl from Melbourne who left Crown Casino to move to Las Vegas and is a Client manager for Encore and can not only get you great room rates but into many clubs and restaurants.
Have a lunch booked with Leanne in a great Japanese Restaurant before Rushing to Catch a helicopter trip over the Grand Canyon.
Wherever I go in the world I hire helicopters as it’s always the best way to explore places.
Even though I’ve been over the Grand Canyon many times before it’s always a buzz and it’s my partners first time.
She loves it and doesn’t want to leave Vegas so soon so I email my Business Partner in Houston who I’m due to meet in two days time to either fly to Vegas to meet me or delay the meeting one extra day.
He agrees to delay the meeting for a day which allows an extra night in Vegas.
I have a good American friend flying in to see me in Vegas tonight so looking forward to catching up at one of the many great restaurants in town and booked also into a fashion show and exclusive bar.
I’m not into fashion as much as my partner but theirs worse things than being dragged along to a fashion show and forced to watch gorgeous models strut their stuff.
A friend is keen to pick my brain on some business ideas so I’m might meet him at the Jacuzzi to chill out before another big night out.
March Monday 2nd
After a gr
eat sleep in we headed off to Disneyland, a 45-minute drive from West Hollywood. My partner was so excited as it will be her first trip to Disneyland. We arrive around 12.45pm and only have three hours to explore as much as we can as I have comm itted to catching up with an old friend who lives in LA later in the day.
Even though I’ve been to Disneyland over a decade ago and I can’t remember much of it, which is good as everything seems new again.
Three hours is certainly not nearly enough time, but it’s a quick overview of the Wonderful World of Disney. Several days is probably needed to fully take advantage of the whole park and I certainly look forward to a return trip.
With the Qantas monopoly to LA now broken, thanks to Virgin, people can fly for as little as AUD$900 economy return or $5,000 business class from Sydney to LA. The days of paying $14,000 for business class on Qantas and having to pay extra if you’d like a smile with your service is now gone.
With lower fares, not only is it good for tourists but it also makes it far more viable to do business in the US and I’ve been considering options to expand over here for some time. I could easily live in LA for several months of the year. The winter weather is amazing.
See the photos in the Photo Gallery.
After Disneyland I get to catch up with a friend I haven’t seen for two years. She is a very successful TV presenter in LA and presents an Entertainment show every night broadcast across America on the 911 of entertainment news. She is 7 months pregnant with her second child and looking as healthy as ever and still working.
We head off to Dinner at Argos in Melrose Place at 6.45pm, one of Hollywood’s top restaurants to catch up with four friends, two from NZ who have moved to live in LA and two American friends we caught up with the night before. We discuss spending July and August in the South of France with my American friends as I’ve been planning for some time to take July, August and September off this year to live in Europe and Southern France, near St Tropez and Cannes, as this is one of my favourite parts of the world.
We all agree it’s better to rent a nice house than stay in hotels which can spoil a holiday by constantly moving from one hotel to the next. We also plan to charter a yacht for a week while in Southern France and invite 20 select friends and interesting people to join us for a week. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long-time and never actually made it happen. This year, one of my New Year resolutions is to work less, socialise more and exercise more. So I’ve already halved my work schedule and scheduled in a lot more holidays and taken up playing tennis and shed 4kg in no time.
Ironically, my companies tend to perform better when I go on regular holidays than when I am working in them. And of course my managers prefer if I’m out of the country so they can get on with running the companies and divisions without me coming up with a new idea every second day.
This is a concept I’ve been teaching for a decade now. For people to outperform they should take regular holidays; however, I forget my own lessons and over the last 18 months I was so busy working that I had actually became less productive and had taken fewer holidays. When the going gets tough, the tough go on holidays! I’ve jokingly been telling friends that this is my motto for 2009.
Actually, with the recession and worldwide downturn, I think this will encourage many to simplify their lives and develop a better work-life balance. This will ensure they don’t keep deferring their life to “one day they’ll get around to it” and decide to start doing the things they’ve always wanted.
How many people say “I’ll take the kids to Disneyland one day?” Instead of setting a goal, committing to it and making it happen, most people just talk about it. The biggest challenge many have – apart from the lack of money, which is usually from lack of definite purpose – is the lack of time. We can always find the money for the things we are most committed to.
