Hi there! I'm Sandi Olak, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube, and I'm going to do some no-line watercolor flowers today. This is a Mother's Day stamp set, but you can use the flowers themselves any time of year as well, if you like doing flowers. I've stamped my flowers onto some arches watercolor paper, the cold press kind, in a couple of pigment inks. So the flowers themselves are in a yellow called mimosa from Avery Elle. The stamp set, by the way, is from Avery Elle. And I did the words in, I believe it was, I don't remember the name, but it's going to be in the dimly, too, because I did write it down. And so that's one of their red inks. And when you do no-line watercolor, sometimes it can really teach you about how to paint a flower. So these little pretty roses are going to be teaching us some lessons about flowers. You can go from the outside of the flower and put the dark color on the outside. You can do it from the inside. You can play around with bouncing back and forth between both. And I'm using Permanent Yellow Deep. It's one of the colors from my dot card collection, my favorite colors. And I was going to add a little bit of transparent purel orange in here, and it was just like too much. So I went back to just going to the Permanent Yellow Deep, went a little bit too far with that. And I liked it just with this really soft, beautiful, creamy yellow. And I like this because it's more of a Y17 yellow for those of you who like my Copic marker stuff. That's my favorite color. And when my mom gets this, and hopefully she's not watching it. Mom, if you're watching this, turn it off. You can watch it after Mother's Day. And just putting some more color in those little buds. I'm going to use two greens here, a sap green, which is absolutely my favorite of all the greens. It's a very natural color, but it's got some vibrance to it as well. It's not kind of a dead color, but it's also not electric. I don't like those, you know, really screaming bright ones, except for other uses when I'm doing plants. I like the sap green and some, you know, some other of the no more rich, earthy types of greens. So I'm using also a silver brand brush from the Black Velvet line. I believe this is the number eight, I think, yes. And I've been using larger brushes, you may have noticed. I'm slowly getting myself there. And this was the second time I painted it because the first time I realized it was too much to try to paint those stems when this was wet. So if you want to add stems, wait till the rest of it is dry because mine turned into a giant blob when I did that. And I eventually ended up not doing the stems at all. But the first time I tried it, I totally wrecked it by trying to put little stems in there. And even switching to a smaller brush wouldn't have helped because it was just the fact that everything was all wet. And generally trying to bounce around your image and paint things that aren't touching each other can be really helpful. So I'm just going to fill in a couple of these in the sap green before I switch to another green because I don't want them all to be identical green. And you can also mix greens, you can mix some of your sap green with some yellow or with a little bit of red with another color to try to change them up. You can put some blue in it, that sort of thing. And then green appetite is one of my other favorites. And the reason is because green appetite has some granulation in it. I love granulation. That's where the color kind of breaks down into a texture. I really, really like that a lot. But one of the things I really learned from this that I enjoyed in painting this whole cluster of flowers and greens, look at the difference in the sizes of the flowers, the sizes and shapes and variety in the leaves. So if you're painting flowers, make sure you get some variety in there because look at how intricate some of the areas are, these tiny little leaves I'm painting. Other areas, nice big flowing loose leaves. So every time you're working on a stamp set, think about that. If you're going to carry some of those ideas into other artwork that you do, if you have a sketchbook that you work in or trying to do finished paintings, see what you can learn from what you're creating here. And what I really liked was the variety of shapes and sizes in the stamp set from Favriel. Very nicely done.  And those tolerated much better during my little stems. I did not wreck it. And we're back to my sap green for one more large leaf. And the palette that I'm using, there is a palette tutorial here on my YouTube channel. I can link you to that either at the end or in the doobly-doo. And if I forget, leave me a comment. But I have a video showing you how I put my palette together. And after all this was dry, I went back in and started adding another layer of color on top of what I already had here. It's just to give it a little bit of richer color, because I wanted it to just be a little stronger. It was feeling very soft and not necessarily weak, but I just wanted more punch to it. So this is just by adding another layer of the same colors right on top. And fortunately, that Pyrril Orange did go away a bit, because it was a little much in what I was trying to add to it. If you want more of a peach color, you can mix some Pyrril with it or some other red with it. But it's helpful to do that and mix up enough of that color that you get through your whole flowers. And I tend to use the straight-up color that are in my pans in my palette, rather than trying to mix them, because I don't usually have enough sense to mix enough of the color at one time to get the whole painting done. And then I'm kind of stuck in the middle without enough paint. So that's kind of a problem. So here's where I decided it was okay to add a little more of the transparent Pyrril Orange just to a few select areas. Now that I have my flower more defined and look at how much richness that's adding by just putting a little tiny bit of it, and it's not much, it's pretty watered-down pigment, but it can really make a difference. And now my greens were looking soft by comparison, so it was time to add a little detail to them. And even though it's not drawn in the stamp, I'm adding kind of half of each leaf in shadow. You can add all different kinds of things to them. You can add veins and everything if you want to get really fussy, but sometimes just a half a leaf is enough to make it feel different and feel like there's a little more fussiness going on. In this one, I tried to add some veins, and that got a little bit to be a bit of a pain. So one half of the leaf was veins, and the other half was just going to be a solid darker color using the green appetite on top of the sap green. And you'll notice there's not a whole lot of that yellow stamped ink showing. So when you're talking about no-line watercolor, pick a color that you're going to be able to cover with whatever you're coloring. So if you're coloring in blues, then stamp it in a very light blue, the palest blue that you can, so that that can be painted right over top of and sort of disappear.  So in order to make it look white, I had to put color around it. So I took a very watered down sap green, very, very light, and just added a little haze of it right around all of the flowers. And when you're trying to blend that out into white, just wash your brush and use just a little bit of water and pull that color out just with the water. Or you can dab it off with a paper towel, different kinds of things. And then I just needed to add a little bit more detail in the centers of my flowers. And that white flower didn't come out completely looking like it was popping enough, so I added just a little extra sap green underneath of it. The finished card, I die cut that center panel and I went, wait a minute, I have this beautiful watercolor paper panel on the outside, and both edges are stitched from this die. Through some matching colors, I just slathered them on that frame and nested them back together for my finished card. So I hope you enjoyed this video. I will see you guys next time. You can click on my face to subscribe to my channel, watch some more videos here, and I will link you also to watercolor class in case you're interested in that. And I will see you guys later. Thanks and have a great day. Bye-bye.


