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ello and welcome to the very first edition of Love

ourselves on a chair in the corner of our bedroom from Laura Ashley,

Republic! This magazine has gone from idea to

wearing Country Road knitwear and probably still with a face full of

reality in such a short space of time and I have

makeup from a day out or at work. So we aim to be relatively astute

really given it my all to bring you a wonderful

about how we present our information and who our advertisers are.

publication! The idea of Love Republic is that

the supreme power of this publication is Love and to move all of

The agenda of this magazine is to help us all on an individual level

us in that direction. Plato’s book ‘The Republic’ has helped me as a

so we can contribute to the magnificence of this world in a positive

writer and lover of knowledge so was thought about whilst naming

way! I love this world and we are faced with so much. The more I

the magazine also. Love and freedom are so fickle these days that I

learn, the more I realise to change the world for the better, we need to

thought if I could produce something that helped, even if it was just

change ourselves, on an individual level. We are amazing as humans

a little, to amp up the love and remove some of the mental chains we

and we have so much power and so much more love to give than we

bind ourselves with to create more freedom, Love Republic would

know! I hope this magazine either enlightens you of this or acts as

have done its job!

a reminder! There is one question I ask when it comes to knowing

or another. Whether we have presented information for you to take

excommunicate yourself from outside circumstance for just a little

and action or information on something you may have not known

while! I hope you enjoy the magazine!

about (but do now!) or given an insight into something that may push your boundaries a little bit. I am trying to defy the boundaries of personal development by really moving it into 2013 and not feeling like I have to push aside many of the things that are part of our life and we enjoy, such as fashion and beauty. As much as many of us

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Top Seven: Fashion

Fashion Profile: Rochelle Miller

Top Seven: Beauty

Clements & Vogue: Kirstie Clements

Fashion Spread: Charlie Brown

Love Profile: Lev Tolstoy

Top Seven: Secrets

How to Set the Smartest Goals

Time to Thrive

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CONTENTS BUSINESS REPUBLIC 74

How to Rock Social Media

Top Seven: Office Fashion

Business Profile: Jamie McIntyre

Top Seven: Unconventional Ways of Thinking

Top Seven: Business

CULTURE REPUBLIC 102 Top Seven: Books 106 The Dream Merchant 110 Top Seven: Movies 116 French Nouvelle Vague

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CONTRIBUTORS & CREDITS

Casey Evans A Queensland based Life Coach whose passions lie in knowledge, writing, truth, freedom and personal development. Trained in the USA with Bob Proctor (Life Coaching), Les Brown (Public Speaking) and John Maxwell (Leadership and Management). She does one on one coaching, staff and group development as well as public speaking and seminars!

Craig Phillips Is a San Francisco based writer who has worked in film and journalism in both the Bay Area and Los Angeles for many years. He was reader and development associate in Hollywood, has optioned several screenplays and has taught writing at 826 Valencia, Fort Mason Center and at California College of the Arts.

Nicola Moras Nicola Works with women who run their own businesses, authors and entrepreneurs who are ready to transform their businesses and enable the freedom so many could only ever dream of. She is a sales dynamo with a heart of gold and an excellent mentor.

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Hair & Make Up: Gemma Elaine | www.gemmaelaine.com.au

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Clothes: Another Love | www.anotherlove.com.au

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ANOTHER LOVE - Fashion Profile: Rochelle Miller -

Tell us a bit about yourself? I have the pleasure of living in beautiful relaxed Queensland. I am happily married with a beautiful and tender 8 year old daughter and a very energetic and cheeky 6 year old son. Fashion is my absolute love and I am lucky enough to travel around the world to see amazing collections whilst meeting fabulous people along the way.

What are the origins of Another Love? Another Love was started out of a love of fashion, a huge gap in the Australian market and a friendship on the other side of the world. As an Australian who travels, I loved international contemporary designers. I was always amazed at the lack of Australian websites that I could shop on. My friend Nadia, who is from London has been in fashion her entire life so we decided to join forces and bring amazing fashion to Australia and ship it overnight.

How did you decide to take your boutique online? Online was always our focus as digital is growing so quickly. We have so much scope with on-line to focus on different labels and provide inspiration on how to put together an outfit. Our blog is really popular, people like to read and spend time on-line. Its another form of entertainment and inspiration.

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How do you choose the designers and pieces that you showcase?

We wanted to offer a selection of designers from high end to affordable. Something for everyone and every occasion. We selected an edit of the worlds leading most on-trend and popular labels. Labels we know are the ones to wear right now.

What do you value most about your boutique? Our staff and the dedication we all have to Another Love and our customers.

What sets Another Love apart from other boutiques? We are Australian! Our customer service is amazing and we really care about our product and how our customer is going to wear it.

What are the biggest challenges you face being in the fashion industry?

At the moment overseas stores are huge competition to us as Australia is one of the few countries in the world with a large tax free threshold on imports. We are making sure our prices are competitive and that our overnight shipping and easy returns policy makes up for that. We are unique in our offering of labels online within Australia which is also key.

Who is your biggest inspiration in fashion? Natalie Messenet, founder of net-a-porter.

Who is your biggest inspiration in life? My husband and children.

What are your best sellers? Right now a new label called Cecile. They are from London and have really amazing printed tee shirts. We cannot keep up with the demand and have a huge wait-list!

What are your plans for Another Love in the future? To expand our selection of designers and their ranges and always continue our focus on the customer.

What is your all time, canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t live without, go to piece? Right now as I am in Paris on a buying trip its my Prada coat! Day to day living our Australian lifestyle it would be J Brand jeans.

Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your biggest lesson so far? The power of social media. Instagram has been an amazing way for our amazing pieces.

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KIRSTIE CLEMENTS, Author of 'The Vogue Factor'

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VOGUE 'I like to hope that career success comes from wanting to do a great job, not just making short-sighted decisions in order to keep your job. I'm sure that path always exists, and it's the one I'm going to take ' - Kirstie Clements

t started as a mini book review but to do Kirstie Clements and the book justice I felt compelled to write about it properly! We get swept up in our worlds and let the wind of the media direct our sails and shape our personal opinions. The fashion industry is hit hard by torturous finger pointing, name calling

and assumptions. Much of it is justified, much of it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve read many reviews and articles on the book which have left me wondering if the reviewer had read more than one chapter. Absolutely Kirstie reveals much of what we already know about the fashion industry and anyone who wrote about the book would be mad to overlook it but there is also a very important essence to the book- a romance. A love for beauty and adventure, an appreciation for hard work and refinery and a passion and

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dedication to a household name - Vogue.

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Kirstie was, as they say in the book

that she would bask in the delight of and

Kirstie’s ardor, enthusiasm and willingness

‘unceremoniously sacked’ after thirteen

dedicate her life to for many, many years to

to learn saw her promoted within six months

years in the Editors chair of Vogue Australia.

come. This is one of those stories we adore

of being hired. Kirstie was now the assistant

There is much to be said, no doubt, about

to hear because not only is it a testament to a

in Vogue promotions and doubled as an

Kirstie’s motivation for writing what she did

business and its culture to look after, promote

assistant to Nancy Pilcher who, at the time

but I prefer not to make assumptions either

and educate staff in-house but you don’t have

was executive editor. This was a huge

way and will leave that to people who have

to start your career off with a hefty HECS

learning curve for Kirstie and she enjoyed,

more time on their hands. You are taken on a

debt, which I am sure many of the girls at

almost, every second of it. In 1988 she was

journey in the book, much like a magnificent

Vogue have now. From front desk to editor,

promoted again to assistant to the beauty

train ride, it stops at all the right places,

many a person’s dream!

editor, Karin Upton, and writing fashion

making the most commercially sought after

stories, headings and captions- it was her

the first stops and then you can continue on

Kirstie really drops you straight into the world

dream job. Kirstie loved the women she

if you care more about the innate beauty of

of Vogue and it is everything you have dreamed

worked with and respected them deeply.

the trip than the mere hype.

of. Dazzlingly intelligent, funny, charming,

Regardless of the stress of deadlines and

witty and relatively down to earth women

an office full of intelligent and opinionated

Raised in the Sutherland Shire of Sydney

wearing Chanel and discussing New York and

people, the air was subservient to unequivocal

which, as Kirstie grew into a young woman,

Model Portfolios whilst a captivated Kirstie

camaraderie and authenticity.

found to be stifling in its beach culture and

watched on in awe as a young receptionist.

"At the core of these stereotypes is a tired age of seventeen she made her move to the leave! You’re also given a major insight and belief that all women in fashion are shallow, least conformist suburb in Sydney, Kings a new appreciation for how much work went lazy, pea-brained and self-serving. And yes, Cross. Working as a stock broking there are some. But from what I clerk to fund her appetite to explore have observed they never last No backpacks- I would like to clarify that new worlds allowed her to travel to the distance. It’s a very, very straight away. No hippie stuff. Always a Europe for one year at the age of tough business.” shallow preconceptions. So in 1979, at the

suitcase. And always in full makeup.

one, but as she informs us:

The book really is a must read, into a magazine in the 1980s. Typewriters,

not just for young women but everyone, to

liquid paper, carbon sheets, couriers and the

understand what goes into a photo shoot to

skilled hands of typesetters. The physical

produce the spreads and covers of magazines.

skill of putting the glossy pages together was

Not only are they sourcing slim, stunning and

laborious and intensive yet, in hindsight, a

youthful women, they are also photoshopping

When Kirstie returned to Sydney in 1985

real art form in itself. This art form extended

them. But photoshopping, many don’t

she fell directly into a culture hub that she

throughout all the areas of Vogue according

realise, is the final in a long line of arduous

not only feels right at home in but would

to Kirstie. Fashion editors wrote whole

and expensive perfecting steps. It is hours of

also shape her taste, literary language and

philosophies around shoots and everything

sourcing the appropriate model, location, hair,

artistic preferences which you would see

was very contextual. They had a story within

makeup, finding the right clothes, trying on

throughout the glossy pages of Vogue in years

a story to tell and often used literary references

all the clothes, ensuring the lighting is correct

to come. Working in an arty bookshop by day

that staff were instructed to read such as Isak

and the taking of hundreds of shots in literal

and selling tickets at the Chauvel Cinema in

Dinesen and Hemingway to ensure complete

‘hope’ that they will get that ONE shot which

Paddington at night allowed her to indulge

understanding and sharing of the vision.

is worthy to print. It’s a process that no woman

“No backpacks- I would like to clarify that straight away. No hippie stuff. Always a suitcase. And always in full makeup.”

at her leisure in divine creativity and art.

or man should ever compare themselves to. But I am getting ahead of myself.

newspaper advertisement that, little did she

"I ate all the literary references up. Later on, when I became fashion writer, I would spend hours with Judith in her office making up stories about shoots, wondering what a fifties-glamour girl in the Suez Canal would wear (‘a shirtwaister and some leather sandals!’) or the cultural implications of a safari suit. The person who would benefit

know at the time, would put a sun in her sky

most from this thoroughness was the reader."

admire the first few stunning campaigns who

“I read books all day and saw every important film ever made at night. I became immersed in French Nouvelle Vague, Japanese porn, film noir, Visconti and Fassbender.” At the age of twenty-three Kirstie saw a tiny

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eighteen and then again at twenty-

She knew early on that she never wanted to

are paying top dollar to be the first ones you

the press and fashion and beauty houses have

said on this, from the complete and utter

see in the magazine.

aces up their sleeves.

institutionalisation and blindness of designers and editors to the lack of personal moral

“I don’t think I’m revealing state secrets when I say we were there to help an advertiser sell their moisturiser. Fashion is much more subjective and emotional, whereas the health and beauty area is more logical. Bearing in mind that my job was to rationalise spending $1500 on a face cream. That’s logic, Vogue-style.” Kirstie gives us glimpses into how much time, effort and money is spent by beauty and fashion

“In today’s environment, there is so much more working against the journalist that is trying to do a good job. Many cosmetic and fashion companies are attempting to eliminate the journalist entirely anyway, by offering what they call ‘master interviews’ with the talent, be it a perfume ‘nose’, celebrity face or makeup artist. These Q and A’s have been prepared by the PR department, who devise all the questions themselves with the sole purpose of delivering the company message.”

consumer. It is exceptionally interesting to read Kirstie’s point of view on this and to hear it from ‘the horses mouth’ so to speak. Kirstie speaks of all kinds of ridiculous atrocities that are overlooked by editors, modeling agencies, designers and, lets be honest here, the public. From models eating tissues to fill their stomachs to designers demanding smaller and smaller ‘fit’ models, so much so that these girls regularly find themselves fainting due to hunger.

houses to not only market their product but to, more importantly, create the culture which

awareness and integrity on the behalf of the

This level of control alienates so many people,

“A fit model is one who is used in the top designer ateliers, or workrooms, and Vogue people, love grandeur, splendor and will be interesting to see how far this lack of is the body around which the clothes are opulence and technically any product that is respect within the industry gets anyone. There designed. That the ideal body shape used well constructed, beautiful and does what is is, absolutely, fault on both sides. We know as a starting point for a collection supposed to do should be afforded should be a female on the brink of that culture but they’re not. Brands The high fashion world has a deep vein of hospitalisation from starvation is need to create the culture, they need callousness. For every woman who related frightening.” to live, breath and work the culture they want you to buy into. People, especially

they are trying to sell you because most times it is the idea you are buying not the mere product. Companies ensured lavish launches where gifts rained down, food to

on so many levels and in so many ways. It

to the lovely photographs of a curvaceous Robyn, there is a stylist in Paris eating iceberg lettuce hearts sprayed with Evian for lunch and telling the hopeful young models they are too fat to get into the jacket.

approach whilst she was editor as even when she voiced concern to the models or their agents it

appearances, light shows, models, ice

some journalists can be violently intrusive

seems angered by it now. She hints to some

sculptures and all of the possible dream

and relentless but each side needs to take

wonderful suggestions such as raising the

like phenomenon that made jaws drop with

responsibility for it’s own integrity and respect

age of entry level models to eighteen so

very little expense spared. Gigantic waste

needs to be given. It’s not just music and art

you don’t find models being encouraged to

of time and money? No. The more beauty

that needs to speak to our soul to afford us

starve themselves back to their fourteen or

and fashion houses allowed the press to live

the connection which keeps us going back,

sixteen year old body, using local beauty so

and breathe the culture they were trying to

it is also good writing and products that are

it’s harder for agencies to brush you off when

cultivate the easier the associated press could

produced by integrity fueled companies that

you voice your concern, encourage people in

sell it to you, the consumer. But times are

we can so choose to add to the beauty of our

the industry to own up to seriousness of the

changing and to pull off good old fashioned

life. Superficial nothings add to the flimsy

situation that is not improving and for the

splendor and magnificence is getting a bit too

cosmetic one-dimensional triviality of life and

consumer to actually get real about what they

costly due not only to inflation but also to the

we need to take care and be mindful because

want as she states that even though women

changes in the levels of fame that is afforded

at the end of the day, we as the consumer

say they want ‘real’ models, but putting a

to fashion bloggers, designers, editors, models

have the final say.

