Renegade Thoughts

Christmas Message 2012

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In my Christmas Message last year, I predicted that 2011 would be a year of adversity but that in every adversity there is the seed of opportunity. My Christmas Message 2012 is for more of the same!  However, I personally expect 2012 to be my best year in business yet. It has taken me almost [...]

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Less Equals More <=>

Have you considered the possibility that less equals more?  This short video gives me pause for thought: Having tidied my office last weekend, and finding my bank statements had not been properly filed since last February, I now feel a sense of peace and order in my workspace.  Already I am seeing an increase in [...]

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Why Higher Gold Prices Are A One Way Bet

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Higher gold prices are a one way bet – let me explain why. ( I am taking 6 to 12 month view here because there will always be short-term fluctuations in price!) The recent riots in England illustrate why it will be politically unacceptable to eliminate our deficit spending and address our debt mountain as [...]

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The Inconvenient Truth – Riots in England

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The inconvenient truth of the riots in England is this.  We’ve created a deep sickness in our society directly caused by our collective greed and mendacity. There is great sense of entitlement in our society and a loss of fundamental morals and values.  I’m afraid it doesn’t just apply to the rioters but to all [...]

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The Earthquake In Japan

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The earthquake in Japan is long overdue and has been predicted for many years following the last big one in 1923.  It brings to mind an article that I read around 10 or 15 years ago. This article predicted a large earthquake in Tokyo and discussed the potential consequences of such an earthquake.  It emphasised [...]

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The Way To Wealth

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Want to know the way to wealth?  Some advice is timeless. Benjamin Franklin lived in the eighteenth century and wrote ‘The Way To Wealth’.  At the end of this article  I will give you a link to the script of this article but before you go to take a look, here are a few quotations [...]

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My Christmas Message

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This December is likely to be the coldest on record.  As I write this Christmas Message on Christmas Day, there is about 6 inches of frozen snow outside my window and my car is frozen solid. We are driving about 100 miles to visit my daughter, her fiancee and grand-daughter to have Christmas lunch.  There [...]

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How To Buy A ‘Cheap’ Computer

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This post outlines the process I took to buy a ‘cheap’ computer.  In fact I knocked over £1,000 off the price quoted to me by the leading supplier of computers. Let me tell you how. Initially I rang the sales line of the leading computer supplier in the country to find out what they recommended. [...]

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Defining ‘Local Search’ For Offline Consulting

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Prospects and customers use local search terms on Google to find products and services that they wish to purchase locally.  My offline consulting business helps local businesses to get found on the first page of Google for those local search terms.  But first I think it would be useful to define ‘local search’. I found [...]

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As A Man Thinketh

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“When he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow; he then becomes the rightful master of himself.”  – As A Man Thinketh I found this quotation from the book ‘As A Man Thinketh’ on another blog.  I [...]

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How To Live Before You Die

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In this video entitled ‘How to live before you die’ you will find 15 minutes of pure inspiration. It records Steve Jobs of Apple Computers talking to the graduates of Stanford University in which he relates 3 stories from his own life.  It is made all the more inspirational by the fact that Steve had [...]

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If The Dollar Collapses, What Price Sterling?

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I’m currently asking myself the question ‘If the dollar collapses, what price sterling?’ On the day that the Chancellor announces his spending review, I am asking myself if it is all a case of ‘too little, too late’. In fact it may all be an academic exercise because if the United States lapses into hyper-inflation, [...]

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The Meaning of Success

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The meaning of success is different for all of us but I believe that we can all agree on some common features of success. First let me qualify this article by saying that if you are starving hungry then success could mean simply eating enough to satisfy your hunger.  So the list below assumes, like [...]

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Changing The Climate Of Hype In Online Marketing

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Online marketing hype is a huge problem.  I am sure, like me, if you have spent any time online at all, you have been lured in by the prospect of making some easy money only to find that it wasn’t so easy after all. One of the leaders in the network marketing industry, Mike Klingler, [...]

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The End Game Moves Closer – You Have Been Warned

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The end game in the credit crunch has not yet been played out.  You have been warned! Let me point you to some evidence that all is not well in global financial markets: QE2 (and I don’t mean the luxury liner!) is fast approaching for the US and the UK.  A second round of quantative [...]

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How Great I Am

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Affirm to yourself  ‘How Great I Am’ – because you are. There is a link below to a short inspirational video compiled by Tony Robbins on his 50th birthday.  It starts with the lines: ‘Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are POWERFUL BEYOND MEASURE.’ Muhammed Ali’s [...]

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I Welcome The Age Of Austerity

My wife and I recently bought an 80 year old house which has had very little improvement made to it during the last 20 years.  Anything that was done during that period was done cheaply and shoddily. Buying such a house involved considerable risk and pain: had we overlooked the size of the task ahead [...]

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Sales Persuasion from The Wolf Of Wall Street

Sales persuasion is an extremely difficult art.  Very few people possess these skills to a high degree. I recently stumbled across a character called Jordan Belfort who naturally excels in the art of sales persuasion.  He has generated literally hundreds millions of dollars through his ability to teach other people the art of sales persuasion [...]

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Is The UK A Bankrupt Nation?

For some time I have been advocating that my readers invest in gold as a hedge against our bankrupt nation. For times immemorial, gold has globally been seen as a store of value. Our currency used to be backed by gold i.e. the central bank held gold bullion in reserve to back their production of  [...]

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The Business Renegade Lifestyle Strategy

A change of lifestyle strategy. After 20 years in the same house, today we are moving from Nuneaton, some 25 miles south to Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon. This is a very costly exercise – Stamp Duty is a substantial tax that effectively reduces the flexibility that we all have to re-locate to other areas. I ‘m not [...]

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