What have you done lately to support your insights? Have you taken steps to increase mental clarity?   Do you have the ability to be flexible with information?  Do you have ways to access and use large amounts of information fast?  Have you set aside the “lateral” from your lateral thinking, leaving you with just “thinking” about what could be?
Insights are your mental edge in life.  They are our ability to foresee problems and invent solutions;  and they are your opportunity for success and greatness.  I guess that means the whole world could do with a little more insight.  But, this is not about the world;  this is about YOU.

What can I do about it?

Well how do you go about strengthening your ability to have more insight?  Mental discipline is the easiest answer, because it will increase your brain power so you can achieve these feats.  Once you learn how to manage your brain, you gain clarity.  You begin to see life and the world around you in a new light.  This new perception will give you avenue to solve the same old problem in completely new ways.

Most mind disciplines use meditation because it is the most consistent and effective way to clear the cobwebs from your mind and gain FOCUS.  You should use meditation over an extended period of time.  You would first be using it to clean up the circumstances you currently face.  Then, as you continue to use meditation, it will assist you with your goals, your life path, and mapping out the incredible journey you are on.

Dedicated meditators feel “A day without meditation is like a day without sunshine!”, and that you should start each day with some sort of meditation, no matter how brief.  One of the primary things that most people are taught to do while meditating is plotting your path to success.  This is also referred to as subconscious programming or self-hypnosis.  The best thing about it is it puts you into the driver’s seat.  You are the one in control.

The only downside to subconscious programming is knowing what you need to program to gain your results.  It may just be your lack of information that sets you back.  There is a companion technique that gives you ample information to use for programming.  Even better;  you get the information at the same vibrational energy as your meditation.  You can even receive information that you cannot consciously remember, but that your subconscious has stored.  This technique for gaining information is called Mental Photography. It allows the user to transcend the normal conscious speed of comprehension, which is slow and laborious.

So, how do I get my Programs to work?

Do you want your programs to work, or just work better?  With Mental Photography in your arsenal, they will.  Just imagine how the Law of Attraction will accelerate around you.  When you have the information already formatted for your personal “download”, anything and everything can happen – fast.  Your insights will become so automated, things will simply be happening almost before you are even thinking about them. We refer to this as instantaneous manifestation.

Really?…

You may think I am out on a limb here.  My experience has shown me incredible things are not only possible, they are probable.  You can choose to make the difference in your life by gaining clarity, insight, information, and success.

I don’t know too many people that are just “satisfied” sitting there doing nothing. So, don’t just sit there. Do something!

As I pointed out in the past, the world is not fair. It does not care about you.  You are the only one that will make the difference.  You must participate.  Start today!

Great Things Happen Here!

Here we are, in one of the world’s worst economic recessions, the dollar weak in the market, and things going pear-shaped all year long.  People have been losing their jobs, their homes, and their direction in life.  But we took a leap of faith and were there on the Internet to help people help themselves when they needed it the most.

People from all walks of life, from all over the world have been using ZOX Pro Training to tune up their brain, and set their mind in motion to make a better life for themselves.  It is through our efforts to create a more sustainable world we made ZOX Pro available to you on the Internet.  This was our first year for ZOX Pro Training on the Internet.

With your help, we have been given a truly astonishing award.

Clickbank’s Top 100 Publishers

Clickbank is the largest provider of Internet based product in the world.  It has many thousands of publishers.  So, for us to receive this award is truly astounding.  It really makes all those late nights of support worth while.

So, a BIG Thank You for all of our clients that made this possible.  We have something to be thankful for – YOU!

We are looking forward to another great year!

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I Don’t Read, I ZOX !!!

There are over 1 trillion pages on the internet, whereas there are only 6.7 billion people!  And it is estimated that it would take one person 31,000 years without any sleep to visit all of them.  This has all been built since 1969.

What would happen if you wanted to be an expert in any field?  First you would start with information.

Where do most people get information these days?

The Internet

By the time you read the information available to make you an EXPERT in your chosen field, most of that information would be obsolete.

Let’s put your brain to work.  If you were to reverse-engineer what we have just covered, where is the bottleneck?  What is stopping you from covering the required information in only a little time?

Reading

Reading speed averages ~250 words per minute – usually less than one page in a minute.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could cover information like a living breathing computer, accessing millions of words per minute?  Wouldn’t it be great if you could be filling your mind with 25,000, 100,000, even 200,000 words per minute?  What about that photographic memory that you were born with?