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the ‘what can you do about it?’

fell on deaf ears, she genuinely

die for, celebrity or top designer

Although Kirstie seemed to take

to sales which says a lot about us.

god like personas and expectations where the

Being mindful and aware of what is going on

press is just as famous, if not more so, than

behind the scenes of the fashion industry is a

what comes down the runway. The industry

gigantic topic at the moment, especially when

In Australia we are in the ‘fortunate’ position

has taken a bizarre turn and cooperation is

it comes to how severely and disgustingly it

of not being as far gone down the path of

less and less appealing to both sides as both

is treating models. There is so much to be

dissonance between whether models are real

people or not, as other countries, but we

Kirstie, entered into a pact that they called

I’m not sure how much more of a wake up

are leaning that way. Regardless of the new

‘The Health Initiative’. This was a pledge to

call we all need than that. It really is at this

‘fitspiration’ craze and the likes of Lorna

not use models under the age of sixteen or are

point of time where we have to not call it

Jane and Miranda Kerr doing their best to

known to be suffering from eating disorders.

‘controversial’ or ‘tricky’ any more. Those

inspire women all around Australia towards

Kirstie says that the first part of the pledge,

terms are cop outs and allow us to move

a healthier and more active lifestyle, the

age, you can relatively police, although if

onto easier pastimes, like reading fashion

industry is still looking to duplicate what

you have been in the industry you know all

magazines. The fashion industry has allowed

they do in Milan and New York so we can

too well that agents lie about models ages to

itself to become quite brutal, unforgiving and

compete with them at a ‘respectable’ level

make them young enough or old enough for a

robotic. I love fashion and beauty and I don’t

regardless of the consequences.

casting, but the second point regarding eating

want to see it continue go down this path

disorders Kirstie informs us is ‘disingenuous

because I’m sick of the dissonance between ‘real life’ and fashion and

“I am of the belief that an intelligent reader understands that a model is chosen because she carries clothes well. Some fashion would suit a curvier girl, some wouldn’t. I see no problem with presenting a healthy, toned, size Australian 10. But as sample sizes from the runway shows became smaller and smaller, 10 was no longer an option and the girls were dieting drastically to stay in the game.”

the way those who genuinely enjoy fashion are made to feel guilty because of the industry forgetting about the consumer, becoming so incredibly short sighted, morally

ignorant

and

obliterated by tainted body image issues coming from within the industry higherups themselves. Fashion is a beautiful thing and for those who appreciate it’s real inherent beauty, are

Models have their purpose-

not disillusioned and believe

to sell clothes and beauty

you have to be ‘skinny’ to

products, but at no stage

look good in clothes or be an

should we or the industry

absolute slave to labels, can

become so disillusioned

continue the love that Kirstie

that we would say it is ok

showed to the industry. I

to watch a teenage girl who

genuinely loved the book,

now resembles a skeleton,

it inspired me and although

in sky high heels and is the

Kirstie’s time at Vogue

epitome of body dysmorphia

Australia is over, with book

walk down a runway. The

in hand I am sure she will

consequences of this is too

do some wonderful things. It

far and varied for people to ignore that

nonsense’. There has been very little said on

is most definitely worth a read and there is

modeling has become incredibly dangerous

the initiative as a whole since it was launched.

much more to the book than I dare to cover

not only for us and our ideas of beauty but

Kirstie ends the chapter ‘Model Behaviour’ in

here as I have to leave you some treasure to

also for the models who are abused. Would

quite an interesting tone:

discover yourself!

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"The high fashion world has a deep vein of

Naturally it is superbly written and the

health so she can walk for Dolce & Gabbana?

callousness. For every woman who related to the lovely photographs of a curvaceous Robyn, there is a stylist in Paris eating iceberg lettuce hearts sprayed with Evian for lunch and telling the hopeful young models they are too fat to get into the jacket."

journey you are taken on is quixotic and

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charming. I hope she continues to advocate for the health and integrity of our beloved fashion industry and people are inspired enough by her courage and tenacity to do

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'Wisdom in all worldly affairs, it seems to me, consists not in recognizing what must be done but in knowing what to do first and then what comes after'

towering man whose life was concerned with purpose, pain and prose but love none the less was there and valued above all. Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy is a Russian Literary giant and a century after his death, his life is still looked upon in reverence from some and

disdain from others. Fallen into the pages of history, like many before him, he has become legend and the idea that he was ever even human is carelessly overlooked due to the pedestal he has been placed on by the insecurity of the current human state. There have been many people throughout time who we have put on that pedestal, up in the sky, in some kind of moral and wise heaven that we wouldn’t be able to reach ourselves and then we laugh nervously when they say ‘you can do it too’. The beauty of Lev is that he lived in such a way, when he was younger, that many people can relate to and is seemingly ‘more human’ than other teachers who are held in the same regard. More questions than answers, shallow pleasures, guilt cycles and tumultuous thoughts and actions. He was no saint, which makes his life story and philosophies all the more

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interesting and applicable, even today.

Not only did he conquer the fiction world with his incredible ability to immortalise his own life experiences through characters that fell from his head to his pen, but he also left a huge mark on the realm of Personal and Social Development that is still exceptionally relevant today. He lived in an age where he

"I then believed that there was a little green stick whereon was written something which would destroy all evil in men and give them great blessings, so I now believe that such truth exists among people and will be revealed to them and will give them what it promises."

was perfectly positioned to influence so many

was married to the Governor of Kazan and they lived in the Grand Governor’s Residence. It is this time of upheaval, loss of innocence, and death that caused Lev to ask his first deep and painful questions on death, happiness and spirituality. With questions in his head, a heavy heart and steadfast saintly memories of his parents, he was forging a strong and

people who would become legends themselves

Two years later the Tolstoy family moved

an exceptional value based personality that

including Victor Hugo and Mahatma Gandhi.

to Moscow so the boys could attend school

enabled him to become emotionally self

Born in 1828 at his family’s estate ‘Yasnaya

and that summer life was upended when

reliant yet the standards he wanted to live

Polyana’ to Count Nikolai Tolstoy and

Lev’s father died suddenly. The two older

up to would forever, and unforgivingly to

Countess Mariya Tolstaya,

him, fall short.

Lev was the fourth of five children. The Tolstoy family

The first of many dour moral

was of old Russian nobility

tests that would rupture his

and lived in the silver

standards came not long after

spoon luxury such a title

his fourteenth birthday when

and family history affords.

Lev’s older brothers decided

Financial freedom was the

it was time for him to be

only security the family were

introduced to sex. They took

rendered as, even though

him to a brothel which was

the family were exceptional

located next to a monastery

honorable and moral outliers

where Lev’s Grandfather

of their time, death seemed

was buried. The act itself

to come all too soon for all

for young and innocent Lev

too many. Lev’s mother died

was a great sacrilege, being a

when he was only two years

child and losing both parents

old and her memory would

whose memories stood for all

serve as a moral pinnacle

that was incorruptible and

that would some times cause

pure made this transition

and others times soothe his

relentlessly

darkest moments of despair

and would cast a shadow

and anguish.

throughout his life and

deplorable

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work. He became completely

It was at Yasnaya Polyana

at odds with his sexual

Lev’s older brother, Nikolay,

desires and moral beliefs.

told a five year old Lev that

This dissonance would be

he knew the secret of how

cemented in him forever,

to make the whole of humanity happy. He

children stayed in Moscow and Lev and the

even to the point where, although be it much

had written the secret on a little green stick

other young ones moved back to Yasnaya

later on, he would preach abstinence.

and buried it in the forrest and the one who

Polyana. Naturally, Lev took his father’s death

would find the green stick could make all

extremely hard and watched his Grandmother,

people happy, ensure there were no wars

who lived with them, suffer severely at the loss

and cure all diseases. Lev’s incredible and

of her son. Lev would also experience this

idealistic imagination ran wild with this

profound loss later in life, outliving six of his

story and would often look for the stick,

children. His Grandmother died two years

The values he once held so dear seemed to

hoping to bring peace and happiness to all.

later. The children were reunited in 1841

slip away from him and the moral perfection

The story was something that would evolve

when Lev was thirteen, they were moved to

and strength Lev aimed for would become as

with him as he grew older, from a fable to

Kazan to be with Aunt Helena Yushkof as

far away from him as his parents, mere ghosts

an obsession for knowledge on how to help

the Aunt the two eldest boys were living with

in a mind of someone not willing to let go.

himself and his fellow man.

in Moscow, Aunt Aline, died. Aunt Helena

From then on he fell into the abyss of pain

“When my brothers took me for the first time to a brothel and I accomplished this act, I then stood by the woman’s bed and wept.”

and self loathing that such a rift in the seams of a heart would cause but he would never

"If education is good, then the need for it will manifest itself like hunger."

stop striving. Lev started university at the age

and gambling debt, in the Spring of 1851 he left Yasnaya Polyana and joined the army with his older brother Nikolay. He spent his initial time

of sixteen with grand plans of an incredible

Lev’s high expectations of himself ensured

there chasing the women and was involved in

education. He was studying Law and Oriental

his desire to always be the strongest, most

the occasional raid which he very much enjoyed

Languages which excited him greatly yet the

intelligent and well educated model of a man,

but there was very little to do. With his spirits

University system, he found, did not live

something he knew a university education

raised, an acceptable amount of purpose and

up to his expectations and I cant imagine it

would not give him so he bided his time until

plenty of time on his hands Lev decided to write

would even come close in this day and age.

he would take his education into his own

his first book. Even though at this stage he was

He felt as though the uniformity was draining

hands. He was constantly making lists and

still the epitome of narcism and self loathing,

and his personality and intelligence were

failing spectacularly at completing them.

the light and love from the memories of his

being washed away every time he entered the

One of the many facets of why he failed,

parents was strong and the book became a place

noisy halls of young adults. Lev was bored

but probably one of the biggest reasons, was

where he could relive the time he had with his

by lectures and disappointed in the lack of

Lev’s sexual appetite. He detailed his sexual

parents. Many say the memories are nothing

astuteness and competence of the lecturers.

exploits and the large amount of guilt that

but idyllic fantasies, but it was true to Lev and

Teachers labeled him unable and unwilling

came with such a choice of pastime in his

afforded him something he dearly wanted- more

to learn which is where you start to see the

diaries. The diary entries surprise so many,

time with his parents. ‘Childhood’ (1852) was

first sparks of Lev’s contempt for uniformity

even now, because of how uncompromisingly

an immediate success with the Russian public

and authority start to fly. Many amazing

honest he was in them and to know that a man

and became the first of a trilogy, ‘Boyhood’

and bright minds, even today, have been left

who has had such an influence on literature

(1854) and ‘Youth’ (1857).

disappointed with traditional schooling, yet

and the evolution of a spiritual movement,

have folded under the lack of other culturally

could possibly be so wasteful and spiritually

Further down the line of time Lev was

accepted options but Lev would not would never let someone stand in his way of that. Lev’s teachers tried in vain to get him to attend lectures even to the point of incarcerating

I then believed that there was a little green stick whereon was written something which would destroy all evil in men and give them great blessings.

him overnight in the University

unforgiving battlefields where he discovered firsthand the barbaric pointlessness and sheer terror of war that he would later write grandly and profusely about. His moral backbone started to take on some serious form

Prison to which a former student who spent

corrupt so early in his life. But what many fail

once again and his observations were that of a

the night with him recalled that Lev produced

to see is that it was these times, experiences

mind open enough to become an independent

a candle from his boot and spent the night

and his pure tendency to be human and deal

observer, not only of the battlefield, but also

impersonating the University Staff.

with life the best he could, helped shape and

the government and what motivates man to

influence him in such a profound way that

ever involve himself or his country in such a

It was around this time Lev started keeping

we reap the benefits of today. Lev himself

heartbreaking and pointless nightmare.

diaries as it not only helped him learn and

even failed to recognise the benefit of living

understand information, it would also help him

the life he did. He never managed to live up

form an opinion on what he was learning and

to his own black and white expectations and

he would decide whether it would give value to

instead of forgiving and resolving the past,

him and society. The diaries also became a place

the guilt took ahold and haunted him until

where he would regularly voice his displeasure

death. Needless to say Lev did not finish

with himself, others and the situations he

his studies and abruptly left the University

found himself in. Lev became more and more

when he inherited his portion of the family

alienated from the education system as time

estate which also included Yasnaya Polyana

went by and he found it increasingly hard to be

to which he returned immediately.

there. It was never the case that Lev did not want an education or lacked ambition, he actually

The next few years saw Lev reveal in his diaries

had written out a plan of his own. He wanted

a bleak and dispiriting youth which went in

an education second to none and wrote in his

vicious self destructive circles of shallow

diary that he wanted to study Law, Medicine,

pleasures and morbid remorse. Alcohol, sex

Agriculture, Mathematics, Languages, Music,

and gambling were his tedious forms of abuse at

Natural Science and the list went on.

this time and after racking up heavy emotional

“In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. The government assures the people that they are in danger from the invasion of another nation, or from foes in their midst, and that the only way to escape this danger is by the slavish obedience of the people to their government. This fact is seen most prominently during revolutions and dictatorships, but it exists always and everywhere that the power of the government exists. Every government explains its existence, and justifies its deeds of violence, by the argument that if it did

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buckle as he desired knowledge and

moved into the heart of raw and

not exist the condition of things would be very much worse.”

souls is now looked upon as one of the most

became a devoted student of the subject for

heart wrenchingly difficult relationships in the

the entire summer. Transcendental idealism, in

history of writers circles. Although, according

short, states that we shape our world and our

Lev was learning quickly to rise above

to the diaries, the relationship flourished in

experiences through our mind. To us, in 2013,

collective ignorance and obedience and saw

the first few years, regardless of the fact that

this is a common place idea with not only

that the problems not lay within the threats

the night before Sofia and Lev were married

philosophers and spiritual teachers jumping on

or proclaimed tyranny of other nations but

he gave her all his diaries which detailed his

board but also quantum physicists; but back in

in the hearts of every individual who blindly

sexual rendezvous, his innermost thoughts,

1724 when Immanuel Kant, Schopenhauer’s

used the word ‘patriotism’ to justify violence

his time at war and debts, and made her read

inspiration, started lecturing on the subject in

and murder for men in government who would

them. Lev saw this as a service to his new wife,

Russia, he and his predecessors were deeply

never know the true meaning of war. Lev also

affording her an insight not many get into a

criticised and critiqued.

came to the conclusion that he was killing men

new love by letting her read of his thoughts

who were as ignorant and obedient to their

and feelings. This afflicted Sofia with jealousy

This new found level of awareness excited

own governments propaganda as he once was.

and mistrust that would periodically raise it’s

Lev and he found himself devouring the information, corresponding with other

Lev would often talk and write about this knowledge yet would not find a way to actually walk the direct line of this new talk until much later. In 1855 Lev left

If education is good, then the need for it will manifest itself like hunger.

stories outlining his ideology and harshly

brother Dimitri had fallen gravely ill. He made

head in especially hard times for their entire

These included ‘Confessions’ (1879), ‘A Short

it to Dimitri’s bedside just before he succumbed

marriage. Regardless, she loved him, nurtured

Exposition of the Gospels’ (1881), ‘What I

to Tuberculosis, the same disease that would

his talent and gave him thirteen children.

