The news is out and they say that IP addresses are running out and that there will not be enough to go around, time frame: 1 year! scam or Trillions in opportunity?

The experts( that’s what they call them) say that due to the high rise in technology and the smartphone explosion, and almost anything worth having are using different and unique IP addresses, now were running out of them.

(The internet protocol used by the majority of web users, IPv4, provides for about four billion IP addresses — the unique 32-digit number used to identify each computer, website or internet-connected device. There are currently only 232 million IP addresses left — enough for about 340 days — thanks to the explosion in smartphones and other web-enabled devices.)-FOX news.IP address shortage

30 years ago when they came up with the capabilities and numbers,the idea that phones, refrigerators and A/C’s having IP addresses was just hilarious talk and imagination! Give me a break, so was taking 300 people flying on a thing called a plane 100 years ago!

I thought the very same experts are the visionaries of the future who predict and calculate things with growth patterns including wealth & population growth explosions? technology makes things move faster and delivers results faster, so you do not have to use old thinking hats for the coming years.

Today you can just about almost see where the future is going with the right minds sitting in an open discussion. The breakthroughs we know of and the ones we can’t digest are all here, as they say the future is now.

When I read about the insufficient IP’s I don’t know why but my tracking device suddenly was looking at several ideas that took the world by surprise, things that people knew little or nothing about.

Take for instance the Y2K bug, they didn’t use a bug spray for that one, they used cash spray to solve the problem, mountains of cans. The funny numbers when I was doing my quick research estimated it in 1999 to be between, check this out! between $375 Billion & $750 billion that’s like only 400 billion dollars apart, nice rounding fellas! I think it hit somewhere between 300 & 400 Billion, still a lot of money that could have been put into the many AFRICAN donation programs to save real lives!

The stories are all similar in the run up to the real event, and the prize is usually big, very big in this new case. If its not the Y2K its the mad cow disease, if its not that its the swine flu vaccine that was not enough to go around the world, costing governments and countries an arm & a leg and so on…

Some companies benefited from the bug, check this out..lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZoXxBgDcRg&feature=player_embedded

Now it could be just a hunch I have, but if this hunch is right I guess a black market has already started, and will continue to grow. So what do we do? sit around or dig for answers and pay the piper ahead of the crowd while its still cheap? do nothing? wait for the next big thing? one thing is for sure, its already planned, so enjoy the ride

mamdooh.alradadi wondering what’s next in Jeddah 26th July 2010

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How about that for milking opportunities, even before people know its coming, they kind of anticipate your need in the not so far future and place the bait a few feet away from you, then they wait… I just love visionaries!

A few of my intellect friends on Facebook were asking a question I hear every time someone comes back from Dubai ,and they are quite a few, especially with all the goodies the city carries and due to its geographical neighborhood. “ What does Dubai have that we Saudi’s don’t?” and the answers came showering in.

If I am correct the answers contain words like; Organization, services, regulations, systems, planning, strategy, optimism, respect for others, hospitality, entertainment, foresight, potential, and pride and a bunch of other stuff.

On the 12th of may 2010 Abu Dhabi entered history books by becoming the first to implement this new gold dispenser, think of it as one of those many faced PEZ candy dispensers, only a bit more expensive due to content.Gold ATM in Abu Dhabi

The recent Gold rush in markets fleeing distressed wallets to safety investments, something that actually has a real value”It’s not like a piece of paper driven by shaky politicians and unstable governments,” said Phil Streible, a senior market strategist with futures broker Lind-Waldock. “I feel a lot more comfortable having gold than the euro currency right now.” These people know what they are doing alright, gold broke its all time high today hitting $1250 we were checking and studying it for a while now, we all know its going further up( personal opinion $2000 an ounce soon), they took the matter to the bank.

The machines are said to handle cash only, soon credit and debit cards, but what an idea coming from Germany! saved some money, need to stash some glitter go for it 24 hours with prices changing every 10 seconds. The location is set at the Emirates palace hotel.

