FRIDAY RAMBLINGS October 14Th 2022

Friday Ramblings is the end of the week, what’s on or in my mind right now? Feel free to leave a comment.

Alan here. I’m tired. The baby kept us up a lot of the night so let's see how this one goes. I’m not complaining. To be a father again at my age is a blessing no words can help anyone understand. I love it.

I keep coming back to the question what is my life for? It’s a recurring theme in my own life, but it is a question always worth asking myself. The world stage these days is packed with those that want to dominate, threaten and even kill if they want to kill. This is their life.

In my own eyes, that’s a bad life. Let’s take Russia right now whilst they are on a spree of killing and annihilation.

When I was a kid Russia was very foreign in a strange unrelatable way and of course on the outside of western society. Long queues and longer lines for the simplest things like a loaf of bread. Imagine queuing up like that only to get to the end of the hours-long queue to be told all the bread has gone.

That is in a country where they supply more wheat than anyone else on planet earth. Flour as a weapon. Then jumping over 30 years forward Russia became open, progressive and like us all tied up in the global business community. We visited Moscow in 2017. I honestly loved it. we visited the house where Tolstoy write his masterpieces and more. The Russians like us all are unique but they were all just living a better life and seemed to be enjoying that life. Not any more or at least for the next decade.

Putin is interesting as a study of a human. He has spent years doing what he does in Russia. He could be seen on all of the world stages with all of the world leaders hanging out and doing what they all do. Even Trump was desperate to rule and be like Putin. He would have done just so if his self-made corruption had taken a fuller control. Looking back Putin was always side-lined and looked like an outsider despite their incredible progress.

But Russia. Putin never seemed to be taken that seriously and worse for him he never gained the recognition he clearly felt he deserved. Personal significance when wanted and not given can drive a man crazy.

Hence he clearly threw everything out and decided to build his legacy around what he sees as conquest, death and destruction rather than commerce, stability a great nation and peace. He’s getting the attention he never got before that’s for sure.

Over a million of Russia’s best minds have fled the carnage and bloodshed. Where we have a home in Georgia the streets are now packed with young Russians. At least in those other countries the lives will be saved and they have an opportunity to live.

But what a rotten legacy. What a rotten memory. Today the news reports he is rounding up children and shipping them home to become ‘Russianised’. Snatch squads are filling the streets, picking up young men and taking them right to the frontlines.

I can share this with you.

We have friends that live in Russia. They reliably tell us the atmosphere in Russia has gone from a very happy modern society to a seriously oppressive atmosphere packed with fear, terror and hopelessness that they are going backwards in time at an alarming rate. Prices have gone through the roof. Most western brands have gone. It is looking and feeling like Russia itself will close borders and stop allowing its own people to leave the country. It’s Russia and it all sounds too familiar.

They claim Ukraine belongs to them. Read the book RUSSIA by Martin Sixsmith and you quickly see Russia goes back further than the ‘we own it’ delusion.

Why does the dog always return to its own vomit?

History is a great teacher. We have seen despots like Putin before and will see them again. I bet Mussolini never saw himself hanging upside down, filled with bullet holes on a rope next to his wife on an old battered rusting steel bridge.

Despots come, despots go. His legacy will be a legacy of total revulsion. He like all of them think they are invincible. I have news for you Mr. Putin - You are not. Your will die.

His life purpose has been a wasteland.

But this is always a good time to ask ourselves that same question.

What am I doing with my own life? What is the purpose of life?

I tried to be a good man so far.

I had my downs as well as my ups, but I don't think I have done a bad job so far.

The worst thing I ever did?  

Adultery. It was a sin against my own flesh, a sin against my children and sin against my contract of marriage.  And it felt like it. That stupid act - for a while - broke me in two whilst shattering a whole family. But that is past and it has gone. It was a powerful lesson that taught me more about life in a short period than it did over many years.

Today I am a father to six children and that feels good. I have a woman I adore but more important she adores me. She truly is my life partner.

I have moved forward at all times and today making films with meaning. Writing books and stories with meaning. Helping business clients and the like with real heart and meaning.

Don't get me wrong I am a pain in the ass but every day I am trying to keep in mind the purpose of my life. I can share this with you. I feel right now the purpose of my life is to understand more on a daily basis and be happy. Not just for me to be happy, but to create that happiness around me where I can. Not in a woo-woo way but in a way where life feels good. Those I associate with feel good. My close family feels good. 

I am still in pursuit of meaning. I think I will still be in pursuit of meaning up until my last day.

FILMS

Yesterday, I began shooting a new film my film company is MasterandMan.com. I need this film to be funded. The only way to get the funding is to put together a reel that tells the story in the few minutes of time I have.

This is a powerful film. It is based on the WHAT IF scenario.

7.1 million humans will die over the next 12 weeks. A man known as the prophet has found the cure. Only 300,000 people on Earth have that cure inside them. The hunt is on to round them up and extract the cure. Those 300,000 will die.

I can’t share too much as you might make that film and become more successful than me :)

So the first script, the first short cut is almost ready to go.

This film is an interesting piece. I shot the first part two years earlier in the lockdown. The latest part is being shot soon. I wanted that two-year gap so my main character looked aged naturally.

MARKETING

Everything has changed in marketing because people have changed post-pandemic. I will share a few things with you from my own businesses. OrangeBeetle.com has now been online as a website since the late 90s. SEO and traffic were easy then but never so easy that I stopped doing offline promotions.

Today SEO is impossible and do not let anyone tell you otherwise. There has never been a greater need to use other sites with existing traffic and optimise the pages so you get sales or leads.

For example, we are now focusing on our online sales by utilising Amazon traffic rather than SEO. The difference is we either kill ourselves trying to get people into our website or we tap into billions of people from their traffic.