Good day and welcome back to the first time home by ashore. I'm your host esti class and as you know We've got amazing content coming to you live every weekday this week We've got some until guacamole with the private property podcast That's live every evening from Monday to Friday at 7 p.m And of course in Bali comes to your screens with the farming podcast at 8 p.m Every Tuesday and Thursday evening and of course me I come to your screens every Wednesday at 8 p.m That's on Instagram Facebook and YouTube and last but not least Chad Vaviros twers and Zanzi Johannesburg from Danefern Gulf Estate all the way to Sant and CBD looks at amazing mansions and houses That's Chad Vaviros with the home shopper show That's every Monday and Friday at 8 p.m And guys remember you can find us on Instagram Facebook and YouTube also if you have a story to share Let us know slide in our DMs. We're waiting for you But without further ado Nomsas with me this evening and guys I need you to sit back this evening because today's show You know we're talking about everything from starting your property journey at a very young age to what is a property portfolio specialist Nomsa Khabati. Good day. Good day. How are you? I am doing so I say how are you? I'm well. You said you were a little bit nervous. Why? I think that pressure to be right. Oh, yeah, because you know, it's a lot of It's a lot of people who tune in and this is advice that Just every day, South Africans are following. You know the economy that we're living in so yeah, we need to give them content that is Yeah, yeah, Nomsa you're just in deep The show started like this Yeah, you're right. I think not so much. I don't want to put you under pressure not so much about being right Because I believe that you know every lesson that we learn or every a little bit of input that you give us is Just new knowledge You know, there's something you know that I I don't even know and just to be in your space You know, it's such a privilege to learn from you because no, there's things, you know that I don't even Haven't even come across and the things that you know that I don't know and I think Exchanging information from each other the man who knows he knows knows he knows nothing at all. Exactly. Oh, I like that I used to say that I want to talk about Like I said, I even introduced you and I said you've gotten in you got into property at a very young age And you know 21, right? That's when you started. What was your main influence? So I started real estate at 19. Mm-hmm and how that happened was I was running a hair business And it wasn't doing very well and I needed money to pump into it And I'll have varsity as well, right taking care of myself and I interned at a very Amazing company and when I got there the boss was like, don't you want to just take over this whole office? Oh, wow I am I'm tired and I was like, do you know do you know that I have no experience? I You don't even know me. He's like, no, there's something about you. Oh, wow, do your thing. Let's see and I really had fun running that office until I had to move from the Northwest to a different province, right and from that I Also ran somebody else's company and I ran it by myself I think that's when people started noticing who Nam Sa was and this is when I was 21 now. Oh, wow, and it was really It was really an eye-opener because from a young age. I knew I wanted to get into real estate Yeah, but they aren't there isn't enough information about how to get into it how to make a success out of it and luckily I wasn't under that much pressure to Provide for family and and and I was just having fun I was doing my thing. Oh, you want me to run your company? Let's do it. Yeah, so that's how my journey starts it That's amazing because I mean, you know jumping into these big Opportunities, but you know what you did you took an opportunity Absolutely, you did what a lot of people are afraid to do and look at where you are now So I mean your property portfolio specialist What exactly is it that you do especially for our viewers who have no idea what that is? So I do exactly what a real estate agent does The difference between what I the service I would give you and what a real estate agent would do is that? They think do you know what? Let's just make the sale. Let's close this deal. Mm-hmm. I cannot afford to think like that I need to know why you're making this purchase and How long do you want to keep this purchase for? What what are your current needs? Yeah, so if it's an investment I need to make sure that this property would fit well into the portfolio that you're trying to build. Yeah So it's important for me to think about what your needs are if this particular property that you're buying fits into that portfolio and How I can help you build your legacy build wealth Create an income stream for yourself. Yeah, you know that makes sense. Is it a is it a good investment? You know, so what kind of questions would you ask them in your line? So So the kind of questions that I'd ask you if you're coming to me for real estate First of all, is this a primary residence or is it an investment property? Yeah, if it's a primary residence What lifestyle are you currently leading and what environment or suburb or town would? Suit that lifestyle. What kind of neighbors do you need etc? And if it's a if it's an investment property, I want to know How much you want to rent this out for and if those people in that area need that or if they would buy Into a 5,000 Rand rental or 20,000 Rand rental. Yeah, and then we make decisions based off of that Would you as norm said today be able to answer the questions you ask your clients for yourself? Could you answer them? Absolutely. So how far you within your journey of building your property portfolio? I am quite deep in It's not the easiest Journey to be in yeah, and you know, we look at it outside and we think oh my goodness She owns that and that and that but really It's it's it's really challenging if you do not know what you're doing If you do not have anybody that you're talking to it's it's really it's really not an easy journey What are some of those challenges though? Because I mean a lot of the times we about the nice things we about how amazing it is that you know You've invested in this massive development or you've invested in five properties and yes We we hear about a little bit of challenges, right? But I want to get to like the raw part of it like the truth What is so challenging like currently with you if you don't mind sharing so what is challenging with me currently? late rent payments and it's not because my clients don't have money It's just that oh, do you know what I'll just see this on the third and the bank wants their money on the first Because that was the arrangement that was made Rates and taxes need to be paid on the first. You know, there's so many things that go into Managing a property and investments right that we do not Take into consideration and going into it, but there are more perks than they are obviously the you know pros and cons so I Complain my mother always listens to me complain about simple things like you know Then they were drunk and then I need to call somebody at 11 p.m. And then at the end of the month She's like sir, can I have your card?  