This letter  should be “a must read”  by every politician and in every  school in  Australia
Why don’t the politicians take   letters like this to heart.  This is very  well  said.

A Letter  to the Editor (excellent   letter)

So many  letter writers have  explained how this land is  made up of immigrants. Maybe we  should turn to  our history books and point out to people  why  today’s Australian is not willing to accept the   new kind of immigrant any longer.

Back in  1900 when there was a rush  from all areas of  Europe to come to Australia, people had  to get  off a ship and stand in a long line in Sydney   and be documented. Some would even get down on  their  hands and knees and kiss the ground. They  made a pledge to  uphold the laws and support  their new country in good and  bad times. They  made learning English a primary rule in  their  new Australian households and some even changed   their names to blend in with their new home.  They  had waved good bye to their birth place to  give their  children a new life and did  everything in their power to  help their children  assimilate into one  culture.

Nothing  was handed to them. No  free lunches, no welfare,  no labour laws to protect them.  All they had  were the skills, craftsmanship and desire  they  had brought with them to trade for a future of   prosperity.

Most of  their children came of age  when World War II  broke out. Australians fought along side  men  whose parents had come straight over from   Germany, Italy, France, Japan, Czechoslovakia,   Russia, Sweden, Poland and so many other places.   None of these first generation Australians ever  gave  any thought about what country their  parents had come from  They were Australians  fighting Hitler, Mussolini and the  Emperor of  Japan. They were defending the Freedom as one   people. When we liberated France, no-one in  those  villages was looking for the  Ukrainian-Australian or the  German-Australian or  the Irish-Australian. The people of  France saw  only Australians.

And we  carried one flag that  represented our country.  Not one of those immigrant sons  would have  thought about picking up another country’s flag   and waving it to represent who they were. It  would  have been a disgrace to their parents who  had sacrificed  so much to be here. These  immigrants truly knew what it  meant to be an  Australian.

And here  we are in 2010 with a new  kind of immigrant who  wants the same rights and  privileges. Only they  want to achieve it by playing with a  different  set of rules, one that includes an Australian   passport and a guarantee of being faithful to  their  mother country. I’m sorry, that’s not what  being an  Australian is all about. Australians  have been very  open-hearted and open-minded  regarding immigrants, whether  they were fleeing  poverty, dictatorship, persecution, or  whatever  else makes us think of those aforementioned   immigrants who truly did ADOPT our country, and  our  flag and our morals and our customs. And  left their wars,  hatred, and divisions behind. I  believe that the  immigrants who landed in  Australia in the early 1900s  deserve better than  that for the toil, hard work and  sacrifice those  legally searching for a better life.  I  think they would be appalled that they are being   used as an example by those waving foreign  country  flags, fighting foreign battles on our  soil, making  Australians change to suit their  religions and cultures,  and wanting to change  our country’s fabric by   claiming discrimination when we do not give in  to  their demands.

Its about  time we get real and  stand up for our  forefathers rights, we are AUSTRALIANS!  Lest we  forget it!!! I am a Native of this Country &   proud of it! Join our country, join our culture,   join our beliefs, join our schools, our armies,  and  join the line in giving not just taking the  hand outs.   If you are from another  religion and don’t like  ours, then go live  yours somewhere else. If you  are not happy with our rules  and our culture, go  live yours somewhere else. If you   don’t like our   lifestyle and our opinions, go live  yours somewhere  else.  Stand up  mates, lets   tell em   straight.   Australia for Aussies,  join  us, when you are dumping your own country,  dump your trash  there with it – come here and be  one of us. We don’t need  you, you need us. Join  in or piss off.

NO MORE  POLITICAL  CORRECTNESS

NO MORE not saying  CHRISTMAS in stores  and our schools,

Seasonal  Holiday be  damned!!!

I Want MY  AUSTRALIA of birth BACK  !!!