Well, you better not take too long to think about it.  You are not just being left in the dust; you are buried and pushing up posies!  Watch out, another day gone,  here comes another billion pages at you.

I Don’t Read, I ZOX !!!

We here at Mind To Mind – The Brain Accelerator, will continue to bring you the things that keep bringing you back – Intrigue! Intrigue in itself is a game for the brain because it stretches you to consider other paradigms.

Don’t forget your MINDFUL New Years Resolutions.

Great Things Happen Here !!!

Mental Preparation…

Everything works better when you put your mind in place first.

Why do people wait until an emergency before they choose to take action — the “I need it yesterday” syndrome? Our trainings have done wonderful things for people in break-neck time. But, this attitude of “I gotta’ have it now!… so I can use it for this emergency agenda tomorrow.” It really makes me wonder why you have not had the simple desire to easily think things through in advance.

What I am talking about here is not brain surgery. If you see a need appearing on the horizon, why wait until it is on your doorstep when you choose to do something about it. You could have paced yourself, so you would have been better prepared.

You don’t need to be turning on the sirens, running around screaming with your hair on fire type of reaction. Let’s paint a positive picture here: What if,… when you see things on your horizon, and you know you will ultimately need to deal with them, set about gaining knowledge in preparation for the time when you need to take care of it. Wouldn’t you feel much better?

The knowledge you gain will lessen the impact of the “Danger, Danger, Warning, Warning Will Robinson” feeling you get in the pit of your stomach every time it happens. When your mind has the power to see past the problem, life is much more pleasant.

What is the key to you being successful with employing your New Years Resolution of being Mentally Prepared – the ability to gain knowledge. If you want to be able to gain information, knowledge, and wisdom effectively, twenty years in twenty minutes, what are you going to do?

As I said before, preparation is the key. And yes, I do have an answer for you. (Ah, yes, that long deep breath in ; as if you are saying, “Here it comes again — the pitch.”) Well, if you don’t want to hear what to do, just roll up your ears!

I started this conversation by telling you about a few of my clients that lack insight of preparedness. That’s okay, we help them too. But for you, the person that wants to make the difference from here onward, here is a strategy that works. Start by using your mind. Exercise your brain, learn to manage your brain and make it stronger and more resilient.

Things are not going to get any easier in the world. Everything keeps accelerating. If you prepare your mind, it will have the capacity to affect everything, and everyone around you in the best way. The easiest way to get information, knowledge, and wisdom, to base your decisions on, is Mental Photography or ZOXing. People just like you claim that their life is so much easier than it used to be.

So, be prepared with information on your side. Exercise your brain.

Great Things Happen Here !!!

What can you give someone that could give them what they need to make a better life for themselves?

And what about you?  What about that New Years Resolution that is going to give you success in the Happy New Year?  Have you even had a moment to yourself to think about it?  The New Year is just around the corner…

Please give me a moment to paint a picture for you.

If you want to become better at something, if you want to get a different job, better pay, better education, better home life, better relationships, better at whatever it is that makes you feel good about yourself so you can do even better than before, STOP!

I want you to take a moment and THINK of what makes all of these things come to life for you?

INFORMATION

It all starts at gaining information.  Anything that you want to become better at, you must learn about it first.  You need information that will get you to move to that new reality you are building.  You need to put your brain power to good use.  Put your mind in motion.  This is what we refer to as Brain Management.

You also need to gain twenty years of information in twenty minutes.  You need an edge. You need to tap into the natural resources you already have.  The ones you were born with, like your photographic memory.

Yes, you already have a photographic memory.  It has been there all along.  You are just disconnected from directly using it.  Can you reconnect to it?  YES!  The HOW is where things get interesting.

Back in 1975, privately funded research had found a way to reconnect you with your naturally occurring photographic memory.  It even benefits your memory.  That discovery is known as Mental Photography, or ZOXing.

If you want to give yourself, or someone you know, something that will give ‘the edge’ from this day forward, you should probably consider this.  You can visit us at www.ZOXpro.com/

Yes, I already know what you are thinking. But how are you to know that the product is there if I don’t tell you about it.  You’re not psychic, YET! (I just had to do that…)

Great Things Happen Here !!!

I have an oversimplified “logical” (Ha Ha!) way of defining intuition.  It is “simply knowing the solution to a problem, without consciously knowing all the steps in between”.  That is a good starting point.