This is a country that has serious debt issues and investors watching them with hawks eyes, this is a place that embraced change and knew there would be rough waters, that’s what you get when you plan and act fast.

I can remember back in the early 90’s I was drawn to see Dubai for its duty free marketing madness. I was expecting disney world proportions, I got mom & pop store size, it was a joke! the magical idea was bigger than that, it was promoting a city as the hub of everything passing over, or near its skies. Stop, chill, relax, press continue.

Then they changed the way the world looks at the desert oil countries forever with their architectural dream come true oasis. The skylines suddenly changed, country like Islands emerged from the gulf waters, skiing in the desert was no longer a joke, as my friend Sami puts it” everything ending with (est) biggest, newest, tallest was there. ARMANI has a hotel there, TRUMP is there, investments include famous english football teams, air carriers brands all over the world, DUBAI is now an official brand all on its own.

Suddenly many Saudi cities started imitating the DUBAI styles and we started seeing nice looking buildings and malls, were moving, slow, but that’s a start. The Titanic can’t be compared to a jet boat, size matters. The mindset has been ignited, now we sit and watch, but everyone should be focused and determined in his own domain to change.

We should always cherish creativity and embrace change in everything we do, but we need to know where we’re heading? the mega projects initiated by the King have set the pace of things to follow, now its everyones chance to make it happen.

Yes we are suffering and we continue to complain on how things are done and the speed they are done in, but I know one thing for sure, we got nowhere, now lets all pitch in and make the change. Being burnt many times I know what it feels like to fail due to surroundings and bureaucratic government agencies, but I was not made to fail, I still move on. Thinking about our children’s future is a great motive, thinking of making history for our country is a main objective too, one step at a time, but faster please.

What do you think it is that we should do that can be done? its not the money, or the minds, nor is it the location, and its not the weather… so what is it? where should we look? how shall we tackle it? who is to blame? should we blame or move forward?

One area where we can hike the productivity levels and speed the rollout of services, products and technology implementation is higher service benchmarks, its the only way to go! we are not a service community, far from it. The other day someone posted a status asking what company or service in Saudi arabia should be mentioned? one company came back as an answer!

A search for talent should be conducted in various sectors, cross selling their expertise and bringing them up to one standard across the board. Really reward the good, so good they will never leave you. Remove the rotten and make them examples of what not to be, seek the weeds and pluck them one by one, reward the finders for their efforts. Reward the great and brave, give them more empowerment and trust, fuel their efforts.

Listen to the customer, do not rely on agencies, do it yourself, its easy, just go down to street level and ask them in the face on different times and occasions, and reward them for their time, respect!

Its a long story this DUBAI thing, I am sure they will push me to write something in the very near future, let me know what you think…

mamdooh.alradadi envying DUBAI for their success and wishing them more of it!

