Edition 345 Monday 22/08/16
Hi,as you know I live by the mantra “one mans rubbish is another
mans treasure”with me being the man who turns the rubbish into treasure.Well at
least that’s how its meant to turn out anyway. After collecting and ‘coming by’
a number of scrap steel items recently it was time to cash in!Off I went to the
‘scrappy’ with my haul full of excitement and expectation only to have my
parade totally rained out when it was revealed my stash was worth a grand total
of $10!!!Will this deter the Steptoe/Magpie within,no way because its in my
blood regardless of unstable world wide steel prices!
Fletcher
reckons; he hopes being a Magpie is not in his blood because ‘now
that he is 4’ he is far too busy and important to collect other peoples old
junk! Hmmm that kid could go places!!
We are often reminded how it’s the simple things in life that
make a huge difference like Fletcher collecting wild flowers for his Mum on our
dog walk recently.They made Mum cry and filled the house with a fragrance that
$30 worth of flowers struggles to ever do!...simple stuff from the heart.
A bit like the outside shower at the local pool I often stand
there after training watching the sun come up over the surrounding farmland
thinking how lucky am I.Les Mills junkies eat your heart out!!!
How about the Olympic medal haul or that AB Bledisloe Cup
blitz how could any of us do anything else but have an ‘Upbeat’ week ahead…..Cheers
Jonesey!!
Harry and the Hendersons reckon nothing but good things come
from dog walking!
“Its hard to beat a person
who never gives up”.Babe Ruth
Its been an interesting week since we talked about the
psychology of winning!
I have found myself exposed to the other end of the spectrum
and been annoyed by it.
We hear a lot about immigrants being alowed to come into New
Zealand to take jobs that New Zealanders could be doing.
On the surface of it this seems wrong and shouldn’t be
happening however when you delve into it a little further you discover that
these people really are doing work New Zealanders don’t want to do.
The reality is many Kiwis don’t want to work,they have got
too used to not working and when offered the opportunity to do something about
that many decline!
I have experienced this first hand with two projects I am
involved in at the moment. Both involve 24/7 availability and out of hours work
requirement however when unemployed people were offered the work at above
minimum hourly rates they turned it down. Others turned up but after
experiencing the work failed to show again?!!
In both cases immigrants were recruited and the projects are
both back on track because the fundamental difference is these people want to
work and turn up reliably to do so.
I reckon it is too easy for a lot of Kiwis to get the benefit
and to stay on it after deciding it is their right to be paid for doing
nothing.
No one begrudges those on hard times receiving a hand up
however when that hand up is taken for granted then I have a major problem with
it.
Interestingly in Canada people are entitled to a benefit
however after they have received it for a total of 2 years continuous or
collective on or off that is it…..I like that idea…imagine it happening in NZ
!!
I worked an extra job lately,it involved working out of hours
at a retail store in the main street of Auckland.The intreresting thing was
there were so called homeless out of work people everywhere yet not one of them
said to me ‘hey for breakfast and a cup of coffee can I help you?’
They were all too busy begging for a hand out and trying to
get others to take pity on them.
I am firmly of the view that if people want to get ahead
badly enough then they will by working hard.
We cant complain about immigrants who show more willingness
to get ahead than our own people!
“I never dreamed about
success,I worked for it”. Estee Lauder
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