3 kinds of people

Whenever you try and do something, you are usually faced with 3 kinds of people:

• Those that support you
• Those that oppose you
• Those that don't give a damn what you do

When it comes to those that oppose you, it can sometimes be quite difficult spotting this.  Some will seem to support you, but will actually try and undermine your efforts through indirect means.  And then there are others who will stand right in your face and tell you what you think.  There's no point getting upset about it though.  People will disagree with your ideas, it's just the way things are.  And you know what, sometimes that is because your idea is absolutely rubbish.

But enough of that gibberish.  We have some dental health news in the......... errrr news.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11182666 - Key reason 'found' for gum and heart disease link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8700836.stm - Many 'too busy for a proper brush' of their teeth.  Too busy my giddy Aunt.  One wonders how long these individuals spend watching the one eyed hypnotist!!!

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10176410 -  Brush teeth to 'prevent' heart disease.  One does have to ask why these BBC articles always have pictures of toothbrushes with WAY too much toothpaste on them, but that's a differant matter.

Slavery

(Here is the latest newsletter that went to my subscribers at GDP Resources)

Hello again

I know it’s totally unlike me, but I am going to discuss a controversial topic.

Slavery........... specifically financial slavery.

You see, we in the western world have been conned. We were brought up with an idea, a blueprint if you will of what is expected of us (I am basing this on the career path of a professional person):

• Go to school
• Leave school with good grades
• Either take a year out or go to University
• Qualify
• Start career
• Start a pension
• Buy a car
• Meet someone
• Buy a house
• Get married
• Have children
• Buy a new car
• Buy a bigger house
• Build up a business
• Send children to university
• Sell business
• Retire
• Play with grandchildren
• Potter about
• Die leaving a vast portion of your wealth to the state

A perfectly acceptable life. The thing is, there is no law that says you should live your life like that. There’s nothing wrong with it, it’s just very conventional. Here is another Blueprint

• Get born to an impoverished household
• Go to school
• Fail miserably in your exams
• Leave with no qualifications
• Be told you will amount to nothing
• Get arrested
• Be told it’s either the army or prison
• Enlist
• Go to Vietnam
• Get enlisted in Navy intelligence
• Volunteer for covert ops
• Leave with $900 in your pocket
• Start your own energy supply business using your kitchen room table, a phone book and a third hand fax machine
• Win a $400 million contract to supply diesel to the federal government
• Supply that diesel
• Marry the one woman you ever loved
• Have children
• Move to UK
• Buy a castle in Scotland
• Build the business up till it can be traded on UK stock exchange
• Sell your stake in said business for several billion pounds
• Hunt crocodiles in Africa
• Become a consultant to the rich
• Live the high life

Now that’s a blueprint. The second person defied all convention and defied accepted practice. He made his life his own, starting from nothing.

As professionals, the majority of us will make a large amount of money in our working career. But we will also spend most of that money and find ourselves having to work into our late 50’s and early 60’s so that we can retire. Parkinson’s law states “all expenses rise to meet available income”. You spend most of your working life working because you HAVE to, not because you WANT to. And if you truly love what you do, then this is no bad thing. To do a job you love, and do it well is one of life’s rare gifts.

Unfortunately most people don’t discover this gift under their Christmas tree. Most people get trapped in a job they hate that they know they can’t leave because they have bills to pay. Think about that for a second. They get a job they don’t like to pay for the house they want to live in close to the job they don’t like. They then spend money filling that house with stuff to take their mind off the job they don’t like........ that they just spent time at so as to get the money to pay for all their stuff.

Absolute madness.

But it goes further. They even borrow money they don’t have, to buy more stuff that they don’t need, and pay back vastly more than the money they borrowed...... which means they have to keep working at a job they hate. That my friends is slavery........... VOLUNTARY slavery. Have a look at the people around you in the cars, the buses, the trains and on the pavements the next time you travel to work. Play spot the happy face.

You won’t see any.

And what about you? How are you when you roll into work on a Monday morning? What image are you giving off to your staff? Are you a:

“Oh, fecking hell, it’s Monday.”

Or are you

“It’s SHOWTIME!!!”

