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Jeremiah Josey

Category: Creation

  • Generational Wealth Comes from… Generations

    Generational Wealth Comes from… Generations

    My family tree goes back a ways, and there many branches, through great wealth and great wars. English. German, Scottish, Irish. I’ve traced my paternal Josey line back to Portugal around the late 1500’s and then Berkshire, England from the early 1600’s onwards. One of them was associated with Oliver Cromwell for a bit. Touches of fame. But it was direct ancestor, James Josey and his wife Harriet Catherine Harris Josey that made the biggest mark on the planet – literally, in Redbank Planes, Brisbane, Australia. If their accumulated property alone was still in family hands today it would be worth about USD 25 billion. That doesn’t include compounding or the business activities if they had continued. Ah, the trappings of wealth.

    James had accumulated 30 square kilometres of prime grazing, timber and agricultural land by the time of his passing in 1903. Today it’s part of the modern city of Brisbane, Australia and well and truly carved up. My grandfather sold the last significant potion of 5 aces, or 20,000 square meters back in 1986.

    Modern Day Eden Station – Well and truly carved up

    James was convicted as a highway man when he was 19 and shipped with a few hundred other people to the gaol with no walls – Australia, arriving at Port Jackson, NSW on 18 November 1840 on the “Eden“

    James Josey, 82 yrs, 1821-1903

    James bought his first 1000 acres in 1859, 12 years after his pardon. By the time he passed, he had the largest estate in the area with 7,350 acres and his homestead, Eden Station, housing more than 400 cattle.

    The “Eden“, a merchant ship built in 1826, was typical of the long haul mid-sized merchant class vessels of the time. At 513 tons she was broad and squat and could carry 300 tonnes of cargo, plus the crew and provisions for a 6 month journey. She did the UK-Australian haul 4 times.

    Jame’s Obituary
    On Sunday occurred the death of Mr. James Josey, of ‘Possum Creek, Redbank Plains, at the age of 83. Coming to Australia at the age of 19, the deceased gentleman almost at once took up pastoral pursuits, and after being engaged for some time on what was then known as the Booval station, started on his own account in the Redbank district, where ever since he has resided and been engaged in developing that district.  For many years he was favourably known as a successful dairy farmer and horse breeder, and he also started the first timber-getting industry in the same locality, the timber used in the flooring and ceiling of the existing premises of Messrs. Cribb and Foote coming from his estate.  The deceased was bluff in his manner, but thoroughly respected as one of the pioneers of the district, and for many years was a member of the Purga Divisional Board, in the affairs of which he took a keen and intelligent interest.  At the time of his death, Mr. Josey was the owner of 350 acres of the best farming land at Redbank Plains, and of 7000 acres at ‘Possum Creek.  He had been married twice, and his second wife predeceased him by four months only.  He leaves eight daughters – namely, Mrs. Whitmore Logan, of Forest Hill ; Mrs. G. Logan, of Collinton ; Mrs. D. Jones, whose husband is employed in the Agricultural Department ; Mrs. J. Jones, Goodna ; Mrs. Hudson, Redbank Plains ; Mrs. A. Hillier, Goodna ; Mrs. J. Griffiths, of Rosevale ; and Mrs. Scarr, Brisbane.  He also leaves five sons – Mr. James Josey, of Colinton ; Mr. B. G. Josey, of Stewart’s Creek, Townsville ; Mr. A. W. Josey, Redbank Plains ; Mr. John Josey, of Kilkivan ; and Mr. Andrew Josey, of Goodna.  It is understood that the deceased’s descendants number some eighty souls.
    Transcribed from the newspaper The Queenslander, 28 February 1903, p.500

    An Economical Aside: Sailing the Eden – Why Do It?

