Positive Attitude.Me

Hi Folks

A motivational post perhaps.

I have a group in ‘Linkedin’ which has the title ‘HITT’ squad. [HITT = Honesty, Integrity, Truth & Trust] the desire is that members will take these core ideals and keep them to the best of their ability in all that they undertake - personally, professionally, in Business & in Life.

The news recently shows the UK in a lesser standing around the world, due to the lack of these four ideals by those who appear to represent the UK through a high profile in any strata of society, business, politics, diplomacy, sport, etc.

What if? -
we were to grow a powerful network of ‘HITT Squads’ around the globe,
who promoted the 4 ideals,
who protected the rights of the individual,
who educated all that compromise must be negotiated and accepted due to the impact of some claiming their rights but as a result removing the rights of others,
who strive to tackle issues of war, famine, international disasters - both natural and manufactured,
who strive to combat discrimination, by encouraging the 4 ideals are used in all considerations,
who encourage environmental considerations in everything being done around the globe, including the personal responsibility we all have - by not being informed & speaking out, or being proactive whenever possible.

Come and join us as we strive to make a difference.

In an attempt to continue the flow of double headings, I couldn’t miss the opportunity to praise and thank the folk at Southampton University and The Smallpeice Trust, who were running a ‘Supercomputing in Engineering’ course for senior school students.

The Smallpeice Trust is an ‘Engineering / Education’ charity which promotes all aspects of engineering as a potential career path, to young folk.

The course was supported by ‘Microsoft’ and I have to mention that their representative who attended for one of the days - managed to spend quite some time chatting with me and to say I was ‘MOTIVATED’ would be an understatement, what they have planned for later in the year is awesome.

All you folks who are into ‘X-box’ be prepared for a new opportunity in interaction with the technology available.

I was also introduced to ‘Skydrive’ and other related storage opportunities - do some research folks and take up your FREE storage facility.

Well, I guess I thought this was worthy of note, a £20 note at that. I am aware that the text which follows may appear like a series of adverts for those mentioned, that is not the desire within the post - I do wish to recognise the ‘GOOD NEWS’ element and encourage you to identify other potential aspects for [ www.positiveattitude.me ]

I have signed up to a newswire service news@easyeditor.net, which is being run by a young lad Paul Kelbie of www.flagmedia.co.uk  to see if I can identify greater sources of ‘good news’; ‘charitable works’; ’successes’ and ‘motivation’. I guess, time will tell.

Back to the £20 note, it appears that any note with Edward Elgar will no longer be accepted in shops, this is a step being used to combat forgeries - the GOOD NEWS is that the bank will exchange any that you have (providing they are not forgeries).

The ‘creative channels’ in the headline also relate to some of the opportunities being made available to entrepreneurs, through a scheme being launched in a university somewhere in England, they are hoping to run an innovative auction where investors can bid money; time; expertise; resources, etc to help entrepreneurs take an idea to prototype stage - thereafter negotiations will be needed to develop the prototype into a viable commercial product / service. - that surely falls under the category of ‘MOTIVATION’.

Another story from the newswire indicated the steps that should be taken to adopt stricter security measures against identity theft, www.stampwithease.co.uk has a range of self-inking stamping devices that can be used to stamp your ’brand’ on your documentation - they have also recently launched a new product ‘Personal Identification’ security stamp, which obliterates your personal details, etc - thereby making it more difficult for those who go through trash, to steal your identity. Time to be more vigilant folks, hoping that these good news links motivate you to share others within the forum.

Jimmy

The question which should be asked is ‘why do we need bridges?’ -

and the simple answer is that by building bridges we can travel, go on a journey, cross over to other experiences of life as other see it… the journey will inform and educate, it will provide new insights and bring strength to the participant.

One particular bridge I would like to share comes from youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms8xq0kLB34  this will take you to the stampwithease advert….. but while you are in there you should start a search for Nick Vujicic, his video’s are inspirational and will change your outlook on life from that moment forward, if you would prefer to go straight there, then here is a link to one of a range of video’s - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ZuKF3dxCY he will motivate you.

Well, enjoy your journey in 2010 - make it happen……

Jimmy

A positive start to 2010 is very much the order of the day, we have below a shortlist of potential recipients of the first PA.Me Awards.

The PA.Me Award is a simple certificate and a special limited edition lapel bar - for the inaugural recipients.

There are so many other worthy initiatives / projects / activities / individuals - who came to our attention that they may well be recognised during 2010 - we have decided therefore to introduce some Amazing Additions to include ’special award’ dates, e.g. - valentine’s; easter; summer holiday special; halloween; guy fawkes; christmas; etc. by identifying special linked initiatives like:

Starlighting (Rajan Kaura) & Visibility

The first potential recipients for work done in 2009 are:

International - organisation - Rotary International (for all programs: in particular GSE)
                     - individuals   - Bill & Melinda Gates (Foundation) - for their $200M Challange

National       - organisation - Marie Curie (Big build)
                    - individuals    - Bob Tomlinson - (Polio projection initiative on national landmarks)

Local            - organisation - Glasgow North & Bishopbriggs Rotary Club
                    - individuals    - Bill Christie (baxterbear initiative)

We will post relevant updates on these as they arise.

Jimmy

It’s winter time, actually ‘Boxing Day’ 26th December 2009 and you may think that I have lost it when you read the following - but in a strange kind of way I thought it was inspirational - even if it was a ‘kiddies’ christmas holiday movie.

I thought, what a great way to end one year and start a new year - so look out 2010, here we come…

The movie was about a small zebra brought up in Kentucky, next door to the home of the derby. As the zebra grew it had the desire to be a race horse, but it wasn’t. It had the desire to race against the thouroughbred race horses, although it had the desire and the strength of heart - it lacked the necessary training and support team to collaborate with.

