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The title of the blog is stolen from a Public Enemy song, someone out there is bound to get it! All this week the blogs are about the new practice, at least in one sense or another, because now I can vomit out everything that’s been in there that I’ve been holding back before we started to release it. No full details yet, that will come on the 2^nd of May and as I have said in these blogs if you still want a ticket for the launch night then you best be quick and you have to sign up for the cube blog which is here. https://www.campbellacademy.co.uk/subscribe-to-the-cube

We will tell the story for the next year about what it’s like to build it on a week by week basis but since the build started 10 days ago and since I launched it to the wider world on the blog on Sunday, I feel a weight is lifted off my shoulders and now I can start to tell the truth about what it’s been like and what it will be like. I guess the most important thing to do when you tell a story like this is to be authentic.

After everything that I have said about social media and #lovemylife and all that s*** would be completely hypocritical to shout about this in anything but the most reasonable and realistic way.

So the truth of the matter is that there has been times that the project to build the new Campbell Clinic has almost snapped me in half. There have been times that I have felt it was impossible and times that I felt like everybody was ganging up on me to make it not work. I’m still not sure what route I will take even when we open, I’m not sure how much people will collaborate with us, I’m not sure how much people will embrace the facility and everything that we are putting in to it. I’m not sure people even believe me and the reasons of why I am trying to do it but there have been other times too, times when I’ve wrote about it in blogs that I haven’t published because, well, I couldn’t because nobody knew.

Perhaps I’ll be brave enough to publish those blogs a little bit later.

I can see the site from a hill that I cycle up and down regularly when I’m on my solo bike rides, I can sit at the top of that hill at the entrance to a farm and see the site and I’ve looked at it now for 15 months. I’ve owned it for that long with nothing happening on it and wondering if what I’m doing is just insane madness or ego driven megalomania.

I showed some pictures of the new practice when I was in China (I thought that was far enough away the word would not get back) as I showed one of the 3-dimensional fly throughs that we will show on the 2^nd of May to a group of 250 people half of them stood up and started to video it with their phones.

I was quite overwhelmed at that point, being six thousand miles away from home and not being able to speak the language, that everybody had taken a video of my new practice!

I wrote blogs about this for years in cryptic, there is one that I will need to try and find called ‘Today we invented a thing’ and there have been others with messages in them only to me for when I read them back again when I’m too old and my hands shake too much and I can’t work anymore. But for now I will sit back on the rollercoaster again, pull down the heavy harness and clip on the seatbelt. There will be days again when people phone me up and tell me that the price has gone up by numbers that I only thought were possible if you won the lottery and there will be other days where I feel like I am winning, days when I feel like I’ve sacrificed too much of my family for this project and other days where I think that I’ve left them a legacy that I can be proud of. Maybe keep an eye out and maybe tell your friends that might be interested because it’s going to be some story this and it’s not finished yet.

Blog Post Number- 1952