Eye on the impending UK election

I am keeping a reasonable eye on the impending UK election and though the country is in a parlous state the polls are indicating the narrowest of Conservative victories or a hung parliament and the prospect of minority government. If you thought Sterling was weak already (and it certainly is) just wait till that happens. Please, no! No good for anyone. The country literally cannot afford more of the same especially with having the highest public debt ever in peace time and needing to borrow Sterling 600 million PER DAY! Yikes! Only radical action and a new direction and indeed some real pain can start to turn things around.

The UK and its woes can be analogous to us all. As Tom Haupt writes in his book, “Time-Out, Winning Strategies for Playing a Bigger Game in Life” we conspire with our core beliefs to protect our ego and to ensure that, in our view, we are always right; this only reinforces our retreat to our comfort zones precluding the ability to positively change and indeed to start to turn things round. It is some of our core and inappropriate core beliefs that need to be challenged and reprogrammed. I am only part way through the book and am finding it both confronting and liberating and I heartily recommend it to any that needs to live-in-the- now, to get off auto-pilot and be “conscious” for the benefit of their future.

Tom also believes that every time we retreat to our comfort zones we actually contract its boundaries and that only when we take risks and feel very vulnerable and uncomfortable are we actually approaching our goals. I’ll be stepping outside my own comfort zone quite significantly a number of times this week and I’ll let you know how it goes.

And now for something completely different….my family and I are going down to Cottesloe this afternoon to have a look at the “Sculptures by the Sea” which is a fabulous addition to the Perth calendar and indicative of what can be done with a space which normally has a distinctly different use and attraction. One plus one equals three. Naturally the children will have a swim and we are taking a salad to combine with the local fish and chips to enjoy a late summer/early autumn evening by the ocean. How good is that?!

Best regards, Jonathan.