Just a thought. So what can you do? Well, here’s the strangest of things. Your financial freedom plan should be the same, whether you love your job or hate it. In my Mastermind Alliance product, you get a piece of software that lets you calculate your freedom figure. This is the amount of money you need in the bank, so that the interest from this money pays all your expenses.

That figure is what you should be working towards. Because once you reach it, you no longer HAVE to work. But there’s nothing stopping you carrying on working if you want to.

And here’s a radical concept for you. Your will reach your financial freedom figure quicker........... if you don’t spend all your money on crap that you think will make you happy. And there’s nothing wrong with fancy holidays in the Maldives.......... but if you don’t like your job, is it worth sacrificing 50 weeks of the year just to pay for 2? Is that flash new BMW worth working an extra year at your job?

And come on guys, do you really want to be relying on your pension for your old age? Have you seen how volatile the stock market has become recently......... it’s still lower than it was 10 years ago. Invest for the long haul?........HA! (That wasn’t financial advice by the way, just so you know).

Here’s my blueprint

• Go to school
• Question everything they tell you
• Get good grades anyway
• Decide early what you want to do in life
• Do it, and if you don’t love it do something else
• If it floats your boat, find someone special to spend your life with.
• Become financially secure
• Become financially free
• Have enough money to live your dreams
• Die with a big cheesy grin on your face
• Do it all again in the next life

You are both the slave and the slave master. Time to choose which one you want to be for the rest of your life.

Regards

Stephen Hudson BDS, MFGDP, DRDP

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A very English Rebellion

As much as i dislike Facebook, there are moments of sanity to be had.  the following link is from Channel 4 news about a Facebook group encouraging people to move Mr Blairs new book to the Crime section of their local bookshop. 

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/tony+blairaposs+book+takes+unexpected+journey/3759707

Well, it made me chuckle

Atlas Shrugged

Of the hundreds of books I have read over my years on this planet, there are three that stands out more than any other.  "Atlas Shrugged", "1984" and "The richest man in Babylon".

I briefly wish to talk about Atlas Shrugged,  because it relates to a conversation I had over a nice curry lass night.  In case you haven't read it, it is a fictional account of what happens to a country when innovation and the capitalist spirit is smothered by Socialist doctrine, red tape and Big Brother diktat.

Written decades ago, it now seems that we are venturing into this very arena, only in a slightly different form.  The small business owner, the lifeblood of the country is being smothered by regulation upon regulation that does little if nothing to promote commerce in any form.  We are being strangled whilst large corporations run rampant across the land doing pretty much as they please.

You only have to see how some Clinical Waste removal companies are acting dishonourably to see how fecked up the system has become.  Their use of lies and bully boy tactics is not backed up by any semblance of customer service.  When it comes to the law of contracts, they are unfortunately in dishonour.  Many of them are in breach of contract.

Time for us all to send them a message I think.  I will talk about this more in my next email newsletter.  To sign up for FREE, go to www.gdpresources.com

You can't keep a good man down

A blog is sometimes the last thing on ones mind when illness strikes. After suffering from a prolonged chronic illness that almost ended my dental career, the blog is back. The illness is there, but it is also a shadow of its former self.

Now, let's knuckle down and make some money

What do you WANT???

Hello again..... you will need a pen and a piece of paper.

Many people think they know what they want, but is that actually the case? We live in a consumer society run by a FIAT monetary system. We are bombarded day and night by adverts for this product and that. We are told what to think, what to wear, what to say and what to buy. For some of us, our thoughts aren’t our own, they were given to us. Public norms and conventions tell us how to behave and tell us how to rebel. Original thought is tolerated at best, scorned by the masses at worst. (And with the internet, one now has to question whether anyone can actually have an original thought.)

We police ourselves. We police each other.

It’s OK to have an opinion, so long as it isn’t deemed to be “controversial”. And it has always been like this, ever since mankind developed consciousness. Order, convention, stability. Those that threaten to rock the boat are tossed overboard. Perhaps they are the lucky ones

But thankfully, an occasional mind will sneak through the gaps and then the whole world changes.

