Prosperity creation small regional towns.

Doesn’t matter where you talk as long as you speak.

A key to the prosperity creation issues of smaller communities and villages is that they choose to stay comfortable. Moreover, the status quo remains when they want to stay relaxed, and the community never moves forward.

An individual’s actions and words can enable others to be safe in the belief that they, too, can achieve their dreams and make a real contribution to their community. Power rests in us to influence, create change, and drive momentum for each other, ourselves, and our community.

These connections you create are the ones that decide the success or failure of your community development activities.

Family businesses make up more than 75% of all businesses in Australia, but this fact is barely recognised. Family businesses should be recognised as a critical driving force in business and our communities.

People continue to avoid the issues.

Have we lost our common sense?

Move over, Dorothea Mackellar

When the shearing sheds are silent, and the stock camps have fallen quiet,
When the gidgee coals no longer glow across the outback night,
And the bush is forced to hang a sign, ‘gone broke and won’t be back.’And spirits fear to find a way beyond the beaten track.

When harvesters stand derelict upon the windswept plains,
And brave hearts pin their hopes no more on the chance of loving rains,
When a hundred outback settlements are ghost towns overnight,
When we’ve lost the drive and heart, we must see each other again, right?

‘Pioneer’ means a stereo, and ‘Digger’ a backhoe,
And the ‘Outback’ is behind the house. There’s nowhere else to go,
‘Anzac’ is a biscuit brand that is probably foreign-owned.

And education means brainwashed and neatly cloned.

When you have to bake a loaf of bread to make a decent crust,
And our heritage, once enshrined in gold, is crumbling to dust,
While old folk pay their camping fees on land for which they fought,
Fishing is a great escape; this is until you’re caught.

When you see our kids with Yankee caps and resentment in their eyes,
And the soaring crime and hopeless hearts are no longer a surprise,
When the name of RM Williams is a yuppie clothing brand,
Not a product of our heritage that grew off the land.

When offering a hand, it makes people think you’ll amputate,
And two dogs meeting in the street is what you call a ‘Mate’,
When ‘Political Correctness’ has replaced all common sense,
There’s no sitting on the fence when you’re forced to see it their way.

Yes – one day, you might find yourself an outcast in this land,
Perhaps your heart will tell you then, ‘I should have made a stand’,
Just go and ask the farmers, who should remove all doubt,
Then join the swelling ranks who say, ‘Don’t sell Australia out’.

Author unknown

Is our political system broken

The older I get, the more I distrust politicians, bureaucrats, and cunning corporate lobbyists who monopolise their time to do the right thing in developing our communities. The more I understand the self-serving environment in which they work, the more I think our political system needs a significant overhaul.

We all make mistakes in prosperity creation.

Communities and community developers also make many mistakes. The most significant is the failure to actively involve the community members in verifying various approaches to prosperity creation. Like governments, too many think they know what their community wants and needs.

Quotable Quotes

“Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength”. Jim Rohn

“Things rarely work out for communities who don’t first put in the time and do the work. A community, like its people, must plan and choose to be successful by taking the right actions”. Peter Sergeant