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Alligators nipping at your ass? How to hang in there & enjoy the ride.

Alex Webley — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:13:18 +0000

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With limited time, WHAT you read is vital. Especially about investing.

Alex Webley — Wed, 26 May 2010 23:48:07 +0000

How much time do you have to read?

How much time do you have to waste?

Books are often a great source of wisdom at a miniscule price.

We still have to chose which is the best book to read with the best return on investment (ROI) however. Why spend valuable time reading books from the second or third divisions…or worse?

When it comes to investing, you really do have to be sure that what you are reading is indeed wise.

Today, I came across a book review by Neil Jenman – a respected, honest expert in real estate. If you research Neil Jenman you will discover that he is well worth listening to. He is a refreshingly honest, and brave, man.

Here is Neil Jenman’s review:

PIGS AT THE TROUGH – How to avoid feeding the pigs.

Neil Jenman is very direct and to the point.

If you want to buy the book, it is available at Amazon here. Or at Fishpond (Australian) here.

With limited time, WHAT you read is vital. Especially about investing. is a post from: Joy Wizard Blog

15 Things You Didn't Know About Steve Jobs

Alex Webley — Fri, 21 May 2010 12:44:54 +0000

Hmm…I see myself in places here (so there is hope for me yet;-))

Via: Online Schools

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Are you a study cheat? And who are you really cheating?

Alex Webley — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:56:36 +0000

Cheating on exams and other forms of study has been around the generations. Today it is becoming even easier to cheat us this article illustrates:

Teens turn to the net, mobiles to pass tests

The article covers a number of interesting points on the subject of cheating. Of particular note is:

“Only half of the students surveyed considered mobile telephone or Internet cheating as “serious offences” and a significant number of teens did not deem those tactics cheating at all”.

When you know that you have cheated, deep down you will undermine your own self-respect. On the surface you might congratulate yourself on how clever you are, but the reality is that deep in your psychological foundations you are causing damage. The seed you have sown will in due course produce a destructive harvest for you. This is not just my opinion – this is one of those often unacknowledged laws of the universe. These laws work away in the background whether you believe them or not; and whether you like them or not.

Aside from undermining your own self-respect, cheating could enable you to get a job for which you are not truly qualified and for which you cannot fulfil the duties correctly. How smart is that? Think of the problems that could create.

Cheating prevents growth. It stunts you as a person.

When we cheat, we are cheating ourselves and those who interact with us, including loved ones. We are building our life on a shaky and flawed foundation. Cheats are plastic people – people who like to create an image.

Authenticity tastes good, feels good, looks good. Try it sometime. In the long run, you will feel much better.

Are you a study cheat? And who are you really cheating? is a post from: Joy Wizard Blog

Are you stagnating? Well, are you?

Alex Webley — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:56:08 +0000

“Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.”

Tom Peters – Author

Whether we like it or not, the world is changing, and at an increasing rate too.

We need to embrace change, savor it and look for it.

Personally, I am riding the bleeding edge of the wave and certainly won’t turn into an old ‘fuddy duddy’. In fact, when I pass on, I expect they will have to prise the computer mouse out of my hand. That is, if mice are still in use then!

So am I some sort on unbalanced geek with an obsession? Far from it. If you look into my other writings, especially those of a spiritual nature, you will see that this is not the case. I simply make the most of now and the era in which I live.

What are you doing to ensure you don’t get left behind?

Worrying about it won’t help. Neither will ignoring it.

Change will accelerate in 3D. What I mean by this is that change in one area has big implications in yet more areas beyond the scope of the original, complete with a cascading effect sending ripples in all directions.

Today we have an unprecedented level of cooperation between people groups. It is becoming very easy to collaborate today. Collaboration speeds progress.

Power is flowing down to the individual in ways never seen before – for good or bad. The State is not as powerful as it once was.

Welcome to the new world. In future generations, they will refer to this period as the Internet or Technology Revolution or similar. ‘Revolution’ is an apt description.

It is up to you.

Will you embrace the future?

Or will you rot in a pot?

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Recession is not bad! Be careful who you listen to and what you think.

Alex Webley — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:06:47 +0000

Many years ago I recall listening to an astute businessman who, during an official recession in the UK, had the attitude of ‘What recession?’

The guy was not in denial, he simply refused to join the recession bandwagon and let it pollute his thoughts. Yes, pollute his thoughts.

Sir Richard Branson, a billionaire and one of the world’s top business people, is not worried about the ‘recession’ or global downturn either. In fact Sir Richard believes that the depth of this recession and its impact on once-impregnable industries has presented entrepreneurs with their greatest opportunity in generations!