• Galileo
• Martin Luther
• Leonardo Da vinci
• Shakespeare
• Fibonacci
• Newton
• Henry Ford
• Ghandi
• Einstein
• Rosa Parks
• Martin Luther King
• Hawkins

Great minds create great change. Some spent their whole lives working towards a single goal. Others just decided one day to defy convention, to sit at the front of the bus, to say “Screw You”.

You don’t have to be a genius to change the world. You don’t have to be rich, you don’t have to be powerful. You just have to possess the force of will to know what you want.

So what do YOU want? You know most people haven’t actually sat down and seriously asked themselves that question. Why don’t you try it now. Over the next 5 minutes, write down everything you can think of that you want in life. I’ll wait.

So how did you do? Well, I know that at least half of you reading this didn’t even bother. I know, you’re too busy, you haven’t got a pen, it’s a Tuesday, Orion is in ascendance and you couldn’t POSSIBLY offend the great space goat by being so presumptuous. It’s ok, I understand.

All excuses are just that, excuses. I don’t mind if you didn’t do it. After all, it’s your life. Of course in my belief system, if you don’t know what you want......... how will you ever get it?

For those of you who did, there will be different results. You will have a vision of where you want to be in the future. Some of you will even be playing pictures and movies in your minds. But why did you choose those wants? You chose those wants based on you values and your beliefs.

As an example, what do you think someone who believes deep down that the rich are all scumbags and that money is the root of all evil will want? It’s probably fair to say that becoming wealthy won’t be on their list.

If you value security, stability and certainty, you’re probably not going to want to go sky diving in the foreseeable future.

If you want significance, if you want to feel important and special..... you’re probably going to want a big house, a big car, a big job and an attractive spouse to parade around with. Maybe a title.

So what do you want?

And why do you want it?

For those of you who took part, that’s your next task. Take each item and ask yourself:

“Why do i want this?”

Let’s go deep into the rabbit hole.

• You want a 1967 Chevy Impala? Why?
• You want to do an Iron Man Triathlon? Why?
• You want to be a millionaire? Why?
• You want to retire at 65 and spend your retirement in the garden? Why?
• You want qualifications and letters after your name and be a big cheese on the lecture circuit? Why?
• You want your Daughter to be a Doctor or a Lawyer? Why?
• You want to sit in front of the TV and watch the Omnibus edition of Hollyoaks? Why?

Why do you want what you want? That’s the question you should be asking yourself. Did you know that most of the answers to those why questions will have the same answer. When you have your basic human needs met, when you have health, food, heat, shelter and water you are past NEEDS. Everything else becomes wants. And deep down wants pretty much all come down to one thing.

Happiness.

That’s it. People want to be happy; unfortunately most of them don’t know how to be happy on a consistent regular basis. They think that buying that car, that dress, that house, that kitchen, that holiday, that DVD, that pizza.............. will make them happy. And it might, but only briefly.

Compulsion, greed, addiction, anger, power, and opinion aren’t the answer.

Compassion, contribution and finding out who you are........... that’s my belief as to what brings happiness. You can’t find happiness in the eyes of another until that other is your own reflection. You are already happy, you just don’t know how to switch it on.

When was the last time you laughed, to the extent that tears were streaming down your face? When was the last time that you felt so content that you could just sit for hours watching the wind play with the trees? When was the last time that your heart actually ached with joy?

You think that can be bought with bloody paper IOU’s with an old woman’s face printed on them?

So what do you really want? And how do you fulfil those wants?

Do you have a plan to get where you want to be?

Do you want one?

If you do, then I would recommend my Mastermind Alliance product http://www.gdpresources.com/Mastermind.shtml

Remember one thing, this product is not for everyone. Only those motivated by personal growth should even consider its purchase. But for those of you who seek something better than where you are now, go on buy it, you know you want to ;)

Regards

Stephen Hudson BDS, MFGDP, DRDP

Please help support the Sick Dentist Scheme and the BDA Benevolent fund by buying my book atChoose Your Reality. A proportion of the profits from its sale are split equally between these two charities

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Warning – Opinions enclosed

Hello again

It’s another week in austerity land, and our glorious leader (who has replaced the previous glorious leader) is asking for your opinions. Yes that’s right, they want to know what you THINK. It’s like a huge country wide version of that pointless programme “Question time”.