me@mamdoohalradadi.com

• Something happens in your life that changes your direction and thinking, travel more.
• Someone makes your day with a simple smile, just enough hope to make it through, follow through.
• Some idea sparks you up and ignites your genius, go get em Einstein.
• Some feeling is all it takes to make the switch, like an itch screaming for attention, listen.
• Some tragedy slaps you awake, learn and move on.
• Some hurt breaks you in pieces, your only human, the strong shall survive.
• Some girl betrays you and turns on your self destruct button, turn it off.
• Some little girl in the street catches your attention, do not shoo her away.
• Some fight makes you think about your belief system, is it time for an upgrade?
• Some things seem just that, accept the simple truth.
• Sometimes it seems that all the world is against you, probably is, change your mindset.
• Some foods, drinks, music bring memories, choose your foods, let the good times run.
• Some people know your hot buttons, diffuse them.
• Some actions are side steps and not the real deal, search, then react.
• Some beautiful things pass you by, slow down and admire, it brings wisdom to the wondering eye.
• Somewhere over the mountain, there is that fountain that quenches your thirst, seek it, enjoy.
• Some one told me a secret, it no longer is, she said she only told another.
• Some love affairs never see the light at the end of the tunnel, shine on!
• Some minute you get it, the other you don’t! welcome back to reality.
• Some idea seemed wonderful and doable, then that thing hit the fan, keep your drawing board handy.
• Some lazy afternoon you plan your life, good start.
• Some confusion becomes an illusion and the decision is made, move.
• Someones loss is your gain, and when you lose, someone too will gain, give & take freely.
• Some people are worth your time, how much is your time worth again?
• Some interactions make you wonder why not? some make you ask why?
• Some breakups happen for the right reasons, the other 90% are communication gaps.
• Some faces are remembered for ever, many disappear, let the important ones know it.
• Some one hugs you, do you really feel it, or are you faking it? some things you just can’t.
• Some colors make you smile, paint your days sunny.
• Some folk bring you down, others pick you up. You can never get enough of the good stuff, don’t forget to throw out the garbage.
• Some gossip for gossips sake, others seek truth, and some just get lost between the two, who got married? how could she? the &*(%$ thought I was going to steal him!
• Some artists become famous while living, the other 95% fame came late, a bit too late for them to witness it, passion.
• Some let you down, look up and you don’t need them no more.
• Some excite you, some make you, some love you, some hate you, some envy you, some cherish you, some can’t live without you, some anticipate you, some understand you, some walk with you, some run away from you, some seek you, some hint, some shy away, someone out there is in need for you, some.

Every once in a while you must stop, collaborate & listen. Every once in a while you will lose something in exchange for something, with or without that someone, you need to keep on moving. Every once in a while you need to understand to be understood.

mamdooh.alradadi on some lazy friday afternoon.

me@mamdoohalradadi.com

I used to laugh at my dad when he was working, pointing out the fact that I would never end up a book worm like him, he simply laughed. He never forced, argued, stuffed into my mind the importance of reading, he had a plan.

He noticed how fascinated I was with two things; airplanes & cartoons. So he gave me more of the good stuff, more cartoons and more information on airplanes. On the first side, cartoons, he noticed I loved comics, so he made sure I get every copy of a certain weekly comic and on the other hand subscribed to a long forgotten magazine called airplane, I had every single issue for 7 years, and I should have been a pilot with all the aeronautical information I knew.

Living as a kid in the west in the late 70’s was OK for TV & other forms of communication, but in Saudi Arabia technology and communications were years behind. My early command of the english language was a wonderful head start in the right direction. I had hundreds of english publications in front of me, and suddenly non! all programs and tv shows were in english, and suddenly a few every week.

My father was wise enough to know that the seed was planted, long before the land( me in this case) even felt it. He knew that once you ride the literature world in any form or way, you are a prisoner forever. He only needed to maintain and irrigate the farm from time to time to make sure it was a good harvest.

That fine seed that came in the form of a comic called Battle( a world war 2 comic) was all it took to grow a whole forest, and that forest is connected to another forest, and somehow the forests connect with jungles and landscapes of never ending fountains of information and knowledge pouring on me till this day.

What I know now, is not what I knew then, or even yesterday, you have to make sure you grow daily, intake, keep the flows of information coming, do not block them, make way for ideas, creativity, different views, side views, birds eye view, macro, micro, opposite sex ideology, even different life form communication skills if ever there was a need.

Like a domino effect, things fall in perspective. My father told me many years ago,that sometimes a book will pay you back 100 times its cost in future earnings when he saw my book addiction, the way I shock book stores with my enormous pile of different subjects ranging from business to child psychology and the many communication and networking books. I managed to ease the crazy book shopping on my travels after a guy called Jeff bezos opened a little shop called Amazon, I know I’m big there cause I have a little title that spells Prime .

I still don’t know what I want? what I like? its all good in my view, all really good, to know, to understand, to listen, to examine, to be amazed by the planet that we live in and all the things it holds in it. Everything that man ever thought of and brought to life has a trail, I love to follow trails, sometimes its great to follow a trail that brings you back to where you already are, makes you wonder, is there a shorter path? keep looking, keep digging, keep reading.

