What a crazy world!
It is Sunday as I write and I have just returned from Church – so I have a serious one today.
It has been Sport Relief weekend here in the UK. £20 million was raised from ordinary folk giving generously to help all sorts of charities. I had a lump in my throat as I watched some of the graphic demonstrations of utter poverty of so many people in this our world. We were shown, for example, how just £40 would help one child in Africa get education for a year – a life changing event – just £40
Anyway £20 million raised – BRILLIANT
One donation apparently was for £5 million – BRILLIANT
On Saturday my wife Barbara went on a sponsored midnight walk for a local hospice and raised £100 from nurse colleagues at work – BRILLIANT
On the other hand:
This is sad – Paul MacCartney – a hero of my teenage years has been squabbling about money for months with his ex-wife Heather Mills. Now I know that Paul has been involved with giving to charity over the years BUT – when celebrities bicker over money settlements with at least 6 noughts on the end I feel that humanity has totally lost the plot. –
Reported to be a £25 million pound settlement – SICKENING
When Paul was a lad in Liverpool – his eyes would have probably lit up with glee if he got a new bike. Now what a difference. How sad that now he has £825 million – he will spend untold amounts just on legal costs to hoard even more. Think how many kids in Africa could be educated with just the – down the drain – legal costs.
These are just two individuals on this planet who couldn’t even spend all the money they are tearing each other apart over.
Won’t someone please bang their heads together – handcuff them to chairs – make them watch continuously some harrowing videos of real poverty lived out daily by other inhabitants of this same world. Will we ever make poverty history while such greed exists.
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About Keith Watson
Hi - I am Keith Watson.
This blog is dedicated to Banger - a teacher from my teenage years who - at least once a week - insisted upon cracking the hilarious - and I have to say - never heard before line "What's on Watson?".
I would smile demurely - the rest of the class would fall about with sides aching - and life would go on for another week.
'Wats-on My Mind' I have decided will assist me personally as well as be of interest to others (I hope) who share my challenges. It will help keep me organised and document my activities so that I know what I did yesterday.
You think I am joking!!
I have been in the website development game since 1993 and have been involved with over 2000 website builds (with the help of my fantastic team of freelance programmers)
It was only in the last two years though that I have moved over to making money for myself on line and in particular linking up with an amazing talent called Adam Eason to produce and distribute self help and hypnotherapy products.
As a result of looking to promote these products I have downloaded hundreds of internet marketing articles and e-books, studied countless reports, tested list building tactics, butterflied, boot-camped, buzzed, adsensed, affiliated, met a jerk, jv'ed, plr given-awayed, and generally suffered from information overload.
My computer - presumably in a fit of pique or simply demanding a holiday has given up the ghost on at least two occassions - causing me even more stress.
Oh this simple business of making money online.
BUT the great news is that it is all working and our list has grown - I have found some gurus I have complete faith in - and Adam and I are actually making money from our endeavours.
Some way to go but I am more relaxed and can spot a phoney over hyped, sexed up, must have latest product which you must either buy or if not, simply fade into oblivion. There’s not room on this Internet for the two of us.
This ramble of an introduction is really to set the scene for I am sure an interesting journey which I invite you to join. In fact I want you to help me find the right tools, scripts, plugins etc. etc, that will catapult me into the stratosphere of success. I hope you will be there with me.
I don't just consider success in a monetary sense. I so want to help some friends of mine who are involved in Christian missionary work in some pretty harrowing parts of this world. If I can bring any help to their missions that will give me more satisfaction than anything else.
I really, really do love this web stuff and the people you meet. I am convinced that this powerful technology can be harnessed to do some good.