Your government would like you, the public to nominate laws and regulations they would like to see abolished. It’s all Radio 4 seem to be talking about at the moment, and it’s absolutely masterful.

Masterful????

Yes, masterful. The British public (especially the middle class) loves to chunter. We might not be any good at football, but boy can we tell you our opinions. Well here’s my mindless opinion.............. nothing will come of this.

It’s a smoke screen. It’s a way of saying “See, we are listening.” Yes they might alter one or two things to try and prove this exercise had a point, but no great changes will amount from this. It is simply a tool to divert your attention and give the media another means to tell you how to think.

You didn’t think this was being done for your benefit did you? Hell, I even found myself getting wrapped up in the spin........ for about 5 minutes. But that’s the amazing thing about radios, they come with off buttons. If only we used them more often. Now how’s that for an opinion?

You see, we are about to enter a very difficult period in the history of this country. If you think the public spending cuts being proposed are harsh, well you aint seen nothing yet. These are just the appetisers, mere canapés. The main course arrives next year.

For a while there, I actually thought the government was going to try and hyperinflate away our debt. But with billions being pulled from public spending, and banks still refusing to lend, the numbers show we are heading in the opposite direction. That’s not my opinion by the way, just the opinion of someone else who claims to know how to read the numbers.

Deflation seems to be where we are heading. And that’s fine if you haven’t got any debt or don’t own any assets, because with deflation, cash is king.

Could I be wrong here? Hell yes. I’m wrong all the time. And it would be nice to imagine that the economy can tick over as it has been, but that isn’t going to happen, not in the short term. In the short term, millions will be made unemployed, the economy will shrink and your public services will suffer. I know this because it said so on Radio 4 yesterday .............. erm, hang on.

I know that opinion sounds bad, but it’s better than the alternative. Inflating and debasing the currency would have been a disaster.... in someone else’s opinion. It would have been like trying to cure an alcoholic by getting him drunk. Our debt must be repaid before it gets too big to service. If it gets too big to service, we go into default, and then the currency goes down the toilet..... along with any and all of your wealth. And think of the opinions the population would have about that.

As an example, just do a bit of research into what happened in Argentina. The middle class were destroyed. At least in deflation there will be a middle class left in this country.

Does this mean I agree with the Tory spending cuts? No! I don’t think they are cutting enough, and where they are cutting is in the wrong places. But then that statement is based on my opinions...... most of which aren’t actually mine. They were “borrowed” from the minds of others and lumped together into something I claim to be mine. My knowledge of economics is limited, so really, how the hell can I have an opinion that is actually valid?

I can’t. And that’s the point that most people don’t realise. Most of our opinions are meaningless. But then, that’s just my opinion.

Ok, ok, enough. I hope you see what I am trying to do here. I am merely trying to point out that most of our opinions aren’t actually ours. They were given to use by someone or something. Now ask me how to do a composite, that’s something I can have a valid opinion on. Why? Because it’s my field of expertise and I do them daily. But ask me about Climate Gate or whether I should be using plastic bags for my shopping and really have no idea. Whatever I say would merely be a guess based on the information I have collected over the years.

And my opinions change constantly. What about yours?

One of my opinions that has not changed is my belief in the importance of systems in business. I know I’m preaching to the converted (I know because my records show that most of the people reading this have bought my Practice Systems Templates, and in 5 years only 1 person has ever asked for their money back), but systemisation is key to the smooth running of your practice. Yes you can still make money without them, and yes you can still enjoy dentistry, but systems make things so much easier.

But why make things more difficult for yourself? Doesn’t make any sense to me.

Keep smiling

Regards

Stephen Hudson BDS, MFGDP, DRDP

Please help support the Sick Dentist Scheme and the BDA Benevolent fund by buying my book atChoose Your Reality. A proportion of the profits from its sale are split equally between these two charities

PS: Please feel free to pass this newsletter onto anyone you feel may be interested in it

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Disclaimer: S.Hudson or SNH Publications will not be held liable for any actions taken based on the information provided in this newsletters. This information is for entertainment only.