    On 10th July 1840 the merchant ship “Eden”, with a build weight of 513 tons, set sail from Sheerness, United Kingdom and embarked on a 12,000 nautical mile, six-month journey to Port Jackson, Australia. The Eden carried 270 convicts, a military guard of 28, a crew of some 30 souls, a few brave passengers, cargo and supplies for all. Crossing the equator on the 31st August 1840, the Eden landed in Port Jackson on 18th November 1840 with the loss of one life. The British government was paying sea merchants up to £20 per convict for their Australian long haul passage. [Note average incomes in London in 1840 ranged from £25 per year for unskilled labour and up to £500 per year for doctors and lawyers]. The owners of the Eden, Colvile Wedderburn & Co, could expect income from convict transportation of £5,400 and additional revenue of some £5,000 from paying passengers, cargo and official mail. Operating costs could be up to £10,000 per trip and included crew wages, provisions, maintenance & repairs, and the all-important insurance. These where marginal business enterprises on the way out. But the return journey, rich with wool, wheat, meat, metals like copper and tin, leather, timber and other hard to find produces in Europe made the round trip worthwhile. A good trade could product clear profit of up to £20,000 once off loaded and sold back in the UK or Europe.

    Construction costs in 1826 for large vessels like the Eden ranged from £12 to £20 per ton. The expected building costs of the 513 ton Eden would have been around £10,000. She was built by Fletcher, Son & Fearnall. Notably, this era coincided with Sir Isaac Newton’s fixed gold price of £3 17s 10d per ounce – set earlier in 1717 when he was Master of the Mint. Translated into gold, the construction cost ranges from circa 1,500 to 2,500 ounces. In contemporary terms, this equates to a value ranging from USD 3 million to USD 5 million. Not that much in terms of capacity. A modern version of the Eden, a mid-sized merchant ship would have a DWT of 25,000 tonnes and would cost about USD 100 million to build. Or comparing apples with apples USD 10,000 per ton for the Eden and USD 4,000 per ton for a modern day equivalent.

    A good sea merchant, as Eden’s owner, Colvile Wedderburn & Co having operating the vessel for so long, surely should have been able to recover the cost of building their ship every year she sailed. That’s an ROI of 100%.

    Here’s a extract from the medical journal of Eden’s Surgeon Superintendent George Ellery Forman that he kept from 17 June to 30 November 1840:

    “The system of management of the convicts differed little in that I had adopted on former occasions…. ventilation and cleanliness forming the chief features while the formation of cheerfulness and the affording of all possible occupation to the convicts was practised as much as circumstances would allow; the results were on the whole satisfactory, though I think that more cases requiring medical treatment occurred than I had previously met with; this remark more particularly applied to the month of October during which period the change of climate was sudden and the weather particularly unfavourable to cleanliness, exercise and comfort in general. It was under the last mentioned circumstances that symptoms of scurvy manifested themselves in a light grade and but with a single exception the disease gradually wore away as the weather improved.”

    Reference: Royal Navy Medical Journals, 1817-1857. Medical Journal of George Ellery Forman on the voyage of the Eden in 1840. The National Archives. Kew, Richmond, Surrey.
    Brisbane Street, Ipswich. Many buildings build by James Josey & Co.

    An ANZAC legacy

    At the time of Jame’s passing he had many direct descendants. Of those, 12 of his grandchildren went on to fight during World War 1 as ANZACs. For me, that’s 12 direct paternal ancestors, all great great uncles. Of them, three where killed in action: Major Thomas James Logan at Gallipoli in 1915, Private Harold Gordon Josey in France in 1916 and Corporal Henry Morgan Jones in Belgium in 1917. They are still resting near where they fell in Gallipoli, France and Belgium respectively. Five more where wounded or invalided and four returned physically unharmed. My great grandfather, Andrew Josey, thankfully did not attend the war theatre. However my paternal grandfather, Alfred Leo Josey, and my maternal grandfather, Edward “Digger” Scott (NX046, 2nd 31st Inf. Bat.), both attended the theatres of World War 2, again as ANZACs. Respectively, their theatres where in Libya, Northern Africa, as a rat of Tobruk, and Papua New Guinea on the Kokoda Trail.

    Major Thomas James Logan, 2nd Australian Light Horse Regiment KIA Gallipoli 7 August 1915
    Photos of James Josey’s twelve grandsons and one son-in-law (Captain Whitmore. C. Logan), as they appeared in The Brisbane Courier, pg. 12, 18 November, 1916

    Keeping Trees – and Timber – in the Family

    Some Personal Property Conquests – All Timber

    Blocks of flats are great for cash flow

    One of My Fathers’ Activities Before Retirement

    The Josey’s love of wood continued.

    Moon Wood – Austrian and Australian. Close Enough

    Recently I formed a partnership with Thoma of Austria who produce a 100% Timber earthquake proof building system technology called Holz100. ‘Holz’ means wood in German.

