Oz ain’t perfect

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My apologies for being blogless for a few days.
if The Gold coast has 1 fault it is that the wireless internet in some of the buildings is terrible, so it got too hard to get things posted.

Anyway back to the cold and wet of home.

I met some amazing individuals on this trip, many of them ex kiwi’s. And not one of them would ever come back to NZ.
Not because of the weather, not because of the money, but because of the attitude of the media, the government and a lot of people.

This is of course what I keep saying but I did think how sad it was that so many good people leave our shores unnecessarily. And these are clever entrepreneurial, job creating types that we desperately need.

I know how hard it is to influence a culture. My years in Fiji has taught me that it takes a whole generation to begin to impact a culture and in many ways you can’t shift a mindset nationally. It just doesn’t happen.
In the Bible there is a verse that talked about “All Cretans being liars” 200 years ago.
We talk about Japanese being inscrutable, Fijians being friendly, Germans being industrious etc. etc.

Think of the thousands and thousands of people who have done Anthony Robbins or other NLP type programmes. You would think with so much “happy happy joy joy” floating around we would have achieved Utopia.

No the fact is that we can only change or control ourselves. I can stay in New Zealand and be positive because I choose to be positive and not allow the culture to dictate my thought process or my life. Is it easier to be like that in Australia?, absolutely. Would it be even easier in America?? Absolutely!

But that is not a reason to become negative while I am in New Zealand. And I do notice that people comment on my attitude a lot because it is different. But in many small ways it rubs offf on to others. I find now that my immediate circle of associates is 99% positive inspired motivated people.

So remember when you are tempted to give up or become a whiner that others a re looking AT you and looking TO you. They look at you to see if you have anything they don’t and when they see that you have joy, or happiness or a positive outlook they then look TO you for hope that they can achieve the same state.

So YOU are in control of how YOU will talk, act and treat others.
We are all witnesses and testimonies of what is inside of us.
Make yourself someone worth watching and following.

Stay safe ~ Dean Letfus @ www.massiveaction.co.nz