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What A World We Live In!

In the few short months since our last newsletter, so much has happened it is hard to keep up.
What A World We Live In!

In the few short months since our last newsletter, so much has happened it is hard to keep up.

In October and November last year we once more travelled presenting our Annual Update Seminar entitled “Pinch Me – I Think I’m Dreaming” where we focused on how the world has changed and how hard it is to process the mismanagement and misinformation.  As it turns out, we couldn’t have been any more accurate as we talked about how a lack of accountability lets even stranger things happen.   With the USA the dominant political and economic force that has become increasingly erratic, we are seeing the law of unintended consequences run a muck.

From the suppression of the Epstien saga, abduction of a president, cold blooded shooting of bystanders in the streets, assassination of sovereign leaders and now unleashing of devastating bombing for no real substantiated reasons, the world is now in a spin with oil prices surging and Middle East neighbours bearing retaliation strikes that impact the importance travel hubs of UAE and Qatar.  In my seminar I talked about us all being once removed from the previous shenanigans of tariffs and turmoil, but now everyone, everywhere is impacted. 

From the tragedy on the Bondi shootings and real life threat of counter bombing in the Middle East, to the additional cost of everything from the tightening of the oil markets and uplift in prices, which have risen over 30% in Australia since the Iran attacks commenced, we are now all directly embroiled in this and can not sensibly stand by and condone these behaviours any longer.  Sadly, nothing is being said or done to demand and end to hostilities from Isreal or USA, which is the crux of the whole situation.

I am not condoning Iran nor defending Hamas, but is the responses we have seen to the issues appropriate, justified or prudent?  As a global society we need to return to more common sense, less aggression and remind ourselves the importance of peace and place it far higher up on our priority list rather than permit the aggression to persist.

I hope that we can use this as a wake up point to realise the cost of not having peace is far greater than lack of tolerance to agenda’s that are not always clear or understood.

History doesn’t support the likelihood of quick change, just remember Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine or the countless other conflicts that flare up with distressing regularity and elongate themselves despite promises of quick endings.

I would invite you to view our last seminar (Click here) to help you understand and cope with this changing world.  The 2024 Seminar was also very prophetic and entitled Life Beyond the Point of No Return, which also was spot on for the times we now encounter.

Keep calm, keep real, and understand that sadly there seems to always to be a hidden agenda, so try your best to minimise the downside impact to your sanity and finances.

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