Yeah, let's talk about I like that that you use the word freeing because free is is You know, it's very it takes a while for us to get to that point in our life to be entirely free But let's talk about financial freedom. How has that journey towards financial freedom been for you? Or are you there? So I think that Financial freedom first of all is a mindset. Yeah, I've seen clients that make a million random months still feel like they Strap for I do think that it starts firstly in your mind and then you start to manage your cash flow When I first started making money, I There were no goals. I just I just buy whatever I can get my hands on and as quickly as I can go through the money Let's do it. Oh, but I got to a point where It's like no, no, no, no, no. No, this is not how this is supposed to work You're not supposed to be feeling like this on the 28th, right? Because your lifestyle does not even require that much. What are you doing? Right? So we don't really think about The fact that we don't need all of these things that were were buying that were gathering all these purses and shoes Really, we don't need all of them. Yeah So it just makes sense that you have a budget set every month This goes towards my shoe addiction. This goes towards lunching with the girls. This is for, you know, rent Water whatever it is, but it's important to manage your finances and do not operate from a mindset That is limited. What was one of your addictions like what was one of your lifestyle changes? I was so hard to change When you because budgeting is difficult girl, let me tell you there are things where you're like No, I can only spend this much. Yeah, but then, you know, you get to that time and you're like, but I really want to have lunch with the girls So let me just use from the shoe budget and have lunch. Yeah, like what was the hardest Lifestyle change for you to make with within your budget setting out your budget.  Okay, but saying no to family. Mm-hmm. That is the hot pot.  This is true No, I'm sorry. I saw the stress that that dress is a need. Mm-hmm. Just give it to her That's very true. So I've had to really sit down with myself and have and have a hard talk You can't allow people who do not plan their lives to come in and rearrange yours It's important for you to stand firm on those bondage and say, no, this is where it ends No, I'd like to go deeper into black tax, right? It's a pandemic on its own and You know, it's very you sort of gave a solution when you spoke about sitting boundaries And that gets really hard when it's your mom or your grandma, right? Yeah But I want to talk about I want to go a little bit deeper and maybe you don't have the answer But let's let's chat about how do we as young people of color in South Africa? Who properties are our goal now? I mean everyone in my circles is talking about property We're all ready to invest in property, but coming with investment comes more money. Yeah with more money There's more things. There's a higher text. Exactly. The text. Yeah. How do we deal with that? How do we fix that situate that pandemic of black tax? Is it I'm not sure if it's fixable. I always try and plan So I'm all about creating legacies when I talk about or plan the legacy I think about the people after me. So my siblings their kids our kids the family that I'm going to create with my future Husband and and and yeah, and so it's important to have those boundaries nonetheless I would say and I've seen a few of my clients put these systems in place What what are they needs so with you you have your job? And you have a set salary Your boss does not give you more money because you need To an extra pair of shoes, right? So it's important to put systems in place and say what are your needs? If they are starving it makes sense. You need to take care of them. You need to buy food You need to give Money for transport and and and but beyond that You know luxuries that you expose yourself to and they see that you're living that life. That's for you Yeah, you need to pour from a full cup and that's what has worked for me all along I realized when I said no the first time that actually they can cope. Yeah, I can do this again Yeah, and I tried to say no again and again and again and eventually they got to realize, okay This is where it stops with numsic. This is what she's created. Yeah, and I Had to have a hot talk myself because if I do not set those boundaries I will be them 20 years from now and my kids will have to deal with the same thing that I'm dealing with So it's either the spark stops here or it becomes a generational curse. Absolutely. So we need to break those things. Oh, wow No, wait, I'm moved. I Because it gets it's really difficult and I love what you're saying because these are solutions And I think it's just it's not and I think saying no has become very difficult for our generation Yeah, absolutely. But I think what's so important to take note of is how we do it Yeah, you know, I think there's a method to this to this madness into this pandemic That's been left and how are we planning on breaking these generational curses? Absolutely Instead of sitting more, you know adding to these curses. Yeah, because at some point we need It needs to end some way. Yeah, and we know better now We're living in an internet. This show is on the internet, right? We know so much more I think it's important that it stops here and we're getting so much more information on the daily, you know I love that. Wow. Thank you for that. I like that. We discussed about it There's there's no and I feel that you know figure out what works for you and your family and like you said You get a set amount at the end of every month Taking care of our family is definitely part of our it falls on our needs list because you know they've done certain things to provide in cater for us to go to amazing schools and to to Lay the foundation or the ground foundation so that we can then start creating the generational wealth and you know what? I spoke to a guest a While back and we he said something so amazing, which is something we need to take note of is that it's a first for a lot Of us. It's the we're the first people to do certain things with the first to go to university The first to do a lot of things So but how do we continue to be the first and to create generational wealth and still take care of? Leaving behind earlier on we spoke about clients who have put systems in place to Mitigate or take responsibility for their families. I think with each family is a different plan and once we have a vision of How we're gonna handle what's going on here and what we're gonna do moving forward then, you know, that's the way to do it I think with my family I Had to look at them and say, okay, so they're okay Until here and this is that me to chip in right? I don't come from a poor family and I know a lot of people do With with with my family, it's not food and lights, you know, it's the extras, you know Yeah, my my younger sister's school fees or Somebody couldn't make rates in Texas this month, but it's it's it's not as big as You know what other people would be facing, but I do think that it's important to have a set budget every month. Yeah and say We cannot stay here This is how we move forward and we take care of that first and then we say This is where I can chip in here because at the end of the day particularly with my family They're not going to die right if I can't but the my siblings or a Generation after that could suffer because of decisions that I've made right now true, so for me it was important to look at that and Just be frank about it and say exactly they can't live like this With everything that I know with everything that I've built with everything that I am building So I like that. I also wanted to find out from you because you you know getting into property portfolio management and Choosing this specific path, right? Did you see a problem? And and because I feel like having a property portfolio manager, right someone who is a need Yeah, honestly, it is amongst friends amongst people in our country. Just yeah, yeah, did you see an issue? With people around you. Do you did you see that your job is actually need they need you? so the reason why I got into the work that I got into is In order for us to live wholesome lives, we need to build beautiful communities, right? We need to Go home and be happy to be there The reason why you know we are in just very bad situations is really at the core