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Summer has officially wrapped up for the year, though the heat and humidity has lingered into March, as it always does. It’s generally around the week of my birthday, the 26th of this month, that climatically, I feel the change. The evenings turn cooler, just as the early leaves shift from brilliant green to autumnal red and brown.
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It’s been an interesting month or so since my mother passed away. Whilst we weren’t close, the only thing I can say is that it’s all been quite disorienting since that day back in late January. I’ll admit publicly that my brain has been a bit jumbled throughout that period, and the fatigue has been off the scale.
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Some years back, I was introduced to a fairly large corporate, to put together a proposal for them to increase the level of financial knowledge amongst the head office management team. This was a business in the hundreds of millions of dollars of turnover, with multiple outlets across the country, and with very defined internal reporting structures. I was excited for the opportunity, both for that business, and for the potential to white label a portion of the end product, and roll it out elsewhere.
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Have you ever employed anyone in your small or family business because they had a heartbeat?
Or, were the only individual that responded to the advertisement?
Or were recommended to you by a friend of a friend, but you didn’t test their candidacy, nor suitability, against anyone else?
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In some ways, I see the share prices on some publicly listed companies as a form of gambling. Why? How else can you explain the exorbitant share price that some companies command, when they’re either in a perpetual loss situation, or don’t really have much to back them asset wise. A classic example to me is Tesla – I could never understand the share price being so high when, for years, the company fell short of production targets, and didn’t turn a profit. Perhaps I’m a simpleton!
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I’m driving through the Hunter Valley, on my return from Tamworth. As you head into Muswellbrook from the north, on the New England Highway, there’s two things that stand out. First of all, to the west, the giant spoil mounds, from the open cut coal mines that dot the landscape. Ugly mountains of rock and dirt, piled high, creating their own landscape.
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It was just before 8pm last Wednesday. I wandered the myriad of corridors, rode the elevator to the floor above, pressed the buzzer, then waited patiently outside the doors to the Intensive Care Unit at Tamworth Base Hospital. Inside two or three minutes, a familiar figure shuffles along. My stepfather. He’s carrying a shopping bag.
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I commenced a Creative Writing course last week, in Bronte, one of Sydney’s Eastern beach suburbs. It was my friend Greg Chambers, in Omaha, Nebraska, that mentioned it almost as a throw-away in one of our exchanges. He’d done something similar in his part of the world, and enjoyed the experience. I was intrigued. Perhaps I should find out more?
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If you have children, of any age, do any of these sound familiar?
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Happy New Year! May 2026 bring you and your family good health, much happiness and great success, in all aspects of your life.