This is why I wrote this book, which is about how to develop a millionaire’s lifestyle inside 12-months without even needing to become a millionaire. As I highlight, a quality of life has more to do with planning and how to free yourself from being chained to an office desk than money. For instance my office is wherever I am in the world. With technology such as BlackBerry phones, I can run a dozen companies from anywhere in the world.
This can be duplicated by many people now to run their jobs remotely if they knew some simple but effective strategies covered in this book. I have also created a HomeStudy program on these concepts, which was filmed late last year in Melbourne and I now teach it at 21st Century Seminars.
We finish dinner and my American friend takes us to a mansion his friend owns in Beverly Hills that sits on the hill
overlooking the whole of LA. A great spot to live with many US$15 to $20 million homes in the street. My partner is very much into art and was thrilled to discover he had a real Picasso drawing which she had a photo taken with. I talk my mate into coming to Las Vegas to join us there and he decides to rearrange his schedule.
Off to bed after another huge day and ready to head to Las Vegas in the next few days.
Relaxing on a Sunday afternoon on Rodeo Drive whilst my partner does her bit towards boosting the American economy. We had a great lunch at the Beverly Wiltshire Regent Hotel made famous in the movie ‘Pretty Woman’.
The last 4 days have been busy with non-stop parties. The V Australia launch in LA two nights ago with Richard Branson was certainly one of the best parties I’ve been to. After shopping on
Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, I book a massage to relax before heading out to dinner at the famous ‘Mr Chow’ restaurant with a good friend of mine who lives in LA.
My friend made big money in real estate back in the ’90s in LA. He purchased more than 1000 residential properties in 1993 and 1994 and due to the property boom over the next decade did very well. I recall him a few years back saying he was selling his residential properties and moving into commercial.
Turns out he did that with good timing just before the US residential market crashed. Tomorrow I’m planning to take my partner to Disneyland. I’ve been once before but my partner hasn’t.
Disneyworld in Orlando Florida is actually better then Disneyland in LA but it’s still a lot of fun especially for a big kid like me.
Sunday March 3rd
Enjoyed a sleep in after a huge night at the Playboy Mansion. It was certainly a party to remember with over 1200 guests, with a large majority of them women. Americans are very friendly towards Australians, especially as they just want to hear our accent.
The girls aren’t shy either. They willingly hand over their phone numbers for me to call them while I’m in LA. At this my point I have to highlight I’m in a relationship and introduce my beautiful partner, however I venture that I have plenty of Australian mates who I’m happy to pass their details on to. I take a lot of photos knowing my mates are going to want to see what the Playboy Mansion is like.It’s a huge, glamorous, castle like mansion on a large estate with its own animal zoo on the grounds.
Hugh Hefner was at the party and it was no surprise that he was surrounded by a lot of blonde girls very eager to have their photo taken with him. The guy is in his 80′s yet still seems to have plenty of stamina for parties among other things (I think).
Despite being amongst 1200 people I bump into several people who recognise me from doing seminars in Australia and New Zealand who are having a great time at the party and weren’t expecting to see me there. I explain that I wasn’t expecting to be at a Playboy Mansion party either but it’s been a great night and I’m glad I made it.
We meet an Australian girl who is client manager at Wynns Casino in Las Vegas where we are staying in a few days time so she offers to take good care of us when we arrive in Las Vegas. We arrive back to the hotel in the early hours of the morning after a fun night ready for a relaxing day ahead- Four big nights of partying in a row and I’m feeling ready for a holiday.
After a great sleep in we go to the House of Blues in West Hollywood for a brunch with Sir Richard Branson and fellow party goers. Sir Richard maintains a hectic schedule. He seems to be able to party hard, sleep three hours then be up and doing business amongst numerous PR interviews before he heads off to London as part of an eight-day tour around the world.
A few of us are off to the Celebrity Soccer challenge and being such a warm winters day in LA it’s great to be outdoors. I
get to see Anthony LaPaglia in action playing soccer, one the players for the Hollywood football club.
Then it’s a quick trip to shops as we’ve been invited by a friend in LA to attend the Playboy Mansion Party being held that night. I quickly talk my partner into coming and convince her it will be a great time – you don’t get many opportunities like this and as we have the night free let’s check it out.
She had her hear t set on going to Jlo’s club as apparently the word was Prince was making a guest appearance and singing tonight. It would have been great but Prince can’t compete with the Playboy party invite so I won and we were off to the playboy mansion!
I know my mates back home are going to be somewhat jealous that I’m attending a Playboy Mansion party without them but I’m sure I will get them an invite next time.
