Why were cornflakes invented you may ask? So do thousands of people to really find out whether or not there is any truth to the rumour. That rumour being as reported in ‘NEWS‘ that Mr Kellogg, the man who created Corn Flakes, produced the cereal in the late 19th century and marketed it as a…
In the growing world of social awareness, products which violate anything, which goes against ones ethics, is one which is bound to come under scrutiny. From what seemed a distant memory, which has floated away with the breeze, has risen again with the strength of Social Media and in particular Facebook. Social Media is becoming…
It was only a few days ago that I was ranting on about how failing is winning. Today it seems the Lazy Susan has spun towards an ugly beef and black bean sauce, known as, success within the music industry. So here is a little piece on advice for bands starting out. For some time…
Ruslan Kogan is a rag’s to riches story and is one, which demonstrates how the power of an idea, lateral thinking, empowerment of staff and cheeky tenacity, can lead to amazing results. Ruslan like many entrepreneurs, does not come from a background of wealth and like myself, comes from an immigrant family, who decided to…
There was a moment in life where I realised that the system was not meant for me and realise how redundancy changed my life for the better. For over a decade of trying to build my career profile within the corporate marketing world, having worked across a range of large companies, that time was coming…
When I find little nuggets of information that I know can help people now in the future I always love sharing them. I came across this little find of the 6 Year Rule CGT Exemption ATO rule on our property purely by accident. In the hunt to understand how much equity I would have in…
I have this continued internal monologue with myself in regards to sports people and think, are professional athletes paid too much? How did it even get to this point where I am actually writing about it. Yes, a top class athlete is a special kind of person, yes then can jump high and they can…
Australia is a massive country it measures almost 4,000 kilometres wide and is approximately 3,800 kilometres high. This is from the most northern point to the most southern point of Tasmania (the part most people forget to include in this measurement). How long does it take to drive around Australia you ask? It takes 14 days if you…
The thought of eating one meal a day seems like a daunting task to many. This has become commonly known as the OMAD diet and has steadily increased in its popularity over the last decade. Whilst this is not a mainstream way of eating it has definitely grown in popularity as intermittent fasting has grown….
As the beer loving nation that we are in Australia, I’m surprised that the knowledge of how many pints in a keg isn’t common knowledge. Well, the surprising fact here is that a commercial sized beer keg has 49.5 litres (Australian standard beer keg size) so with the knowledge of the standard pint size being 568ml, doing…