If you are in business you really need to look at how you are doing things. Social media is not a way to build a strong business you need to be doing something different. Mostly offline using attention-grabbing strategies.

NEW COURSES

Sometimes I get it wrong.

I began created ZOOM course as I wanted to offer cheap entry-level training. So far they have been incredibly popular. My latest offering surprised me with zero sales and not a lot of interest either. That made me scratch my head and ask questions. What is wrong? I knew because people had emailed and asked me if I would show them how to create training using Zoom.

I think I got my copy wrong on this one because in my head this has been for me and can be for anyone with a business hugely profitable especially if you have listed.

I will review it today and change it or drop this one.

WINTER

With my young children, I always try and show them the positives in all things. When I took Demna to school the teacher opened the door and said, ‘come in Demna the weather and rain are horrible.’ Demna replied, ‘I love the rain and cold as it feeds the trees and I can feel it on my skin.’

She laughed and smiled. She didn’t expect a positive reply to her negative comment. I have found in my own life that everything is a lesson. Even the bad things are filled with lessons. It is our job to find the lesson and focus on the lesson.

COVID PFIZER

I know it’s boring now. Yet I will stick with my post from March 2020 that said, “this will be revealed to be the biggest crime against humanity ever” I will also stick with this statement later, “this vaccine isn’t a real vaccine. It will create the greatest health pandemic ever seen.” So far it looks like my feeling was right.

I am not saying I am any sort of prophet - obviously - but the more time passes the more this is looking like truth. Especially this week as Pfizer laughed in their reply when asked did they know for sure the vaccine STOPPED transmission. She laughed and said NO it wasn’t tested. So all of those children, all of these young adults, all of those human beings that were mentally forced and coerced to get vaccinated to save their grannies - it was all bullshit.

Here in our home, we decided right away we were never going to be part of that experiment. It just felt wrong at so many levels. All of our life we have had real vaccines. Our children are all vaccinated. But the more I research this mRNA the more I set my mind to avoiding it at all costs. Now most countries are experiencing levels as high as 18% deaths above average with most being heart failure or blood clots. I think we are watching the start of humanity's biggest-ever health scandal.

Time will reveal more.

CONSPIRING COVID CONSPIRACY 

Isn't it interesting how most ‘conspiracies about COVID and those vaccines keep being true? I am a man that has never been massively interested in a conspiracy. When I was a kid I used to watch a TV show called the UNEXPLAINED. I loved it. Spontaneous combustion and all that other weird stuff. My dad always asked why am I watching all of that rubbish. I loved it.

Today, to have an opinion outside the mainstream is instantly viewed as a conspiracy. The reason for this is really simple. Phones and addiction to phones have created a viral mindset that thinks the same about all things. The reason for this is algorithms are designed to feed your thinking. If you think it’s a conspiracy they know and will make that thought stronger. This creates minds that think the same but have no real idea why they think the same as the masses. Want to see proof of that?

Go find and watch the film - What Is a Woman. I guarantee you will be absolutely jaw-dropped to listen to a generation that talk, think and believe the same. When asked when most can barely answer. Just watch it.

On the back of that, it’s also interesting how almost ALL Covid conspiracies turned out to be true.

Like they are lying to us. The mainstream said no they are not and you are a conspiracy theorist. Now the mainstream is saying, OMG they were lying to us please forgive me for being a shit. But what about all those people that wanted any unvaccinated removed from all aspects of society?

Life is like that but more than ever.

BEWARE

Fear is and has always been the tool of the ruling. I always find it interesting - as an example - the moanings of the global elite are always branding China as this red empire that is a threat to humankind.

There is probably a lot to say about China that is bad yet there can be a lot to say that is good. If it wasn’t for China I wouldn’t be typing on a MAC at this low price right now.

What China has done brilliantly is harness its people's power to create a nation that is richer than ever. They make everything, copy everything, create everything and deliver at insane prices. Most western companies head to China to buy and have stock made. The reality is China is not a threat to mankind they are just painted as that threat as those painting them FEAR losing their trade to a better-priced competitor.

I was recently looking at having something made so I could order them and sell them in bulk. I check Alibaba - China’s premium outlet for the whole and I checked western prices. The price per item in China was $1.89. The prices outside China were as much as $14 per unit.

Where would you buy from? Beware of what you read and listen to from the media. Always try and find out the facts for yourself.

I don’t see China in ships thousands of miles from home or setting up camp in many other countries. I do see the USA doing that.

FEAR

Fear is food. that makes humans weak.

My mother is terrified of everything. The older she has gotten the more terrified she has become older. At 80 she is fit. In her younger days, she always hit fear head-on. She loved hitting fear's head on and I think I got that from her. These days my parents digest so much TV  they just sit and watch and listen to everything. Last night I watched some news yet it isn't something I really do. Anyway, I watched the start of it. My wife said to me if you watched this every day you really would believe the world is ending.

She’s right, I switched off.

The world isn't ending, but bad news sells. It is the emotional engagement that hooks people. Fear is the key. Keep the masses in fear and always do as they are told.

OPENING

Almost all of the world is now open again as before. I am so happy their NEW NORMAL was the abysmal failure it was always going to be. I recall Matt Hancock (a minister) telling people they could only date as long as they stayed 2 metres apart. What a moron. He always finished his little dictate with the words, ‘this is our new normal’ Of course it never applied to him as his wife stayed home liking after the kids as he was bedding his secretary.

But it is good to see the world open and alive again even if it has been a pack of lies over the past 2-3 years..

Lies?

What do you think?

FRIDAY

Is always a weird day for me. I don't really want to work but I always have a ton of work to do.

I started back at Yoga so heading there later.

Enjoy your weekend.

Peace.

Alan Forrest Smith