Right how we're living the lifestyles that we lead our homes, you know just simple things You know a tenant yeah is coming home and The house is not painted windows are cracked tiles are cracked and it's my job to speak to an owner and say this is This is very There's no dignity right how this tenant is living. Yeah, and it's important for you to give them dignity So they can thrive in their daily lives. Yeah, and I think that's that's why I got into a deeper even with My higher-end clients because they are the ones that are responsible for building for the lower to middle class Right and if they build, you know, just small square little yeah for walls. Yeah It's it's not conducive that person cannot be their best. They need you know Bathroom facilities that are beautiful as well. They need good paints. They need beautiful tiles. They need trees Yeah, and we we I think as a country we're just so comfortable living in me in mediocrity that it's It's become okay to live in a bad space true and we can't have that anymore I love that you said trees because if you look at spaces we come from there's no greenery Yeah, you know and that's something I've never even thought about because it's become such a norm Yeah, you know, you just assume that this is what it is and this is what you deserve Yeah, cuz the people before you had it and the people who are you know look like you have it So and that's I think to get out of again.  Yeah, I like that. I really do I see why you got into being a portfolio specialist And I and I think you I think you yeah the first portfolio specialist. I've spoken to which is amazing I did my own research on on you know, what it is that you guys what what it is that you do and like I said I definitely think it's a necessity, but now what if I can't afford your services if You can afford to keep a property. You can afford my services. I charge 10% Okay, of Yeah, how much ever you're getting per month? So even if you're getting 5,000 rounds, that's 500 rounds per month For someone to make sure to be your eyes to be your ears to make sure that the space is Amazing exactly. Yeah, I you know you spoke about you you want to continue making investors thrive or you want to continue even just And for me, I think the word investors automatically when we year it we assume that you've got 10,000 properties around Johannesburg Yeah, which is not the case, you know just one or two or three years even a young investor So how do you want to how are you planning on helping us as young investors continue to thrive? So I think the first and foremost is the kind of investments that we're making I see a lot of Aspiring investors send me the craziest properties and call them investments Oh, wow, if you are making an investment first of all it has to be It has to be cash flow positive. Yeah, that's first and foremost You can't come to me with the property and you're paying 10,000 rands mortgage and your tenant is paying you 11,000 rands you're paying 3,000 rands on rates in taxes and and and and you know, so It cannot take from you first month. It needs to give you need to be building on to that You can't wait 20 years to finally see to report you. Yeah, absolutely You so that's the first thing for me. What are you buying? So talk to me about that and see if the strategy that you have makes sense or if we need to devise a new one and I think What with saying that you know investors need to thrive and a lot of us doing it for the first time because you're there to help us Even if this is our first time, which is amazing, right? So because a lot of young people like us and it's amazing that we're doing this we are investing in property Yeah, we are not afraid to yeah, but how do we? Determine or figure out what cash positive is a lot of us don't even know what that term How to to see ROI how to see the return on investment immediately, you know give us maybe some tips on how we can Identify that this property or this investment is going to be cash positive So first of all if it does have a tenant how much does the tenant pay and then all of the expenses minus from that So if your tenant is paying 10,000 rounds, how much is your mortgage rates? taxes water sewer a Property manager and just everything else. So that's how you determine if it's cash for positive If it does not if there isn't any money left over or if there's a there's a minus left over at the end of that That's a cash flow negative Stay away from it. It is not an investment. Actually, it's a liability because yeah properties can also be liabilities Yeah, and that's actually something that we don't talk about often, you know and I don't I don't always look at it being a mistake, but I feel like Oh, this is what I wanted to find out from you, right? Is it easy for first-time investors to pull out of a deal? Yes, immediately put it back on the market. Yeah, somebody will sell it somebody will buy it for purposes Not even that you were thinking of so it is very very possible And I think we get so scared because we've given so much and it's so hard for us to just to let go of it immediately I think that's the problem with a lot of people. You cannot tie emotions into any investment You cannot tie emotions into the decisions that you're making. It can never be an emotional decision I don't care if it's got the pillars that your mom's house had You need to let it go if if you need to let it go and that's just that. Oh, wow Yeah, and how how do you separate emotion from your investment? What is one of your maybe methods that you use? I don't think I've ever had a problem with that. Oh, really? No The thing about money is that it's it flows. I can't I can't feel anything about it I think that's why I'm able to let go and welcome money very quickly into my space I can't I can't think about how I'm feeling about this 200 gen note. It's been passed around Before me and it will still be passed around after me. So it's just making sure that you Participating in the economy and participation means that you're you're evolving exactly you're making decisions every day You're changing what do I need to do today to get to the me that I want to be tomorrow and you're doing that And I think this thing money We we worship it too much I think and I love because you're reminding me of something someone else taught me a few days ago, right that you're right Money comes and it goes I mean you make this money all the time And but also there's this thing attached to saving and saving in the bank that you know that our parents taught us all these years Yeah, what is your thoughts on that? Does Warren Buffett have savings? Or does he have cash flow? Yeah, they have cash flow The point is to make enough money to gain access to the kind of lifestyle that you want Yeah, and to make sure that that is evolving. That's just the point of it Do I have access right now? Yes. How do I gain more access? Wealthy people leverage debt to gain access to that lifestyle to create wealth. Yeah, and poor people just buy things and I emotionally attached to things and and it's this More than imposter syndrome. It's also this need to Just I don't know how to explain it But we just we're okay with staying here. Yeah, we're thinking and we're afraid of What the future holds or what we could do? Yeah, what is different? We need to let go of what we've been taught and be able to embrace You know, that's what's so tricky is unlearning. Yeah, and you're right. We're so okay with being here Yeah, and then once we're here like there's no scary. Yeah, I mean this What do you know that has a three million round property now? Yeah, it's okay if it's you It's okay if it's you because you need to understand that your life Determines everybody that's around you they look at that and they think oh, this is possible because I stick exactly Oh, this is not possible because look at where she's been look at who she's touched, but she still is Exactly not to wear we thought she'd be so clearly. This is normal and clearly. This is right You know, so we we need to get out of it. It's more than just about us exactly on that note of you People being so stagnant and staying in this one space. How do you define success? So success for me is actually I don't think it's what people think it is success for me is an overall beautiful life where I'm thriving Not just at work. I'm thriving in family in love in health success for me is Living disease free, right? It's being able to meet up with my girls and they're all okay.  