Ryan, Pim & the Green Man

Ryan, Pim & the Green Man

We have just returned from a family business trip to Europe which had a number of family objectives in mind. We must say that due to the late night hours put in by our Young travel agent that the trip was described as ‘brilliant’ by the family. It proves the old adage that ‘plenty of preparation & perspiration produces a perfect performance’. Thank you to that Young travel agent who completed the many & complex details involved.

We commenced in London where Ryan guided us around various Harry Potter film locations & helped to turn those abstract ideas from the books into the concrete.
This could also be said with the family viewing those traditional tourist sites such as Big Ben which we had read about in Peter Pan with Wendy & Mr. Darling.
We visited the palaces such as Windsor & Buckingham & Hampton Court where a common feature was an audio tape describing the history & an insight into the site.
St Paul’s similarly provided the audio to fill out the details. We become comfortable with travel in London quickly with the bus & tube maps very helpful guides.

As Ryan had mentioned other Harry Potter film locations were in Oxford so we checked out the great hall at Christ Church College & the Cloisters at New College. It was here that we meet an old classmate who is now a professor at Oxford University. We discussed why our university & our class were so successful & concluded it was our parents & teachers & professors who had guided & mentored & coached us.

We flew to Ireland where brother Pim had provided a suggested itinerary. After a debate the family agreed on a ‘Never Lost’ or ‘Tom Tom’ or ‘Navman’ would be essential to navigate out of the cities & around the byways of a green Ireland. It would have been extremely stressful & maybe a breaking point if we had attempted our Ireland walkabout with out this guidance tool.

We flew into Amsterdam where Pim took over as our guide. Here we were introduced to the Green man at the pedestrian crossing. We were to move only when he appeared. Otherwise you could be mowed down by cars in one way streets or the Dutch Bike coming from either direction on a separate bikeway. It was noted that one bike stand had allegedly 40,000 bikes & close to zero cyclists wore helmets. What a comparison to over regulated Wonderland. Hence we were able to maximise the moment & the few days there to do the canal trips, study van Goff & train to Zandvoort. We didn’t check out the coffee shops as we were a family group.

Pim was also our guide to Paris. We would not have seen so much if we didn’t have his local knowledge. He attributed his French language skills to a particular teacher of French in his last term of grade 10.

It was during our flight home that we heard that the master coach Robbie Deans had the Wallabies producing a win after 10 consecutive losses to the All Blacks.

We returned to Wonderland where the standard answers to ‘what’s been happening?’ was ‘nothing’. Well we achieved more or maybe what we expected due to our planning & our guides. If it wasn’t for Ryan & Pim & our other mentors & coaches we also would have achieved ‘nothing’.

This week the RBA is punishing the mortgage holders & families are going to be under more financial stress. However the CBA decided that a 0.25% increase wasn’t sufficient & has increased their mortgage rate by nearly double that amount or 0.45%. Of course 6 billion in profits each is good for shareholders.

The Courier mail reports that the battlers on average have $18 left each week after basic costs. It is no surprise to us & iIf you are financially squeeced then our active wealth strategy to reduce debt & Taxx is worth contacting us.

If you imagine & dream that as most of our contempories do that you will want that big trip at 60 then it is cheaper to plan today than procrastinate until tomorrow. If you want to do that trip several times then in the bank account isn’t good enough.

If you want that ‘we saw the Kimberley Outback for $85K – definitely camping with a hint of luxury!!!’ For that active grey lap that Robyn was looking at then saving now is cheaper than a loan in the future.

Welcome to call on 3848 1088 or email us on info@wealthcoach.net.au. We all need guides & coaches to help us achieve our goals. It is no use reinventing the wheel & ‘dentists don’t pull their own teeth’.

The Red Queen used the word dialogue several times in one interview we heard today. She was out of the country & it was for an international audience. She certainly doesn’t do so here as it is all one way.

Let’s have a dialogue over a meal. We promise that you will know more about your financial jigsaw after our meeting & we certainly won’t waste your time. It won’t cost you anything but the effort.


John McAuliffe