Australia Day!

 What is Australia Day anyway! True Aussies rejoice in the Public Holiday! Isn't that what days of Celebration mean? Heck Melbourne has a day off for the Melbourne Cup and the Football Grand Final.

I am of two minds... if it is about history than we are british and we should celebrate Captain Cook arriving at Botany Bay on January 26th! That did happen and is as significant as the Horse Race and The football Grand Final! If you have been in Australia since that date it is OK to celebrate.

If you were here before than than yes it could be Invasion Day and like all history it is about the winners settin the narrative. In days gone I have been travelling on National days of the places I have been - Qatar and india come to mind! - and the celebration is about what is now... Qatar is a nation of modern workers [ Modern slavery in all but name!] who out number locals yet the day is celebrated as a symbol of all things Qatar... India is a national of many cultures and a billion people and the feel is different - it is uniquely Indian in nature but also includes the past - good and bad! Hey with a billion people and thousands of years of history there is a lot to celebrate or mourn. India's National Day is a mixture of everything that makes up modern India.

My thoughts are that we should be more like India and have bits of everything and what day that happens really doesn't matter as long as it is a holiday!

        Todays # Hashtags

            1.        #NTF
            2.        #GST
            3.        #FYP
            4.        #BigBash
            5.        #JL
            6.        #BorderWars
            7.        #Feb5Lie
            8.        #SirPaul

            9.        #SirTony

            10.      #AustraliaDay

Mmmm Nobody knows what Feb 5 means

 Do you know what Feb 5 means?

Apparently the Government doesn't!

Today's # Hashtags

                1.        #NFT
                2.        #GST
                3.        #Ashes
                4.        #JL
                5.        #HobartPinkBallTest
                6.        #SirPaul
                7.         #SirTony
                8.        #fyp.
                9.        #DlorkerWin
            10.      #ForbesRicjList

What is Feb 5 anyway?

 I live in Western Australia where covid-19 is talked about but not experienced I have a few things to say:

My date of birth is January 23rd, 1952 [ so a few days off 70!]

I am triple vaxxed!

But I refuse to wear a mask where nothing shows they work!

Today another store "shouted at me" about a mask so they didn't get my money! am I right?
I will find somewhere else to buy my stuff than these two!

Today's # Hashtags

                1.        #NFT
                2.        #GST
                3.        #Ashes
                4.        #JL
                5.        #HobartPinkBallTest
                6.        #SirPaul
                7.         #SirTony
                8.        #fyp.
                9.        #Dlorker            
                10.      #ForbesRichList

Richer got a damn lot richer

 According to the Forbes Rich List a staggering 86% are richer than a year ago.

Altogether these billionaires are worth $13.1 trillion, up from $8 trillion in 2020. The U.S. still has the most, with 724, followed by China (including Hong Kong and Macao) with 698.

There are a record-smashing 2,755 billionaires in the world, according to Forbes’ 2021 Worlds Billionaires list. How did they make their mega-fortunes? By doing everything from starting hedge funds and tech companies to breeding pigs and brewing kombucha. 

But certain industries offer a more common route to riches than others. The most likely way to make a billion-dollar fortune: go into finance and investments. That sector has minted the most billionaires in the world, with 371 people, or about 13% of the entire list.

It was the top industry for billionaires in 2020—the last time we tabulated the number of billionaires per industry—as well.

The second category is finance and investment. The number of finance and investment billionaires has grown by 50% in the past year, and has nearly doubled from two years ago, with household names like Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett, Carl Icahn and hedge fund titan Ray Dalio.

There’s still space for newcomers, however, like the Winklevoss Twins, who join the list this year, thanks to big bets on cryptocurrency, and Jeff Yass, founder of trading firm Susquehanna International.

Manufacturing came in third this year, with 331 billionaires, and 155 of them hailing from China. The Asian nation represents an ever-growing percentage of billionaires worldwide—by Forbes’ estimation nearly 700 citizens (including Hong Kong and Macao) on this year’s list, and the second-largest number after the U.S. China’s richest newcomer-Chen Zhiping, who is chairman and CEO of vaping device-maker Smoore International—is a manufacturing billionaire. From Europe, British inventor James Dyson and German fastener producer Reinhold Wuerth rank high in the category. In the U.S., plumbing fixture billionaire Herbert Kohler Jr. and the father-son duo behind Ashley Furniture, Ronald and Todd Wanek, make the list. 

Despite the quarantines, fashion and retail clocked in fourth, with 273 billionaires, or 10% of this year’s list. Some of the most storied names in couture can be found here, including LVMH chief Bernard Arnault and brothers Alain and Gerard Wertheimer, controllers of the Chanel fashion house. One notable newcomer: Kim Kardashian West, whose Skims shapewear and KKW Beauty cosmetics and fragrance line helped catapult her onto this year’s list.

The saying is "Never let a crisis go to waste"

I think you would agree these people didn't!

Today's # Hashtags

                1.        #NFT
                2.        #GST
                3.        #Ashes
                4.        #JL
                5.        #HobartPinkBallTest
                6.        #SirPaul
                7.         #SirTony

               8.        #fyp.
                9.        #DlorkerWin
                10.      #ForbesRicjList

Empires always crumble!