Read what he has to say here:

Don’t be gloomy; the time is just right to be like me

For those who are tempted to think that they could not be like Sir Richard and make a success of their ventures I say that you are correct. The reason you are correct however is due to your own thinking.

It’s really simple. Your thinking determines your outcome.

We do not have a recession problem – we have a thinking problem.

It is time to stop the fear mentality and get on with creating.

Are you a wimp?

Conceive, believe and do.

Stop watering and nurturing your fear weeds today. Pour on the mental weed killer and go, go, go.

Recession is not bad! Be careful who you listen to and what you think. is a post from: Joy Wizard Blog

How to focus on the next economic boom.

Alex Webley — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:00:54 +0000

There is a lot of doom and gloom about the current world economic and financial situation. And yes, some of the news is bad, real bad.

Why pray? The next boom will come. Get on with life.

Dwelling on the problems is not going to help us however. I wrote an article on my about positive thinking not being optional – you might like to pop over there and read that one after you have finished here. If you do, it might help you put this article into better perspective.

Personally, I see the current world economic and financial situation in a number of different ways, which include:

1) Lots of opportunities which were not present before – change always brings opportunities.

2) We have had busts before, granted – not many as bad as this, but we have had them. Booms will come back. We will have busts again. Boom and bust are part of a historical cycle which is likely to continue on into the future well beyond the end of our lifetimes.

3) I suspect that we are actually on the verge of the biggest boom in history – not right now perhaps, but probably not far off – in the medium term. My reasons? Simply speaking; never before in history have we had a situation where people from across the world, from all sorts of different nations and cultures, have been able to collaborate and communicate with each other so easily. In my view*, 100 years from now, schoolchildren will write about the “Internet Revolution”, as they will about the Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions. (*And that view is based on what has already happened so far, not on what I suspect is to come).

An underlying thread to all this of course, is that we are going through a massive change in all sorts of respects. It is so important to us as individuals and communities to be able to cope with change. Multitudes of people do not cope well with change and they are going to have to learn to. We are all going to need to get out of our comfort zones and release our creative power, becoming more “whole” in the process.

In summary then, I think it is far better to be concentrating on the opportunities that the current crisis presents, and also to be planning for the dramatic future changes in our lives, than to be moaning about the current situation. And in any case, we have lots that we can still be thankful for. We are far better off than many people, both present and in times past.

How to focus on the next economic boom. is a post from: Joy Wizard Blog

How competitive are you? Are you aware of the new competition paradigm?

Alex Webley — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:36:53 +0000

Is competition important to you?

I know when I was at school we had public lists of exam results. In my view it was a good thing and helped introduce students to the realities of adult life. After all, that is one of the purposes of an education. Well, it seems it used to be. Nowadays, all to commonly, I hear how the ‘little dears’ are being protected from “negative outcomes” by the avoidance of competitive scenarios at school. Some preparation for life!

In fact, competition is even more important in this modern era. And many people have not woken up to the why. This is understandable because many have habits which were formed years ago, prior to the Internet age.

In my view it is even more important today to be the best at what you do.

In the past you might have ‘got away’ with being second best, third rate, or worse.

Today it is much harder.

Why is this so?

Because the Internet has reduced imperfect competition and caused aspects of perfect competition to trend upwards. Imperfect and perfect competition are economic terms (I have an ancient Economics qualification) and you can look into them further by following the Wikipedia links I have provided.

Simply speaking, and I quote from Wikipedia:

There may also be imperfect competition in markets due to buyers or sellers lacking information about prices and the goods being traded.

The Internet is a great leveler of the ‘playing field’. These days for example I try to deal with experts and top class service providers for a variety of reasons. The Internet gives me the ability and freedom to attempt this, whereas before all of our options were much more limited. This practice will increase exponentially in years to come in the general population.

The simple equation – if you are not the best, then your potential customers will find it easy to go (click) elsewhere.

Another simple point: if you are working in your life purpose, with passion and love for what you do then you are on the right path to providing an excellent service to your clients, or employer.

There are many things I am very good at, however only some that I am excellent at. Increasingly I am concentrating on the latter. One example is that I now refer people for email tracing to Ed Opperman of Opperman Investigations Inc – see email tracing article . Private Investigation work I do these days tends to be people related such as Mystery shopping – Staff & Business Quality Assessment Investigations, in which I have high expertise. If people need other Private Detective work completing which is outside my specialty areas, then I refer them to Victorian Detective Services – one of Australia’s elite, top notch Private Investigation agencies. Mark Grover and his crack team at Victorian Detective Services work on anything from small private cases to TV show investigations and matters where they report directly to the CEOs of multinational companies.

