I was going through some of my notes and paperwork this evening to organise the plans I have for the future, and thought I’d open them up slightly for people to see the direction I’m heading in. I’m not revealing everything, obviously, but it’s worth putting my cards down on the table.I want an extraordinary life, and I plan on having it. I’m going to be working my ass off in the next few years to have the contents for a great autobiography and memorial. I’m obsessed driven by it but also quite arrogant and lazy too, which is a bizarre combination when you think about it. I’ve already come too far to go back now.

An idea is just an idea. Delivering it is a lot more difficult, which is where goals come in as they give you structure and milestones to measure your progress and get it done. Until you write it down and commit to it, it’s just a pipedream.

Anyone can have an idea. In fact millions of people have millions of them every day. The world’s problems have been solved thousands of times over and billions of new products, services and organisations have been created in the minds of human beings all over the planet.

But talk is cheap. Money talks, bullshit walks. 1% of those people actually make their idea happen, whereas the rest stay firmly in the armchair in which they were conceived or languish in the wheelie bin the beermat or napkin was thrown into.

I try to do a little bit for each every day, although I am thoroughly disorganised. The usual story is to wait until the day you have all the time, resources and motivation you need and do it then, as you’re allegedly wasting your time if you don’t have them in the first place. It’s a profoundly stupid notion as these things take years to develop and evolve, and some only grow in the absence of those things.

I’m always working on a lot of things, more than I can usually handle. These are some of them. And yes, I am really working on all these. That’s when u say I’m busy, I mean it.

Most of them revolve around a few companies, BEL and Devil’s Lane being the main ones.

The Prophecy Digital Media Platform (10% but ongoing)
This is the basis of my new company and vision, BEL. Naturally I can’t say a whole lot about it, even though the cat is somewhat out of the bag now we’ve starting talking with potential customers and partners. It’s going to take 5 years, but the beancounters are forecasting that if executed correctly, most of our first-stage investors are going to be worth 8 figures afterwards. It’s a worldwide system that will re-engineer the internet and is the most ambitious media play the industry has ever seen as far as we know.

IPTV - An Open 4th Platform (90% done)
My first book. If you Google my name, you’ll see I write a lot of articles and essays about IPTV that get re-published all over the world. Over time they’ve become very influential and have done a lot to build my credibility and reputation, so the natural next step is to pop them all together in a book for an easy read. We have 10 or so steps to go through yet, but it should be in my hand for my birthday in December and be available on Amazon and in Waterstones for around £29.99. I am going to be glowing with even if it does just sell only 3 copies.

The No-BS Guide To Christianity (60% done)
A second book that I’m waiting to get the publishing template right for before releasing, but a personal one for me that I’ve been writing for 20 years without knowing it. I just got sick and tired of all the religious idiots I see every day and decided to set them straight. There is a point for every page. Page 1 is titled “Adam and Eve didn’t exist”. Not sure how I’m going to get this one out to market yet, but its going to piss a lot of people off.

The Battle Against Myself (40% done)
Another book, and one that will probably only be released after the BEL Prophecy system is out there and working, as a lot of it is about making that happen and striving to achieve great things. It’s a load of articles I’ve already written (and already published on MySpace, like the Jedi essay) plus a set of chapters I’ve yet to reveal. It’s a semi-autobiographical work about the true struggle of making big things happen, like battling clinical depression, having faith when the world is against you and dealing with the baggage you’ve built up on the way.

A Son Of Perdition (15% done)
This is my current fascination, and was inspired by some of the things I am going through now and the experience of seeing An Inspector Calls at the theatre at school. It’s a Shakespearean play about a man who becomes the most powerful and deadly war leader the world has ever seen, but loses his own soul. There is only one person who can save him from himself when he’s no longer the messiah people saw him as. Perdition is violent chaos, and is the name of the antichrist in the book of Revelation. I’ve got some crucial scenes down but its going to take a while.

Secret Kingdoms (10%)
My first screenplay, and one that I originally conceived whilst reading a book about secret societies and listening to Angel by Massive Attack. Screenplays have a very specific format, so it’s proving tricky to get the hang of. Its very much like a modern day Romeo & Juliet fairytale with 2 warring families who are powerful secret organisations in aristocratic London competing for business and influence across the world. The male lead is ordered to kill the girl he is in love with who happens to belong to the rival family, so they kill the central matriarch leader and take over both.

Urban Bliss Collective (not started yet)
All the movies I like ask the What If? question, and I remember talking with friends in London about the random nightmare lottery of flat sharing, how all girls have a psychotic side and how fake the series Friends is. So I took it one step further in true Paradise Lost style. The urban bliss story is essentially about a group of trendy London socialites who appear to have the ideal life, almost being obsessed with each other and thoroughly insular. Friends the programme, gone very, very wrong, when jealousy and betrayal creeps in.