P. S. –  Please pass this on to  everyone you  know!!!

KEEP THIS LETTER MOVING!!   Hope  this letter is read by millions of people all   across AUSTRALIA

Ever find yourself waking up one morning up full of zest and energy to pursue your life’s dreams and then realize six months later that you aren’t even one step closer to any of your goals? If you find yourself in this rut, then maybe it’s because you’ve been caught in a trap, the kind that is difficult to get out of. Where are you headed? You don’t know. Where have your dreams gone? On the back burner.

Most of us don’t know our direction in life. We live with so many dreams inside us but somehow we keep finding ourselves finding excuses to delay the pursuit of our goals. We offer up so many excuses: bills to pay, family to take care of, work to finish, etc. Too many excuses and too many delaying tactics. In the end, when we see that we haven’t accomplished much, we have no one to blame but us. We don’t want to live life this way. But then, who does?

We get off track time and again, as most people do. We get too caught up in life’s little hindrances that we forget to live in the moment, to enjoy the now! The reason for all the confusion may lie on the fact that our dreams are not as well-defined as we would want them to be. The problem here, therefore, is focus. We must have clarity of thought to know how we can accomplish what we want. We need a step-by-step plan that spells out what we have to do to get to the end. When we experience setbacks, we have to know how to deal with each of them. After all, nothing in life is perfect. There are just things that are way beyond our control, and if we live life going a step forward and then two steps back, we go further away from our dreams. The farther we go, the more impossible it will seem to get what we want.

It’s also important to acknowledge the situation we’re in. We all live in different environments and have different methods of coping with reality. The important thing is that we are in touch with the things that happen around us. Knowing how our surroundings affect us will give us clues on what to do with the inevitable limitations set on us. After that, we make a commitment to change the situation we are in and to track our growth on a regular basis.

We can sometimes fall flat on our faces and commit social faux pas along the way. If this happens, just remember it’s not the end of the world. We get up, keep moving, and come up with an even better plan. We don’t need to be super heroes to avoid traps. What we need is an interminable spirit to continue on despite mistakes. We have to be our own biggest supporter, the person who cheers the loudest during game time. Otherwise, who will believe in a person who doubts? Let us start chasing our dreams and stop running away from harsh reality.

We know that life is not always a walk in the park, so to speak. Problems come in two forms: ones that are easy to solve and ones that look nearly impossible to overcome. It’s simple to say that life is sweet when we are able to overcome a difficult situation. When things start to go against us, we forget about our basic beliefs and let situations like these affect our overall outlook.

The secret to a happy life is in being optimistic; to always see the glass as half-full. The tricky part comes when we encounter roadblocks along the way. It takes a lot of practice to become a positive person, but once we do become that kind of person, we will live happier lives. Remember, happiness is not a state of mind that can be achieved with just a snap of our fingers. Happiness is a choice we make and it is the attitude we need to inculcate in ourselves every single day.

If you need to take some time off to become the kind of person that oozes out confidence and that brings warmth to everyone, then by all means, do so. Take a step back and reevaluate your life if you must. If the work you do makes you an angry person, then maybe it’s high time that you rethink your career path.

Strive for happiness with the following steps listed below:

1. Write down the things that make you happy – make an inventory of all your dreams, ask yourself how you can achieve them, and start working on them now. The tendency to procrastinate is what gets you into trouble. The longer you sulk, then the bigger the problems become.

2. Have a healthy outlet for your anger – you need to let your frustrations out. Talk to someone if you must or go to the gym to pump out those happy hormones. Studies show that people who exercise are more readily able to find solutions to their problems.

3. Have a support system – with great friends and a caring family, the burden doesn’t have to entirely rest on your shoulders.

4. Be thankful for what you have – the saying, “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade,” is sheer genius. Life may not be all that you wanted it to be, but you also need to know that you are blessed with other things as well. Face the problem head on and see the good that comes out of it.

5. Pray – believing in a higher power has gotten many people out of even the toughest of situations. The idea that there is someone out there looking over everyone is sometimes enough for people to continue on and pursue their goals.

