It was 2010.

I was sitting in a café at the Gold Coast airport.

I was on the phone to New York with a dripping rich Venture Capitalist, who had previously been with Sequoia and now freelanced with his own money.

He couldn't understand why our work was not better known.

What are you going to do this Xmas - get drunk or get ready?

I'd like to do both, but given my terrible history of alcohol excess, I'll go for "get ready" instead. Getting drunk is not all it is made up to be - it starts out as fun and ends up with a hangover.

Ironically, "getting ready" is almost the opposite: it starts out with a hangover (of worry, guilt, stress) and ends up fun.

If you are watching my unfolding B2B opportunity in Japan, how did our big company meeting today progress?

We met with the extremely busy 2IC of a 100million dollar company and he got it.

Alexander is long term, it is a commitment.

"We have to test it first. We have to show it works."

Upon reading the subject line of this email - any regular readers of Chancers daily dispatch should have AT LEAST one eyebrow lifted up!

Alexander Technique.

Did I write that, without so much as a cuss?

Yes, I did. Chancers-haters rejoice, I have come back from the dark side.

Appealing to students involves jumping into their brain.

Do you know how your student behaves?

Musicians are often detailed, technical and precise.

Yoginis are often expansive, emotional and curious.

Social Ballroom Dancers know very little about Alexander's discovery.

Ask Bette Chamberlin, she can tell you. Bette was a dancer with the American Ballet Theatre, then later in life trained as an Alexscovery teacher in New York.