We talk about the conscious and the subconscious as if they are two friends standing there beside us.  Well, they both reside in our brain.  The conscious is the part we deal with on an everyday basis, while we work, play, go to school, and general activities.  The subconscious is the shadowy other side that we must point our attention at to gain purposeful access to it during our day.  Although, it is very open to us while we sleep.

Both the conscious and the subconscious have different operating parameters.  One of these deals with the QUANTITY of information you have at hand.  The conscious has only a small fraction of the information that is available to the subconscious.

If you are making important decisions, which one would you choose?  The conscious mind that has only limited information, or the subconscious that has UN-limited information?  Most people would choose the subconscious.

Intuition is how we gain the answers the subconscious has for us.  The process of ZOXing teaches your brain to process more and more information this way so it becomes a reliable resource for you.  It does not just come from one exercise;  it comes from the synergistic process as a whole.

So yes, you can learn to trust your intuition and gain insights how to solve your problems.  By gaining access to reliable Intuition, many other talents and gifts come to light as well.

If you’d like to improve and trust your intuition, we encourage you to start ZOXing by visiting: http://www.ZOXpro.com/

Join us in our next blog post as we discuss ZOXing and how to require less sleep and become more productive.

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Can ZOXing Affect MY Awareness, Perception, and Decisions

In my travels, I meet people from all walks of life.  Likewise, they have almost as many outlooks upon life.  Some live day-to-day, some live for tomorrow, and some rest on their laurels from times past, thus, living in the past.  And all attitudes toward their fellow humans abound.

I would like to give you a perspective that I find somewhat consistent with people that are intelligent.  They say to, “Gain as much knowledge as possible, even if wealth comes and goes, knowledge is always there.  It cannot be taken from you.” Now, before I get everyone’s dander up, I will take a moment to explain.  The intelligence that I am referring to here is an expression of intellect to your surrounding environment and community.  This is not about book intelligence or I.Q. (which is a tested outcome).

Let me give you an example:  a fisherman from a fishing village is able to use the simplest implements to catch the most of his preferred marketable fish within his village.  That person would be held in high regard for their abilities when it came to fishing.

Here I come along with all of the silly implements, fancy tackle, and so forth.  I wonder why I cannot catch a single fish.  Did the fisherman take them all?  No.  I just am out of my “village”.  I am out of my environment.  To me, this fisherman that catches anything and everything is an absolute genius compared to my ability to catch fish.

My question to you:  If the fisherman is not ‘book’ intelligent, does that report that he isn’t intelligent?  IF I am the one that cannot catch the fish, does that report that I am not intelligent?  The answer of course is NO for both questions.  It just means that we are outside of our environment that we are considered intelligent within.

I have not written to you like this for a while.  I want you to glean something of benefit from this.  I guess you could say this is a little Christmas / Hanukkah (or whatever faith / holiday you follow) gift.

Take a moment to look around you.  Notice what each person is good at.  Some may be good at cooking, others may be better at painting, and others at maintaining the Large Hadron Collider.  It really doesn’t matter.  The fact is that most everyone is better at doing something.  Some people are world class sleepers, too.  (Observing them is just too boring, so we will just move on.)

The POWER of Observation:

Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to observe what the people around you are good at.  What makes them specialists in their environment?  The second task is to appreciate their position of being good at whatever that skill is.  No matter how trivial it may seem, it still comes with a certain level of responsibility.

The INSIGHT:

Observation and appreciation, is akin to a gift.  It bestows a silent gift upon them, as well as you learning to appreciate yourself.  That too is a gift – to you.

You may want to take steps to enhance your ability to observe.  That’s where I come in.  I know how you can help yourself gain that heightened sense of awareness and the perception of the world around you.

The easiest way to increase your awareness is for you to open your eyes.  Yes, that’s right.  Actually, more to the point take steps to increase you peripheral vision, or widening your field of vision so you can see more.  If you can see more, then you are automatically aware of more.  See how easy that is.

So what am I really saying about giving the gift of intelligence this holiday season?  By you being aware of the special skills others have, and appreciating them for it, you gain in intelligence by the insights you will make along the way.

If you want to give someone else a gift of intelligence, you may want to consider checking out the training that I have around MindToMind.com.  That is why it is called “The Brain Accelerator”.  Some of the training I have here, you can give to someone, and it won’t even cost you anything.  What a deal!

Cheers,… with bells on!

Great Things Happen Here!!!

First, one of the first premises for this blog is to challenge – a think tank; a pressure cooker for the mind. These have been there since it’s inception.