Believe’ (1882), ‘On Life Death’ (1892), ‘The Kingdom of God Is Within You’ (1893), ‘The

take his other beloved brother Nikolay in 1860. In 1862 Lev wrote ‘War and Peace’ a novel

Law of Love and the Law of Violence’ (1908)

With a whole new outlook on the world and

that solidified his place as one of the greatest

and many, many more including ‘Resurrection’

new set of regrets, Lev spent the next few

novelists of all time and is still revered and

(1901) which caused Lev to be excommunicated

years in his usual way of coping with life -

studied widely today. Almost ten years later he

by the Russian Orthodox Church. Regardless

unrestrained passions and guilt. Gambling

wrote Anna Karenina which, similar to all his

of this rejection by the church, Lev’s popularity

and womanising, Lev set off on travels

work, alluded to his own life and the beginnings

was unwavering and he had a large following

across Western Europe. Childhood had been

of his own spiritual crisis where he was guilted

of disciples devoted to ‘Tolstoyism’.

translated into English so Lev’s reputation and

by his own egocentric want of literary fame

fame as a novelist had grown rapidly which

and wealth and even contemplated suicide to

The Tolstoyans believed that society could

allowed him to meet and spend a lot of time

escape the anguish of his internal struggle.

be changed through individual religious and moral self-perfection; they advocated

with many other talented and noted writers.

“I put men to death in war, I fought duels to slay others. I lost at cards, wasted the substance wrung from the sweat of peasants, punished the latter cruelly, rioted with loose women, and deceived men. Lying, robbery, adultery of all kinds, drunkenness, violence, and murder, all were committed by me, not one crime omitted, and yet I was not the less considered by my equals to be a comparatively moral man. Such was my life for ten years.”

“Some change in my mode of life must result; yet that change must not come of an external circumstance- rather, of a movement of spirit : wherefore I keep finding myself confronted with the question “What is the aim of man’s life?” and, no matter what result my reflections reach, no matter what I take to be life’s source, I invariably arrive at the conclusion that the purpose of our human existence is to afford a maximum of help towards the universal development of everything that exists.”

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also writing his own essays and short criticising the government and church.

the army when he received news that his

adept authorities on the subject and

universal love and passive nonresistance to evil. Although they identified with Christianity they were by no means ‘orthodox’ Christians. Their beliefs earned them the name ‘Christian Anarchists’ due to their outspoken disapproval of the Church and Government.

"It is usually asked, ‘what will there be instead of Governments?’ There will be nothing. Something that has long been useless, and therefore superfluous and bad, will be abolished. An organ that, being unnecessary, has become harmful, will be abolished."

was to change drastically. He fell in love. In

That summer he read a book that was to

September of 1862, at the age of thirty four, Lev

change his mind and set him on his final path-

The movement was dangerous to it’s followers

married the sister of one of his friends, nineteen

German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer’s

in Russia, and it still would be in this day and

year old Sofia. The drastic changes and drama

‘The World as Will and Representation’. Lev

age. People who spoke out in Russia during

that ensued between two different but powerful

reveled in the transcendental idealism and

this time of extreme Socialism were jailed,

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exiled and some even murdered. Lev, no

he arrived at Astapovo he was taken straight

is fragile, with even the ‘first world’ countries

doubt due to his status and wealth, managed

into the Station Master’s home to be seen by

flailing in the wake of suppression from the

to keep his freedom although no publishing

a Doctor and became too ill to leave. Lev died

immoral and greedy. Being an independent

companies would go near many of his new

on November 20, 1910 in the Station Master’s

observer, questioning and educating yourself

books on the highly controversial topics, so

house. Although he wanted no ceremony

are the best and strongest tools at the level

they were circulated as essays.

or ritual, thousands showed up to pay their

of the individual and Lev’s unfailing thirst

respects. He was buried in a simple wooden

for knowledge and understanding allowed

Nonviolent resistance would be one of Lev’s

coffin near where Nikolay buried ‘the little

himself and so many, more justice than relying

greatest legacies and although he talked a

green stick’ in Yasnya Polyana, the place

on governments or corporations will ever do.

better game than he played, he really was an

where Lev may finally find peace, the secret

inspiration. Mahatma Gandhi who became

to happiness and end all his suffering.

a friend of Lev’s after reading ‘The Kingdom

Lev’s largest downfall and caused him so much

of God Is Within You’ carried on his friend’s

"All, everything that I understand, I

pain. He regretted dealing with life in the way

legacy and proved the efficiency of nonviolent

understand only because I love."

he did and was unforgiving of any mistake he

resistance in his successful campaign to help India gain independence from the British.

made, no matter how small. We all do that to In a world full of contrast and magnifying

ourselves in varying degrees. We act as judge,

glasses, over a century later not all that much has

jury and executioner and chop our heads off

In 1903 regardless of his spiritual beliefs and

changed in our society or culture. It is rife with

which leads to headless thoughts and actions

success in spreading the word, Lev was still at

inequalities, insecure violence and secretive and

and ends in a downward spiral. Life, albeit

odds with himself and extremely tormented.

suppressive governments with people obediently

incredibly hard at times is here to serve us as

He regretted much and wanted to relinquish

following to ensure their patriotism is never

students, not treat us as victims and we should

anything that reminded him of his materialistic,

questioned. Lev’s name has been thrown back

approach it that way. Failure is an option and

murderous and egocentric ‘old life’. The trouble

into the limelight, due to the recent release

a chance to move forward and grow. Doing

at home also added to his woes with family and

of Anna Karenina, although celebrated, it

the wrong thing often serves us, as long as

followers fighting over his diaries and wealth.

wouldn’t be the way he would really want to

we learn from it and are willing to be open

be remembered. There are two big lessons we

and admit we made a mistake. Suppression,

“I am now suffering the torments of hell: can learn from Lev that I would like to shine I am calling to mind all the infamies of a spotlight on and although these were not my former life—these reminiscences do not intentionally set, they are two great lessons that pass away and they poison my existence. might save, those who care to take the same Generally people regret that the individuality path as him, from the same guilt and anguish. does not retain memory after death. What a happiness that it does not! What an anguish One- question everything. It will lead you it would be if I remembered in this life all to revelations that might have once been the evil, all that is painful to the conscience, beyond your wildest dreams and you will be committed by me in a previous life….What a afforded a wisdom that many other ‘educated’ happiness that reminiscences disappear with death and that there only remains All, everything that I understand, consciousness.”

understand only because I love.

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Lev wanted to renounce his ancestral

Two- don’t be so hard on yourself. This was

fear and guilt rob people of their ability to do good in any circumstance and rather than doing good, it leads down the path of ‘hope’ which paralyses people more so than moves them. These negative emotions are culturally accepted and we think that people who are self deprecating are humble and those who believe in themselves are vain. We have a mixed and muddled idea of what makes a good person and we are ready to pass judgement at any given moment. It is exceptionally important to

understand your values, stand by them as best you can and forgive yourself, learn and move on when you fail to stand by them. That is the beauty of life, it

claim to his estate and all of his worldly

people are not because they swallow what

provides opportunity for growth and affords

impedimenta, all his family but his youngest

they are fed. This was half of Lev’s charm

you a fresh start every 24 hours.

daughter Alexandra scorned him. After a final

and power, he questioned everything and

fight with his wife Sofia who feared much for

was able to stand outside of a situation and

There is so much more to learn from Count

the family’s wellbeing and financial security,

become an ‘independent observer’. This is

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy and there are many

Lev made the decision to leave and start anew.

what led Lev down the nonviolent resistant

who proudly call themselves his students even

On the 28th of October 1910 he left in the

path and although he was not the first man

now. He was human, no different, better or

middle of the night. After visiting his sister

to tread this path, his legacy and writings on

worse than you and I and we all have our own

in Moscow he caught a train to Astapovo,

the matter are one of the strongest and widely

personal rendezvous with destiny that can be

five hours from Moscow. Whilst on the train

recognised and, I believe, will have a larger

just as grand as Lev’s if we afford ourselves

Lev came down with pneumonia and when

place in the future than it does now. Freedom

the possibility that... we are great. CE

SECRETS To Unleash Your Inner Confidence!

words by Shaenelle Schick

1. ITS AN INSIDE JOB

4. KNOW YOUR PASSION

Confidence, happiness, fulfillment, love,

Whats your purpose? What were you put on

passion - the emotions we choose to

this earth to do? Whats your big why? Start

experience come from within us. Make the

focussing on that, make plans to get you there

choice of how you want to feel each day,

and visualise yourself achieving. Play your

don’t become a victim of what is happening

success movie daily to experience the feeling.

around you.

5. CIRCLE OF INFLUENCE 2. RECOGNISE WE ARE ALL ON OUR OWN JOURNEY

Positivity breeds positivity. Who are you

Everyone is on their own path, heading

conversations like? Who’s championing you on?

hanging out with? Whats the quality of your

towards their own goals, dreams and aspirations. The only person you can

6. AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE

compare yourself with is you. How far have

Be grateful every single day. Even the smallest

you come? What daily action steps are you

things matter. Write down in a gratitude

taking to bring you closer to your desired

journal 5-7 things each day that you are

outcome?

grateful for.

3. DRESS TO IMPRESS, YOURSELF!

7. FIND A MODEL

Choose to wear outfits that you feel and look

Who has already got what you want? Find

great in, even if you are just ducking down

someone who has, find out what they did and

to the shops. If you look great, chances are

replicate it. Its the quickest way to achieve

you will feel great too!

your desires.

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SMARTEST GOALS

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

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- Henry David Thoreau

S . M . A . R . T. E . S . T.

SPECIFIC

give yourself the more work you may be unnecessarily creating so

Your goal should be as specific as you can possibly make it. This is

keep that in mind! Keep your targets tight and close! JUST DO IT!

and it will help give you clarity and certainty especially when you

EXPAND AWARENESS

may have to make decisions or change strategies

Your goals should expand your awareness and knowledge base. If

MEASURABLE

you really want to test and better yourself then set a goal that you have no idea how you will achieve it! All you need to know is the

If you can find a way to measure your goal and monitor your progress

first step to take and once you take that first step another step will be

it will help you not only stay motivated but help you as a guide when

revealed to you and then another and then another. If you ever get

numbers start going the wrong way and steps need to be taken to get

stuck on a step change your approach not your goal. You are going

back on track! If your goal is not easily measured stick a good old

to come out the other end with so much more knowledge than what

1-10 scale on it!

you started with and thats half the fun!

ATTAINABLE

SCARE & EXCITE

I am going to say this and only this about attainable: You need to

Your goal is something that should not only have you jumping out

believe in yourself and your ability to achieve your goal. Then it will

of bed in the morning but challenge you too! It should be big enough

be attainable. I always remind myself, when having the occasion of

and far enough from reach that it scares and excites you! No point in

self doubt, of a quote by Napoleon Hill which is “What The Mind

setting something that isn’t going to challenge and excite you! You

Can Conceive And Believe, It Can Achieve.” The only person you need

want it to supersede your current knowledge and expectations for

to convince that your goal is achievable is yourself!

yourself because you are capable of more than you ever imagined!

RESTRICTIONLESS

TRUE TO YOU

Get rid of your ideas of lack, limitation and fear of judgement from

The goals should be centered around you and your happiness! They

others. If it is your hearts desire DO IT. Think about what you would

should be 100% true to you. Otherwise what is the point? You do

do if you knew that you would not fail, now do that!

not need to prove anything to anyone but yourself. Your happiness is

TIME TARGETED

the core factor here and should remain so. If your goals are centered around someones else’s happiness or trying to prove a point then it is

Time targeting doesn’t always sound ideal but it really is for your

likely to be an unsustainable goal and you are not respecting yourself

benefit! It makes you take action and responsibility. ACTION is

enough to go for what you really want! Get to know yourself if you

imperative and when you have a time limit and there is action that

do not know what you really want and don’t be afraid if you don’t

needs to be taken DO IT. Adjust your time as necessary but DO NOT

as it is not uncommon so you are not the only one; but if you delve

BE LAZY OR LENIENT. Keep in mind Parkinson’s Law: ‘Work

in, get to know yourself and what you really want and then go for

expands so as to fill the time available for its completion’. The longer you

it... that is rare! CE

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Time to Thrive 'You gave your life to become the person you are right now. Was it worth it?' - Richard Bach

ife is so stunning and a real adventure for some, a real heart achingly pit of hell for others and then there are those who flip flop between heaven, hell and mediocre. We know which area we would all rather be in... a stunning life, full of adventure and love, right? So where is the point

of difference? Do people move to a different planet where everyone is happy? Do they leave all of their family members behind and just move on? Do they win the lottery? Do they meet prince charming and live happily ever after? No. None of it. Rarely in this day and age, or ever for that matter, will you find anything outside of yourself that will give you sustained happiness. This is because anything ‘mainstream’ will tell you it will make you happy, but in truth it is just great marketing. Genuinely happy people do not rely on others or outside circumstances for happiness. They don’t need the biggest or the best. They don’t have less ups and downs than you. But what they do have is an attitude and a way of creating love and happiness in their life. People, places, experiences and objects do not determine their happiness, they contribute to it for sure, but they are independent of it. They have bad days but are mindful of the attitude they take towards them. They are students of life, not victims. But how can you do it? Here is a great starting knowledge point

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for you... Pure creation.