Cartel (40%)
If you’re familiar with the highly addictive game Dope Wars, you’ll love this one. We originally pitched the idea to MTV, who were too chicken to take it. Our plan was to turn it into a massively multiplayer drug-dealing community that you could get involved with through pressing your red button on Sky. Dope Wars is a simple game where you have to make as money dealing drugs as you can without getting busted. Our version builds massively on that, with different daily market prices, real-life UK geography and competition with friends.

Collegespace (80%)
Our own private version of MySpace for old friends from my sixth-form college, that is a lot better than this crappy site. Its very simple, very easy to use, and a lot of fun. We’ve built in messaging, photos and news updates, but the most important part is that it is deliberately written in plain English, rather than geek-speak. Should be live by the end of the month when I get round to putting Marce’s design on it.

Workspace Office (20%)
A lot of space-name projects at the moment, although in fairness, this one was named way before I registered on MySpace. Workspace is a very powerful set of web-based software that fills all the gaps MS Office misses out. Doing business is a lot more than creating documents, and Workspace has a set of very clever components that give you a virtual office workflow environment for syncing devices, networking and planning that works alongside your normal office software. I know the perfect CEO for it too, but as I don’t have the time to code it, its going to cost me a chunk of cash to get some East European guys to write it from scratch.

The Amigo Mission (30%)
Our top secret 3 year ambition for 3 very close friends to circumnavigate the globe and visit every capital city of every country in the world within 6 months to promote the BEL project. From our research no-one else has every done it in human history. People think we’re mad. We probably are, although when we had the map and laptop out in the pub planning away, the crowd of people fascinated with it was encouraging. Yes, we have a website for it, potential sponsors and a route mapping for the whole journey.

My 2 restaurants (5%)
I could spend years planning restaurants, hotels and themed bars, simply as they are great money-makers and very easy to set up and maintain. I have 5 books on starting restaurants and another one on hospitality. I want to bring The Carnivore to Nairobi and have my very pudding take away (called Puddin), Starbucks-style. Both those 2 have logos and business plans ready, but I’m not going near it for a while until the other stuff is done. Lately I’ve been toying with the idea of a private bar/cinema/mini 4-poster-bed hotel club after spending so much time at the Fox Club, but haven’t taken it any further.

Video Game Education (5%)
I already have the next project after BEL ready to go, and I believe it will be equally, if not more important than digital media. I read an article in Wired magazine a few years back now which made me leap out of my seat, and it was about how well children respond to learning via video games (e.g. Playstation, Xbox etc). Rather than publish the games, my little company will be building an IT system for schools that will integrate video games into the day to day GCSE curriculum and class learning activities. I’m totally in love with the idea for its potential.

And with all that, I’m learning magic and amateur rocketry, as it helps neutralise my need for blowing things up and manipulating people.

And no, it’s not all just projects, there are more important personal objectives that I want to achieve too.

I’m thinking marriage in my early thirties, with the first little one on the way shortly after when I’m confident of being financially comfortable enough to provide a wonderful world for my own little family. I want at least 5 kids, who will all be getting the very best of everything I can get for them and have a dad who is obsessed with being the best dad ever.

There will be a house in the country, and a city penthouse or two. No private jet unfortunately as they are too expensive to run, and believe it or not, I’m actually very conservative financially speaking. I’m sacrificing my life now so that I can have an incredible one later. I’m not one of those cutesy types that get a mortgage early on or rigorously maintain an ISA for that rainy day in the name of being sensible.

That’s not for me. I’m aiming fucking big and bypassing all that tiny crap. I know what I want and I’m having it whether anyone else likes it or not. It’s all or nothing for me, no looking back and no hesitating or second-guessing. I’m just going for it regardless of the risk or consequences. It’s what young guys do best, as Machiavelli rightly observed in The Prince when he compared fortune to a woman who was best commanded by the likes of a young man.

But to put it bluntly, I’m not stopping until my net worth is in the billions. And rather than that just being an empty claim, I actually have a very detailed plan to get me there. It’s going to start in media, but it’s all ultimately leading to an eventual long-term career in international politics later on in life when I have silver hair and a very thick skin.

If you want to know where I’m going, this might help you to understand a bit. It’s always good to make a public commitment to your goals and projects. Life is what happens when you are making other plans apparently, so I’m not rigidly and stubbornly focused on having the plan exactly as I want it, but to have some structure is better than nothing.