Second, This was an article meant to exercise your brain. By giving you a compelling argument, you need to not only have plausible answers and directions, but the best answers have fundamental, logical, or progressive foundation to base the comment on. You can see this in my responses. A well written and justified response would get my ‘Kudos’. A half-baked response would usually gain a ‘what if’ or a thought provoking suggestion. A response that was unfounded and didn’t have a basis to stand on was gently brought to the attention of its author (So as not to alienate anyone).

This exercise was not about winners and losers. It was not about what side you are on. It was not about what we must do in the end. It was about response! I wanted to see how people would respond to this article. I obviously struck a few cords. As you THINK about HOW to answer the questions raised, this exercises your mind. It commits you to think outside the square, and causes you to GROW!

In short you could say that I gave you a Brain Building task. So, no, this article is not out of character. It is with the true theme of Mind to Mind – The Brain Accelerator! [Please Read On...]

PS: I also congratulate the people that participated in the challenge by way of your comments. You made my efforts worth while!

Exercise Your Brain…

As I have mentioned in the past, Mind to Mind – The Brain Accelerator, is a place that bring you Mental Puzzles that affect how our lives unfold. By questioning your mind – Why? You stimulate your mental capacity to grow, to strengthen your brain and increase mind power. Consider this a real life applications of your ability to observe and use your brain power.

Absolutely Remarkable!

That is the only thing my observations have revealed about the controversy of Global Warming. For years now, I have observed the media and the politicians led down the merry path “For the good of all”. A path that has more holes in it than aged Swiss cheese. From pollution inhibiting ventures such as the Kyoto Protocol to the Carbon Trading Scheme, there is one thing that has the scientists clutching at straws.

After an alleged 30 year warming trend, since 2001 the temperature has flatlined. All the global warming that should have taken place in the last 8 years has not. On March 2, 2009, Michael Reilly writer for Discovery News reported:

According to a new study in Geophysical Research Letters, global warming may have hit a speed bump and could go into hiding for decades.

Earth’s climate continues to confound scientists. Following a 30-year trend of warming, global temperatures have flatlined since 2001 despite rising greenhouse gas concentrations, and a heat surplus that should have cranked up the planetary thermostat.

“This is nothing like anything we’ve seen since 1950,” Kyle Swanson of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee said. “Cooling events since then had firm causes, like eruptions or large-magnitude La-Ninas. This current cooling doesn’t have one.”

Instead, Swanson and colleague Anastasios Tsonis think a series of climate processes have aligned, “conspiring” to chill the climate. In 1997 and 1998, the tropical Pacific Ocean warmed rapidly in what Swanson called a “super El Nino event.” It sent a shock wave through the oceans and atmosphere, jarring their circulation patterns into unison.

How does this square with temperature records from 2005-2007, by some measurements among the warmest years on record? When added up with the other four years since 2001, Swanson said the overall trend is flat, even though temperatures should have gone up by 0.2 degrees Centigrade (0.36 degrees Fahrenheit) during that time.

Discussion:

This is intended to be Part 1 of a Series of Blog Dialogs that I would like to get your input on. I am going to start the ball rolling here:

First, I want to make a statement. I do believe that the human race is slowly destroying the world we live in. I do believe we pollute too much. I do believe we should be proactive in taking stance against pollution.

I do believe that renewable sources of energy have long been put aside for the benefit of the wealth-lust of the entities that make money from the having it the other way – their way. I do believe that there are agendas ongoing that are not revealed to the public. Agendas that would really make most people reconsider which side they stand on.

The largest polluting countries in the world are also the countries that choose NOT to sign onto limiting structures such as the Kyoto Protocol. India, China, the USA, to name a few of the big players.

Another interesting Phenomenon that happened in the past year – The hole in the ozone layer closed over Antarctica. (That’s Nice.) WHY?

Now, even though the inhabitants of Earth have been cutting down forests, polluting at a rate never before experienced (it did still go up), the rise of temperatures have stopped over the last 8 years. Is it time for rejoicing? Of course not. It simply means that our ‘gloom and doom’ scientist have bit off more than they can chew.

A Loud Minority Threatens Clear Thinking

At the same time the scientific community has been split on this matter. Because of a LOUD minority of people causing a landslide of public opinion, the opposing scientists have been in the background, studying the facts and shaking their heads.

