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Wednesday 4th January 2017


G’day,

Here is a bunch of what crossed my digital desk over the last week. I trust you get something from it and hope you have a great week!

This first is an extract from a newsletter I receive from Jimmy at honestE online. I think it sounds advice.

Dear Tom,

We all have our strengths and weaknesses in life and business, don’t we?

And sometimes our weaknesses become BAD HABITS we repeat over and over again--as if we have no control!

Albert Einstein said it perfectly...

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

Personally, I’ve struggled most of my life with a decent dose of perfectionism and a touch of irrational anxiety... almost as HABIT.

I can also be a bit of an amateur hypochondriac when flu season rolls around each year.

I tend to get sidetracked easily -- even when I need to accomplish something specific and on a deadline.

The fact is, THOUGHTS can become unproductive HABITS -- just as ACTIONS can!

Pretty common stuff many of us humans suffer from, I know.

Yet somehow I pull it all off and get things done (pretty darned well in fact) in spite of myself.

And really, you’d never know any of this about me unless I told you, and I just did.

But THIS YEAR, it all changed in a BIG way.

Actually, it’s been nothing short of miraculous.

Even my wife has noticed I’m not the “same guy.”

The other day she joked, “who stole my husband and who are YOU?!”

Today, I’ll share my “simple” discovery with you.

One of the KEY factors to improving our lives is to clearly recognize what we do well, and to be honest with ourselves on what we can improve upon.

Write it all down, your strengths and weaknesses in the areas of your life and business that are most important to you.

The next all-powerful step you can take is to create and DESIGN daily rituals or routines that will automatically address and improve upon your weaknesses day-by-day, brick-by-brick.

And you’ll get where you want to be faster than ever before, if you design rituals you actually ENJOY.

Routines, rituals, whatever you call them, I’m actually talking about the AWESOME power of HABIT.

Before you know it, new habits take root and replace old ones.

All of the sudden you find yourself more productive, healthy, happy, confident, calm, loving... AUTOMATICALLY.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The accounting trick you’ve probably overlooked
 
 
 
 

It’s surprisingly simple, yet accountants suggest not enough business owners do it – often causing undue stress and difficulties down the track.

Tom’s comment: Individuals could greatly benefit from this too! In fact, why don't you make this one of the grat ideas you implement to kick off the new year?

 
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Frank Zappa Interview
 
Frank Zappa Interview
 
 
 

How bright was Frank?

 
 
 
 
Some Interesting Financial News
 
Gold Bars
 
 
 

Italy Joins the “Bail-In” Bunch
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-22/italy-joins-bail-bunch

As Mystery Of China’s Multi-Billionaire Default Deepens, A New “Bond Scare” Emerges
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-26/mystery-chinas-multi-billionaire-default-deepens-new-bond-scare-emerges

India’s Prime Minister Has Singlehandedly Crushed The Economy With His Reckless Cash Ban
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-27/indias-prime-minister-has-singlehandedly-crushed-economy-his-reckless-cash-ban

The $555 Trillion Derivatives Debt Implosion Is About to Begin
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-25/555-trillion-derivatives-debt-implosion-about-begin

Just in case you wondered if the precious metals markets are actually manipulated: they are:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-16/when-gold-goes-above-1430-we-whack-it

And to tie a few things together and put a bow on top:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-27/things-make-you-go-hmm-death-petrodollar-and-what-comes-after

And if the financial crisis wasn’t bas enough news, the idiot politicians are looking to create WWIII as a distraction!

Paul Craig Roberts Warns “Armageddon Approaches” After German Leak
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-24/paul-craig-roberts-warns-armageddon-approaches-after-german-leak

So holding a big percentage of your assets in shares does not seem to be a prudent strategy at present.

 
 
 
 
What Justice?
 
What Justice
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
If You Want 2017 To Be Your Year
 
If You Want 2017 To Be Your Year
 
 
 

Some good advice here.

 
 
 
 
Be Up
 
Be Up
 
 
 

And not only that, it's good for your health too!

 
 
 
 
A New Year Is On The Way With Endless Possibilities
 
A New Year Is On The Way With Endless Possibilities
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
America’s Top Climate Change Expert Sentenced To Jail For Fraud
 
John C Beale
 
 
 

Mind boggling how he could get away with it. I'm pretty sure my boss would be onto it in a day and a half let alone 18 months!