Just a wholesome life. Mm-hmm. Yeah, and What kind of work do you need to put in to get that to reach that? I think first of all we need to get out of Limited mindsets. Mm-hmm. We need to get out of mindsets that do not allow For new opportunities to present themselves and we need to get out of that fear. Yeah of staying where we are I think that's the first thing and After your mindset, you need to look at what you're putting into your body, right? What are you eating? Yeah? And What is that doing for you? What chemicals are you? You know? I always I follow this lady on Instagram. She always tells me the front is for advertising the back is for health Now every time I buy something. Yeah Advertising may be good, but what's at the back if it's all these chemicals What is that doing to me and the moment we can get rid of chemicals and dirt in our bodies? We can think that we can we will speak more politely. We'll be happier, you know So how do we get out of that and into? Yeah, better you and I think what's so important and we hear this a lot It's not only the literal food that you eat. It's also the other things you are feeding yourself What are you feeding your mind? Yeah, what are you feeding your soul? You know because all of this will then take us to Because I feel like you define success I know you said wholesome life, but I also what I heard in that was it's it's a level of There's a word like just pure joy There's a word Gosh, it starts with the E though, but there's a word of just it. Yeah, I think just just being you know So so and humbly it and pure just everything was just like you said wholesome. Yeah, you know and to get there You're right. There's a certain amount of work that we need to put in. Absolutely. Um, Nomsa because of time, you know, I feel like We're gonna just keep sitting. I mean we're in Santon Two of you is watching. We are in Santon hotel apartments given to us by properties.com an absolutely amazing apartment This is where we are our views are spectacular.  So what this entails is I'm going to show you a few houses in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg and you are going to guess the price range Okay, if you get them right to get a PlayStation 5, I'm joking. We have nothing to give you This is just for fun for vibes, so we're just doing it for vibes. So the first house I'm just gonna let it load quickly. So you watch like a minute not even a minute watch the property and see And the only clue I'll give you is the suburb. Okay? Suburb What am I guessing the price range? Okay? You don't get some. Oh, I don't get some. Oh my goodness. Oh Triple volume. Oh This is wow This is gorgeous. First of all, this is definitely in satin This is in Morningside. Let me give you the area I want to watch a watch a little more. Okay, wait, I'm guessing the price range price range for this Let me give you the area and the amount of bedrooms. That's the only thing I'm going to give you. Okay So you've seen enough. I've seen that property. Okay Oh You're very close not Morningside, it's Bryanston. Okay Guys is it 12 million Very close. It's 11. Oh wow How did you get that? How did you just miss that? I don't know. I just looked it in thoughts. This may be 12. Must be 12 Okay, the next one I'm giving you is in Benmore Gardens. Okay. Also around Johannesburg, right? Oh, is it? It's just yeah Cool, so I'm gonna let you tour through that. Okay.  Oh, this is gorgeous Oh, this is stunning This is and you want to get into luxury property. How many bed? Yes. I'm getting into luxury. I've already started nice So, yeah, it goes Wow Benmore Gardens, do you need the bedrooms? Benmore Gardens. Yes, please. Okay, let me give it to you I'm gonna need that though You're cozy. Oh stunning This is It's a tricky one Okay, let me give you the bedrooms and then you guess. Okay You're the only guest that gets to keep it for longer than a minute That's only because I like you.  Yeah on the money. It's 10.5.  It's 10 and a half.  I would have also said like almost 20 Okay, next one. Let me give you the area. I think the area of Benmore Gardens definitely 10 and a half is that Okay, this one is Dane Fern. Oh Yeah, four is it within the estate is it within the I'm not telling you that's too many clues now Okay, yeah, you go.  Can I can you tell me the screen matrix? Okay, that's too much now Between 14 and 17 Between 14 and 17 more. Yeah For real I have a feeling We give you a clue come lower. Let's go lower Eight Very close. It's 9.5. Wow. Why would you have said of between 14 and size? Dane Fern if it's the area if it's a square if it's a thousand plus square meters It's within Dane Fern estate Thank you so much. That was very close.  That makes sense. Hey, that makes and if you get all three You walk over three out. No, I'm not Oprah But just to close off, um, you know, we we heard a lot about you Leaving a legacy generational wealth. What success means to you and um, I think it's so empowering to hear these stories from people who are almost your age that have um gone through certain things that that you've similarly used some similar things that you've also gone through So I love that you're inspiring people who are watching as well as myself But just to close off this word, uh, we spoke about financial freedom. How do you Also plan on obtaining those goals. Actually, let's do this. How do you plan on educating those younger than you? On what you're doing and how to also leave generational wealth and legacies behind How do I plan on educating the ones after me? so, um So I've been very Quiet I've said no to a lot of interviews. I've said a lot of publications And that's because I did not want The success to come with the fame and You know, I I'm learning now that this is not about me and how I feel So and that's why I'm here right now. Oh, well, I feel like this is part of me educating and leaving behind You know just bits and pieces for somebody else to pick up and say that makes sense I should do that. That's my next step And you know, even on my platforms as well people know that they can access me. They can call me I am always always always available to chat and Sometimes I charge a consultation for you, but How do we eat? So basically that's how that's how I plan on leaving a legacy. I will have So we've also Expanded on prestige property group. We have the prestige academia And we have the real estate university of South Africa Underneath the firm For you to gain education from that so we will have accredited courses We will have You know, just people that you can talk to who are qualified, right? You know more than just me. I think it's so important for us to have mentors Absolutely and people who you can look up to and or educating us. Thank you so much. Actually, I don't know that you were saying no to the press So thank you so much. I because your story means so much. It's it's changing. It's changing lives. It's changing people who are watching So, thank you so much. Thank you two of you at home. Thank you so much. Take care You know that we live every Wednesday night at 8 p.m. We'll see you there. Take care


