Conformity Is The Jailer of Freedom
Find Your Passion
War Is A Racket
It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.”
~United States Marine Corps Major General Smedley D. Butler
Words well written by one with enough experience to know exactly the truth of what he wrote.
Just Show Up
Awesome quote!
Was it Charlie Chaplin who said 90% of success was just turning up?
The Rescue Plan
The Two Most Important Days In Your Life
If you would like some ideas on how to identify your basic purpose, here’s a blog post I wrote to help you:
How To Work Out Your Basic Purpose In Life
https://www.tomgrimshaw.com/tomsblog/?p=37862
Solutions To Some Of Today's Problems
The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.
This was written by a 21 yr old female who gets it.
It’s her future she’s worried about and this is how she feels about the social welfare system that she’s being forced to live in!
These solutions are just common sense in her opinion.
Put me in charge . . .
Put me in charge of Centrelink payments. I’d get rid of cash payments and provide vouchers for 50kg bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese, basic sanitary items and all the powdered milk you can use. If you want steak, burgers, takeaway and junk food, then get a job.
Put me in charge of Medicare. The first thing I’d do is to get women to have birth control implants. Then, we’ll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine. If you want to reproduce, use drugs, drink alcohol or smoke , then get a job.
Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in military barracks?
You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your “home” will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your own place.
Put me in charge of compulsory job search. You will either search for employment each week no matter what the job or you will report for community work. This may be clearing the roadways and open spaces of rubbish, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your dooff dooff stereo and speakers and put that money toward the “common good..”
Before you write that I’ve violated someone’s rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary. If you want our hard earned cash and housing assistance, accept our rules.. Before you say that this would be “demeaning” and ruin someones “self esteem,” consider that it wasn’t that long ago that taking someone else’s money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.
If we are expected to pay for other people’s mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices.
The current system rewards those for continuing to make bad choices.
AND While you are on Centrelink income you no longer have the right to VOTE!
For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. If you want to vote, then get a job.
NSW drivers cop 47,000 mobile phone fines
In just one year.
“Yesterday’s operation highlights that far too many motorists are continuing to distract themselves with mobile phones when they should be focusing their entire attention on the road around them,” Traffic and Highway Patrol operations commander Superintendent Stuart Smith said.
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/315436,nsw-drivers-cop-47000-mobile-phone-fines.aspx
22 Rules To Live By
by Bob Bly
Bob Bly has a newsletter from which I pass these on to you. Looking them over and realising how many I have broken it seems to be a case of do as I say rather than do as I do.
1-Show up for appointments 10 minutes early.
2-Customers are not always right, but they must be treated as if
they are.
3-When speaking before groups, dress up one level from what the
group is wearing; e.g., if they wear shorts and tee shirts, you
wear business casual.
4-Never offer unsolicited advice.
5-Leave your ego at the door.
6-Don’t waste people’s time by sending them jokes or stories via
e-mail.
7-Do not brag by talking about your accomplishments to people
who didn’t ask you about them.
8-Be humble.
9-Proofread your e-mails before you send them.
10-80% of your activity should be in your comfort zone, and 20%
should be outside it. This keeps you both productive and
challenged.
11-Of the people who opt into your e-list, 90% of those who
eventually buy from you will do so within 90 days of subscribing
to the list.
12-The more recently a customer had made a purchase, the more
likely he is to do so again.
13-Old but good advice: under-promise and over-deliver.
14-Don’t give your customers their money’s worth. Give them more
than their money’s worth.
15-The easiest way to add value to an offer is with a free bonus
gift.
16-The most powerful words in the English language are “free”
and “you.”
17-Do unto others as they would have you do unto them.
18-Spend time with your children while they are still young
enough to want you to spend time with them.
19-Neither a borrower or a lender be.
20-Don’t be so sure you are right. Perhaps you are not.
21-Life is short – over in the blink of an eye. So enjoy it now.
22-Avoid discussing religion or politics with colleagues or
customers. There is little to gain from it and much to lose.
Sincerely,
Bob Bly
Copywriter / Consultant
590 Delcina Drive
River Vale, NJ 07675
Phone 201-505-9451
Fax 201-573-4094
www.bly.com