 
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Imagine A Place
 
Imagine A Place
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
What Not Who
 
What Not Who
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
WikiLeaks
 
WikiLeaks
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
The More Aware
 
The More Aware
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Brilliant Idea For Smoke Detector
 
Brilliant Idea For Smoke Detector
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Same BS Different Year
 
Same BS Different Year
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
The Primary Teaching
 
The Primary Teaching
 
 
 

Seems like the hate mongers have some getting back to basics to do. We should be promoting this basic truth to all who would wish harm on others.

 
 
 
 
Means Test The Pollies
 
Means Test The Pollies
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Irish Castle
 
Irish Castle
 
 
 

Celcile Vowles sends me a newsletter. I'm sharing this photo with you from her latest newsletter. I think it is gorgeous!

 
 
 
 
Italian Security Cameras
 
Italian Security Cameras
 
 
 

Love it!

 
 
 
 
Putin outsmarts Obama, turns Obama’s expulsion of Russian diplomats to his advantage
 
Putin Wink
 
 
 

By refusing to be provoked by the expulsion of Russian diplomats from the US, Vladimir Putin turns the tables on Barack Obama and provides political space to Donald Trump. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s grandly restrained response to the sanctions and expulsions US President Barack Obama announced yesterday was even by his standards both very surprising and extremely clever.

 
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Off The Hook Again
 
Off The Hook Again
 
 
 

Wrong targeting seems to have become a national pasttime in the USA.

 
 
 
 
Quote from Maria Edgeworth
 
 
 
 

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth, born January 1, 1767, was a prolific and influential Anglo-Irish writer of adult and children’s books often considered the ‘Irish Jane Austen’ or ‘female Sir Walter Scott’. Her admirers, in fact, included both Austen and Scott, who acknowledged her influence in Waverly, as well as Ivan Turgenev and William Makepeace Thackeray. Edgeworth was an outspoken commentator on class, race, and gender whose novels reflected her beliefs in women’s education reform as well as her criticism of the treatment of Irish peasantry, who she worked hard to help.

 
 
 
 
A Deliberate Lie
 
A Deliberate Lie
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Paint Ball Policing
 
Paint Ball Policing
 
 
 

What a bright(ly coloured) idea!

 
 
 
 
Quote from Isaac Asimov
 
 
 
 

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. Isaac Asimov, born January 2, 1920, was a Russian-born, American author and master of science fiction whose most famous work is the Foundation Series about the downfall and rebirth of a vast Galactic Empire. Asimov was also a professor of biochemistry known for his popular science books. He wrote or edited more than 500 books and is considered one of history’s most prolific writers. Along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, Asimov was considered one of the “Big Three” science fiction writers of his time.

 
 
 
 
Federal Reserve Titanic Link
 
Federal Reserve Titanic Link
 
 
 

If that's of interest, also check out the fact that the Titanic had a sister ship that was previously damaged and some suspect were rebadged so the damaged ship, now rebadged as the Titanic, was the one that sank.

 
 
 
 
A Video of Pouring Water on an Oil Fire
 
 
 
 

A great example to show your kids of the fireball that ensues when you put water on an oil fire. This is why I keep two oil/electric fire suitable extinguishers in the home - one immediately outside the kitchen (so I can access it if the kitchen is on fire) and one on the stair landing.

Click the Read More button to view the video:

 
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Trump Is Exactly Where The Elites Want Him
 
 
 
 

Ron Paul explains it well. Seems like he thinks an economic crisis is in the works too.

 
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Julian Assange - (WikiLeaks) EXPOSED - FBI & Barack Obama
 
 
 
 

Click the Read More button to view the video:

 
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Until next time,
dream big dreams,
plan out how to achieve them,
be continually executing your plans,
enlist people to your causes,
travel and/or read widely, preferably both,
all the while observing what you observe
rather than thinking what you are told to think,
think well of your fellow man,
take time to help your fellow man,
he sorely needs it and it will help you too,
eat food that is good for your body,
exercise your body,
take time to destress,
and do the important things
that make a difference -
they are rarely the urgent ones!

Tom

 
 

Most of the content herein has been copied from someone else. Especially the images. My goodness some people are talented at creating aesthetics! The small bits that are of my creation are Copyright 2014-2016 © by Tom Grimshaw - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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