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يجب أن يكون محاولة. نعرف أننا نعرف أمام علي. لا يوجد شخص يستخدم أمام علي في المحاولة. يتحدث عن بدر. يتحدث عن أحد. يتحدث عن حنين. يتحدث عن خندق. يتحدث عن محاولة قرية لأمام علي. والأمام علي قرية بريده. في النهج البلاغة يتحدث عن خندق مع الذي قلت منخفت بديك. your grandfather and your uncle is still in my hand. Ready for you. The sword is still in my hand. The sword from Bader. With me still. فهي الخيارات هي محققاً لكن شيء يجب أن نشاهد إمام عليك حقاً بعد ذلك وفاتاً رسول الله صلى الله عليه و تعالى 25 سنة يبقى في المنزل هذه الناس الذين قد يموتهم الذين قد يموتهم الذين اتخذوا خلافة منه yet عندما قد يسألهم للتعاون قد يخبرهم أن يذهبون؟ لا لقد لم يفعله قد يخبرهم سنسيراً وخيارات هذا صحيح أن يبقى في المنزل المنزل الذين قد يموتهم وخيارات وخيارات وخيارات عندما قد يخبرهم للتعاون وخيارات وخيارات هذا صحيح هذا أخلاق عليو بن أبيطال where his aqlaq is خربة إلا الله what's best for Islam not for my own self not for my own self it does not mean he was not hurt from what they did of course he was hurt but what is Islam's interest he does it this is the aqlaq to the point where the second Khalifa one day asked him he said how is it that whenever we ask you a question you answer immediately you don't even take time to think about it how now interesting that itself is a question this itself is also a question Imam Ali immediately went like this he said how much is this how many fingers he said 5 he said how did you respond without taking time to think about it how come you didn't take time to think about this so well this is obvious I can see this obvious he said the answers to all the questions that are posed to me are as obvious to me as this is obvious to you أنا مدينة العلم وعلير بابها فمن أراد المدينة فلياتها من بابها آيام the city of knowledge وعليه is the gate وعليه says علمني رسول الله رفت رسول الله taught me 1,000 branches of knowledge each branch leads to another 1,000 branch that is عليه ابناء بيطاد to the point where the second Khalifa in 62 or 72 occasions different occasions says may Allah not keep me for a difficulty for which Abu Al-Hassan is not there to help me answer it they came to the second Khalifa they told him 2 ladies one gave a birth to a boy the other one to a lady to a girl and they are saying both they gave birth to the boy how do we tell he said we cannot tell but there is the one who can tell they told him who he said get up with me let's go to عليه ابناء بيطالب he knows they go to Imam Ali he is farming in the farm they tell him عليه ابناء بيطالب can you solve this problem bring me 2 containers that are equal in weight and a scale a balance they bring him 2 containers equal in weight put them on this scale then he says to each lady he sends 2 women with her he says each one let her put some of her breast milk in each container each lady so she puts breast milk equal quantity he puts them on the waist scale he finds one is heavier than the other he says the one with the heavier milk is the mother of who the boy the other one is the mother of the girl doctors I think now they attest to this doctors realize now this is true he figured it out 1400 years ago the second Khalifa told him يا علي إن الحق أرادك ولكن قومك أبا وعليك ذلك علي the truth wanted you to become the Khalifa but people your people denied you your خلاف they deprived it of you Imam Ali looked at him and said wait يا أبا حفص until the day of judgment that's when justice will be served justice will but look at the أخلاق of Imam Ali this is with the people who attacked his house look at the manners he did not come when they came to him for advice he did not tell them who you after all you've done you come to me for advice get out this is not علي ابنة بيطال even those people he gives them the advice this is our man how we should have the manners with the people this kind of أخلاق so brothers and sisters our attitude towards religion the way we interact with each other with the society our manners our أخلاق has to be all in the path of Allah that's our aim Imam Ali always thought about what pleases Allah not what pleases himself he says in one of his نهج البلاغة myself I control it with piety تقوى الله إنما هي نفسي أروضها بتقوى have you seen a wild horse how they tame the wild horse he says I tame myself with تقوى تقوى الله in other words every time he does one thing anything what pleases Allah and he does it


Let's continue with our examples and look at some anti-derivatives that are going to involve trig functions. Here we have the anti-derivative of 3 secant x tangent x minus 5 cosecant squared x dx. There is no need to rewrite this integrand because we do have anti-derivative rules both for secant x tangent x and for cosecant squared of x. The three will remain as our coefficient. Think back to the rules we just talked about. Anti-derivative of secant of x tangent of x is secant of x minus, now we keep the 5 as our coefficient. Anti-derivative of cosecant squared of x is negative cotangent x and don't forget our constant of integration. We can then rewrite this very easily. As we've seen before, please do take a moment to take the derivative of your answer and you should notice you get the integrand back again. Derivative of secant is secant tangent. Derivative of cotangent is negative cosecant squared, so you can be assured that you're getting these correct. This one will require us to rewrite it and sometimes you have to be a little creative because you only have so many rules that you know, therefore you need to take what you're given and turn it into something that matches up with those rules. So in this one, we have two cotangent of x minus three sine squared of x all over sine of x dx. If we were to bring that sine of x up to the numerator to join the cotangent of x, it would turn into anti-derivative of two cotangent of x. When we bring the sine up, remember that becomes cosecant of x and we do have a rule for cotangent cosecant. Then we'd have minus three sine squared of x over sine of x. We can cancel one of the sines and of course we do have an anti-derivative rule for sine of x. The tube remains. Anti-derivative of cotangent of x, cosecant of x is negative cosecant x. I'm going to put the negative in front of the two. Anti-derivative of sine is negative cosine. Don't forget your constant of integration. Our final answer then is negative two cosecant of x plus three cosine of x plus C. Once again, you can check your answer by taking the derivative. You should get this into grand back again now. Of course, this also presupposes that you did that rewriting from the beginning correctly. Here we have anti-derivative of tangent squared of x plus cotangent squared of x plus four. Well, we do not have any rules for the anti-derivative of tangent squared or cotangent squared. So this is a case in which we're going to have to use our Pythagorean identities in order to write it first. Tangent squared is equal to secant squared of x minus one. Cotangent squared is equal to cosecant squared of x minus one and then we have the plus four. Let's go ahead and simplify that a little bit before we actually do our anti-derivative. Negative one minus one plus four of course is plus two. It saves us a little bit of work. Notice how we're keeping the differential there as we rewrite this. Now we have rules for these. Anti-derivative of secant squared of x is tangent of x. Anti-derivative of cosecant squared of x is negative cotangent x. Anti-derivative of two would be 2x. Once again, take the derivative of that. You'll notice you get your integrand back again. And we have one last example. Anti-derivative of four minus three over one plus x squared dx. Going term by term, anti-derivative of four is simply 4x. For the second part, this is where you need to recognize that integrand pattern. That is the pattern for an inverse tangent. So we'd have minus three, the three remains, as our coefficient. You can either write it as arc tangent or tangent to the negative one of x. Doesn't matter. Plus C. Again, take your derivative. You'll notice you get that integrand back again.