My message is to all the young people out there, and this time all the older people out there too, plant the seeds, and take care of your harvest, you would only know the power of the internet today if you lived in the back then era!

I am proud and amazed at the young people of today. They bring light to this life with the level of understanding and broad spectrum they posses. The technology has brought to us today a whole new life form of intellects and we the elder should act accordingly and with responsibility.

Here are my 10 requests from anyone reading this:

1. Plant the seeds in your youngsters as early as possible and with love and care and a whole lot of understanding of their like and dislikes.
2. Look deeper into your surroundings, does it spell information or history, update your systems faster than you did 3 years ago. What you know today is totally obsolete in 2.5 years, keep learning in your area and outside it constantly.
3. Never force information in, let it take its natural form, by desire to learn.
4. Follow your heart and read what you want, when you want, as long as you want, set your own parameters and make sure that trespassers will be shot.
5. Take a broad view of things and how they relate, look outside your box, ask more questions, more and more people love it when you ask them, don’t take it from bullies, take it from the people who love to give.
6. Ask more questions, debate anything, do your homework and investigate before you ask, it will give you better answers and faster responses.
7. Do not waste time with the blabber mouths, the know it alls, the one way communicators, the “hear my story” every time people, the ones that just want to talk, you know the ones that start to answer before you finish the question kind,
8. Find your reading style, find your book preferences( do you like them small, big, spaced out and white?) find your best digestion time, carry books and magazines with you.
9. Manage your reading, cut newspaper & magazine articles and carry them with you, find out if you like it soft copy( on the computer) or hard copy?read opposite sex magazines, read outside your field, check out comics for instant stress relief, read fitness magazines, read beyond headlines in newspapers.
10. Take your reading seriously. In the end you will be judged by what comes out of your mouth when asked a question, you will be categorized wether you like it or not, you will be able to  express yourself clearer and win more communication battles with knowledge, you can relate things better, you can be more creative, you can manage change faster and easier, knowledge is power for the seekers.

Imagine all the peoples brains we walk in and out of daily? hope you enjoyed walking in my mind today, I did say no running around didn’t I? have a great day

mamdooh.alradadi

me@mamdoohalradadi.com

What would happen if an F-16 or a new Jumbo Jet landed in the time of the Romans, or the Pharoe’s or even before or surprised Jenkis Khan during his domination?What would the look on their faces be when they thought their invention of gun powder was the new might and you nuked them? OK that’s mean, how about I take on a whole army with one machine gun and some grenades?

What if I showed them a trick or two with my little toy planes and laser pointers, or stunned them with a Hummer truck, ran them over with a 1940 Panza Tank during one of the stupid wars to take more ground? How about introducing a TV with a DVD player with real people playing a sport which will only be known after another 1000 or so years?

What if I take a photo of them and show them what they look like, how about I introduce the mirror and then shortly after that introduce creams and cosmetics, the Hair brush and comb, the scissors, the electric shaver, the perfume… now you would have to start think marketing here, would it actually be too early for manhood? maybe they liked their stink, they loved their hairy bodies, the ugly nose was fashionable, and so forth.

Now lets dive deeper, if your an average human, you know the house fly, that little pest that comes in and sits on your favorite food or warms itself with your coffee in a cold room, well imagine the technical one made by humans. Now take that and take it only 100 years back to 1910 what do you think will happen to the guys behind the innovations you enjoy today?

What about the small and big creatures we keep finding on our planet? the ones that cant see but have headlights to lure smaller creatures for survival? we still don’t know, but insist on knowing more and more, it never ends, and if it does then you just started to get the big  picture. They say innovate, don’t imitate, irrelevant yet so powerful in its deep meanings.