Pure creation simply put: you create your it is boiling it is too late. But thats not so much

If you are walking around thinking all these

life from the inside out. What ever you are the case any more. More of us are sitting in the

negative thoughts and reacting negatively

thinking and feeling, your life will be a direct pot and saying ‘Hey! this doesn’t feel right!’ and

to simple things like traffic, a job, a family

reflection of that. If you consider yourself a we look for ways to jump out!

member or dripping tea on your shirt then

serious person and you have serious feelings

no doubt you will not be feeling good. Then

and thoughts then no doubt you have a very "Mind is the master power that molds and

you go home after a day of perpetuating

serious life. From serious illness to serious makes and man is mind, and evermore he

negative thoughts and feelings and creating

perspectives to serious fears. Your life will be takes the tool of thought, and shaping what he

more negative things by virtue of this and you

full of serious situations, circumstances and wills brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand

say affirmations you were told would change

people. If you are a positive person on the ills. He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass

your life! But, for some reason they are not

other hand, not a person who thinks they are environment is but his looking glass."

changing your life? This is because when

positive but are really self deprecating and - James Allen

you sit down to say them or think of them,

judgmental, but someone who thinks, speaks

because you have had such a bad day, they

and acts in a positive nature over 51% of the We live in a world where information is at our

are empty thoughts and words void of any

time, then your life will be full of positive finger tips. There is so much information out

emotion. Words and thoughts are not enough!

people, situations and circumstances. Believe there on any one single topic that you wouldn’t

You must feel an emotional connection to

it or not most of us speak negatively well over get through it in one lifetime so we go on

them or they are useless.

51% of the time and make the mistake of our friends, family members and neighbours thinking that we are positive people because recommendations which is a whole different

Our culture indulges in negativity and our

we find it easy to be positive for our friends information network in itself and hope that

day to day activities and interactions with

and family but, in the privacy of our own minds, not for ourself. You can tell what any person is really thinking by just looking at their life. We all know plenty of people who say they are positive people but you take a look at their life and they are sick, unhappy, broke and missing the love they want the most. Your life is a direct reflection of what is going on

other people seem to be a contest of

If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different so that you can feel good. You would free yourself of all that cumbersome impossibility of needing to control your mate or to control your child. you are the only one who creates your reality. No one else... just you. - Esther Hicks

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inside of you.

complain the loudest. You have a colleague complain to you about a cold they have which is making them feel poorly and rather than saying ‘I hope you return to good health very soon’ we perpetuate the negative by saying ‘Oh I had that cold a few weeks ago and it took so long to get over and then my kids

we find the information as helpful as they did!

got it as well! It was terrible!’ and we call it

Collectively as a society we have created a We look to people who seem to have what

empathy. Why would we want to be better

culture who settles for mediocre. There is a we want and no doubt, thank goodness, they

when the contest of who can be the most

common unspoken understanding that the have written a book to say ‘this is what I did

negative is so important to us and our culture?

poor are too poor to give, the rich are too evil so give it a go and it should no doubt work for

We tried to do better and go for our dreams

to give, no one can rise beyond mediocrity you too!’ There have been teachers around for

a couple of times in the past but it just takes

because we are not comfortable with what we thousands of years who have called what I call

a question like ‘why would you want to do

do not understand (Tall Poppy Syndrome), Pure Creation all different things. Essentially

that?’ and we stop straight away and settle

working hard for no money is just what we the message is the same... you create your own

back down into what we and ‘they’ know. This

do (Aussie Battlers), a positive person is a life, from the inside out.

is not ‘their’ fault, nor is it yours. For so long

person who puts all others before themselves

so many people did not know any better. We

and knows how to cook in batches, we are Everything that is in your life you have created

are told that struggle and hard times are part

better than everyone else except for those on and it is created by virtue of the thoughts you

of our culture and make us more virtuous.

TV, women are sluts, men are seed spreaders are holding in your mind which create the

These ideas are passed from generation to

and we know more about Kim Kardashian emotions you are holding in your heart. The

generation to generation and have landed in

than we do ourselves. We are overloaded with thoughts in our mind create the way we feel.

your lap. It is time for you to question these

distractions and information and a formal Many people say it is our thoughts that create

ideas and figure out how to get the hell out

education is merely a game of memory. The our world but it is our emotions. It is all about

of that pot!

human race seems to be like frogs in a pot of what you are feeling. In other words: water and it’s getting warmer and warmer and hotter and hotter and by the time we realise 'EMOTION-CREATES-YOUR-WORLD'

who can be the most negative and

“If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different so that you

can feel good. You would free yourself of all that cumbersome impossibility of needing to control your mate or to control your child. you are the only one who creates your reality. No one else... just you.” - Esther Hicks

to buy food or my pay not going into the bank

you can pay if you allow negative situations,

when I go to pay for food and then getting

circumstance and people hold your attention.

home and seeing starving children on TV. A

You do not have to wait for the whole world

large amount of fear may cause unemployment

to wake up to this because you always create

and homelessness, or being sent to a Country

what you give your emotion to. If you are

that has very little food and having a severe

giving your emotion to love, happiness and

So why if we are not meant to struggle and

reaction to the people not having enough food.

elation, you will create that but if you are

be Aussie Battlers is there so much negativity

This is a simple example of level of emotion

giving your emotion to hate, despair and fear

around us? One word. Contrast. Without

and creation and there are no two creations

then you will create that.

contrast we would not know good from

alike. Your creations are as unique to you as

bad, day from night, overcast days from

your finger prints as no two people have the

You have to be aware of your thoughts and

sunny days, good health from bad health,

exact same level of emotion given to the exact

choose them carefully! But don’t worry if

love from pain and the most

you do react negatively or

important, what you would

have a negative thought

like to create in your life from

because you can always turn

what you would not. The

it around with a positive

point in contrast is to give

and give more emotion to

us a choice, also known as

the positive thought! There

free will. What you consider

is so much positivity in this

bad is not there so you can

world! Remember for every

stare at it, harp on about it

single negative there is a

and perpetuate it. It is there

positive contrast so it is not

so you can decide that is not

hard for you to find things

what you would like so you

to turn your attention to! If

turn your attention to what

you are sitting in traffic and

you would like.

you catch yourself feeling negative about that turn your

I personally don’t like the idea

attention to being grateful

of not having enough to eat

that you even have a car to

but I don’t think about the

drive and be in traffic at all!

idea of not having enough

Traffic is usually caused by

to eat, instead I concentrate

accidents... aren’t you glad

on having enough to eat. So,

it’s not you! We live in a

in turn I always have plenty

world of contrast for a very

to eat! That is how creation

specific reason and it is there

works and that is why there

for your creative advantage!

is contrast. You have a choice between a negative

We can see things day to

attitude and a positive one.

day that we wouldn’t like

The stronger the emotion

in our lives, so instead of

you give to an idea the more likely you are

same idea and your emotions and ideas are

concentrating on what that specific thing

to create it in your life. If, for example, I had

collective, interconnected and create your life!

or situation you wouldn’t like, you have

being the emotion, not enough to eat being

The contrast was once so stark that we are

and let your mind dwell upon that! That is

the idea) no doubt I would create situations

paying the price for the situations, lives and

what Jesus meant when he said ‘Turn the

and circumstances where I would not have

attitudes that our ancestors once created

other cheek’. Don’t sit there and watch news

enough eat. The level of creation depends on

but little by little people will learn to hold

program after news program on death and

the level of the emotion given to the idea. For

their attention to what they want to create.

devastation. I understand that we all like to

example a small amount of fear around the

People will just see the contrast and make

be kept up to date with the news but you do

idea of not having enough to eat would create

the decision to hold their attention to what

not need to inundate yourself with it! Don’t

in my life forgetting to take my lunch to work

they have decided they will have in their lives

dwell on what you don’t want and what brings

or not having enough time to stop at the shops

so that we don’t have to experience the price

negative emotions to you. Concentrate on all

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to turn your attention to what you would

a huge fear of not having enough to eat (fear

the situations, circumstances, people, places,

before you get your new car that you ‘want’

I cannot implore enough that if you want

things and events you would like in your life!

you are not in the process of bringing it to

to live a magnificent life then you need to

you. You’re new car is there waiting for you!

go through your days, consciously in the

In saying that your emotions are more

Everything that you could possibly ever want

beginning as you know, feeling happy and

important than your thoughts or words when

is there and ready for you to create it in your

grateful and feeling love for the things, people

it comes to creation, words and thoughts are

life. You are just an extension of source and

and circumstance that you want to continue

a very close equal second because it is your

all that you could ever want is already a part

to have in your life! If you go through your

words and thoughts that cause your emotions.

of all that is so all you need to do is shift your

day feeling ‘ok‘ (not happy, not sad) then you

You have to be careful with what words and

emotions and your thoughts to create it in your

will live an ok life. If you go through your day

thoughts you use. Every word in your life you

life! You need to align yourself with everything

feeling grateful, love and wonderful then what

have attached a positive or negative meaning

you would like to create in your world!

kind of life will you lead? A wonderful life

to. You have to be aware of what words you

filled with love and gratitude! Just consciously

use because ones that are negative or infer lack

Imagine what you want, whether it is a new

trying this for a week will bring you results

are not going to help you in creating what you

computer, a mansion in the hills, your dream

and feelings in your life that you could have

would like in your life! This may sound a little

partner or a baby, as a dot. Just like this one.

only dreamt of! You deal with life better,

complicated but in truth it really does make it

you become more patient, more kind and

simple and it brings your attention

gain a deeper understanding into

to what words actually mean! You

people and why situations come

start living with purpose, awareness and attention! Words are just words until you attach meaning to them and all of our words have meaning! We have to look at it in terms of what will help us create what we

What you want in your life is no bigger deal than this dot to the greater power you believe in. In fact the dot is even way too big! Your source will always bring you what you align yourself with and it is never ever too big a task.

would like in our lives.

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“It can not be done! Cries the man without imagination. It can be done, it shall be done. Cries the dreamer" - Orison Swett Marden

about. You are less and less reactive as you practice holding yourself to wonderful emotions more and more! Your emotions are your guidance system- if you are feeling great! - You will bring great people, situations and circumstances to you.

How do you know when you are in alignment

If you are feeling irritated- you will bring

with what you would like in your life? One

irritating situations, people and circumstances

word- EMOTIONS. When you think about

into your life!

what you would like in your life for example a holiday in Florida, when you think about

People don’t make the connection between

If you have made a decision about a specific

your holiday, if you feel hopeless and upset

talking badly about another person in the

thing you would like in your life you have

about it and feel like its never going to

lunch room at work and the unexpectedly

to act and feel as though you have already

happen- its never going to happen. If you

large bill you receive when you get home.

created it and have it in your life! How do you

feel grateful, happy, excited and can and do

People don’t link feeling terrible about traffic

do that? Be GRATEFUL! If you sit there and

imagine yourself on your trip- it will happen.

when they have an accident themselves. You

say ‘I want, I want, I want, I want’ that does

But what if something in your life has gone

don’t link helping your neighbour out with a

not give out good emotions. The word ‘want’

terribly wrong and you feel like you can’t

cup of sugar and someone giving you a hand

implies lack. If you sit there and say ‘I am

help but feel terrible about it? The more you

at work to get things done quickly and easily.

grateful for my new car, I am grateful for the

feel terrible about it... the more terrible it will

People don’t make the connection between

woman of my dreams, I am grateful for my

get. You need to find a way to feel ok about

giving a smile to a stranger and winning

dream job’ then that brings in emotions that

it and then find a way to feel good about

a raffle prize at a luncheon. Everything is

feel wonderful! Words and thoughts are empty

it! You cannot look at people, situations,

connected in the most simple way and it is

without emotion! The more you can feel being

circumstances and objects and feel terrible

connected to YOU. There are no other people,

grateful and wonderful that a certain person,

and expect them to go away. If you can help

situations or circumstances, Source only sees

situation or object was in your life the easier

yourself become at ease about it and feel

you. You cant say ‘but that person made

it will manifest! You cannot worry about what

‘ok‘ about it then eventually the situation

me feel that way!‘ because you are the one

you would like or miss what you would like,

will become ‘ok‘. The next step is to be able

that creates your life. You need to change

you need to get into the emotion of feeling

to talk about a situation, circumstance or

your way of thinking so that you have more

happy, love, appreciation and all the wonderful

person and still feel good and be happy!

positive emotions than negative! You need

feelings associated with it and you will create it!

Then you know you are well on your way

to tip the scales, so to speak! The better you

The whole time you are sitting there worrying

to removing what ever it is that is troubling

feel the more in alignment you are, the worse

about your current car and if it will break down

you from your life!

you feel the more out of alignment you are.

What ever emotion you are cultivating is a perfect reflection of what is in the process of becoming. So when you go on facebook and put a negatively charged emotional status ‘Argh! Just got another bill in the mail! FML!’ and 100 people see that status and have an emotional reaction to it what do you think that is creating? Idea: Another Bill. Emotional charge: HIGH its not just you having an emotional reaction to it, it is now 100 other people as well! Not a good creation! What you think and what you feel and what manifests in your life is always a match. You need to ‘turn the other cheek’ and concentrate on what you would like and bring yourself into alignment with that and out of nothing and no way a way will be made because you are the only one who has the power to create in your life!

“Take the first step in faith. You don’t need to see the whole staircase just take the first step.” - Martin Luther King, Jr. All that is happening to us right now, all that we are and where we are is because of our past decisions, thoughts and emotions attached to them. Your source brings you everything that holds your attention and emotion! It is working for you, now you just have to get you to work for you. Thriving is natural. Not thriving isn’t. Offer thoughts and words of well being and speak of it as often as you can. Do not give your attention to the negative contrast. It is just there so you can choose what you would like compared to what you wouldn’t! Only ever respond to your inside positive energy, not the outside. Do not look at the problems your desires were born from, focus entirely on the desire! You cannot beat the drum of what is going wrong and let into your life what is right. If you can learn to feel the stream of love flowing through you at all times then you would not need it from outside of you. You would be utterly self sufficient notepad and dedicate it to paying attention to what your thoughts are, consciously direct them to what you want and write down your findings! You will surprise yourself and see

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How to Rock Social Media Top Seven: Office Fashion Business Profile: Jamie McIntyre Top Seven: Unconventional Ways Top Seven: Business

HOW TO ROCK

SOCIAL MEDIA With kickass marketing strategies Nicola Moras works with women to get the rush back in their business...to take it to the next level...to LOVE what they are doing again!

he world is contracting so rapidly with the gift of social media. No longer do we see ‘fax us’ your information or your confirmations. It’s moved to things flying off our tongues like ‘flick me a Facebook message’ or PM me.

There are so many women in business that just don’t how to use it strategically. They end up using it because they ‘have to do it’ but they don’t really know what it is that they’re doing or how to do it WELL.

LET'S STEP BACK A MINUTE. You CAN make money from social media. You can build incredible relationships on social media. The number of long lasting friendships and love affairs that are founded on a ‘like’ are nothing short of astounding! I remember when I started my very, very first business as an importer of costume jewellery about 9 years ago. The only way that I made any connections, both retail and wholesale connections, were via the traditional methods of networking and face to face interaction. Rarely was a strong relationship formed without some kind of face to face interaction. It was really hard work!! Just so you know, I live in a country town in the middle of nowhere, Mildura, where we’re a minimum of 4 hours to closest city. It was either me travelling to the city to meet people or people coming here. BUSINESS REPUBLIC

It was a lot harder to do business back then.