Well folks, today we have some big updates for you with six big stories. We got things like NSO updates. We have an update to Legend of Zelda, Tears of the Kingdom, and no, it's not the fact that it won't have DLC. We actually covered that in a different video, but instead we have news on the timeline placement coming directly from the director of the game, Fuji Byashi himself. Oh, we have more than that, however. We have some news on Metroid Prime 4 releasing next summer, believe it or not. I guess we'll find out when we get to that story. And so much more. So without further ado, we're gonna get right into the news after I remind you that we're on our road to 150,000 subscribers. So I would love it if you would go ahead and click that validation button, subscribe to the channel, and you know what? Ringling that dingling to be notified of all future videos, uploads, et cetera. Heck, we got a Nintendo Prime podcast coming tonight, talking about the upcoming Nintendo Direct and Zelda. So, stay tuned for that one. And our first story today deals with a brand new update to Nintendo Switch Online. Here's that trailer. Come on, editor, drop it. Okay, so we have a bunch of games in here, including three of them that were never released outside of Japan. So that's exciting on one hand. And then again, these are maybe one of the least exciting NSO updates. We have for the Super Nintendo Kirby's Star Stacker, the Nintendo Entertainment System. We have Joy, Mech Fight, and Downtown Nekutsu March Super Awesome Field Day. Yes, that is the actual name of a real video game. And then on Game Boy Color, we have Quest for Camelot, which is actually a game I did enjoy as a kid. Now, these are not the most exciting NSO updates and we're still sort of waiting like, when are we getting Mario Party 3 that was previously announced for the N64? I don't know, 1080, you know, snowboarding. Look, it is what it is, folks. Maybe we'll get a big update in this upcoming Nintendo Direct, but for right now, this is the game drop they did for the moment. Are you a fan of F-Zero? Would you like to see F-Zero come back? Well, so would the actual producer of F-Zero GX. In fact, he did a recent interview with Video Game Chronicle talking about how badly he wants this series to come back. He's waiting for Nintendo to, you know, get the phone and, hey, sir, F-Zero GX, please. So what the heck did this guy have to say?  Let's get into it. So the producer of F-Zero GX, Toshihiro Nagoshi, makes a public request for Nintendo to let him make a brand new F-Zero game. In this interview with Video Game Chronicle, he states the following, this is a very nostalgic game title for me and that was when I learned how to create a high quality game to satisfy a fan base. I learned a lot. And if there was a chance, I wouldn't mind working on it again. Now, when asked about how his current role as founder of his own studio might affect the likelihood of collaborating with Nintendo on a new F-Zero installment, Nagoshi humorously deferred to Nintendo, emphasizing that it's ultimately their decision. Fans have eagerly awaited a new F-Zero game since the last entry, F-Zero Climax for the Game Boy Advance. Yes, folks, that's a real game. That released 19 years ago. Notably in 2021, Nintendo veteran Takaya Inomura, the artist responsible for designing characters and vehicles in the F-Zero series, expressed his belief the series wasn't dead but was challenging to revive. In a previous interview with Video Game Chronicle earlier in the year, Inomura, who left Nintendo in 2021, suggested that Nintendo could consider outsourcing the new F-Zero title to a third-party developer. He highlighted the success of Donkey Kong Country, which was developed by Rare and published by Nintendo as a testament to the potential of such collaborations. We've also obviously seen Nintendo collaborate with tons of studios over the years for various reasons and different video games. So my thing is, obviously, you can even look like someone like Sakurai who continued to make the Smash Bros. series, even though he runs his own studio technically. I don't really know that he has a lot of staff on his studio, but he technically owns a studio and isn't a contract employee of Nintendo. So I don't know. I would like to see F-Zero come back. Of course, it is one of my favorite racing games for my childhood. And yes, is different than Mario Kart, different enough, I think, to warrant a continued existence. But again, this is up to Nintendo and it is nice to see the producer of F-Zero GX sort of be like, look dude, Nintendo just picks up that phone and hey man, dude, F-Zero, he'll sign up. He also might just want a little bit of that Nintendo money. I don't know, Nintendo's sort of rolling in the cash right now. Next up we have an update on the sales for Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Yeah folks, we have some sort of sales data here because it is the number one selling game on the best seller list for video games on Amazon, US, and Canada. Pretty exciting stuff. Now, what's interesting of course is it's not actually ranked number one in the category because it's usually a bunch of gift cards, but as you see on this list here, it actually comes in at number eight. The interesting thing is it's not just behind gift cards, it's also behind the Super Mario Fruit Snacks. Man, I never thought I'd see a Mario game lose to a spin-off snack. Quite interesting. And if anything, why not the Oreos? The Mario Oreos are great, but apparently the Fruit Snacks are all the craze right now. Now it's actually also ahead of the PlayStation 5 which is at the number 11 slot and the next video game on the list is actually at number 15 in Starfield. Now remember, these are physical copies of games. The Xbox Series X actually saw a bump as well. It jumped from around 36 to the number 12 spot right behind PlayStation 5, likely on the heels of the Starfield release. So yeah, Super Mario Bros. Wonder is selling very, very well physically. We don't have a lot of pre-order data yet for other places. It's also the number one most wanted game on the Famitsu chart. So when people are voting at Famitsu Magazine on their most wanted game, Super Mario Bros. Wonder is the number one game. I had a Spider-Man 2 and the rest. So guys, look, Super Mario Bros. Wonder is going to sell extremely well and the real sales data is likely to be much more impressive than any pre-order numbers we get. But you know, it's always a good sign for Nintendo and company and an inventive game like Super Mario Bros. Wonder appears to be to do so well in these sort of pre-sale charts. Now next up, we deal with maybe the most complicated topic that you could deal with in the world of Nintendo, the Zelda timeline. Oh boy. Yes, we're going there because you know what? Fujiwashi went there in the exact same interview with Famitsu Magazine where he talked about how there won't be DLC. If you're curious on the DLC stuff, we'll have a link to our video on it down below where we go into greater detail on the fact that there won't be DLC and also some details on the next Zelda game. Again, pretty big news, why it's a standalone video, but for those curious about the timeline placement, here is a summary of what he said in the interview. The interviewer asked how the game fits into the existing timeline, given Skyward Sword seemingly depicted the founding of Hyrule, while this game also does. Fujiwashi only reaffirms that the game is set following Breath of the Wild and that the Zelda series is designed to have a story and world that doesn't fall apart. With the latter assumption in mind, he believes there is room for fans to wonder if there are various other possibilities. He does suggest one possibility and clarifies that he's only speaking on it as a possibility, not a fact, that there may have been a history of destruction before tears of the kingdom story of Hyrule's foundation. He says he does not create things randomly and wants fans to imagine parts of the story that have not been told. So what he's seemingly suggesting is all of the timeline actually maybe happened before but the world got destroyed for some reason and this was a new founding of Hyrule. This also could suggest yet another timeline split that maybe came off an era of destruction as well that maybe happened around the Skyward Sword timeline. Look, there's a lot of stuff that we can speculate here but it is interesting anytime that we see the actual director of the game chime in and give us a possibility that clearly means that possibility