I recently took my wife to the movies and didn’t pay a cent.  I won a competition that’s why. I filled up my car the other day and paid four cents less per litre than everyone else… why?  Because I used a voucher.  Sure, it may make some people feel cheap… it doesn’t for me.  I believe that I should never pay full price for anything.  No, not even petrol.   Some people however are always ashamed to use vouchers.  Not me.

I have been to Seaworld on a voucher someone else gave me, bought many free donuts, not to mention coffee and heaps and heaps of things.  I even have been known to pick up vouchers off the floor from others and use their vouchers as well.  Now I am not necessarily saying that these things are right or that you should follow people around hunting for their vouchers.  I am saying vouchers are good and should be used.  Don’t let your pride stand in the way of a bargain… use vouchers!

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There is a saying with age comes wisdom… I am here to tell you that is a croc.  It’s built on the assumption that you will get smarter as you get older.   Of course you will… IF YOU LEARN.  If you don’t learn from your mistakes you will be as dumb as you were 50 years ago.  I know plenty of people who have aged and are still dealing with the same issues on a daily basis.  From a distance you can just see they won’t learn from their mistakes.  Hey, before you say anything I am in the same boat.  You only get ‘wisdom’ through the learning you get when you reflect on what you have and move forward.  Don’t look at what you have done, milk it for the lessons and don’t make the same mistakes again.  You will get wisdom ‘with’ age at an alarming rate if you have the capacity to learn.

According to They Might Be Giants… the sun is a mass of incandescent gas… a giant nuclear furnace. Ernest Hemingway told us ‘the sun also rises’. Yet, this is not the case… it’s a common misconception. The sun never moves. It’s kind of like me during one day cricket: a stationary ball of anger, rage and heat. Living in a hot climate I have often been stung by it’s heat. Yet, during my 30+ years I have never seen the sun rise. It remains a mysterious hot ball of non-moving fury.  In ‘reality’ our language makes fun of us… it betrays us and makes us believe what is not true.  If the sun were to rise… by now, surely, it would have hit the roof off space.   Why am I mentioning this?  Often in life we accept taken for granted assumptions as though they cannot be questioned.  They can.  As I once heard it said… the unquestioned assumption is usually the one that holds the key to solving problems… think about that… it may just unfreeze your brain.