MORE ABOUT "THE NEW NORMAL"

4 November 2021"what a complete pile of delusional nonsense ..  what does this so called "NEW NORMAL" actually mean?"Please add a little water to whatever you are drinking!"New normal" means the changes in how we live due to the virus, that look like becoming permanent. For example, most people in public enclosed spaces will continue to wear a mask. Another example: we replumbed the Internet so people could...

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COMMANDO LESSONS WE CAN ALL USE

3 November 2021Commando training lessons we can all use To ensure long-term success, you need to be able to adapt and change quickly. It’s the best way to be sure of sustained personal growth.There are two kinds of motivation – intrinsic...

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CARE IN THE HOME OR CARE IN A HOME?

3 November 2021In weighing up the two options, as well as the wishes of the elderly person, consider the standard of care on offer, the stress on the family and the costs.A few points worth making.The standards in care homes are high these days, thanks to the CQC. And the owners of care homes are not ripping off their guests, though they are in business.Care at home can easily come to be twice as expensive as care in a home - £8k a month v....

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TEN RULES FOR EVERY TRADER

10 Rules For Every TraderThese are rules handed down, honed and handed on.Trading. So, not investing, not gambling either.1. Price doesn't HAVE to do ANYTHING.A common misconception among very new traders is that skilled traders are able to 'predict' the market. This is not true. This is not even possible. As a trader, your job is to deal in probabilities and risk-management2. Ranges are more common than breakouts.In any given market,...

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BIG BROTHER BORIS

Fortunately alternatives to big brother Boris are coming through Farage was rather an Arthur Daly type figure, or a silky-tongued used car salesman.Farage, now I think about it, was always kicking the tyres of govt and finding fault. He was pretty much always right, but he didn't have a coherent alternative. There are serious politicians in that they have a vision. Trice  Burnham (Labour). Reform. The Tory party was founded...

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0 STRATEGIC DEFINITION

29 October 2021stage 0 1 Strategic Definition  1.1 PurposeBy the end of this stage 0, you will have identified and made the business case V1 for purchasing a property and established the objectives and risks for rehabing works. Begin writing down your MVV and budget and configuring the Property Selector tool ready to log the start-up data for a list of candidate properties.The Strategic Definition stage 0 is about finding the property...

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THE 2021 AUTUMN BUDGET

Rishi is totally brilliant, but he is not serious; and that's the trouble with this govt, led by Bojo. They don't have any skin in the game as they are fabulously rich themselves already. They just want to stay in office and the best way to do that is to play the Master of Ceremonies at a party.Rishi should have been wearing a party hat and carrying a magic wand. When the people turn to hard work, thrift and moral decency,...

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SECRETS OF GIVING ADVICE

Secrets of giving adviceCan you remember times when you tookgood advice ... and didnt?So, starts, as usual by listening.Asking open questions Asking questions that also allow the respondent to see a benefit for themselvesWaiting for them to ask you for advice.Telling of other people or yourself, not give instructions!Don't care about if it is followed or not.Dont mind if they do something different!!! Compare:CoachingConsulting ...

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NORTHERN IRELAND PROTOCOL

"The way forward is for the UK and EU to cooperate in measures to curb the flow of non compliant goods in either direction across the Irish land border, while leaving each side free to make and follow its own laws and rules within its own territory."That says nothing.The answer is a digital border, where it should be, and the technology is here ready to deploy. The EU is The Single Market, which is the so-called "four freedoms", broken out into a cascade of deeply trivial rules (300 in the case of the NIP), policed by the EU's own court. That's...

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THE CASE FOR THE NATION STATE

From Poland's perspective, the case against an EU federal Europe is the case for the primacy of the nation state.But from the EU point of view, this is an existential threat. It is quite unlike Gernany's objection from its constitutional court.  The EU is built on the Single Market. From these so-called "four freedoms" flow all the rules that so annoy lovers of freedom for their own parliaments. These rules are judged...

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OUR INHERITANCE

23 October 2021https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/23/parents-occasionally-abrupt-children-may-guilty-mild-neglect/Who says you can't take it with you? The costs of care in the home can reach £2,000 a week, or as much as twice the bill for care in a private care home. So it is quite possible for a parent to burn through the family fortune, leaving the family or beneficiaries with nothing. Nothing?In those final years...

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