How about the satellite this and the satellite that? remember back in the 80’s the large formats of videos and arcade games? well how would you like to walk around back then as a teenager with a mobile phone that has it all and so. so much more stuff? What would the fancy cameras and KODAK do when you slap them with a digital photo? And how about that famous TV producer and Hollywood gang do when you dig out of your purse a video camcorder the size of a pack of cigarettes? what would MP3 do to the music industry in the 70’s 80’s and 90’s forget mozart and the other bunch of amazing musicians.

Now when we hold our breath and dive a bit more, i want you to capitalize on this day & ages technological breakthrough’s in medicine and saving people. What would the grandaddy of modern day science Leonardo Da Vinci do with all his breakthroughs, I guess he would be a happy man knowing that he led us so far with so little, great man.

Now lets take a thing we only say WOW! when we see a new model and move on with our day. Back in the early 1900’s or even in the wild wild west days, or take it back a bit to the days of the glorious warriors who rode horses as a mean of fast travel, and you guessed right, drive by them in a Range Rover sport or even a speed bike, forget that maybe just cruise by in a laid back Harley. Would they drop dead in fear?

From telling the time to travel, from our modern day science labs to this computer I type on, from the communication tools we complain about to the small italian espresso machine in my living room, from the iphone to the invention of sushi, take a leap of faith into the future and whatever you have today will be tomorrows joke.

We should be thankful for the wishful thinking of our ancestors and everyone in between, we should thank the thinkers, the believers, the funders, the users, the complainers who made things better, we should thank the pessimists and the optimists, the eager beavers and the thrill seekers, the people who swam against the rising tide, the brave boys that took the lead into the unknown should be recognized not only in text books but in daily newspapers to remind the new generation of what it takes to move on in this mysterious world, we should embed the spirit of evolution in every thing we do, we should ask on a continuos basis: what next?” were do we go from here? were are we headed? and keep moving.

Never underestimate the power of questioning, there is no such thing as stupid questions and ideas, they all mean something, in the end.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out. Max Plank

If you did not hear, its time to hear now. The country(Jeddah,Saudi Arabia) drowns every year, every single year for the last 20 years or more, yes! 20 years, not 4 or 7, 20! and guess what? its not the governments fault either. The governement as with many projects has priorities and when it locks into a serious one, adheres to the laws of nature and makes way for natural disasters.

When you look up Natural disaster, you will never find rain there. You will find Volcanoes, Earthquakes, mud slides..etc. but never normal rain! I am not refering to the heavy rains of Portland that last 9 month’s a year, or the London rain either, I am talking about a couple of harmless rainy days good for the crops, good for cleaning the streets, or drowning the people in Saudi Arabia’s streets.

My city, Jeddah and its rural areas all seem to be a sitting duck each and every year when the rainy season arrives and hits our land. We pray for it to come, and when it comes we curse the living daylights out of it! We have been a victim of corruption at the municipality levels for many years now, then there is the ministry for water and sewage or whatever that is, each and every single year they get away with it. People drown, houses sink, cars submerge and go deep street diving, people barely make it alive, large trucks and SUV vehicles sales soar, old beaten down ones dissapear. Families lose everything, helicopters try and save what they can, and I hear now they are looking for proffesional divers to save people in BRIDGES AND TUNNELS! I thought diving was a sea activity?

We manage to supply 40% of the world oil like no other, the government appoints capable people who said they could deliver, only to find them uncapable of delivering basic human needs in any city like Sewage systems! I mean if a country that has a much lower income than Saudi Arabia by the Billions, shouldnt that country drown faster than us?

The sewage and drainage systems seem to be a hot topic only when the rain hits the fan, otherwise forget it! You leave your home head to work, come back and its drowning. You leave your products in a storage and you come back its gone. You leave livestock and its gone. You leave your 100,000 dollar cars in a garage and its gone. You can even leave your pets and children and wonder if you ever come home and find them alive!

Is it not time we move Natural rain to serious disastor status and handle it with extreme importance and priority before we lose everything of importance to pure ignorance? Is it not time we started hearing what the other people have to say and not the ones that handle municipalities and sewage/ drainage systems that never saw the light, I do believe the very people that mangae these areas live in well preserved areas and not the same areas that the poor ones that drown do.