As you know, the foundation for every

So some things that you could use to be generous

has been doing ‘ok’. She’s turned over at the

relationship and interaction has to be founded

when you are talking to your fans on Facebook

most $50k . She’s got a few clients who are

on building the 'know you, like you, trust you'

are things like free reports, downloads, checklist,

regular clients. She’s concentrated on getting

mentality with your prospects (those people

templates, blog posts, information that will help,

1:1 clients and wants to move away from this

who you are yet to do business with). The

MP3 downloads or anything that you know

model in about 6 months time. She officially

same theory MUST apply with social media.

that can help them out with the problems that

started her business about 18 months ago and

they're having right now. To be able to do this

was telling everyone about how great it was

If you were to ask me a few years ago if I

effectively and strategically, you’ve got to have

going to be. She has dreams of turning over

would be working with 100’s of women,

step two going hand in hand with step one!

$150k initially and then think that she can

helping them build their businesses with a

build from there.

STRONG focus on Social Media Marketing I

STEP 2: KNOW YOUR MARKET

probably would’ve laughed!!! Looking back I

You’ve really got to know who your ideal

The thing is, though, that she hasn’t been

didn’t REALLY realise just how critical a tool

customer and/or client is that you want

getting the results that she wants. She’s

it was going to become. How IMPORTANT

to help. You’ve got to be SO clear on who

finding it really really hard to get the number

it was going to become.

this is and how you can help them. To the

of clients that she needs to, to really skyrocket

point that you should be able to answer the

her business. She believes that she can help

following questions:

everyone with what she can do. She just needs

It’s really easy to build relationships with people on platforms like Facebook, for

to get herself out there more. She wants to get

example, because people get a

a kickass website happening. The

feel for you and who you

one that she built already isn’t

are. As well as what

‘up to scratch’ for how she

your values are. They

wants it to be.

feel like they’re getting you know you. Like

The thing with Dannii, is

they’re getting an insight

that she’s been talking this

into your life and to your

business up for the last

personality that you just

year to her friends, telling

don’t get from ‘traditional’

them how great it’s

forms of advertising and

going. Keeping positive.

marketing. They still have their

Not stretching the truth

place of course in particular

or exaggerating…just

of course, with any marketing that you do, you’ve GOT TO DO IT RIGHT!!!!! So hang out with me here for a little bit longer and let’s go through the 5 things that you MUST cover off if you’re going to ROCK SOCIAL

MEDIA MARKETING this year!!!

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Who is your ideal client? Are they male or female? What age? Where do they live? What things keep them awake at night? What kinds of things do they worry about? What are they thinking about the solution or product that you have to offer?

STEP 1: ALWAYS BE GENEROUS

telling them that ‘yes! It’s great’ when really it’s not doing what SHE wants it to be doing. She’s feeling like a fraud. Her friends wouldn’t ever think that she’d feel bad and they’d certainly not judge her for it….but she doesn’t want them to know at the same time. Dannii has been doing everything she can. She’s trawled through the internet looking

The only way that you’re going to build long

Now, I know that this sounds a little over the

for as much free info as possible. Gone to a

lasting, mutually beneficial relationships

top. I’d like to take this moment to introduce

couple of free events. Searching for something

with your prospects and with your clients/

you to Dannii for a moment. Dannii is a 37

to help. Because she doesn’t know what she

customers is by being generous with your

year old lady. Married. Her husband has a

doesn’t know.

information and your help. Now, please don’t

‘corporate’ style ‘professional’ job and earns

misinterpret me. I’m not telling you that you

approx. $90-$100k per year. She has short glossy

She’s at the point where she’s wondering

have to give all of your stuff away.

dark hair. 2 kids that are in Primary School.

to herself (no one else) if this is what she

However, there are ways that you can share

She’s HUNGRY for this business to work. Also

really should be doing. Maybe she should just

some of what you know, things that can help

feeling a little disillusioned with the whole thing.

quit it all and just get a job. In fact. Truth be

people, in a way that does build trust. That’s

Dannii is a coach (life/business/mentor). She’s

known. She’s on seek about once per week

what it’s all about!

been in business for about 12 months and

just keeping on eye on things.

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circumstances though. And,

@ She doesn’t know what she doesn’t know. When

fictional character that I’ve made up. However,

social media. You’ve got to get a persons

she eventually falls asleep, exhausted, cos her

it’s MUCH easier to ‘talk’ on social media and

details OUTSIDE of Facebook so that you

mind runs a million miles an hour and doesn’t

through your blogs if you can imagine that

can market to them. By being GENEROUS, by

stop…she crashes. When she wakes up at 2am

you’re actually speaking specifically to someone.

knowing your MARKET inside-out, by being

though and can’t get back to sleep….when

That way, you know that your posts are going

ENGAGING and AUTHENTIC and then by

things in the middle of the night get all blown

to be consistently talking to the one market,

LEVERAGING that interaction.

out of proportion….she worries that it’s just all

which is EXACTLY what you want to be doing

too hard. What is her husband really thinking

in your marketing!

to walk down the street and run into people and

STEP 3: BE ENGAGING

you’ve built up that relationship and you’ve

have them ask me how business is cos I don’t

The best way that you can be engaging is by

taken the time to build value, help them as much

want to have to lie to them. I’m a fake. A fraud.

posting non-boring content!!!! Sounds obvious,

as you can and now you can help them more

How on earth am I going to make this work.

I know! Believe it or not, it still needs to be said!

by helping them make the really easy decision

So ask questions, post photos, share quotes,

to become a customer or a client.

What if this fails? What if I can’t make it work?

encourage interaction with your audience.

What will my husband think? Maybe he thinks

Nobody wants to hang out with you if you’re

By following these steps, I’ve been able build a

that I’m a failure as well. What if he leaves

boring….so be the opposite. Be engaging.

list of over 2000 people in less than 6 months.

me? What will the kids think? Oh my god. I

I’ve been able to turn my business around from

think I’m going to have a heart attack. What

STEP 4: AUTHENTICITY

a $25,000/yr business to a $450,000 per year

if this kills me? What about the kids? What if

You might as well be yourself, because everyone

business. My clients are regularly having weeks

I have to swallow my pride and go and get a

else is taken. Right?!?! Sometimes this is easier

that range from $1,500-$11,000 per week. The

stupid job? I don’t want to. There’s so much to

said than done. However. I encourage you to

steps are easy. But you’ve got to do them right.

do. Where do I start? Who can I trust? Who

push through your comfort zone and share as

can help me? Then she falls asleep again into

much about yourself as you can through your

a log-like sleep to be awoken by the alarm at

page and with your ideal audience. Generally

7am ready to start it all again!!!

speaking, the people that we work with are a lot like ourselves. So it kind of makes sense

The thing for Dannii is that she doesn’t know

to ‘be’ ourselves in every sense of the word.

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what she doesn’t know. She knows that there’s

Become the person that they automatically go to for the solution that you provide. BECAUSE

of her. What if this business fails. I don’t want

got to be a better way…she just doesn’t quite

Authenticity wins out every time. I don’t

know what that is yet. Dannii wants someone

agree with the whole 'fake it till you make

that she can trust to show her how to do

it'. I believe that you should be the MOST

things a better way. How to get herself out

authentic and transparent that you can be.

there. How to be attractive to her ideal clients.

People are going to be drawn to that. Fakers

She’s an action taker and is more than happy to

come unstuck very, very quickly,

implement when she knows WHAT she needs

particularly in the cyber world!!

to implement!!!!!

Just be you.

She just needs to be shown the way. She’s happy

STEP 5: LEVERAGE

to do things online and offline. She’s pretty tech

It’s no good being on social media

savvy and is ready to take the year by storm ;)

for business and just driving up your likes. I mean, what if you

Whenever I post something on Facebook or

get 10,000 likers but you can’t

create an offer, I’m doing it specifically for

convert one of them into a sale or

Dannii. Now, please be aware that this is a

into a client? We’ve got to leverage

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amie McIntyre is the founder of over 12 different companies (employing almost 100 staff) that turn over in excess of $40 million dollars annually. With reach in industries such as education, politics, trading, accounting, finance broking, stock broking, financial services, recruitment, media, publishing and TV, the 21st Century Group has grown to be the largest financial education resource in Australia.

JAMIE MCINTYRE, Founder of the 21st Century Group

A 21ST CENTURY EDUCATION - Business Profile: Jamie McIntyre -

Where did you grow up? I grew up on a farm in Northern NSW in a town called Glen Innes which is a small town of about 6000 people.

What did you want to be when you grew up? I was never really sure. But I did know that I wanted to do well financially, for what ever reason that was. I definitely knew what I didn’t want to be... I didn’t want to be a farmer so I never learned to sheer the sheep, make fences or anything to do with farming, so that way I could rule out being a farmer.

In your book, 'What I Didn’t Learn At School But Wish I Had', you talk a lot about mastering your emotions. Why is it important

to master your emotions and what to you think is an important first step in doing this?

A lot of people are attracted to wanting to be financially successful. Everyone would like to win a million dollars or have a million dollar life style and be financially successful. But in order to master ones finances one must master their emotions first because what holds most people back is that they often already know what they need to do but they simply don’t do it. That’s because they are not in control of their emotions. They let fear, doubt, procrastination, frustration, anger, all these emotions that will hold them back take over. So if they take control of these emotions then they are able to get themselves into a peak emotional state. A state where they are more likely to make a decision, follow through or most importantly to take action. Because ultimately success comes down Another example is ‘high return = high risk’. This is not necessarily true. I show many people everyday that there are strategies that the average person can do which will give you much higher returns while actually lowering your risk. Another misconception is that if you are wealthy multimillionaire in my 20’s by taking less financial risk than the average person takes and never achieves financial success. Another BIG one is that

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you have to take lots of risks. Once again that is not accurate. I became a

‘you need money to make money’ which is not

his seminars before I actually got to learn things

young entrepreneur you are going to make

true. Also to become financially successful ‘it

from him personally. I also had my millionaire

some not so good decisions. Part of being an

is a lot of hard work’ which also is not true.

mentor who was a gentleman in Sydney and

entrepreneur is what leads to starting a company

Working hard and making money in the 21st

how I got access to him was I went and initially

but I often say these days that you should not

Century have nothing to do with each other.

offered to work at his company for free. Because

let entrepreneurs run companies because they

There is nothing wrong with working hard but work hard because you are passionate about something. Don’t work hard while fooling yourself that its going to make you wealthy. There are many people who work hard who are not rich.

are not good at managing companies

I have had numerous over the years in different areas of my life. So mentors are important but it doesn’t mean that you have to know your mentors personally to start getting a lot of gain from them.

but they are great at starting them. So that is probably a mistake, not having a board earlier. Also maybe not taking on capitol to some degree in the early stages but then again I have learnt to become a better entrepreneur by making my company self funded.

Is it important to seek mentors?

I was more focused on wanting to learn. I always

If you think like an average person, act like an

say to people that you should work to learn

As far as my proudest things go, I measure my

average person, you will produce the results

not to earn. Don’t focus on working purely for

success by the difference I make to peoples lives

of an average person. This really is common

money because that is the greatest recipe for

so even though I have over a dozen companies

sense. If you want to become above average

failure. I was focused on wow here’s a guy that

the area I am most passionate about is education

in life to say... be a self made millionaire or

I could learn off about finances, real estate and

so I spend most of my time in education because

you just want to be comfortable or what ever

being an entrepreneur. I was willing to go and

that is my passion. Even though I have other

endeavor that you choose, be it a sporting career

serve my apprenticeship and to work for free in

entrepreneurial interests I spend my time with

or being the best Mum you can be, what ever

the beginning so I could get access to a mentor.

education. I am proud of all the different

aspect you want to be above average in, you

people I have had an impact on. There are a

certainly need to think above average and do

So they were just some of my mentors. I have

lot of people out there who have transformed

things differently. Mentors are great because

had numerous over the years in different areas of

their lives and are very grateful for the work I

the short cut to success is to find someone who

my life. So mentors are important but it doesn’t

have done over the last 12 years. So that would

is a success at doing what you want to do and

mean that you have to know your mentors

definitely be my greatest achievement today.

model them. At school we are told not to copy.

personally to start getting a lot of gain from

I suggest to people in the 21st Century that we

them.

should copy, but I use a different word and that is modeling. In other words instead of using trial and error or hoping to achieve something

What is one thing that you regret or

wish you did differently in business and

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now, what will it cost them in the future?

A lot of people say ‘Jamie I am not materialistic’, ‘I’m not into money’, ‘money

when you’re not sure it will work... any business,

one thing you were most proud of?

isn’t important’. I agree that there are things

any idea, any business strategy or anything you

As far as regrets go I tend not to focus on regrets.

in life that are much more valuable to us than

want to be successful at, someone has probably

Sometimes in life you make decisions and if

money like time with your family and friends,

already done it. So with Google these days its

you are being accountable and responsible you

your health, having a career because you love

not hard to research and find out the people that

accept that decision may not have worked out

it not because you have to do it for money.

have produced the result you want in your area.

the way you wanted it to. So there is never really

All these aspects are far more important than

Even if you never meet that mentor... people

anything you can regret because you came to

money but if people do not master money,

always say that ‘if I had a mentor that could

a fork in the road and you took one way and

money becomes the top priority in their life

help me one on one it would be so much easier’.

you have to accept that and you can always

regardless of whether they like it or not.

But some of my mentors, for instance Richard

learn from that.

They will spend less time with their family

Branson, in business has been a mentor to me

If people don’t learn to master money

and friends because of financial constraints

but I learned many things from Richard about

But in business as far as hindsight is concerned

and then they are working all the time. A

business that I applied to my business’ that

I could have put a board in place earlier in my

lot of people sacrifice their health due to the

made me millions of dollars just from reading

business career. Have an independent board

stress of money. A lot of people work a career

his books many years before I actually got to

of people who could be advisers. Even if you

purely for money not because its really what

meet him and learn things from him in person.

are just starting a business and don’t have a

their heart is into. If people who do live in a

So most mentors you don’t actually have to even

lot of money just having a voluntary board

materialistic society don’t master money then

meet in person. I’ve had other mentors such as

of people with grey hair so to speak, that

the consequences are pretty obvious. They

Anthony Robins who once again I originally

you want on your board... people who have

are going to limit themselves financially and

met through reading his books and attending

age and experience because when you are a

what they and their family can experience.