 When historians say that an empire fell, they mean that the central state no longer exercised its broad power. This happened either because the state itself ceased to exist or because the state’s power was reduced as parts of the empire became independent of its control. Because empires are large and complex, when historians talk about the fall of an empire, they are typically talking about a long process rather than a single cause!

I remember Perth hosted the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1962 But the name of the games for Brisbane hosting them in 2018 had changed to the Commonwealth Games In the 56 years both the names of British and Empire had been removed.. so when did the British Empire finish?

Some of the broad factors that historians use to help explain imperial collapse are:

• Economic issues
• Social and cultural issues
       Today's # Hashtags
                  1.        #NFT
                  2.        #GST
                  3.        #Ashes
                  4.        #JL
                  5.        #HobartPinkBallTest
                  6.        #SirPaul
                  7.         #SirTony
                  8.        #SelectionIssues
                  9.        #DlorkerWin
                  10.      #3rdJab

Angry people miss the point!

I had coffee with a person recently and I came away think - how did that person get so angry?

I think thought of myself and how I thought covid would onlt last 90 days yet it has lasted neraly 2 yeatrs and will go on longer still.

I was angry for 15 months and missed being able to  pick winners. I actually was impressed with the angey person but came away thinking - that drained me!" To all the people I "Drained" in the last 2 years "I am very sorry" For those who have taken it as a challenge [Terry, Croz, David, Larry, Eddie and others]

Thanks!!

            Today's # Hashtags
                1.        #NFT
                2.        #GST
                3.        #Ashes
                4.        #JL
                5.        #HobartPinkBallTest
                6.        #SirPaul
                7.         #SirTony
                8.        #SelectionIssues
                9.        #DlorkerWin
                10.      #3rdJab

How you think matters

Once I was Australia's best fax marketer - that was sending faxes in bulk... have you got a fax machines? They are technology of the past!

When was the last time you got a ketter? We now have to pay extra for delivery for delivery under a week.
Well, to fill a seminr I used to bulk mail post office boxes... do you have one of those? I had one for 20 plus years but the last ones I had only got the bill for the mail box as mail!! I no longer do letter box drops.

Once upon a time, I ran a telemarketing operation in South Perth - Because people answerede their phones this was very successful - the staff in majority were hockey players doing their "mandatory job" twahe people were at the Australian Institute for Sport... one week 10 of my 12 operators left to go to Argentina to play hockey - I never had a phone room again.

Well in 2004 I collected the biggest ever fine becuase I was Australia's and possibily the world's best email marketer... the system has worked ever since until 2022 when it doesn't - the issue is the slide has been slow!

My friend said if you used the skills with the methods of marketing you would make a "shit load" of money.

His over all advice was the painpoint for Seniors is not slipping backward.. and the new methods would allow this. Cash to live the life of how you lived before..

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            2.        #GST
            3.        #Ashes
            4,        #JL
            5,        # HobertPinkBall
            6.        #SirPaul
            7.        #SirTony
            8.        #SelectionIssues
            9.        #DjorkerWin
            10.      #3rdJab 

McCartney is no genius!

In a recent podcast comment by  Seth Godin he stated that Paul McCartney of Beatles fame was no genius!

Rather, Godin contended, that McCartney had a process to do one song  a day when the Beatles started and because he had soo many songs some became epic successes - If you produce a lot, even if a small percentage are fantastic and many are crap, you are remember for the great ones and not the crap... out of over 300 songs during the Beatles hey days Paul is remembered for a few - Yesterday { the most recorded song by other artists - over 3,000 different artists have recorded their version of it... Hey Jude about John Lennon's son Julian and Eleanor Rigby on which no Beatles play any instrument but it still reached Number 1 on the charts of the day.

With the shear  number of songs it was just a matter of when he had a great song... he had many great songs making him a  song writing legend but he wasn't, according to Godin, a Genius Song Writer. Rather Godin contends that McCartney's process allowed him to produce so many songs that it stands to reason some were really good.

        Todays # Hashtags
            1.        #nft
            2,        #3rdJab
            3.        #GST
            4,        #Ashes
            5,        #BorderWars
            6.        #Tiktok
            7.        #Jab
            8.        #Ageism
            9.        #Terry
            10.      #SirPaul

Sir Paul McCartney inspires!

Were you like me and your teenage years were about music... I had a great mate, Gavin Harrington, who used to take his inspiration from the songs of the Rolling Stones where as I loved the Beatles... so lately I have been listening to interviews with Sir Paul - much to my agreement he talks bout the Beatles fondly and how he and john Lennon worked together and just got tired of being Beatles. However he inspires me as he nears 80 and is still creating and playing. {Gavin taught me bar cords and I was off to the races with guitar]

I have fond memories of going to see him in Brisbane a few years ago with Terry and Liz Parsons... he was 70+ then but it was magical.

The interviews make for good listening and I recommend you do that.

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            1,        #NFT
            2.        #Jab

            3.        #GST
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            5.        #Ashes
            6.        #NewYear
            7.        #Ageism
            8.        #McCartney
            9.        #Terry
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