Times and Technology Has Changed

There are places on Earth that even today are considered virtually uninhabitable. Since 1970 weather stations have been set up in these normally inhospitable environments, like the deserts. Why only have these places been monitored from the 1970s onward? Because technology allowed us to finally be able to remotely communicate with the stations, through satellites that were not in orbit before then.

Flawed Data May Critically Damage the Studies

Have the studies uninherited the legacy of all these nice hot temperature readings, no. So, as more weather monitoring stations were installed since 1970, the temperature of the Earth increased. Also, during that same period, many more air-conditioned buildings and asphalt surfaces, such as parking lots were placed in cities. The result is localized increase in temperature. Were these temperatures accounted for, no. Even if the studies had been calibrated for them, they are inherently flawed due to the sheer number of what can be erroneous temperature reading from mis-calibrated instruments providing the data.

The reason I mentioned air conditioning is in 1970, it was considered a luxury to have air conditioning. Air conditioning removes heat from inside and transfers it to the outside. The result is local air temperature goes up. Silly, right? Just think what percentage of buildings use air conditioning now compared to 1970.

The Double Edged Sword is Destroyed

A few days ago, NASA launched a one-of Global Climate Monitoring Satellite. It failed to disengage from the rocket and burned up in the atmosphere. The planning stage of this satellite started during the 30 year heat-up. It took years to build. It was destroyed before it could monitor a single temperature to prove, or maybe “DIS-PROVE” that Global Warming is happening at all from man-made sources.

FACT: Every planet in the solar system is heating up right now because the sun is putting out more energy during its natural cycle. Could it be that the recorded temperature differences are just coming from the sun, more than man causing it at this time? Sure, humans indeed are adding to the problem. But maybe, we are the insignificant problem at the moment.

Your Challenge

The gauntlet has been thrown down. By picking it up, you will be enhancing your mind power and increasing your ability to observe, think, and analyze using your brain. Are you up to the challenge?

As I said before, I want you to get involved. I am going to stop at this point. I really do want to know how you feel about all the hoopla. If you are going to take a side, Tell Me Why. I am an observer. I see both sides. I want to know how you feel about this, and why.

Your Question is: Out of a score of 1 to 10, please rank whether a 10 meaning that you agree with the doom-sayers, and we are going to completely and irreversibly wreck our environment within the near future at the current increasing rate of pollution and carbon production, or 1 that it’s a complete fabrication and it’s another money grubbing scheme of special interests groups, or somewhere in between. Please include your reasons why you think this way.

Please Enter your observations in the Comments area.

There is one certainty that each of us should look to when building Brain Power and using Mind Over Matter to solve our problems. We should look to those less fortunate. People just like you and me. People that find themselves in circumstances they never conceived would happen to them. People that never thought they would need to steel themselves against adversity to the level that some are forced to endure.

The immensity of the human spirit is immeasurable in the worst of times. Look to these people as a point of reference for overcoming adversity – a guiding light. Their lessons can be your guide.

In the wake of the Victoria Fires, it gave me the opportunity to look deep – to appreciate who and what I have around me. No matter what I may be dealing with at any given time, can compare to what others may be going through.

People that have taken the opportunity in their lives to develop their mental strength and abilities are also taking steps to prepare themselves against the hard times. Everyone has them, but when you have developed device to see yourself through to the other side of the hurdles, it makes the preparation very worthwhile.

Recently, someone suggested that I do some writing about the fires, the death, anguish, and heroism emerging like the rising phoenix when the fires hit Victoria Australia. I attempted to look at this as a topic of my writing, but I write from my heart and the truth. Since I had not been directly affected by the fires, I decided not to write about others experiences. I will leave that to the media. What I have decided to write about is my observations, and how I have used this opportunity to count my blessings.

Setting the Stage

Since my readers are International, I need to tell you a little about what was – before the fires. We had had a cool, lower than normal temperature, summer up to this point. Suddenly, we were having the highest ever recorded temperatures and southbound winds. This set up an extreme fire danger condition. For many years the residents of Victoria bushland had been worried of the buildup of native scrub compiling and creating an explosive fire danger.

Politics Deemed Just as Guilty

Politics had prevented the clearing of this debris in the winter months, as it had been in previously. About 10-15 years ago, through political pressure from ‘green’ groups, back-burning and clearing had all about ceased to reduce fuel buildup. Clearing of the deadwood had been reduced to only 2-3% of all the forest areas that used to be available to gather wood from. Cattle and sheep that had grazed and automatically cleared many of these areas were banned from these areas. Owners were not even allowed to clear the fuel from their own property for fear of heavy fines, even imprisonment.