Being too hard on yourself can sometimes hinder you from being victorious. What stops you from pursuing your path? If it’s because you just don’t believe in yourself that much, then you need to know that mistakes can only slow you down. You still can move on after you slip-up because at least then you’ll know what you shouldn’t do. It’s not how many times you fall that counts, but the number of times you got up despite the hard fall.

In our eagerness to win people over, we sometimes have this mistaken notion that we must put all our efforts into doing anything to win their friendship. Truth is, some people just along while others just don’t. It’s part of life’s facts. People were built differently, which is why we develop certain kinds of friendships with some. Friends are people who share the same views in life, and birds of the same feather do tend to flock together.

We need to know that there are some things in life we cannot change. Instead, you simply have to stop focusing on the negative and learn to harness all our energy knowing the positive. Joel Osteen, the world’s leading inspirational speaker, urges all of us to believe in ourselves and to know our worth. People oozing with confidence become the more popular ones simply because they inspire the others around them to be the same upbeat individual.

When we become too much of a pessimist, we can’t blame the others who try to avoid us at all cost. In fact, we might be guilty of doing the same when we encounter people we just don’t like. No one likes to surround themselves with gloom, unless your purpose in life is to bring others down. But then again, who wants to be with this sort of person?

The secret to winning people over is to exude a positive aura. When we become happy with whom we are, we’ll soon see people flocking in our corner of the room. It’s all a matter of communicating our inner glow and of believing in our ability to make others feel good.

Pressure plays a big part in making ourselves seem more attractive to people. When we force ourselves to become someone else, we tend to radiate insincerity. Our physical outlook is inconsequential here. In the end, it’s when we are truly beautiful from within and believe that we are will people start to perceive what we see in ourselves.

Developing great people skills is simply a matter of outlook. We need to work on the skills that are already innate in us and find ways to enhance these skills. Our personality traits are neither good nor bad. When it comes to who we are, we shouldn’t see things in black and white. We are born with these traits, and it’s just difficult to let go of some of these because they have become habits.

What matters most in how we deal with every situation and our ability to become flexible. There’s a fine line between flexibility and change, but what sets these two apart is the willingness to adjust to another person but at the same time, not forget who we truly are. Now that’s flexibility!

When the Cheshire cat gave the rabbit rose-colored glasses in one scene from Alice in Wonderland, he simply wanted the rabbit to see the world in an affirmative light. Seeing the world through the eyes of an idealist isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

After all, it is in being positive can we truly know what our strengths are and how we can make ourselves better. It is how every person should look at life, and this is what creates stronger ties between human beings.

People can often be their own worst enemy, especially when they allow their negative feelings to create artificial barriers to achieving their goals, personally and professionally. We see this every day – person A begins talking enthusiastically about a new opportunity and immediately persons B and C shoot the idea down by focusing only on the negative outcomes that could potentially result.

In other cases they allow emotions like anger to cloud their judgment for no other reason than because they take everything that happens too personally. It’s almost as if their egos won’t allow them to miss an opportunity to get upset and start an argument. Coupled with a false sense of indignation they fail to realize that they are actually creating more barriers to resolving whatever the issue may have been in the first place.

While it’s true in nature that opposites attract, in real life nothing could be further from the truth. Positive people tend to draw towards other optimistic people, and of course negative people cluster together like schools of baitfish. The difference between the two groups is that the optimistic ones tend to simply stroll through life knowing that whatever challenges they encounter they will quickly and easily overcome.

A good example of these behaviors is in reviewing two identical technical support requests with diametrically opposite results.

In the first case, the positive customer is experiencing a problem installing a piece of software. Quickly realizing that the problem is beyond their skill level, they call the support hotline confident that resolution to the issue will be forthcoming. They cheerfully and courteously explain the problem they are experiencing and patiently worked with the support staff to correct it, which happens in a mere 10 minutes.

