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True commitment to goal setting (The Worlds Most Tattood Person)

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By on Inspiration, People/Interviews, Review

Last weekend I witnessed one mans lifelong commitment to goal setting.

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While juggling fire, a machete and an apple, Lucky Diamond Rich relayed the story of his childhood.

As a boy Lucky flipped through the pages of the World Guinness Book of Records marveling at the accomplishments of the people there in.


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Dreaming about seeing his own name included in the book one day, his supportive mother told him…..
‘You can be whatever you want to be’
She was right, Australian Lucky Diamond Rich is now listed as the Worlds Most Tattooed Person.

Over the past 20 years Lucky has travelled the world performing to over a million people, one million and one if you count the encouraging eye of his lovely wife.

Sitting nearby I asked her something most of you probably want to know, which part hurts the most to get tattooed? While I would have put money on the tops of your feet, she replied ‘everyone is different, so I can’t say’, then she added that if I was thinking about getting one ‘it’s a moment of pain, for a lifetime of expression.’

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While contemplating this I looked up to see what Lucky was up to, and found I really had to concentrate to see him.


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The thing about being blue is that you blend into the foliage, a definite advantage for a chameleon perhaps, but not so great for a street performer I thought.
Thankfully he opened his mouth and when the sun bounced off his silver teeth, yes silver teeth, it gave him away.

As Lucky finished his act and changed into his street clothes, from what I could tell there wasn’t a single part of his body not covered by the tattoo. Even both his feet appeared to be tattooed all over. If I squinted I could just make out a tiny bit of pink near the base of one heel. Now that’s a true commitment to goal setting.

  As he wandered off to join the Fremantle Street Festival Wrap Party, I was left with so much to ponder…..

  1. Whether the Australian SAS had ever considered this option? They’d certainly save a fortune on laundry bills.
  2. If, while editing Avatar, one of James Cameron’s animators broke the rules and went for a quick toilet break, thereby creating a tiny window of opportunity for a highly skilled, but minor character, to escape?
  3. What it would be like to roll over in the morning and wake up next to the Worlds Most Tattooed Person? That’s one of the questions you really wanted me to ask wasn’t it?
  4. If after years of living together the couple had finally realised that navy satin sheets were a thing of the past for them?
  5. If this was what his mother had in mind the day she gave him that advice?
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