We regularly see highly successful people and wonder how they got there or think “What do I have to do to get there?”

The world tallest building is being opened this week in Dubai. It’s called the Burjdubai (www.burjdubai.com). It is 828mtrs tall and far surpasses the second highest building of just 600mtrs in Taipei. It’s fascinating that this 20 Billion dollar development was built on the back of a 2-year financial turndown. Samir Pradhan, a researcher at the Dubai-based Gulf Research Center was quoted recently saying that the Dubai construction sector has been the hardest hit in the world.
The future is changing and we need to embrace the change and “Bounce” back from the crisis stronghold that blinds so many people and organizations. “Crises come and go,” said Mohamed Alabbar, chairman of developer Emaar Properties, at a media event ahead of the opening of Burj Dubai (the Worlds Tallest Building) Monday evening. “We must have hope and optimism and we must move on. I hope that this is the beginning of the gradual move forward.”

Bouncing back after hard times are hard but a necessity if you crave survival. The best people and organizations of the future will need to overcome crises quickly, constantly restructuring themselves to adapt to changing circumstances and new opportunities through tough times.
It all starts from positive speaking, even if you are in the mist of the crisis. We need to speak optimism into our businesses and personal lives. This brings encouragement and empowerment to the situation. Did you know that pessimist get things right more often as they see the status quo… But optimists are the World Changes as they see the world the way it can become!!!

What will you leave?

What is the one thing that you would like to be remembered by??? It may not be just the one thing, but what is the legacy that you would like people to say about you when they think about you???

I’m so proud of my parents…. So proud!!! When I was growing up and living with them I thought that they were way too strict on us, and I thought that I lived under a dictatorship. I was smacked with a stick on numerous occasions and was forced to do chores every single day. (Looking back on it now it was the BEST thing for me) But now things have changed, I’ve grown up and can see my parents in a whole different light…

My parents have never owned their own house, they have never lived a rich life style, they have never had a new car and have never lived beyond our means and never (until recently) owned a credit card. Yet they have always managed to get through with 11 children. We grew our own fruit and veggie’s, we killed our own meat and always had full tummies. We were certainly blessed!

Just a couple of months ago my parents moved to India for a year. It has been their dream to move there and just help the villages and, you could say do some mission work. So at 70 years old, here they are achieving their life long dream. I had the amazing opportunity last week to visit them in India just 2hours NW of Kolkata one of the biggest cities in India and also where Mother Teresa was based from. The town was called Kharagpur and it was the same place where my mother grew up.

What my parents are doing their just blows me away. My mother has made connections in the local Kindergarten and Primary schools and regularly visits throughout the week and teaches them Christian songs. When I visited the school a was nearly in tears seeing hundreds of young kids singing and doing the actions to all the songs that they taught me when I was growing up. It was just AWESOME!!!!

My father regularly visits the local villages where he just connects with them and encourages them all when he can. He invests time and money supporting their education and food. He is a true hero as he has the option to retire in a nice house here in Australia and just let life pass him by. But he choices to live in India and chooses to support the villages and helps where he can. He is one of the only white people in the entire town and has picked up the language up very well. How many 70 year olds have you met that is learning a language, just started on his life long dream, and lives & supports villages in 3^rd world countries???

I’m so very proud of my parents and what they are currently doing. I feel blessed and truly honored to have amazing mentors in my life. Sometimes we think that being successful is a good legacy, or leaving 20 houses and 10 cars for our family is the best legacy. But I think that my parents are leaving a legacy behind that is compared to the very best of people that ever lived…

What will you leave???????

My brother recently passed away… this is a tribute of his memory!

The school

We have been entertained nearly every day by some beautiful and amazing people here from family to people that I’ve just met. They have cooked me amazing meals and been so hospitable. So I decided to now give some back.

This is awesome GET THIS!!!!!

All morning we went around different markets to find hundreds of resources for a little school out in the village. This school was run by the village community volunteer and to date has not received any financial assistance at all from the Indian Government. It is a Primary School and the facilities…. well they have non. It is in the middle of a paddock with a little raised section where they have a run down torn structure with a partially opened roof, no sides and dirt floor. This is the classroom of over 100 students from around the village from 3yo to 9yo.

We arrived at 1pm just as the school was finishing for the day. What a buzz it is to give (Be A GENEROUS Giver). Our gifts included: 100+ chalk boards, 100+ books & pens, 100+ toothbrushes, lollypops, cricket bats and balls and a soccer ball. The head teacher and visionary for the school was overwhelmed. He could not thank us enough through the little English he knew. I was amazing to hear the vision he had, from developing the land to planting a shelter and building all around the paddock as he showed me. It was such a breath of FRESH AIR when you see a man that was so committed to his community that currently volunteered his time to assist the next generation of people. It was so exciting for me to hear his vision and passion that he had for these young poor students and his commitment to building facilities to create change even though he had no resources what so ever!!!!!! WOW

This man then went on to tell us about the land that the school is on and how he might lose it due to an unjust system and people wanting to take the land off him. I did not quite understand the whole story but I am determined to find out why and see how I can help. I got his details as he did mine and I really trusted him and believed in his vision! So I gave him a large amount of money to assist him with his land and said that I would like to remain in constant contact with him and hear good stories about the children. ..

I’ve attached some photo’s of the school and some students with their parents as they came to pick up their students. I feel so blessed to have blessed them.

These photo’s speak for themselves….

Me with some students, teacher & parents