I, like many Saudi’s living in areas( A very famous area in jeddah city, actually close to the municipality building!) that suffer from this yearly pouring problem, do dream of a day when I actually enjoy the rain instead of cry and wait for it to stop and go away like a bloody toothache! For toothcaches we have dentists, for pouring rain we need to pray and hope our prayers are heard and the rain pours only on the people that caused this problem, and see them trying to get out alive and watch their cars and homes drown, the very same municipality/sewage/drainage people that we dread, the very same drainage minister, the very own construction people that said it was done, and went to sleep in their fancy cottages in switzerland. Even when the tunnels were made and we were happy as it saved time, but sadly took lives! I hear the King God bless him, gave a special honorary award to a young man who saved a couple drowning by going deep diving in the tunnel to pull them out!!

If the governement paid for it, it is no longer their problem, they trusted people to perform and deliver what they were paid to do, now it is time to check your scores, and your scores are a soar sight for eyes, you see problems like this don’t just evaporate, they grow to larger magnitudes, and kill people.

Here comes the Rain again, pouring on my head like a new emotion…. Eurythmics.

p.s. I am actually writing this while enjoying the Rain in London, knowing I can still move,people will go to work, like every other day and the city will not drown to some clown who forgot to unplug the bath tub water stopper!

 By far its time to learn how to dance in the rain, and not make like an ostrich and hide your head in the sand everytime it rains.

mamdooh.alradadi

me@mamdoohalradadi.com

They used to gather every weekend, we used to accompany them by force, they used to have fun as sisters and brothers with their whole family, they were my aunts and uncles. We were young children then, only observers as they say, we only digested and filtered what we wanted to remember and threw the rest to the cats.

• They used to have fights every week, and meet the very next. We have the same fights, we meet after months.
• The wife has daily battles with her husband, makes up the next day as if nothing ever happened, and does it again & again, we choose the easy way out and divorce one another.
• People took peoples words to the Bank, today we take them to court.
• Simple was king back then, complicated is the way to be today.
• Schools forced us to learn back then, garbage in garbage out, schools are starting to listen in on humans real needs for progress.
• Controlled directed information was then, today its up for grabs, its what you do with it that counts.
• Cars were Bigger, gas thirsty, now they are mean and lean, tiny and cute, trying to free themselves from gas and ready for a Sun tan instead.
• Managers were Bosses then, today they are part of the team.
• Pepsi and Seven up were icons back then, now its back to basics and natural, how ironic?
• Sell, Sell, Sell was the way of yesteryear, service, service, service is what it is now.
• Expensive travel and phone calls are replaced with train fare air travel and hours of free air time to chat on the phone.
• Post cards are replaced with email messages and sms mumbo jumbo.
• Music was really made by real people then, today its electronic most of the time, love was the theme back then, its hard core house and brain draining techno today.
• Business was done by long traveling days and exploration, today its B2B without leaving your office.
• Movies were about wars and horror, now they are about funny and run away from reality more than ever.
• Marriage is taken lightly and faster today, it was a life sentence back then, one you wanted to serve the years.
• World domination and cold wars were replaced with strategic political takeovers today.
• Reading was written in finely binded books, you can have the same today in PDF ebooks.
• Food was wholesome, today its the latest version of fresh fast food.
• Mom and pop stores filed the world, today they are replaced with things they call Mega Malls, and Hyper Markets with cheaper items.
• What was handsome and pretty back then is not so these days, the measures have changed so fast no one knows what to expect.
• Women were the backbone and never reached the highest ranks in the past, today men are aware of them eventually taking over their male dominant world for the last 20 centuries,
• Children were fragile in the early years, now they are forming into a stronger kind of children driven by the new fast lifestyles they live today.
• Money was cash and coins, today its electronic.
• Travel agencies were a big deal and actually the only deal, today they are replaced with expedia.com & hotels.com.
• Learning was on campus, today in your pajamas at your mac.
• American muscle cars ruled the planet for more than 70 years, today the far east and Europe are bringing the American car companies to a melt down, They are now starting to listen to their customers like the Japanese did in the 70’s on American soil.
• People had no choice on what to watch except for their countries broadcasting arms, today you can watch a program airing in the US within 24 hours in the Middle East.
• Music was made on LP’s and Cartridge tapes, today its Mp3 electronic music. Movies were on big rolls of film today on DVD and computer files.
• Computers had 128 mb memory, today phones have 4 GB’s of internal memory expandable to 8GB and more.
• Photos were taken and developed in 24 hours, now you can take the same one 100 times and edit it, upload it to the net in less than 2 minutes.
• In the old days the ugly people or so they say, were labeled that for as long as they lived. Today you walk into a clinic and change your look as many times as you wish and have that pointed nose you always wanted or those hairs you longed for after you lost yours.