    Here’s what makes Holz100 stand out:

    🏡 Highest earthquake rating from Japan (9.1 Richter)
    🌡️ Thermal rating is the lowest out of any in the industry
    🔇 Sound proofing is the lowest (63 dBa)
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    🚫 Pesticide free, chemical free
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    A 50-year guarantee ensures your home will remain mould-free, a major cause of asthma in children under 6.

    Moon Wood
    Holz100: A Sustainable Housing Revolution

    To find out more about Holz100 see here.

    Jeremiah Josey

    References and Links

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    #Australia #Convicts #JamesJosey #Eden #EdenStation #Ipswich #Gallipoli #WWI #WWII #MoonWood

  • Having an Agenda – to build something

    Welcome to the physical world!! Getting more physical means we want to get together with others and build something.

    And that means meeting.

    And that means: Agenda!

    Agenda = what we want to talk about.

    Each person has the power to contribute. Each person has their agenda.

    As easy as saying what you want a group to discuss is perhaps the single most powerful force that any human has to contribute in any social group.

    In ANY culture!

    Once a person gets their own group talking about what that person wants, then that person has power.

    Power to change, power to improve, power to guide that group. Power for anything they want.

    Just by contributing.

    (Did you know that most social media activity is from an active 0.1% or less of the audience. 1% can be moved to contribute in only simple ways (like pressing “like” in very rare cases). The rest: they just watch. That means in 1,000 people, only 1 will be active).

    Do you know why? Fear.

    And what is the number one killer of any business? Fear.

    The same!

    Ahhh, a clue!

    Business success = doing what most others (99.9%) won’t do = be engaged! Move aside your fear.

    So…..

    Get engaged.

    In a business setting Robert Kiyosaki has a good summary for any broad business agenda (and just use it – always copy when you can, and improve, improvise in time):

    BI Triangle
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    1. Mission
    2. Team
    3. Leadership
    4. Cash flow
    5. Communications
    6. Systems
    7. Legal
    8. Product

    So getting each one of these 8 items “handled” is my typical agenda.

    What is yours?

  • Starting out 2015 with an Ode to Unity

    New Earth

    Today, tomorrow or the next, we will collectively look with our hearts, our minds will be idle. Connecting our third eye through to infinite intelligence, tethering our mind to the guidance of the earth bound resonance we all share from our bodies made from mud, made of this Earth.

    This would then become the discussion and preoccupation of the mind: how to improve this connection, this growth, our expansion. This would be the passage for humanity, our quest, our “salvation”.

    Then what a vision and a vista will be before us. Then, instant balance would ensue, at all levels, all relationships between all humans, all areas.Jeremiah Josey

    Unity.

    One.

    Everywhere.

    Ha! The stronger the mind, the more challenging the quest.

    Only when the mind lowers it’s ever vigilant guard, and allows the heart’s soft utterances through to be felt and amplified by this wondrous body we each possess.

    Then through all, and as one. Instant balance. Instant full potential expansive life for all species on this but a tiny speck of space dust. A speck of diamond, but a spec no less.

    Our minds are brilliant tools. Connect that brilliance to the brilliance of our bodies and soar!

    It is all within reach.Smily Earth All inside each of us.

    Tether the mind. Release our potential.

    Have a happy, happy 2015!

    Earth Hands

  • Appear crazy, but not be crazy

    We drive ourselves crazy when we try to comprehend things beyond our comprehension, trying to make them fit into our own existing paradigm.  That’s being rigid.  Avoid this crazy.  Stretch your own paradigm until it breaks, then you can grab a new one. Then crazy is what you may appear to be, yet you know you are not ;o)

    Like this quote from Ernest

    Become Superior by Ernest Hemingway
    Become Superior by Ernest Hemingway

    Jeremiah Josey

  • Do what you feel you must, do what you feel you want

    Paulo Coelho
    Do it now

    Jeremiah Josey

  • Advice from Richard Branson: give your employees freedom

    By Jack Preston of Virgin

    Richard Branson

    You won’t come across many people who have never had a boss. The thought of not having someone to answer to at work is a peculiar one for most people, however for Richard Branson it’s a natural state of affairs.”Having always worked for myself, I’ve never had to play by anyone else’s rules, and I wouldn’t want to. This attitude has shaped my approach to management since Virgin’s early days, when I decided to grant our employees many of the same freedoms that I enjoy,” wrote the Virgin Group Founder in a recent entrepreneur.com blog.

