Well I finally did it. Chucked everything that I was working on out and embarked on my dream that has been dormant for the last 30 years.

I have always been somebody who is curious about what lies over the next horizon, and before I married and “settled down” did a heap of travelling. In fact I am at my happiest moving towards the next horizon, meeting new people and experiencing everything life has to offer.

My kids have left the nest, I hated what I was doing and the negaivity associated with it, and decided that it is now or never. Wife not very happy, but I am sure we can come to an arrangement that will include her too.

I also come form an old horse culture, over 2,00 years old, possibly much older, and I have a love of history, particularly that of warrior cultures in East Asia,  the Middle East and over to Western Europe

Enter LiveHistoryTours.com where we try as much as possible to go and experience life where history happened.

And therein lies a problem - there are not many places left in the world where you can see and mingle with people who are essentially unchanged from what they were like hundreds of years ago, or where they only see you as an income source rather than a guest or friend.

The scope is huge too, so I finally picked my theme - follow Ghengis Kahn and his hordes from Mongolia through to Poland where they finally stopped.

And here is an interesting fact - part of that horde is even today alive and well in the south west of my fathers native land where they fianlly stopped their westward march. That in itself is an interesting story but you will have to go and see the LiveHistoryTours site to read it.

History and the landscape is littered with such anomolies - this is what makes it so interesting.

This is my passion. I am riding in the hoofprints of Ghengis Kahn. Maybe one day you will join me?

Stay awesome

Rick

So this will now become a personal blog, where I expound on stuff I think is important, and you may too. Things like living a life of integrity, what ethics means to me, some anecdotes and updates on family goings on and whatnot.

If you want business building websites built, follow the links. If you want Hybrid Consulting to help grow your business, head here to Performance Marketing Warriors. If your business needs internet marketing packages specifically, look no further than Gold Coast Internet Marketing.

Speaking of congruence, that site is top of local Google search for internet marketing on the Gold Coast. This just proves the importance of local search in the future economic scheme of things, amongst others. And that I can do what I say I can do.

So many companies get bamboozled and buy SEO and other online services from companies who are not even on the first two or three pages of Google, much less the number one listing themselves for what they sell … Money and opportunity wasted unnecessarily.

One of my clients client used the internet to get more leads - yellow pages and referrals weren’t enough. Now about 40% of their new business comes from their website and they are growing where other businesses in the same sector are finding things very tough. Google the phrase “gold coast montessori” and see how Fridays Child fits in. They appear high in organic, online video and the local search box.

Congruence. Integrity. Alien concepts to some folks, but the very stuff of a long lived business.

Stay Awesome
Rick

BTW the final tally of accountants was 33/64 which was 2% less than expected. So it begs the question, why spend all that money o…n a yellow pages ad with an email or web address IF you aren’t gonna answer sales enquiries from it?

The first day of school our professor introduced himself
and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already
know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched
my shoulder. I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old
lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire
being.

She said, “Hi, Handsome! My name is Rose. I’m 87 years
old. Can I give you a hug?”

I laughed and enthusiastically responded, “Of course you
may!” and she gave me a giant squeeze.

“Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?” I
asked. She jokingly replied, “I’m here to meet a rich
husband, get married, have a couple of children, and then
retire and travel.”

“No, seriously,” I asked. I was curious what may have
motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age.

“I always dreamed of having a college education, and now
I’m getting one!” she told me.

After class we walked to the student union building and
shared a chocolate milkshake. We became instant friends.
Every day for the next three months we would leave class
together and talk nonstop.

I was always mesmerized listening to this “time machine”
as she shared her wisdom and experience with me. Over the
course of the year, Rose became a campus icon, and she
easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress
up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from
the other students. She was living it up.

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our
football banquet. I’ll never forget what she taught us. She
was introduced and stepped up to the podium. As she began
to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her 3×5 cards on
the floor. Frustrated and a little embarrassed, she leaned
into the microphone and simply said, “I’m sorry I’m so
jittery. I gave up beer for Lent, and this whiskey is
killing me! I’ll never get my speech back in order, so let
me just tell you what I know.” As we laughed, she cleared
her throat and began:

“We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old
because we stop playing. There are only four secrets to
staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have
to laugh and find humor everyday. You’ve got to have a
dream. When you lose your dreams, you die. We have so many
people walking around who are dead, and they don’t even
know it!” she said.

“There is a huge difference between growing older and
growing up. If you are nineteen years old, lie in bed for
one full year, and don’t do one productive thing, you will
turn 20 years old. If I am 87 years old, stay in bed for a
year, and never do anything, I will turn 88. Anybody can
grow older. That doesn’t take any talent or ability,” she
added.

“The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity
in change. Have no regrets. The elderly usually don’t have
regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not
do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets.”

She concluded her speech by courageously singing “The
Rose.” She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and
live them out in our daily lives.

At the year’s end, Rose finished the college degree she
had begun all those years ago. One week after graduation,
Rose died peacefully in her sleep. Over 2,000 college
students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful
woman who taught by example that it’s never too late to be
all you can possibly be.

Live an inspired life.

Rick

p.s. I have a new internet marketing site for brick and mortar businesses - go see

The right shoulder is still very “crunchy” and sometimes when I stretch my sternum goes “crack” too. My main concern is the fact I have a very weak situation with any “pushing” moves like a bench press.
I am lucky to get 60kg up at the moment when before the prang I could do 110 partials.

My thinking is this - I probably have some ligament damage, and maybe crushed muscle fibres from the sealtbelt too. So the key to fixing it is to really strengthen up the shoulder muscles and upper back to hold everything together with muscle and tendon rather than ligaments alone.

Will keep you informed. BTW my site Gold Coast Personal Training has hit Google’s front page after eight weeks. Not bad if I say so myself. If you want this sort of performance for your website, give me a call, and let’s hatch a plot to get your site onto Googles front page too.

Well wishes.
Rick

It’s a Canon SD750 I picked up on Ebay for US$120 including delivery. (Some clown bought one here from an Australian for AU$275. Shows what happens when you get carried away with “Auction Fever”).

This was around average and according to the seller, it has only been used twice. it looks like it. The only thing i had to get for it was a larger SD memory card. I discovered that this camera is “USA issue only” but the newer high speed cards work ok. So I bought an 8gig card from my local Roberts Boys Retravision.

Now I am getting into the habit of carrying it everywhere, because you never know when a moment will occur for you to record and add value to your blog or other business communication.

Here is my first movie ever with it.

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