They are probably going to have a lot more

effectively putting it into the physical world.

instantly because some people would just make

stress in their life. It takes a lot more effort to

There is a great power and manifestation in

a complete mess of their lives because they will

be poor than it does to be rich. That’s what

that. If people fail to do that then they are

manifest the things they are most afraid of.

people have got to understand. It might take

limiting their power. So there is massive power

Writing goals is one way to manifest what you

some effort in the beginning to become wealthy

in writing down goals. You may not achieve

want. It is important to get clear about what

but if you don’t master your finances its a long

every goal you write but it will give you a focus.

you want. If you don’t know what you want

time, a lot of effort, hard work and struggle

It gives you something to work towards. A lot

then you cant get it and you wont recognise

so the consequences are pretty immense. Life

of people find that things start showing up in

possibilities when they show up.

is too short to be simply working for money.

their life from the power of writing down goals.

There are things that are a lot more important

When you start getting good at manifesting

Anything advice you would like to add?

than that so I say to people who say they are

it can be quite fun to play with as you can

First of all if you want to be successful in any

not really into money, write down ‘money

ask for some amazing stuff and it will show

endeavor you have to have an open mind. The

is important’. Come out of

majority of people in Australia

denial about it. It is important

or most western societies do

whether you like it or not

not achieve a fraction of the

so I really believe that it is

financial success they can.

important for people to accept

Most people think that you

that. I also say that if you are

need academic degrees and

not into money go down to

be academically intelligent

Woolworths and fill up your

and have a high IQ but that is

shopping trolley to the brim

just a load of baloney. A high

of everything you want and

IQ means nothing. Albert

push it up to the check out

Einstein said the definition

and say ‘you know what? I’m

of intelligence is ‘the ability

not into money... I am not

to entertain an idea’, as

materialistic. Money is not

simple as that. Most people

important’. Then continue to

are narrow minded or closed

push the trolley out the door.

minded and will never achieve

The fact is that you may not

a fraction of their dreams. So

be into money but the rest of

to be successful you have to be

the world is. So its obvious

open minded. What I want

that you have to master it

to add to Einsteins definition

whether you like it or not and

is its not only the ability to

if you don’t... in our society

entertain an idea but also the

there is a price to pay for that.

ability to action an idea. So entertain the ideas in your

Why is setting goals

then develop the ability to

Some people love setting

action the ideas. By actioning

goals and they are really

your ideas you are going to

successful at it and other people who don’t

up in your life. There are so many people

perform and achieve so much more. Actioning

set goals say they don’t believe in them. I set

who are a testament to that. Some people

ideas is overcoming procrastination, getting

goals. I set goals to this day. I have monthly

are better at manifesting than others and the

yourself into state and following through. The

goals. I have yearly targets and I make sure I

difference is that some people put their focus

short cut to all this is find a role model! And

write them down. Some people go ‘oh I have

on what they don’t want or on their fears so

you don’t have to meet them in person! Google.

my goals in my head’, well that’s just b.s. What

they manifest more of that. If you put your

Anyone can Google. If you want to start a

people don’t understand is that we are not

focus on what you do want you will manifest

business go and Google it because someone has

physical beings we are spiritual beings having

more of that. So its important what you focus

probably already done it and has a website...

a human experience, we are on the physical

on and what intention you put out there. If

model it! What ever you want to do has been

plane. So the idea of writing goals and putting

you are afraid bad things will happen to you

done before so modeling is the shortcut to

things down on paper is incredibly powerful. It

you will draw those things into your life. I am

success and it is very important to entertain a

is taking something from the spirit world and

glad that we don’t manifest everything we want

new idea and take action with it! LR

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mind, be open minded and

so important?

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MOTIVATION Unconventional Ways of Thinking!

When it comes to motivating and pushing yourself, it’s usually filled with cliché advice. “Don’t give up”, “Get over it” or “Always look on the bright side of life”. These are a few examples. While they’re all correct at the root, conventional thinking like this just doesn’t cut it anymore. In fact, they are so trite and used so often that the message is lost to most of us. Heck, it even pisses people off, which is the total opposite of what it’s supposed to do. We need new ways of finding motivation, and here’s 7 of them.

1. WELCOME THE PAIN

doing isn’t helping you anymore. And after you quit, you’re free to

Yep! Welcome the pain. Accept it willingly. There’s a saying, “Pain is

do whatever you want as you’re no longer trapped by whatever it is

weakness leaving the body”, which means to say, no matter how tough

which held you down.

or how much pain you’re feeling, you’re going to emerge stronger after that. So don’t be afraid when things get tough. Push yourself to accept

5. HAVE A REALLY GOOD BREAK

what is coming instead and know that you’re going to grow from it.

This kind of goes hand in hand with point (2): Look forward to feeling good. I find that a lot of people have lousy breaks. They don’t do

2. LOOK FORWARD TO FEELING GOOD

themselves the favour they deserve. E.g. Instead of recognizing that

This is my main, personal method in motivating myself. I believe that

a break time is a time to recharge, they end up being completely idle

when you work hard, the feeling you get after that is the reward. The

by doing mindless things like surfing Facebook, Twitter or watching

sense of satisfaction and accomplishment is the backbone of it all.

random YouTube videos they aren’t even interested in watching in

The fitness mantra, “Do you want to be sore, or sorry later?” works

the first place. That is dead time. It does not help you at all and before

the same way. So only aim for the feeling. Ask yourself how you want

you know it, you’re back to work.

to feel later only. Forget about how you’d feel in between.

6. FAILURE IS YOUR BEST FRIEND 3. STOP MOVING FORWARD, TAKE A STEP BACK

Or, failure is your ally. Embrace failure, for it will give you the best

Stop progressing altogether for a second. Just stop. Take a step back

and most meaningful lessons you actually need to move forward. That

instead. It may seem paradoxical, but you know what it can do for

being said, failure is not the end. When you don’t get the results you

you? You’ll be able to gain more clarity. Go back for a second, re-

want, it doesn’t mean it’s over. Instead, you’re given the opportunity

evaluate your goals and remember your why. This effectively gives

to learn and grow the fastest way possible.

you the motivation to move forward. And you’ll make better progress.

4. QUIT

Whatever it is in life, just have fun. Make that your sole aim. Don’t

Or better yet, quit. Give up altogether on what you’re doing. This

take life so seriously. Laugh at your mistakes. Never sweat the small

requires some reflection and evaluation though. Sometimes quitting

stuff. Just have fun, and be thankful for what you have, and that

is the best thing you can do. You just have to realize that what you’re

everything is going to be okay anyway.

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CRAIG SCARR - Culture Profile -

Tell us a bit about yourself? As a photographer I focus on delivering creative imagery to commercial businesses, fashion wholesalers and high-end wedding clients. Quite often I need to draw upon my former experience as a Marketing Manager. When I left school I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exactly know what I wanted to do, so I went and studied business. I did a marketing degree and after several years of working in Brisbane as a marketer, I decided to head overseas. I went to London for a couple of years, where I worked in financial services and its while I was there that I started taking photography seriously. I always had a passion for photography and some of the companies I was working for were getting me to do their photography for them and also I was getting into a lot of travel photography on weekends and during vacations. Obviously being in London enabled me to fly around Europe and do plenty of travel photography and submit images to magazines. After extensive travel I came back to Australia but eventually decided to try my luck in Dubai. This is where I started full time photography. I was very fortunate to land a salaried job as a photographer and picture editor with the Arab Media Group (The largest Media Company in The Middle East). It was a case of being in the right place at the right time and knowing the right people! At the Arab Media Group I started shooting press photography and also worked for a travel magazine on the side. So I worked in Dubai for several years doing business portraiture, news stories, feature stories, disasters, and the occasional jobs for Getty Images as well as Destinations of the World News travel features. Then I came

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back to Australia and decided to start up my own business!

Where is home?

Did you go to school to study photography?

trip to Kenya, simply because it was such an

For now it’s Brisbane but having done so much

I did several courses when I was an amateur

amazing trip. I was only there for four days

travel, I’ve been to over 65 Countries around

in my early 20’s, I booked into those one-

but I managed to get some pretty good shots

the world, its hard to sit still these days and be

day crash courses, went to lots of different

out of it.

content in one place. Having a business limits

meetings and photography groups and things

travel as you have clients that rely on you so

like that. I was always trying to learn new

What is your greatest love?

its not so easy to just travel around anymore.

things. But basically I am self taught apart

Outside of photography I spend a lot of time

So for now home is Brisbane, but if there was

from the couple of courses, but no formal

surfing so I guess it would be the ocean. I love

an amazing opportunity I wouldn’t say no to

courses in photography. When I worked for

being near the sea, swimming, surfing, fishing,

living somewhere else in the world!

the media company and the newspapers in

being on boats and all of those sorts of things.

Dubai, it was basically like being thrown in

If you could live anywhere on this

the deep end because you get told you have to

amazing planet where would it be?

go out and get this picture for the front page. It

have had so far?

If I had a choice, I don’t think I would

was a very stressful time in the first few weeks,

The Kenyan trip because I had never been to

live in any one place. The ideal thing is to

I had to try and run out and really learn how

see the animals in Africa. The journalist &

be able to travel around and see the rest of

to use my camera’s properly because I went

I stayed in a 5 star safari resort and we were

the world, places I haven’t been to like the

from a reasonable semi-pro SLR camera to

escorted by two Masai Warriors who took us

Galapagos Islands, other parts of South

a full blown professional camera with a lot

everywhere we needed to go and spotted all

America, Patagonia and all those kinds of

more features. So I had to learn very quickly

the animals for us. At the end of the day it was

places. I haven’t been to Russia, China and

how to use it, get the right angles and use

customary to wind down with an amazing

even Western France I haven’t seen properly.

different lenses I had never used before! There

meal, a cigar and some SA vino…It was just

There are so many places that I haven’t been

was never an option not to get the shot as I

an amazing trip!

to and so at some point I want to travel a lot

had just been hired and they were depending

more. I guess that means there is not one place

on me to get those shots so it was a steep

Something that is overrated?

I want to live but more to have the ability to

learning curve!

I think the whole movement to digital communication and social media is overrated.

see more of the places I haven’t seen yet! Short Answer: Bali, so I can surf all day!

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What is your absolute favourite image

It has its place, but I worry it is replacing face

you have shot?

to face communication too much. Its hard

Hopefully the next one I’m about to take!

to call someone now and talk to them, we

It all started in my teens when I got, I think it

Haha…thats hard... I don’t necessarily have

have to text or Facebook. If it gets too much

was a Kodak Brownie 2 or something like that

one favourite but I do really like the image

worse I’ll move to a remote island and start

and I started taking pictures. It was basically

I took of the fireworks factory explosion

again haha! Now where did I put that old

a point and shoot camera but back in those

disaster in Dubai, I have it blown up on my

film camera?

days they were film and the developing places

wall. It was one of the best photos I took for

used to put stickers on the photos to tell you

the paper, it was a huge event, it shut down the

What attitude do you take towards life?

if it was a good photo and I used to enjoy the

whole city for several days. I wasn’t assigned

I like to remain positive about everything. I

feedback and so took photo’s whenever I had

to be working that day but the paper did try

like to try new things out and keep plugging

some spare film. Then in my early 20’s my

to call everyone to come in and take photos.

away at the goals that I really want to achieve. I

sister in law lent me her film camera which was

Instead of rushing to take photos of the fire

believe in persistence and working towards the

a semi-pro camera and I would take it out on

I thought It would be better to do something

things you really want. If you put effort into

trips to Fraser & Moreton Island, Carnarvon

different so I scaled to the top of a skyscraper

them every day and make slight improvements,

Gorge, camping trips and places like that. I

and then went even further up into no access

after a certain amount of time you are going to

started to learn how to use the camera properly

areas and climbed up to the top of the tower so

get somewhere. Success breeds success right!

then, using the manual settings and flash. It

I could get as broader perspective as possible.

was around about the cusp of when digital was

I did get into a lot of trouble for not going

And lastly, your future vision for yourself?

coming in and people were making the full

straight to the scene but when I got back

Ultimately I want to be shooting for bigger

transition so that inspired me to buy a digital

to the office and they saw the pictures and

brands and working internationally. I am only

SLR camera and that was the start of it all.

immediately said that it would go front page

working in Australia so my vision for the future

I bought that camera just before I moved to

I was very relieved! So it is probably one of

is to have international clients. Traveling and

London so I took it with me and developed

my favourites because of the whole story

doing location photo shoots and the occasional

my skills from there.

behind it. There’s also the images from my

mixing in of fashion with travel.

How long have you been a photographer ?

What is your favourite assignment you

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similar to the Kenya trip, taking photos of the wild life down there. I love taking people shots and portraiture but in my spare time I quite like taking nature shots. I don’t have an ambition to be a wild life photographer, but when you are relaxed and go away and get to take interesting shots like that its just good fun.

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MERCHANT Fred Waitzkin is an American journalist and author of the acclaimed nonfiction bestseller ‘Searching for Bobby Fischer’, as well as the books ‘Mortal Games’ and ‘The Last Marlin’. He talks to us about his debut novel - The Dream Merchant.

You are best known for your bestselling memoirs 'Searching for

Bobby Fischer' and 'The Last Marlin'. 'The Dream Merchant' is your first foray in fiction. What inspired the novel and how was the writing process different?

I always wanted to write a novel. It’s just that it took me a long time to get to it. And then it took much much longer to finish than I expected, about ten years. I kept discovering new levels to the story, and every change meant fifty more changes. The novel is a deeper and more mysterious construction, I suppose, than a memoir but I’m not certain about this. For me, the best of non-fiction isn’t so different from fiction. As a journalist, the stories that appealed to me most were like short fictions - a small twist here and there and they might have been short stories. Many people have told me that my memoir, The Last Marlin, reads like a novel. The inspiration for The Dream Merchant came from many people, dreams, secret urges and places that I love. But significantly it came from my father who was a great lighting fixture salesman, along with a half dozen other exceptional salesmen I have known over the years. In truth, Abe Waitzkin was the Beethoven of fluorescents. During his heyday in the fifties, he sold more commercial lighting than the next best fifty salesmen in New York City combined. Like Jim in the novel, my father did some terrible things - he ruined men who got in his way - but it did not hamper my love for him. I book. That was a key component between Jim and the narrator, insofar as the narrator loves Jim despite his profligacy and shocking moral drift. By the same token, Jim idolizes his own father who has a considerable history of sins.

