Author: Jeremiah Josey

  • The Advantages of the Middle East

    An ancient diverse culture where there is much beneath the sand and what meets the eye The Middle Eastern culture has more or less been continuous for close to three thousand years (from roughly 9th century BC). Islam, adopted by the Arabs from the early 7th century AD is a comparative new addition to their…

  • Understanding the Current Situation in the Middle East

    How Al Gore lays out facts on how the public is fooled I’m working my way through a great book right now. It’s called “The Assault on Reason”, written by Al Gore. Al does a wonderful job following on his “An Inconvenient Truth”, where in common language he helps us to understand the critical and…

  • Quotes by Ronald Reagan

    A statesman, an actor, or a puppet. How do you remember Ol’ Ronny? Ronald Reagan has had a varied carrier, regardless his words are wise. ‘Here’s my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.’ ‘The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’ ‘The…

  • You know you’ve been in the Middle East far too long when…

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    Musings about points of life and such experiences You’re not surprised to see a goat in the passenger seatYou think the uncut version of ‘Little House on the Prairie’ is provocativeYou think every one’s first name is AlYou need a sweater when it’s 40 degrees celsiusYou expect everyone to own a mobile phoneYour idea of…

  • So when does it start?

    Start with one house and a bent chimney Remember when you were a kid and you would draw a house? How many stories and how many windows did you draw? A door? Two windows either side? A bent chimney??? I’m was judging a childrens’ drawing competition today.  The chilrdren range from ages 3 to 14.…

  • Learning to Fail – What It Is All About

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    You learn more form your failures than from your successes So, where are we at? Socialism came in with a bang in Russia in 1917, and went out bust in 1991. China’s dictatorial social experiement morphed into a quasi controlled market economy that allows a form of social freedom.  As the boundaries between the state and human…

  • Semco Summary

    A brief wrap up by Ricardo Semler from 1993 From Maverick, 1993, by Ricardo Semler. Semco is more than novel programs or procedures.  What is important is our open-mindedness, our trust in our employees and distrust of dogma.  We are neither socialist nor purely capitalist, but we take the best of these failed systems and…

  • Does Genius Bring Any Social Responsibility

    Does being in Mensa bring social responsibility? My response to a recent question on the Mensa group on LinkedIn. The Question: “I am going to assume that those in Mensa are geniuses. That might be stretching it, but, as a definition. 🙂 I try to live by the motto, whom I don’t remember said it,…

  • The What and Why Applied to Business – Implicitly Semco Style

    Adapt or perish! How you can live stress free in your own business I posted that last story because it always reminds me to ask the “why” about everything.  I find that asking “Why” often enough will eventually reveal the “What” of the “Why”. The reason for doing something then becomes very clear. If there…

  • A Story About a Habit

    When you do something without thinking “why”, strange things can happen A newly married couple were in the kitchen one Sunday. The wife was preparing a piece of lamb for roasting and the husband was preparing the vegetables. The husband observed as the wife placed the piece of lamb onto the chopping block and promptly…

  • An Observation on the World’s Financial Crisis

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    Does selling our children’s future justify current incompetence? The involvement of the governments in bailing out private companies means that the governments are selling their future earnings: That means they are binding themselves to the income from taxation from the people of their country. This will result in an even bigger collapse in the near…

  • The Key is…

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    …to not give any unwanted thing much attention.  When it does’t feel good – turn your attention someplace else. Abraham-Hicks Jeremiah Josey

  • Where Does a Tree Come From?

    Looking closer at our world teaches us about ourselves The earth? The water? The answer will surprise you. Suppose someone showed you the seed of an oak tree – and acorn. Then they showed you a photo of a large, mature oak tree. Then they asked, “where did all that tree come from?” What would…

  • An Interesting Conversation with a Christian

    God is a verb and other sayings I had an interesting conversation with a Christian today. The opening question was: “what is your religion?” English was not their first language so I typed most of my answers on the screen in front of them.  Simple short sentences. “What is your religion?” About the Author Jeremiah…

  • Conscious or Unconscious?

    Become responsible or remain irresponsible We are each responsible for our own creations. We do this either consciously or unconsciously. We are fully aware or we a fully unaware. With this knowledge we are then able to observe the unconscious creations – simply look around to see them. Decide to make your creations in a…

  • The What, the Why and The How

    Three simple things to a simple life There are only three things that matter in life: The What The Why and The How Everything else is a subset of these three. And to be truly effective on this planet, only The What and The Why really matter. The How looks after itself – when you…

  • Processes to Use to Move up the Emotional Scale

    Tools and tricks to help move you upscale These Abraham-Hicks processes apply to the tone scale in the brackets. Apply them and watch yourself fly. For more go to www.abraham-hicks.com About the Author Jeremiah Josey is Chairman of MECi Group, specialising in transformative energy infrastructure and advanced nuclear solutions. With a focus on thorium-based technologies,…

  • Your Book of Positive Aspects Part I

    You get what you focus on, so focus on good,why not? You are upon the brink of magnificent, deliberate creating. You have been the creators of your experience from the day that you emerged into this body. now you will be the deliberate creators of your experience. Trust that which comes forth from within you.…

  • Your Book of Positive Aspects Part II

    Tools that help you become better than yourself! All relationships are better in the beginning because in the beginning you are not so aware of the flaws of each other. When the relationship is new, you have not developed a negative pattern of expectation. But as the relationship grows older, you tend to hold in…

  • I Really, Really Want to Feel Good

    An explicate way to focus where you want to feel good about life All is well with you.  There is not something that you should be doing that you are not doing.  You don’t have any ground to make up for.  You have not been lying around not doing your work. You are in the…