    Without a rule book to adhere to or a rigid company policy to bear in mind, Branson and his Virgin staff have managed to shake up countless industries over the years. A company defined by a ‘Screw it, let’s do it’ attitude towards tough decisions, Virgin has seen its refreshing outlook pay dividends and win the faith of consumers.

    “Today the Virgin Group is made up of dozens of companies headed by CEOs and managers who have the freedom to run their businesses as they see fit. This philosophy goes against the usual rules of business and may seem unmanageable, but it has turned out to be one of the keys to our success,” explained Branson. Who went on to highlight how this played out for one of the Virgin Group’s newest companies in 2012.

    “Our newest business, the global touring company Virgin Live, had a great launch for this reason. Although the Virgin brand is well respected within the music industry given our roots we had no history of promoting global tours. However, our small, enthusiastic team at Virgin Live beat competition from giants within the industry and won the right to promote The Rolling Stones’ 50 & Counting series of shows. This was a very proud moment for us: If you are going to enter this business, there really isn’t a bigger or better way to show your intentions.

    “Before their show at London’s O2 Arena, I caught up with Mick Jagger to have a word and take a few photos with him and my family. After we were chatting he jokingly asked me if I was going to disappear, because ‘That’s what all the other promoters do.’ I had no intention of doing so. ‘I’ll be seeing you down the front,’ I told him.

    “My family and I watched the show standing in front of our seats near the stage. It was a fantastic night – they put on a marvelous show. Why anyone would have passed up the opportunity to see it is beyond me. I thought later that Mick’s question showed why we had won the contract: Our employees love what they do and throw themselves into the work, so they achieve much more than anyone would expect.”

    Men want freedom, women want security. Give it to them, and life is easy.

    Jeremiah Josey

  • The Climb Takes Effort

    Focus, concentration, endeavour, planning. All of these things are needed to reach any height, obtain any position different to where you are currently.

    Realize that anyone who has anything in this life has obtained it through some effort of some kind. Even in supreme creation, what I call creating from a purely meditative state, takes training, discipline and attention to obtain the necessary state of mind.

    Everyone has put in some form of effort somewhere, and where they are is defined by the effort they contributed.  This is a good reminder.

    Those at the Top
    Those at the Top

    Jeremiah Josey

  • Brilliant, and Ancient Technology

    This is the famous 12 sided stone in Hatum Rumiyoc Street, Cusco, Peru.  It is 1,000’s of years old, carved with a technology long forgotten by man, and is in fact lost to modern science.  We do not know how it was done, and we do not know who did it.  It wasn’t the Incas. There is simply nothing in their technology capable of achieving it.

    The stone is carved from diorite which is a very hard, very rare, igneous rock.  These days we cut it with diamond.

    Why are there 12 sides? It’s elementary my dear Watson: the most efficient and most conservative means to cut a stone is to remove as little material as possible, just make some flat surfaces so you can get a good seal with other rocks (there is not filler or mortar used in this wall).  This is only possible if the means by which you cut the rock is so easy, is so simple, that you do not mind putting in 1, 2, 3, 12 sides to get fit you want.  Cutting rock almost as hard as diamond like a hot knife cuts butter – what reality is needed to achieve that?

    That is another discussion, and includes the Pyramids, and Florida’s Coral Castle – a very, very recent application of a similar and related technology.

     

    Hatum Rumiyoc Street, Cusco, Peru
    12 Sided Stone, Hatum Rumiyoc Street, Cusco, Peru

    Jeremiah Josey

  • Who Decides Right and Wrong

    Abraham Hicks

    As you experience more in life you realize that what used to be right for you becomes wrong and visa-versa.

    Doesn’t that make you think about those definitions in the first place?

    Jeremiah Josey

  • Thoughts – Matter

    Because of how reality works, and because of how our mind works with reality – a synthesizer of reality, of matter – what you put your attention on, what you thoughts comprise of, really, really matters.  It really does.

    Remember it’s like this: thoughts first, matter second: thoughts matter.

    People see only that which they desire and they project their desire ~ OSHO

    Consciousness

    Ohso

    Jeremiah Josey

Jeremiah Josey