The entire area had become a time bomb – primed and ready to explode. The resulting conflagration led to losses of such magnitude never before seen in Australia. When fire travels 3 KM per minute, huge fireballs prevail before a wall of fire 120 feet or more into the sky, it is overwhelmingly apparent that nothing much is going to stand against it. It sounds like a freight train coming your way, much like the sound of a tornado. The only word that does not even come close to describing the effect – HORRIFIC!

Lessons Learned Elsewhere as Example

I used to live in America. In the area that I am from there is a technique that is taught in fire prone areas called “Stewardship”. Stewardship is a way of dealing with the natural fire dangers in a way that benefits everyone. The conservationists decided long ago that it was better to clear the debris and scrub than to keep putting so many people at risk, even reducing the amount of trees on a property to reduce the overall fire danger. It’s not a perfect solution. But it is a solution that both sides could live with.

People love nature and want to live amongst it. But, sometimes those people in their obsession to live amongst the trees, overlook the obvious hazards. Most of the people that were killed in the fires never gave it a second thought that they may be victims of their own passion.

A Change in Attitude

The fires came through, and things have changed considerably – literally overnight. People that have never been exposed to the raw carnage that followed are having to deal with situations that usually only trained professionals must deal with. Innocence is shattered and can never be returned. The shock of what has happened hasn’t even had time to set in for most of them.

The human spirit is resilient. Most of these people have been traumatized and need counseling. Even the Firefighters that have had many years of experience have never had this type of exposure. As they are driving by certain homes, they know of how people perished there. The whole landscape is some areas looks, feel, and smells like a war zone.

My heart goes out to these people. I have offered my assistance to those that are interested.

I Count My Blessings

I am very blessed that I have not been around the fires. I am located quite a long way from where the loss of life is high. But, we still get the reports on the radio and TV. There were fires around my area, but the loss of life was not high. Only about 80-100 homes destroyed. A recent report had over 1800 homes had gone up in flames, and over 7000 people displaced, hundreds of thousands of acres burned, and the expected dead to be over 300.

Seeing the pictures of the re-united families, and some that will never be re-united, gives me the opportunity to be thankful for the people I hold dear. They are beside me and with me. I don’t have the added stress of looking after property, livestock or pets that have been scalded or dying. I never even lost power through this. I count myself as being so blessed. The potential remains that the fires could erupt again in my area. But, I am grateful that I have the opportunity to observe heartbreak from a distance.

Even though I can feel for them, there is no way that I can feel the same as what they feel. It is their experience. It is an experience I would not want to walk in. They will carry the scars with them forever. It has changed their physical landscape as well as their emotional landscape. They will be forever changed.

Time Heals Many Wounds

Time will heal many of the wounds, but people won’t forget. Many of them will never forgive the people responsible – from government bureaucracy and self-serving politicians that encouraged the tinder to build up into a time-bomb, to the arsonists that lit the deadliest of the fires. The arsonists have committed mass murder to the level of terrorism.

Finally, there is solid discussion and inevitable action taking place in the government to provide substantial firebreaks, back-burning and clearing of debris and fuel statewide and beyond. It appears that the people are choosing to ignore political groups that have brought them to this precipice of decision.

The Aussie Spirit Survives

No matter how bad you think your problems are, there is always someone worse off than you. Following the shell-shock of the results of the fires, within 1 week of the fires erupting, huge efforts were mounted to pull off charity functions of every sort imaginable. At date, the Red Cross has already exceeded $100 Million in donations.

Help is coming in from the International community as well. Even the Queen of England is Donating personally to the injured. It is just amazing to see where all the outpourings are coming from! Condolences have even come from enemy states.

Reaction of the People and Government

The government has not put a cap on the expenditures to get these people back on their feet. Holden/GM has donated new cars for a year for those affected. The outpourings from the populace is absolutely incredible. It may actually be the trigger that gives our economy the needed stimulus to get things revved up again.

People, no matter how they are hurting from their own situations are digging deep to help in every way imaginable. It expresses the strength Australia possesses in its people. It is a credit to all. Even though I wasn’t directly affected, through observation I have been profoundly affected!

To the Aussie Spirit – Good On Ya’!

Shannon Panzo

PS: “If life was always a positive experience, we would not have anything to compare to. Therefore, we would not learn to appreciate it.”