To cut the long story short, the training team came together, circumstances happened that the zebra got the opportunity to compete and the self doubt began - the support and the training began to pay dividends though and when the chips were down and all else seemed to have been used to the maximum - the desire and strength of heart helped over the final furlong to gain the prize.

I immediately thought of all the friends and colleagues I have in various networks, all the associates I have with small and medium enterprises, all the entreprenuers and developers who are working away on ideas, all my Rotary family who are using every last energy to raise funds and serve others above self.

What an inspirational outlook -

’so let 2010,
be the year,
we do it again and again,
without fear’ -

’show some ‘Zebra Zest’,
in all that you do,
and just give of your best,
it’ll see you through’ -

Have a great start to 2010, remember to be the vibrant voices of ‘Positiveattitude.me’ - there are some prize winners being selected for 2009 and they will be posted on January 1st 2010 - the prize winners will be given a certificate of appreciation, in recognition of their outstanding positive attitude, locally, nationally and internationally - they will also be given a lapel badge ‘ATTITUDE=100′ - these are limited supply and are therefore quite rare - (perhaps a future sponsor will make these simple recognitions more worthy).

Positively Yours

Jimmy

Hello again

when I made up the draft titles I had ‘youthful years’ in my mind, since that time - my own ability has improved and I’m getting back to feeling youthful again.

So many thanks have to go to so many people who have encouraged, supported and motivated me to continue to do my voluntary work, in particular to continue to invest my time, experience, expertise and remaining small amount of funds into the new ‘development’ project that I am working on.

It will impact upon a number of sectors in society, education - business and personal development elements. I am also striving to produce an electronic version for use with ’smartboards’.

To help fund further development work I asked a friend to help make a short promotional video of one of the products that I bought a franchise in, initially to raise funds for my ‘young engineers club’ activities - now that I have retired, I have still to pay the franchise and therefore need to start promoting them as a business product which can be used by anyone, anytime, anywhere.

Take a look at the you tube and help make it a legend. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms8xq0kLB34 your responses would be valuable.

p.s. notice the subliminal adverts for the hotel, the food outlets and stampwithease…

Jimmy

H’mmm - would you accept that is the size of polo shirt I need? It could also signify my outlook and my personality…

I was meeting a young lady for lunch not too long ago, she had never met me before and asked how would she recognise me? My response was quick, I asked her if she watched basketball? To which she replied -oh! are you black and tall - my response was just as quick again - no! I’m more the shape of the ball.

Seriously though, I am having a great time at present, the past is behind me and I am working to shape the future, for me, you and anyone else who wishes to be involved.

I have a wonderful gift in my family and friends, they are very supportive of the various projects I am working on and I know that they will impact on people in the near future, bringing to some a tremendous opportunity to develop themselves and their business.

One of the other websites I am working on will be the outlet for the tools being developed, to allow anyone to ‘LearnWithEase’. A further site that I am developing with a business partner is’10-two’ a product design site. The ‘Positiveattitude.me’ site is being constructed with another business partner, who shares the same outlook on giving and sharing with others.

As you can see, a number of opportunities to grow and expand - all of which can be copied and implemented by anyone who has a desire to help others around the world. Perhaps you will start by becoming one of the ‘vibrant voices’ indicated in a previous post. You may even try and build FREE - a small business through www.me2everyone.com/146121 which is offering people the opportunity to be involved in a new venture to see the power of the web from a different perspective.

Let me know through the forum, if you have any stories to share, stories of ‘good news’; ‘charitable works’; ’successes’; ‘motivation’.

Jimmy

Well, wonderful welcome was the first thought that came into my head when I was looking at a headline for the double ‘ww’ title. I could just as easily have been wonderful week.

We have been hosting the GSE Team (Rotary - Group Study Exchange) from New Zealand during the month of September, they have had a great time and are enroute home now.

While they were here, I had the offer to attend a fundraising ball organised by Charan Gill MBE, my host Rajan provided me with some tremendous new contacts and entrepreneurs to chat with and the whole event raised a considerable amount of funds for charity - well done Charan.

This was followed by a wonderful weekend at our Rotary district conference when the keynote speaker was Sir Tom Farmer, an inspirational presentation and an opportunity to chat about some of the projects that I am working on.

Last night though - was a highlight of the wonderful week, I was at another dinner and the guest speaker was Alastair Campbell, former press secretary to Tony Blair - Alastair was another inspiration, but I had an added value in that I had gone through a similar truama and breakdown. Alastair has written his diary and novels as part of his recovery which brought him back from the brink - I have started to put this site together as my route to recovery and I continually thank you all for your support and encouragement.

I have asked Alastair to have a look at the site and perhaps contribute an article or two - watch this space.

I shall work away and strive to ensure that the ‘coding’ issue for the e-mails is resolved as soon as possible so that we can get the site launched and also ask the .ME domain folk if they still wish to use the site as a good example of the use of the .ME domain

Jimmy

OK

After my last post, I want to try and encourage something positive by offering a challenge to the world - I am looking for ‘VIBRANT VOICES’ you will become the vibrant voices of positiveattitude.me to search out all the items locally, nationally and internationally which show the elements of POSITIVEATTITUDE.ME - ‘Good News’; ‘Charitable Works’; ‘Successes’ & ’Motivation’. Once your articles start to flow, then you will be given rights to post directly into the blogs.

Join the forum and place your items into the forum, ensure that you add your media if any, also exercise your responsibility and do NOT submit any offensive material. (it has dawned on me that some may find my views offensive - I can only record my apology - and as no one has yet let me know…. I shall continue)

The ball is now in your court, this is your chance to shine - remember this strapline as I will be using it when we launch - ‘The POWER of .ME is in US’ -  we must collaborate and participate we must support and encourage, for together we can make a difference.