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knew that I wanted to explore this kind of heedless father adoration in my

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Here is an interesting story about inspiration.

was nine months old we took Jack to the beach

well. Similarly, in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness,

More than twenty-five years ago, when I was

and turned him loose on the sand. Immediately

Marlow’s intoxication for Kurtz persists despite

writing feature magazine pieces, I happened

and without hesitation, the Captain crawled

the most grotesque revelations.

to read a short article in Time Magazine about

into the ocean. Josh brought him back and

illegal gold mining in the jungles of Brazil.

the baby crawled right in again. The Captain

Here is a true story that addresses the big

The piece described secluded enclaves deep

was ecstatic. He seemed to yearn for the deep

reach of certain friendships. By the way,

within the rain forest called garimpos where

water beyond the breakers. Each time we tried

in The Dream Merchant there is a similar

men slaved in deep muddy pits trying to

to deflect his direction, he steered right back to

moment of revelation and male bonding:

collect gold to feed their impoverish families

the sea like a new born turtle.

living in the cities. Their employers hideously

I was sitting in a restaurant with an old friend. I’ll

exploited these scrawny little men, lured them

Clearly, my father got deeply into me. Abe was

call him Max. Max and I had been talking about

into the camps by offering beautiful women

charming, driven, ruthless and sickly, often

life, women. Max was a great lover of women

and the promise of wealth. The workers were

going into the hospital or coming out a hero

and I always looked forward to his stories, even

sometimes murdered by marauders or they died

after surviving another grim operation. He

if I’d heard them before. They always left me in

of disease or animal attacks. Many never made

would do anything to close a deal, like my

a good mood. On this occasion, we’d had a far

it home. This whole jungle scene was so exotic,

central character Jim in The Dream Merchant.

ranging lively talk. I think we were both feeling

violent, sensual and unlikely that I felt I had to

“I’ll bury him,” Dad would frequently say

high from connecting about things. Usually,

write about it. I signed a contract to do a long

about one of his competitors. This was no idle

after these talks we’ll look at one another, and

piece for Harper’s magazine and was preparing

threat. Abe ruined men who crossed him over

without a word, just get up from the table and

to leave for Brazil when I received a contract

lighting deals, put them out of business. But

walk out. But instead, Max started telling

from Random House to write Searching for

so what? In his time, he lit most of the new

me something else, hesitated a little and then

Bobby Fischer. I abandoned the Brazil trip to

office buildings in Manhattan. He made the city

plunged into it. This would be a different kind

write about Josh and the chess world, which

skyline glow, which moved the hell out of me as

of story-- Max was speaking insistently but

greatly irritated the editors at Harpers - they didn’t return my calls after this. Anyhow, the scene in Brazil haunted me for years and once I began my

in a quieter voice. I leaned in close.

I punched him in the face. We started to wrestle. All I could think of was my father.

novel I decided that my character

“the rough side of town,” as he put it, a slightly older boy with a bad

a kid. I worshipped the ground he walked on.

complexion and a bragging bullying manner.

in the Brazilian rain forest.

He took me to fancy steak restaurants where

Max was a quiet timid youngster. He didn’t

we never had to wait for a table. Tammany

like the other boy particularly but still he felt

Hall politicians waved from across the room

privileged to be in the company of this fellow

and he grinned back at them - he had them

who was feared by other kids. One day the boys

in his pocket. Abe Waitzkin was on top and

were walking together near a small woods and

I was his son. I still can’t get free of him, not

the older one pointed to a house that was under

father, who was a successful salesman and

that I want to. He always gets into my books.

construction. He led my friend inside and began

as well as the nature of competition. Why

Tell us about your narrator Buddy

subjects you covered in your memoirs that

parallel your own life: the complex father/ son relationship as it relates to your avid fisherman like your protagonist Jim, do these themes still resonate with you? That is a tough question. We plant seeds in our children. It was Abe who hooked me on fishing. I took my kids fishing when they were toddlers. Josh crossed the Gulf Stream in a nineteen-

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was friendly with a kid who lived on

would ultimately save himself or perhaps perish

In your novel you continue to explore

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When he was a thirteen-year old Max

to vandalize the place, cut open bags of cement,

who evokes The Great Gatsby’s Nick Carraway in that he is at once in awe of his successful and audacious new friend, yet equally repulsed by his corrupt

character. What does their relationship

broke windows with bricks. He acted like this is what real guys do. “Common, why don’t you

help me,” he urged Max who began to throw things around but with less than convincing enthusiasm. The older boy was annoyed.

“What’s wrong with you, anyhow?” he

foot outboard at eight months. Now I have a

say about the nature of male friendships?

asked, because Max just couldn’t get into the

grandson, Jack Waitzkin. From birth my son

A great friendship has no limits. It’s wide open

spirit of their fun. The older one broke open

began to call him Captain Jack. Josh painted his

like the sky or open water. You can take it

a couple more bags of cement, to underline

son’s room blue and decorated it with fish. Josh

anywhere, ride it. Such a friendship can absolve

his displeasure, and then he pulled down his

and I told him about marlin, tuna and sharks

terrible sins. Of course the narrator in The

pants and he pissed and shit on the floor. He

and the pleasures of going to sea. We took him

Dream Merchant is horrified by discoveries

took his defecations in his hand and smeared

deep sea fishing when he was three months old

he makes about his closest friend, Jim, but

them on the new walls of the house. Then

and invited him to touch a red snapper, which

their friendship is pushed by a bigger wind.

he ordered Max to do the same. Max was

he did with considerable enthusiasm. When he

There is something of that in Nick Carraway as

ashamed but he was cornered and did as he

was told. While they were house wrecking,

year old friend leaned in even closer and told

But weeks passed and the police never came

Max was thinking of his dad who was a retired

me the rest in a coarse whisper. “I went into

to their house. The older boy had fallen and hit

army officer and commanding figure. “My

blackness,” he said. “I punched him in the face. We started to wrestle. All I could think of was my father. What he would say to me about shitting the house. The disgrace.”

his head. It was an accident. That’s what they

The boys fell onto the ground and the older

thought about this incident occasionally but

didn’t know how to be bold. He couldn’t help

one must have hit his head. Max was on top

didn’t obsess about killing a boy sixty years

it - his eyes drifted to the side whenever his dad

and the older boy’s head was beside a shallow

earlier. There was no guilt that I could see. He’d

offered his pithy advice. Max worried that in

stream. There was no hesitation, my friend

never told anyone about it before now. Max and

his father’s eyes he didn’t measure up. He was a

reflected sixty years later. Max, twisted boy’s

I had a long history of sharing true stories and

failure. Understandably, my friend was greatly

head into the muddy water and held it under

he’d given this one to me as a rare gift - that was

dad was always urging me to be bold,” Max said to me. “I want you to make something of yourself, Max…Or he said, Common, Max, shake hands like a man.” But Max

said at school. My friend Max lived a lengthy, complicated, passionate life. He was a great lover of women. He became an old man. He

worried what his father would

my impression. Without saying

think if he ever learned about

the words, we both understood

his boy’s filthy endeavor. Later

that I would never write about

that evening the police came to

it while my friend was alive,

their house and Max’s father

and I didn’t. I walked out of

opened the door. Max listened

the restaurant shivering a little.

from the living room and

Did it change our friendship?

heard that some neighborhood

Not much. Perhaps it made us

boys had vandalized a home

a little closer.

in the woods, smeared shit on

Part of your novel takes

the floors and walls. While

place in the Brazilian jungle

they talked Max felt his life

when Jim flees his country

closing down. It was hard for

in disgrace and stakes his

him to breath. Max’s father

fortunes in the gold mines

assured the police that no one

of Brazil.

here knew anything about the

You actually

traveled to this part of South

incident and the men quickly

America with your son Josh

left. Young Max was bracing

as part of your research. Tell

for punishment and towering

us what interesting things

humiliation, but his father never

you learned from this trip

even brought the subject up. My

and why these scenes are an

father just could not imagine his

integral part of your novel?

retiring reticent son doing such a

I wanted the novel to shift gears.

bold and ugly thing. But eleven-

For me this was the home run

year-old Max felt confusion and

idea - to take an American

sadness along with relief—that

saga and suddenly turn it on

is how my friend recalled his complicated

until the older boy was no longer breathing. “It

its side, tell the story from an entirely different,

response to this close call. The boys didn’t see

was easy,” he told me. “I felt good. Really, I felt elated.” Now my friend was smiling. At

even shocking perspective. Paul Bowles does

each other for more than a month. Then they met again, and then a few more times. For

the memory? At my shock? Because I couldn’t

when he kills off his central character two

Max being around the swaggering bully was

stop shaking my head? Or was it the relief he

thirds through - and then the novel takes off. I

disgusting but also it was a temptation that

must have felt after finally telling someone this

knew that to write about Jim as a kind of slave

my friend found irresistible. “Meeting him

astonishing secret? Then young Max walked

master in the Amazon, to pull it off, I needed

was like giving sway to a perversion,” the

home expecting the police to show up at their

to understand the environment perfectly or

older Max reflected. One day the two boys were

house. He didn’t care about the other boy or

the novel would fall on its face. So I flew to

walking at the edge of the same woods and the

the police or what might happen to him. He

Manaus with my son Josh (Josh is always up

older one pointed to the same house through

thought about his father who considered him

for adventure, and besides, he sees one of his

the trees. It was still unoccupied. “Let’s do it

a weakling and a loser. Max wondered if the

roles in life as protecting his dad whenever I

again,” he said with a sneer. Now my seventy-

killing might change his father’s impression.

travel toward danger). We explored the city,

something like this in The Sheltering Sky

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visited fancy steak restaurants where Jim would

a much younger woman, George Soros, Rupert

or fifteen couples. Most were married and a

eat, the brothels where he hired gorgeous sad-

Murdoch, Tony Bennett, Justice William O.

few were dating. The girls were all young, in

eyed young girls. We went to gun shops and

Douglas, to name a few. Probably most seniors

their twenties, maybe the oldest was thirty-

poor shacks on the riverbanks where Jim hired

share the fantasy but don’t act on it for a variety

five. They were all attractive. The men were

his little army of gunmen. Then Josh and I

of reasons - most of them wholesome and

old, between sixty and eighty. I spent some

travelled to a remote area of the jungle. We

obvious. But Jim isn’t one to be impeded by

hours with this group, mostly talking to the

hiked for many miles in the rain forest. At first

social taboos. He makes his own rules and he

girls. I expected to learn a lot about the art of

we tore ourselves up on branches, vines and

understands what makes him come alive, his

gold digging. But I came away with a different

brambles. But after a week of tough walking

“hot buttons,” as he might say. During the

impression. Maybe the women went into

we’d learned to push the forest gently aside - a

course of an unusual life Jim has a need to shed

these relationships enticed by money and

little like swimming through the vegetation.

his skin and start from scratch several times. For

offering a kind of “deal” as Jim would say,

We explored distant villages, tiny rivers and

Jim, younger women have a catalytic effect; they

but something apparently happened along the

abandoned gold mines. We met garimpeiros

are a part of his transformations.

way. Clearly, these girls loved being adored

and learned how they prospected for gold. We

and lavished. Some of them had fallen in love.

spent some nights in hammocks slung between

But living with Mara - the last of his young

It was obvious. As for the men I observed,

Acai trees. One night it was impossible to sleep

lovers - Jim is stricken with love, with desiring

they were charmed, enlivened; maybe even

with the humidity, heat and the growl of hunting

her day and night - it is an old man’s fever.

for a time redeemed.

jaguars that seemed to be closing in on us. Our

He constantly worries that she will leave him

two guides told us not to worry. They were

for a younger guy. He is convinced that her

keeping vigil with their old rifles, but still we

youth and beauty and their sex have become

brought pointy sticks in our hammocks so we’d

his fountain of youth. More, Jim believes that

have a fighting chance if the cats jumped us -

the girl keeps him alive like food. Maybe this

some fighting chance. In the morning our guides

is true. And you are right. For Mara, love and

wanted to show us how accurate they were with

manipulation and power are very tangled. She

to write novels?

their rifles. They pointed the guns to the trees

is Jim’s match in this respect. But in the process

Really, too many to list, but here are some of

but their trusted weapons wouldn’t shoot - they

of their unlikely life together Mara finds herself

my favorites. Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Tolstoy,

were rusted and jammed! The Amazon was

increasingly turned on by the old man. In fact

Dostoyevsky, Camus, Paul Bowles, Marquez,

exciting and a little frightening. We met some

their fifty-year age difference and his profligate

John le Carre’, Simenon, Kerouac, Oscar

very great people.

history of success and money, and even his

Hijuelos, Roth, Jennifer Egan. These days I

proximity to death create an urgency that is

find myself re-reading books from my youth

erotically charged. When finally she indicates

and making surprising discoveries. Part of it

to him that their days together are limited, he

is that we forget books, or at least I do, but

will do anything to keep her, anything. I knew

another is that as we grow up we see them so

early on that Jim and Mara would be something

differently. It is such a pleasure to read the great

like this but I needed to research the dynamic

ones again and to still have so many more to

all his life. What is the message you hope

of spring-winter relationships.

read. Last summer, I made the mistake of re-

why did you decide to explore the taboo

I spoke to many younger women about how

one of the Larsen thrillers. I started shooting

they would feel about loving an older man -

through Hemingway at more or less the pace

man and a woman less than half his age?

scores of women, friends of my kids, women

that I’d read the thriller and found after fifty

I don’t ever think about leaving a reader with an

who worked in my office building or who

pages that I didn’t like it at all. What had

explicit message. As I see it, Jim’s need for young

worked in a sandwich shop I frequent. I got

happened to that great book? Then I smacked

lovers is neither righteous nor reprehensible,

some nasty looks along the way but many girls

myself in the face a few times, began again

although it is an aspect of sexuality that is often

were interested and willing to talk. About half

from the first page reading slowly like a poem

discussed with a snicker. It doesn’t often make it

of them had either had such a relationship or

and very quickly fell in love with it again….I’d

into good writing. Marquez looks at it in Love

were open to the possibility. The other half

like to write a short novel, something I could

in the Time of Cholera and less explicitly, and

wouldn’t think of it and some were repelled

finish in a year or two. I got this idea after

less successfully, I think, in Memories of my

by the idea of a lover twice their age.

reading Simenon’s short masterpiece, The

from when he was a young boy, the

readers see him as an old man involved

with a much younger woman, who seems

to be using him just as he did with people to convey at the close of your novel and subject of love and sexuality between a

reminiscent of works by Hemingway, Marquez, Roth, and Hiaasen. Who are

some of your favorite writers that have

inspired your work? Will you continue

reading The Sun Also Rises right after reading

Melancholy Whores.

