Wayne Mansfield The future will belong to those who learn, unlearn and relearn.. The web journey of Wayne Mansfield
Teacher's Aide.
The area that could easily be fixed on the diversity scale is that which currently is the biggest... age! Did you know most systems were designed when the most common death occurred at age 40! Did you notice how old people were that succumbed to covid - 80+ was the most common age.
what happens to people who are "seniors"? They are discarded because that is "the way". This has lead to a new movement called the "Modern elder" group. People old enough to contribute from a place of experience but well enough to pull their weight.
I was reminded of this watching a series of Paul McCartney videos which talked about his age as 76plus... and he is still making hit records and performing [pre-covid] to stadium sized crowds of 50k+
He was asked at 18 what he would bw doing at "the Old age of 20" And he remarked "probably not being a player in a rock and roll band." Yet here he is in 2021, 78 Years old... still being a "singer in a rock and roll band."
Go figure!
Todays # Hashtags
1. #NFT
2. #jAB
3. #GST
4. #Ageism
5. #Ashes
6. #Borderwars
7. #3rdJab
8. #McCartney
9. #Terry
10. #Merlot
Do you want to make more $$$ for 2022 than you did in 2021?
Who would have thought that it would last this long? Covid-19 goes on!
Attention is the Game!
What to take from this.
Go where the attention is and post appropiate content for that platform.. currently that is TikTok for all demographics seeking attention - or you could get upset and chase rainbows [ as I have done ], but you should learn from Myspace that was once worth a $1 billlion [ that's what Murdoch paid for it] and is now irrelivant
[ unless you are an idependent music label where it is the place to be ].
Todays # Hashtags
1. #NFT
2. #Jab
3. #BorderWars
4. #GST
5. #3rdBooster
6. #QueenLiz
7. #Merlot2022
8. #MasksAgain
9. #Terry
10. #Planning
I remember when I was frustrated at home my mother said, as she pointed " My Roof - my rules, don't like it there is the door!" and I left!
We had a time when there was a thing called empty nest syndrone but it is replaced with boomerange kids.
Nobody wins anymore.. everyone participates!
I often think of my uncle who retired early [62] but lived into his 90's. He was the first person who lived longer than was expected. He told me once: " You can only play golf for so many years " he stopped playing golf when he turned 90!
My situation is that my goals have been achieved but not planning for the future sucks! In another converstaion with a mates dad, I insensitively said... my uncle once said "One of the problems of getting old is that all your friends die"
This is was brought home at his funeral service which was old people but not many! [probably he outlived all of them!]
Most of the things I subscribe to have their price expressed in US dollars... I read with dread that a journalist is cheering that the Australian Dollar could end up at 65c to the dollar That is to I heard Dan sulivan of Strategic Coach say that most of his income is earned in the US and spent in Canada where he has a 26% advantage.... He lives in Toronto but his compnay is headquartered in Chicago..
I was impacted by the first Internet Laws in Australia - The spam Act so when I heard that the Australian Government is Thinking of crimping the styale of BNPL platforms my first thought were "You should keep you noses out of there" [Zip Afterpay etc.] I was reminded of the words of australian Transort pioneer, Reg Ansett who said " You don't have to like the law, you just have to know it!" and again Dan Sullivan saying... "The biggest prospects are in areas where legistaion hasn't caught up yet!"
I was listening to Mike Rowes Podcast and it was talking about the Story behind the Trademeking of the Redneck Riveria by John Rich - Don't hear "no" as an answer. It seems it is how you approach stuff affects the outcome!
Todays # Hashtags
1. #NFT
2. #Gast
3. #Jab
4. #Gladys
5. #RedneckRiveria
6. #Test
7. #Ashes
8. #Twiggy
9. #Homeless
10. #Giggles
Over the last few days, I have slowly accepted that we are in a similar time to when horses were replce by cars... the major difference is that it is happening quicker. cars replced horses - it took 100 years to reach a time where elecric cars will replace fossil fuel and AI will replace drivers? The last 18 months has seen changes that are happenin at warped speed.. like remote working etc... people preferring to shop online... the death of the CBD and shopping malls and they are being relced by zom and other video enbled computer apps.
Are you ready for the changes?? I wasn't but think I will have to gie in gracefully.
Today's # Hashtags
1. #NFT
2. #Jab
3. #GST
4. #Barnaby
5. #Test
6. #Ashes
7. #Cleo
8. #HomeLess
9. #Giggles
10. #Toddler
The Covid-19 crisis continues to go on... starting in March 2020 it is now December 2021 and if we go "back to normal" it won't be what it was like. I used to do sessions in public around australia and the world which meant I was in planes 2 weeks out of four.... the new way is by zoom meetigs, and when we can there will bw different "in person" meetings... much like radio film and TV co-eisit but will never be what they were - it will be just different.
It has been a strange start to summer in Australia... Last year on the east coast we hade bushfires - this year we have floods. Go figure.
They are talking cricket - if the rain stops - that sounds like the UK?
Anyway, these are strange times!
Todays # Hashtags
1. #NFT
2. #Jab
3. #GST
4. #AntiVax
5. #TransNonsense
6. #Sabbatical
7. #Minimilism
8. #Lawn
9. #Testcrap
10. #10wickets
I was aked to do something and made a plan and started to put into action - but I didn't tell anyone! anyway, it was assumed that I wasn't oing anything so someone else is doing the situtaion.
As I have mentioned previoulsy I am reading Gary Vayerchucks new book "Twelve and a half" and he asks where you slot in the nearly 8 billion people.
Apparently 820 people where undernourished in 2018 [according to the WHO],40.s million people where modern day salves when they measured that in 2016... 3billion people don't have the internet and 4.5 billion people don't have a fully functioning toilet!
1. #NFT
2. #Jab
3, #GST
4. #GaryVBook
5. #Croz
6. #NewCovid
7. #Lockdowns
8. #LiberslCrisis
9. #TestBan
10. #Books
Did you know, books regularly come out of copwright if they are 70 years old or more... all Disney stories were "stolen" from out of copyright books. Great books to read [ out of copyright too ] are those by Claude Hopkins.
Did you notice that really old people succumbed to Covid - people aged 80, 90, and even 100+ My grandmother died at 63 of old age, my mother didn't make it that far, my fther was 75+ and my aunty was nearly 90. People are living longer- in 1880 people in the US had a life expectancy of 39, that changed in 1930 to 58 and is currently 79 with more people living passed 100 than ever before.