In the second case the negative customer is experiencing a similar problem. Frustrated and angry they call the support hotline and immediately launch into a belligerent tirade about the quality of the product and the company that produced it. While the support staff attempts to help the customer, they quickly become frustrated at the customer’s refusal to provide the needed information.

The customer insists upon escalating problem to a supervisor or manager where the tirade continues. After 45 minutes of arguing with various supervisors and managers and live no resolution in sight, the customer or threatens to sue or file legal complaints and hangs up without resolving the installation problem.

Optimistic people never worried about encountering problems with anything. They understand that things happen, more importantly they also understand that there is a solution out there somewhere. Their goal is to simply resolve the issue as quickly and efficiently as possible, which they know they will be able to do some way, somehow.

It’s for this reason that those who think positively and optimistically are far more likely to be successful in both their business and personal lives. They can’t help but know that everything is going to work out the way they expected to, if not even better.

If only we could live our lives completely free of stress! Of course, to make this possible, then we must remove ourselves completely from reality. We all know that this is an impossible feat. The chances of us living completely without worries for the rest of our lives are as much as us finding Neverland. Not to say that there is no solution to this dilemma. Stress can never be avoided, but we can better deal with it if we know what to do when it comes.

When you find yourself overwhelmed with problems and worries, just remember what the famous Lao-tzu once said, “The journey to a thousand miles begins with a single step.’ Simply put, it is better that we finish our tasks one at a time rather than give up altogether. Here are a few ways to be more efficient when dealing with strain and pressure:

1. Plan your day’s schedule – know what needs to be done and follow the timeframe you’ve allotted for each task. Every time you veer away from the schedule and postpone your work, you pile up impending work and will require more time to finish.

2. Number your tasks according to which needs to be done first – you need to set rules by which you number your impending tasks. The more immediate ones will naturally require more attention. To know which is more important, you will have to weigh the repercussions you’ll create if you don’t complete them.

3. Know when to delegate work – the people you know may have the skills needed to help you and relieve you from stress. Passing on work to someone else is not always wrong. You just have to know what you need to do yourself and what others can do. Reward them if needed and make them feel appreciated.

4. Limit distractions – some people work better with the radio blasting. If you’re one of them, then go for it. Just surround yourself with things that’ll help you with concentration and will inspire you to be more productive.

5. Know when to take a break – if we labor on our tasks nonstop, we will eventually break down. Vacations are there for a reason: it refreshes our bodies and minds and reenergizes us to go back to work in top form.

Everyone has their saturation point. If you reach yours, this is in no way an indication of weakness. It simply tells you that you are like any other person – in other words, you’re only human. Just know that you have to surround yourselves with people who can give you the support that you need. Aside from that, you must learn to stand on your own two feet. With strength and the right support system, stress no longer needs to be a scary word.

Know that reaching your goal is the best thing that can happen to you. When you succeed, you will realize that going through the emotional and physical rollercoaster is all worth the prize. When this happens, reward yourself for a job well done. Look at the big picture, know where you want to go, and strive forth. When you complete each task, congratulate yourself and let this serve as your inspiration to complete the next thing on your to-do list.

Problems can never be avoided and sadly, they always get the better of us. As much as we would like to pull our hair out and wail like a child, we keep all the anger bottled deep down inside. Then, we try to move forward and mask the issues with a calm facade. We all know that this is the last thing we should do.

Stress is everywhere and we cannot live our entire adult lives like children, free of cares and worries. As we enter into the real world and live our lives as adults should, we will encounter things that we may not always like, we will meet people that we may not take to, or we miss out on the fun simply because we have to take care of other needs first. Whatever the reason is, it’s not too difficult to find a reason to frown.

What most of us take for granted are the good things that we encounter as we move forward with our lives. We’re simply so preoccupied with the bad things that we often forget to look at the good. We count all our misfortunes; keep track of all our failures.

We need to remember what we live for, lest we become bitter human beings. Avoiding problems is all very well in theory, but many of us have worries that we simply can’t resolve, and statistics reveal that one in every twenty people suffer from panic attacks.