For surveillance in the Gold Coast, Brisbane and Sunshine Coast regions of Queensland I recommend you check out:

Do you need world class (elite) surveillance services?

Another example of the principle of excellence – when I build new websites these days I don’t fart around with cumbersome stuff like Microsoft’s Expression Web or Adobe’s Dreamweaver. I ‘delegate’ the job to one slick website builder application which rocks. Check out my comments here and follow the links and you will see why – there is even a color PDF brochure you can download from my page. And the blogs I manage are built on a top notch theme which works really well and looks good. Simply speaking, the website builder software and blog theme I use enables me to focus on producing quality content – I do not need to delegate the actual website or blog building because it is SO EASY.

Have a think about what you want to do in life, what you have a real deep passion for, and that for which you have a genuine dream. Avoid whimsical thinking and bear in mind that you may need some counselling or other therapy to get to the bottom of who you really are. Don’t waste your life in a dead end job thinking “I hate Mondays”.

In conclusion, understand this…..the world and the Internet will move on without you. Be competitive or you WILL be eliminated.

How competitive are you? Are you aware of the new competition paradigm? is a post from: Joy Wizard Blog

What are you planting in your head?

Alex Webley — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:27:10 +0000

“Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and
nourish with repetition and emotion will
one day become a reality.”
— Earl Nightingale

What are you planting in your head?

Whether we like it or not, laws of the universe such as the above will take effect simply because they exist. Just like the law of gravity.

Be careful what you think about, especially repeatedly, and when you feel emotional.

Your mind is more powerful than you might think. Misused, it can be very injurious to your life.

What are you planting in your head? is a post from: Joy Wizard Blog

Unsure what to do in life?

Alex Webley — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:29:58 +0000

Recently I wrote a forum post (private business forum) with some suggestions for a member who was uncertain about what to do.

I have reproduced what I wrote here (unedited, apart from name being removed) for the benefit of a more general audience:

I am not surprised your head is spinning in the circumstances. It is normal.

It may help to ask yourself some further questions:

1) Who am I deep down and what do I have a solid passion and love for? Multitudes of people do not know this, though many think they do.

2) Will I enjoy (at least to an acceptable extent) using my experience? Can I build a longer term business on it?

3) Can what I know about lead to another related area in which my experience gives me an advantage?

4) At what would people say that I am an ‘artisan’ (very skilled).

5) What is (feels) deeply ‘natural’ to me?

6) What should be my focus? On a personal note I have recently tightened my focus very significantly. I am able to do many things, I pick up stuff quickly, can study intensely (thus achieving a skill/knowledge set which is above average easily) and so on. This has led to problems with lack of focus an dilution of effect in the past.

7) What are my deep, subconscious attitudes to money and success? Are they hindering me?

8) How do I define success? Are my beliefs congruent with real success which benefits not just me, but others? E.g: Am I taking advantage of others in an unfair way?

9) Do I have a plan? Why not? Do I need to spend time adjusting my plans?

10) At what can I benefit others the most – provide the most service to the greatest number of people? How can I deliver this?

11) Is there anything at which I have a significant edge, perhaps even a world class one? If not, can I develop it?

12) What does my mind whisper? Have I paid attention to the deep…occasional thoughts which may give me clues about my situation?

13) Am I writing a Journal, or at the very least, notes about key questions (preferably over several days)?

14) Why is it that I am not rock solid on my decision to pursue my current business course?

15) What is my purpose?

16) What are my deep and real talents (they may be buried and out of conscious awareness)?

******* (name removed for privacy reasons), there are many more questions one can ask, however these will give you a key starting point. While the list, and depth, may seem a little overwhelming at first sight, questions like this can lead to clarity, peace of mind and definite purpose.

For personal help with any of the areas mentioned please contact me here.

PS: A note about time management, effectiveness and leverage for those interested:

I originally wrote this post to help someone on a private business forum. It was written within a special sub section of the forum limited to just 6 members and an administrator.

The post is potentially helpful to large numbers of people and makes excellent content for my blog.

So, originally I set out to help someone; and ended up with something that can help large numbers of people as well as the material for a blog post. I achieved a lot with what was originally intended for a small audience of 7 people.

Have a think about ways in which you can benefit others, and yourself, in more ways than just one in whatever you do. If you have this mindset as a general guiding principle you will start to see all kinds of opportunities. You may also notice that things which do not go according to plan can be converted into some other kind of benefit, thus promoting a more positive attitude, among other things.

Unsure what to do in life? is a post from: Joy Wizard Blog

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