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Selling certainty

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For all those who are in the business of selling certainty, stop it, you can’t sell it. It doesn’t exist and you are manipulating others purely for a financial gain.

For all those wanting to buy certainty, stop it, you can’t buy it, no matter what the ‘guru’ is telling you. All you are seeking is to shortcut hard work and being personally accountable.

Certainty, even if it existed, is boring and it is a tool used to get us to comply through fear and satisfying our seeming desire for instant gratification versus patience, meaning and the sense of achievement that follows hard work.

So sure death is currently a pretty certain outcome for us all, the other part of the well-known phrase, ‘taxes’, is now only a certainty for some. That apart, all the rest is an unknown outcome varying from reasonably certain to completely unknown.

In the business world, the peddlers of certainty are selling you something that you can’t simply replicate and turn into a money making winning formula in just 6 months!! You are not someone else, their thing has been done, and if life was as simple as reading a book, watching a course online or going to seminar then there would be a) no point to life and b) why aren’t the peddlers busy making millions instead of selling us their ‘magic formula’?

Don’t fool for short-cuts and don’t try to sell them. Find something in life that is risky, rewarding and meaningful.

227 and nothing to write

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So today is day two hundred and twenty-seven on my quest to blog every single day for a year.

I am posting slightly later than I normally do, as for the first time I have run out of something to say. OK so other days I have had to think a little more and often the more I have thought, the harder it became to write.

However, I am writing now, as I remember reading somewhere that writers block is an excuse for something else, as how often do we run out of something to say. I could talk for Britain about all sorts of shit. So if it was an Olympic sport, I would have a good chance of gold.

Therefore, I will always have something to write about.

I know that I have said before that I now do not look at the stats, as I write this blog for me. However, I do look in now again, and I was amazed to see that this year alone, people from over 70 countries, so that is about 35% of the total number of countries (a startling fact, I know!!) have read my blog.

This goes to prove that we are all able to create our own impact on the world, however big or, in this case, small. The next time we say to ourselves ‘what can I do, I am just one person?’, well, you could start blogging, and sure enough after a bit of time you can reach people in the world.

So thanks to all the people who read my blog from Macau to St Vincent, to Latvia and Romania, in fact, all the different countries.

Tomorrow I will have something more to say.