The idea here is not to attain permanent happiness. We all know that we will stumble along the way as we learn life’s lessons. This article, for all intents and purposes, is meant to teach you how to deal with the issues that we face so that by the end of the day, we can still give ourselves a pat on the back and say that we are happy with our lives despite all the negativity happening around us. Here are just a few things we might want to keep in mind should we feel overwhelmed at everything happening to us:

1. Avoid situations that aggravate anger – this is a classic case of fight or flight. If we see ourselves heading towards a dark corner of the street, we simply have to turn around and take another route. Unfortunately, not every situation offers us a way out. When we have to deal with a difficult boss or a stubborn colleague, we cannot always solve the situation by going the other way. The best solution to this is to have something that helps soothe our nerves – a stress ball, some exercise, a few minutes to ourselves, or anything that gets us to shift our momentary unease.

2. Reprogram your mind – there are several books in leading bookstores that offer us guidelines. These reading materials have been helpful to many, and knowing that these are “experts” sharing their views, it somehow reassures us to know that they are knowledgeable with what they are talking about.

4. Think positive – as simple as this sounds, the task can be daunting. It’s especially difficult when we come face to face with something that we simply do not like. The trick here is to exercise out minds. It is only through practice that we can perfect this skill.

In the end, we have to know that we’ll survive. Life isn’t always about winning. Most of the time, it’s about getting up when we’re down. It’s the ability to continue and move forward as we go through life’s processes. Know that problems don’t kill us. We are in control of things of our destiny, and if we let these inconveniences get in the way, then we definitely will lose. We always have a choice, and we should always choose to be good to ourselves.

Life always has a way of working out. The recent success of books like The Secret and The Law of Attraction can credit the people’s enthusiasm to its increase in sales. However, many also mistake the practice this law. They’ve misconstrued the general message of these books and have led themselves to believe that they simply have to sit back, relax, and think about what they want with their lives.

As far as I’m concerned, I believe that the law can only be put to good use with action on our part. I do believe that the universe works with us when we strive to achieve all our dreams. But, it can only nudge destiny towards our way. The rest is up to us, whether we choose to meet it halfway or not. After all, no one rewards the lazy.

If we made an inventory of all the successful individuals in this world, we’ll realize that each of them went through hell and high water just to be where they are today. Whoever said that the path to success was easy couldn’t have been further from the truth. In reality, to reach our goal, we’ll have to ready ourselves with the hurdles we’ll face along the way. It’s now simply a question of how badly we want the dream to become a reality.

As go through the hole-ridden path, we sometimes will stumble along the way. We court failure when we have the kind of self-defeating attitude that leads us to believe that the more we’ll fall, the harder it’ll be to get back up. This is a shortcut to sabotaging our dreams. It’s when we shift our focus to become pessimistic that we doom ourselves to failure.

Instead of thinking of what we don’t want to happen, we should think of what we want. Putting words like don’t or no in our statement is an indication of where our focus is, and that is in the negative. On the other hand, if we make claims about things that we yet have to achieve, this can also be seen as a lie.
Positive thinking is based on the belief we WILL get what we want and that we are in the process of fulfilling our dreams. We’ve all heard of the term self-fulfilling prophecy. It is in believing that good things will come to us because we’ve already started to fashion our lives according to our personal desires.

This article, in no way, claims that success can only be measured through our monetary achievement. Winning comes in all forms and in every aspect of our lives. Be it with our personal or career paths, we can only truly say that we’ve won if, at the end of the day, we go to sleep with a happy and content heart. We truly have to understand what the law of attraction is.

Simply put, it is accepting the fact that we can do what we want and that anything is possible if we work at it. Something good can happen to us today and the miracle is already set to unfold if we open the doors to opportunities that will make us happy.

Someone once said that it’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not. Self-trust is what gets you to push your limits and take risks. Of the many secrets to success, self trust and self confidence are foremost. When travelling life’s rough roads, your strength is sometimes put to test. You stumble along the way, get lost, and realize just how many mistakes you’ve made. Each experience serves to enhance your knowledge in life. With new lessons learned, you’re given another set of tools to use for battle.