Train. I don’t know what my novel will be A friend of mine introduced me to an unusual

about but I have the idea that if I spend time

Many wealthy powerful old men indulge the

group of couples who gathered for parties

by myself on a very remote island, the book

fantasy of marrying or becoming involved with

in a fancy condo in Miami. Maybe twelve

will come to me. That is my plan. CE

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While your novel tells Jim’s whole story

In addition to Fitzgerald, your novel is

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n artistic movement whose influence on film has been as profound and enduring as that of surrealism or cubism on painting, the French New Wave (or Le Nouvelle Vague) made its first splashes as a movement shot through youthful exuberance and a brisk reinvigoration

of the filmmaking process. Most agree that the French New Wave was at its peak between 1958 and 1964, but it continued to ripple on afterwards, with many of the tendencies and styles introduced by the movement still in practice today. Immediately after World War II, France, like most of the rest of Europe, was in a major state of flux and upheaval; in film, it was a period of great transition. During the German Occupation (1940-45), many of France’s greatest directors (René Clair, Jean Renoir, Jacques Feyder among them) had gone into exile. A new generation of filmmakers emerged - but wait! This isn’t the New Wave, relax, we’re not there yet - and chief among these was René Clément, who had co-directed the classic surrealist fairy tale Beauty and the Beast with playwright Jean Cocteau, and then in the 1950s, furthered his reputation with Forbidden Games. After the traumatic

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In the 50s, a collective of intellectual French

from artistic tenets but from necessity and

on location and used the money raised

film critics, led by André Bazin and Jacques

circumstance. These critics-turned-filmmakers

from its release to make Les cousins; with

Donial-Valcroze, formed the groundbreaking

knew a great deal about film history and

its depiction of two student cousins, one

journal of film criticism Cahiers du Cinema.

theory but a lot less about film production.

good, one bad, it’s the first Chabrol film to

They, in turn, had been influenced by the

In addition, they were, especially at the start,

contain his uniquely sardonic view of the

writings of French film critic Alexandre

working on low budgets. Thus, they often

world. Les cousins is particularly interesting

Astruc, who had argued for breaking away

improvised with what schedules and materials

when looking at the typical qualities of

from the “tyranny of narrative” in favour of

they could afford. Out of all this came a

early French New Wave works, because of

a new form of film (and sound) language. The

group of conventions that were consistently

its long, memorable party sequence which

Cahiers critics gathered by Bazin and Doniol-

used in the majority of French New Wave

climaxes in a very cruel joke.

Valcroze were all young cinephiles who had

films (similar to, but less encapsulated than,

grown up in the post-war years watching

Denmark’s Dogme 95 'manifesto'), including:

But it was in 1959 that the wave really broke:

mostly great American films that had not been

»» Jump cuts: a non-naturalistic edit, usually a

that year featured three seminal films, and

available in France during the Occupation.

section of a continuous shot that is removed

with them, three major filmmakers would

unexpectedly, illogically

emerge. In 1959, a Cahiers critic so acerbic

Cahiers had two guiding principles:

»» Shooting on location

he’d been banned the year before from the

1) A rejection of classical montage-style

»» Natural lighting

Cannes Film Festival, returned as a director,

filmmaking (favored by studios up to that

»» Improvised dialogue and plotting

bringing with him a film that would stun

time) in favor of: mise-en-scene, or, literally,

»» Direct sound recording

the world. That film, François Truffaut’s

“placing in the scene” (favoring the reality of

»» Long takes

first feature, was Les quatre cents coups,

what is filmed over manipulation via editing), the long take, and deep composition; and 2) A conviction that the best films are a personal artistic

or The 400 Blows.

New Wave seemed to have an interest in deconstructing (gangster, romance, musical) while ultimately ending up in tragedy-land.

expression and should bear a

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semi-autobiographical films Truffaut would make with actor Jean-Pierre Léaud

stamp of personal authorship, much as great

Many of these conventions are commonplace

(who bore a fairly close resemblance to

works of literature bear the stamp of the

today, but back in the late 1950s and early

the director) playing Antoine Doinel. The

writer. This latter tenet would be dubbed

1960s, this was all very groundbreaking. Jump

400 Blows was a stunningly unsentimental

by American film critic Andrew Sarris the

cuts were used as much to cover mistakes as

(especially compared to Truffaut’s last

“auteur (author) theory.”

they were an artistic convention. Jean-Luc

few films) but poetic account of a teenage

Godard certainly appreciated the dislocating

delinquent who runs away from home rather

This philosophy, not surprisingly, led to

feel a jump cut conveyed, but let’s remember

than deal with his uncaring parents and

the rejection of more traditional French

- here was a film critic-turned-first-time

teacher, only to find life on the streets a rough

commercial cinema (Clair, Clement, Henri-

director who was also using inexperienced

challenge. The film masterfully tells the story

Georges Clouzout, Marc Allegret, among

actors and crew, and shooting, at least at first,

from Doinel’s point of view, but doesn’t flinch

others), and instead embraced directors -

on a shoestring budget. Therefore, as Nixon

away from the raw emotions of the situations,

both French and American - whose personal

once said, mistakes were made. Today when

and has surely been an influence on films as

signature could be read in their films. The

jump cuts are used they even feel more like a

distinct as Raising Victor Vargas and Trans.

French directors the Cahiers critics endorsed

pretentious artifice.

The final shot is one of the most unforgettable

included Jean Vigo, Renoir, Robert Bresson

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It would be the first of many

in all of modern cinema. Truffaut’s next

and Marcel Ophüls; while the Americans

Many will argue (and rather pointlessly when

two films in the Doinel saga would be the

on their list of favorites included John Ford,

it comes down to it) which film was the first

short featurette Antoine et Collette and the

Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang,

of the French New Wave; officially, the first

charming Stolen Kisses, which is a fairly

Nicholas Ray and Orson Welles, undisputed

work out of this group wasn’t a feature at all,

episodic but beautifully observed romantic

masters, all. There were also a few surprising,

but rather, short films produced in 1956 and

comedy; in that film, Truffaut depicts Paris in

even head-scratching favorites, including Jerry

57, including Jacques Rivette’s Le coup du

the way that Woody Allen does New York, as

Lewis (thus beginning the stereotype about

berger (Fool’s Mate) and François Truffaut’s

a beautiful and whimsical place. Interesting,

France’s Lewis obsession) and Roger Corman.

Les Mistons (The Mischief Makers). Some

too, how Stolen Kisses was released in

point to Claude Chabrol’s Le beau Serge

1968, the same year that the student protest

Many of the French New Wave’s favourite

(1958) as the first feature success of the

movements were rocking France and the

conventions actually sprang not only

New Wave. He shot the low budget film

world, while the film remains deceptively

serene. The anxiety seems to lie just beneath

Godard was the most prolific of all the

sense of joie de vivre not seen in some of

the surface.

major figures of this movement; he produced

Godard’s other films.

Truffaut’s follow-up film, Shoot the Piano

amazingly, many of them still hold up

In fitting with the upheavals of the era,

Player, was a box-office dud upon initial release

today. In Le Petit Soldat and Pierrot le Fou

Godard became more overtly politicized

but was given a critical reappraisal soon after.

in particular, Godard gave us his prototypical

in the late 60s and formed a film collective

An offbeat crime film that was quiet, romantic,

male characters, men who were full of self-

called the Dziga Vertov Group (named after

personal and audacious, people weren’t sure

doubt; the politics in the former seem a little

the great Russian filmmaker). His films then

what to make of it at the time, but its cinematic

more naive than what you’d find in Godard’s

started to become increasingly inaccessible

literacy and cheekiness would inspire future

later, more overtly politicized work, while the

(not that he was ever striving for mainstream

filmmakers (the pulp fiction origins of the story

latter is essentially a mishmosh of every genre

success, mind you). In that period, he

and the inept crooks surely

produced a number of

must have inspired Tarantino,

shorts outlining his politics,

among others). The Ray

traveled extensively and shot

Bradbury adaption Fahrenheit

a number of films, most of

451 was another underrated

which remained unfinished

film, likely because at the time

or were refused showings.

many people were treating it

Godard the experimenting

more like straight science

Marxist will still occasionally

fiction than as a parable, a

turn out interesting works,

world not too different than

but they give the appearance

our own. It’s a surprisingly

of someone who seems to

moving, rich film that

have gone off the deep end

deserves a fresh look. Much

or lost touch with reality

of Truffaut’s later work seemed

as most of us know it in

to fall into more sentimental

his attempts to show his

or maudlin territory, but there

own. But this is Godard -

are the occasional gems - Day

simultaneously exasperating

for Night, his playful ode to

and brilliant, self-important

filmmaking, chief among them.

and important. “I’ve always

Far more politically engaged

chosen to do what others aren’t doing,” he said in

than Truffaut was Jean-Luc

a 2001 interview with the

Godard; in fact, the two

BBC. “No one does that, so

were known to have been

whatever his inconsistencies,

it remains to be done, let’s try it. If it’s already being done, there’s no point in me doing it as well.” And so it goes.

is the one who might

And on goes his legacy, too.

mutually disaffected with each other. Arguably, Godard, for

ultimately have been the most influential

the New Wave seemed to have an interest in

and remembered. His Breathless (A bout

deconstructing (gangster, romance, musical)

The last of the three seminal initial films of

de souffle), which was remade weakly in

while ultimately ending up in tragedy-land.

the French New Wave released in 1959 is

America in 1983, is still probably the most

My favorite Godard film is A Band of

Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima, Mon Amour,

often cited film when the topic shifts to the

Outsiders (A band aparte) which has an innate

probably the most inventive of all early New

French New Wave, and for good reason: it’s

sense of playfulness at work as Godard very

Wave works in terms of structure. Resnais’s

a kinetic joy, full of jump cuts, lavish Paris

loosely adapts a book noir and (his wife at the

remarkable film unfurls not unlike a poem,

location shooting, with cool jazz on the

time) Anna Karina at her most lovely (and

an elliptical tracing of memory lost and

soundtrack, a noirish mood, and a lovely,

naive). It features a memorable pantomime

time regained, the chronology of which

literate romance, all adding up to one for

dance with Karina, Claude Brasseur and Sami

makes Memento look straightforward.

the ages. Interestingly, the film is based on a

Frey (who played, in Godard’s own words,

What separates this work from most of the

story by Truffaut, the only time the two would

“the little suburban cousins of [Jean-Paul] Belmondo” in Breathless), and an overall

other French New Wave classics is its strong

come close to collaborating on anything.

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whereas many of the other films relied at

Owing a large debt of inspiration to American

with Night and Fog (1955), the disturbing,

least in part on improvisation and less on a

gangster films of the 30s and 40s, the French

brilliant meditation on the horrors of the

collaborative process with a separate writer.

wave of crime melodramas were unique

Nazi concentration camps. The influence of

Resnais is actually a generation older than

hybrids of American-style loner-ism and

documentary style becomes obvious when

the Cahiers kids and, if he was “traditional”

French ennui. It is Jean-Pierre Melville who,

watching some of Resnais’s feature film work.

in any way, it was that he was more inclined

while not generally considered a part of this

to work from an original script than other

movement, was undoubtedly influential

It’s hard to think of the French New

members of the New Wave. But he was also

upon its players. His Bob le Flambeur (Bob

Wave without also thinking of some of

equally interested in Henri Bergson and the

the Gambler) was a favorite of two young

the memorable faces that have lit up the

avant-garde and first found acclaim at the

filmgoers named Truffaut and Godard; it

screen: Jean-Paul Belmondo’s sad-eyed

height of the New Wave. His Last Year at

was a hip rendering of the previously tired-

face, the eyes that eventually shut, in

Marienbad is a complete puzzle (written by

out gangster genre which employed location

Breathless; Jean Seberg, in the same film,

Alain Robbe-Grillet), also scrambling the

shooting to give it an immediacy.

forever entrenched in our memories with her beret and newspapers; French cinema

way time unfolds, rendering past, present and future basically meaningless. It’s unsettling,

And we shouldn’t overlook Jules Dassin’s

institution Charles Aznavour, in Shoot the

to say the least, and either one of the most

Rififi, which, like Bob le Flambeur, is

Piano Player (and later, serenading our lover

important films of the period, or pretentious

probably more a New Wave influence than

protagonists in Jonathan Demme’s erratic

nonsense, depending on your mood. I vote

an actual product of the movement. With

ode to the French New Wave, The Truth

for both.

the look of a Hollywood film noir but far

About Charlie); Brigitte Bardot (va-va-voom) in Godard’s filmmaking fable

included in this male-dominated group is Agnés Varda, whose husband, Jacques Demy was also a renowned film director

The filmmakers of the French New Wave are unique and distinctive enough to stand out on their own but they collectively comprised one of the most influential movements in cinema history.

Contempt; Jean-Pierre Léaud, growing up and sowing his oats right before our eyes; Anna Karina, smart and feisty yet darkly seductive and, dare I say it, quintessentially French.

in his own right. Varda’s most important contribution to the movement is

more existential than anything you’d find

generally considered to be her second film,

coming out of the US, Rififi influenced a

The filmmakers of the French New Wave

Cleo from Five to Seven (although those who

host of botched crime caper movies in the

are unique and distinctive enough to stand

have seen her first, La Pointe-Courte, from

decades that would follow.

out on their own but they collectively comprised one of the most influential

1955, have raved about it and consider it to be a crucial early work in the New Wave). Cleo

Godard’s Breathless was dedicated to

movements in cinema history. Some of

took place in real time, tracking the course

Monogram Pictures, an American b-movie

the films have aged better than others but

of two hours (actually 90 minutes) in a day

studio that turned out a slew of fine little

many remain firmly entrenched in our

in the life of a pop singer who is waiting to

movies on a tight schedule and a low budget,

memory banks. Even though they weren’t

find out whether or not she has cancer. She

and Breathless seemed to be both inspired

aiming at mainstream success, many of

wanders the streets, meets a soldier, finds

by and a parody of that studio’s gangster

these films became popular and critically

renewed reason for hope.

pictures. Truffaut’s own foray into this arena,

acclaimed worldwide, the subject of much

Shoot the Piano Player, could just as easily

debate, and, ultimately, the inspiration to

have used the same dedication.

filmmakers everywhere. The five filmmakers

The film still holds up today, with a grace

who came from the Cahiers du cinema

to its photography and a joyful humanity in its characterizations. Varda’s follow-

I don’t want to give short shrift to all the

(Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rivette and

up works wouldn’t quite match Cleo,

important documentary work going on

Rohmer) were incredibly prolific: in the

(although her bold yet poetic Vagabond is

in France during this time period, the

years between 1959 and 1966, the peak

worth checking out, mostly for Sandrine

makers of which overlapped closely with

of the New Wave, they made 32 films.

Bonnaire’s performance) but more recent

the feature directors. In fact, quite a few of

When you throw in the other talented

forays into documentary film have proved

these filmmakers were influenced by and

auteurs intertwined with this group, you

quite interesting, most recently with The

worked in documentary. Alain Resnais made

have a broad coalition of artists who made

Gleaners and I. She also made a personal

documentary shorts for the first eleven years

some of the most groundbreaking films

documentary about her late husband’s

of his career, starting with films about artists

of the second half of the 20th century.

childhood, Jacquot de Nantes, which is a

- Van Gogh, Gaugin, Picasso (Guernica) -

Their contribution to the film art cannot

lovely, lyrical tribute.

in the late 40s and early 50s, and peaking

be underestimated.

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