Back then for me to write to you all everyday would be a killer task, today I write to you in my towel ready for my midnight shower before I sleep and just press publish and its yours!

If back then is now in a few days or years, have a great then & now

mamdooh.alradadi

me@mamdoohalradadi.com

Anything you missed during school is sure to land on your lap at the local coffee shop. Small whispers of politics and other social blabbering is a part of the daily ritual. People tend to meet up at neutral grounds to release the days load, or get ready for a new day with the famous paper and mug sight.

Coffee shops will always be around, they are a gathering of the minds, just like the playground was our former sweet spot when we were younger. We gather to share and boast our daily or weekly gains. We gather to share our wisdom. We gather to spill our milk on someone’s lap. We make way for a new day by loading up on caffeine or nicotine and OJ. We digest as fast as possible our daily sports gossip, political moves, cultural debates, and a big chunk of knowledge on what is going on.

When I get to a coffee shop, I tend to grab one of the favorite newspapers, go to the back check out the daily cartoon, scan fast, check out the front, go to the daily horoscope, move to the business side real fast, check the markets, check the social arena and space out. Its a matter of perspective on what you want to read in the morning. we all know what is going on in the world:

• There will always be a war in one part of the world, for peace they say.
• There will be a winner in football.
• There will be a victim or two killed by acts of violence in your area.
• There will be arguments on local ministries or municipalities.
• There will be funny stories.
• There will be millions made and lost.
• There will be cool adverts.
• There will be weather disasters.
• There will be success stories.
• There will be country changes.
• There will be a fight going on between one performer and another.
• There will be witty columns to get us started.
• There will be politicians blabbering there mouths off instead of doing something faster.
• There will be scandals and community outrage on local happenings.

What do you choose from the above to start your day. If you are a business person, you need most of the above, and sometimes you can have someone highlight the main events. But in reality we don’t need 90% of the naked truth on newspapers and TV news stations. Imagine the following;

You start the day with a newspaper that has the following news articles only:

• The stock market rises 200 points for 5th day, the average investor has made at least 90% gains.
• The war in Palestine has come to an end with both parties agreeing to move on peacefully.
• The war in IRAQ is really over all troops are back in their countries, the country is making great progress.
• The ARMS factories are filing for bankruptcy as sales for new arms fall to their lowest levels in 10 years, no one seems to need them!
• The average rate of unemployment has dropped a staggering 80% and continues to drop, meaning almost everyone is finding a job.
• There have been no traffic accidents this week, this section will be discontinued due to lack of accidents in the last few years.
• The Africa poverty levels are diminishing rapidly after 3 major companies have decided to send in each 50% of their income for this social awareness campaign.
• AIDS treatment now available for free with astonishing 1 week treatment success levels.

I can imagine the levels of enthusiasm you will have that day.

Remember that everything you read or see or feel will have an impact directly or indirectly on your well being.

Why not choose what to digest?

Mamdooh Al-Radadi

Me@mamdoohalradadi.com