What will make you a winner is your ability to channel all your energy to fulfilling your goals. There things that you simply cannot control. The outside factors that affect your decisions change, and while you try not to wilt away; you must also face up to your challenges and responsibilities. Blaming others for the repercussions of the decisions that you made is the loser’s way out. Loser. What a horrible term to use, and even worse is when this insult is directed to you. The most important factor to consider is how you’ll react to these changes. In life, there are just some things that are out of our hands. You must have a Plan B for every important decision that you make, or else, a slight change can send your entire structure of cards falling down.

When you do fall down, what will set you apart from all the ordinary people is your ability to get up. The harder you’ll fall, the more you’ll strive. Winners just don’t quit. Even with their sore behinds, they simply get up and take these battle scars along with them as reminders of their courage and tenacity. Success only comes with some sacrifice on your end. Whoever said that becoming successful is easy must have been dreaming because if it were, then we all would have been wildly successful by now. Winners put in more hours than anybody else. If blood, sweat, and tears have to be offered, then you should do it without batting an eyelash. And if you feel that there are just too many forces working against you, you just don’t let these things break your heart. A broken heart is a shortcut to failure.

Another secret to success is to believe in your talent and abilities no matter what everybody else says. No one knows you better, and no one understands you more. It’s all in you, the knowledge and the capacity to surpass the things that hinder you from becoming who you can be. You can’t please everybody all of the time, and some of these people may discourage you to move forward. You need to learn how to channel these voices out and focus on making those who give you support happier.

When you keep these three secrets to success in mind, you can’t help but become the confident person that you should be. You need to know that you can do it. It may not be in the way that you wanted, but the point here is that you can. What sets winners apart from the rest is their ability to dream big and to know that their dreams can happen.

We all have hidden fears that we don’t always want to share with friends. These fears often leave us paralyzed. When the need to overcome these fears is required, we sometimes choose to take the easy way out: hide and run for cover.

In order to succeed in life, we first have to believe in ourselves. All this talk about finding ways to achieve success is pointless when we just don’t trust our own talents and abilities. Without self confidence, we won’t have the tools to face life’s challenges with equanimity. The dilemma we sometimes face is not knowing how to gain self confidence when we don’t really have it in us. Do we really have to experience success first before we believe in ourselves? Maybe, but then again, many set themselves up to be discouraged before they’ve even tried anything.

To make your goals more attainable, you can make it more manageable by breaking down your larger goal into smaller ones. The chances for success here then increase. Then, make sure that you celebrate each small feat that you overcome.

Self image is another important factor. If you constantly criticize yourself, you will never feel adequate. Remember, negativity begets negativity. This low self image is sometimes the by-product of your life experiences as you face the devastating blows of your wrong choices. You need to realize that these mistakes will never hold you down as long as you don’t allow them to. You need to look at now, not yesterday! What have you learned from the blunder? Use this and let this serve as a guide as you continue on life’s path. And then there are people who also affect the way you look at yourself. The decision of whether or not spend some toxic time with these individuals is all up to you. Learn to put your foot down and seek out those who can be more helpful to your overall growth.

You need to see yourself as inherently worthy. Be aware of how unique you are and realize that you are more than capable of contributing to the good of the world. Pay attention to only those who want what’s best for you and turn a deaf ear to those who just want to see you go down. The ones that deserve your time are the ones who recognize your inner strength. Look at yourself in a more positive light and start to see what you are actually blessed with.

Your self image is intimately intertwined with your destiny. You have to guard you thoughts against feelings of inadequacy. The power of a positive vision should never be underestimated. This is what helped the most successful people on their way to the top. Rule of thumb states that the clearer the goal is, the higher your self confidence gets. Even the most capable mind and body need a good dose of self confidence. Only with trusting yourself and knowing what you are capable of will you ever be able to attain success.