is something that's on his mind while he was making tears of the kingdom. So maybe some of you have been spending this last week playing a little unknown game called Sea of Stars. Look, the game has reviewed incredibly. It's at a 90 overall on Metacritic and you know what does have a small possibility of being the indie game representative for Game of the Year and honestly at a 90 overall who can argue that it wouldn't be deserving? Well, we do have a sales update and holy crud, the team is ecstatic. They put out this tweet on Twitter showing that the game is sold 250,000 plus copies so over 250K copies of this game have been sold and they noted this was their sales goal for the entire first year of the game. Man, talk about exceeding expectations. They actually originally posted a while ago they sold 100K at launch. Now this game is on everything, right? It's on PlayStation 5 and Xbox and Nintendo and PC so anywhere that games are played you can basically play this thing besides your mobile phone although who knows, maybe a mobile port will be available someday but the point is Sea of Stars is absolutely incredible. Everyone I know playing the game is just smiling the entire time they're playing. It's so fun, it's so in-depth. It's just that next great indie RPG and man, oh man, I'm really happy for the team behind it so congratulations Sea of Stars and your development team and hopefully on your continued success and who knows, maybe your first year sales will cross one million and wouldn't that be something crazy?  So Zippo on his blog recently talked about Metroid Prime 4 and he stated quite emphatically in the title that it is set for a summer 2024 release which those of you that pay attention to all of my content including the podcast would know I've been saying for a while that I sort of expected to come out next summer but that was just a prediction. Here he's claiming he has direct knowledge. Let's see what he had to say on the matter. So denizens of the galaxy, your wait will soon be over. For years there were four mysterious titles for the Switch that we had to wait ages to get updates on. The first was Bayonetta 3 and the second was Tears of the Kingdom. The third was Pikmin 4 and the fourth lastly was Metroid Prime 4. We all know the story of what happened there but now it appears as light is at the end of the tunnel. The game has had a long development cycle about five years now and things are finally starting to wrap up close to five years, either way. Which is why I've finally gotten word that the game will release in the summer of next year which will make it the last quote unquote major title for the Switch ahead of the release of Nintendo's next console in the second half of next year. Additionally, I've heard that internally Nintendo has been very cautious about showing off the game until it was in a near complete state. They employed this same strategy with Pikmin 4 last year and I think it worked out pretty well when Nintendo finally shows the game off. It will come with a date. The Switch is ending with a bang and I'm here for it. Be patient, bounty hunters. The wait is almost over. More soon, see you next mission. Well folks, we'll see what happens. They're supposedly a Nintendo Direct next week and maybe it'll be there if it's closer release to timing thing. It could be a February Direct. I don't know, but I know this. One of my personal predictions is we will see Metroid Prime 4 in this next Direct and if he's correct and I'm correct, again, I'm just making a prediction. I don't actually know. Let's say it is shown off that it apparently will have a date. So I don't know, we'll have to wait and see folks. I'm just really excited to see what Metroid Prime 4 actually is. There's been a lot of juicy rumors around it. So what's next? That is a question I leave for you guys to ponder at the end of today's Prime News. I wanna thank you guys so much for tuning in. It's been a lot of fun today. We've had so many juicy stories. I can't wait to get into tomorrow. I've already got preliminary research going into tomorrow's episode. It's also going to be a really great one. You guys are awesome. Be sure you tune in tonight for our Nintendo Prime podcast. We've got Jake Randall coming on. We've got Andres Restart coming back. Flam, it's gonna be a packed show as we talk about Zelda. We talk about, well, all of that Nintendo direct goodness and actually make some preliminary predictions because you know what? If there is a direct next week, chances are it'll be before our next episode of the podcast. So if we're gonna make predictions, this is the time to do it. And you know what? We'll catch you guys on the next video.


Bien, Mesdames, Messieurs, s'il vous plaît. Ladies and gentlemen, please. Well, I'm going to say a few words in English, and then we will switch to French. I think frankly speaking could speak French together. Because, you have agreed to speak what ? Not language. Français ? English. Ok, so I will introduce in French then. Because three French men, No, you are partly French. Anyway, we thought of having this session, religion in politics in China, because it's clear that very few people or too few people are conscious or aware of the importance of the subject of religion in China. It is absurd to say that China would be the only country in the world which is not religious. And not only has China a religious dimension, but this dimension is perceived as very threatening in the long term by the regime. And that was shown in particular at the last party congress, the 19th congress of the communist party and the repression is obviously more and more perceivable. So, by the way, we have lost the moderator, who is somewhere in the hotel, but he perhaps has fallen asleep, and this is why I am introducing the subject. But after all, I am responsible for the organization of this panel, so why not? But I will just retreat in a second after having introduced briefly the two speakers. Franciscus Varellen, on my left, is a very prominent scholar, very well known, but all the synologies, synologues, on dit synologues, and particularly he is a great expert of the Tang period, but also of religion, the subject of religion in general, and he follows from Hong Kong, where the two of them actually are based in Hong Kong, he follows very closely contemporary issues as well, and particularly this issue on religion. Franciscus is the author of many highly scholarly books, but I think this is not going to be the subject of this afternoon or tonight. Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Franciscus is about 20% French, something like that. Well, by adoption French, let's say. So you choose the percentage. Jean-Pierre is one of the best known experts in China, in France, he has a worldwide reputation, and he has been based in Hong Kong also, for how many years, Jean-Pierre? Eleven years. So Franciscus will start with a focus, particularly on this religious aspect, and Jean-Pierre will take the floor next, and talk about the political situation in China more generally. And this being said, I thank everybody and I am going to sit on the first row because my presence is no longer needed. Thank you very much.


If you have had past clients who have gotten to become more like friends to you or become more friendly to you, and if you've gotten into the habit of being quite accessible to them, answering questions via email via Facebook messenger or text message or whatever. And now they are no longer a client they're now officially a past client, and you don't have some kind of ongoing group program where they can join and ask you questions but they just like, especially if they're in a crisis or something and they want to like ask you a question about your expertise. What should you do, I mean, you probably as a kind and generous human being you probably are responding to them and you're probably giving a lot of care and things like that for free, because they're a past client they're not a current member. And so how do I, someone asked me why do I view that. And my responses. You know, to be as uncaring to people who aren't paying you money as possible. That's that's the right way of being a human being in life. No, only only be nice to people if they pay you. No, I mean, yeah, I come up with that too, right because I have had at this point, tons of past members past clients who feel very friendly towards me and who may respond to ask me questions. But you know what's interesting. I'll say this about my experience and then I'll kind of give, give some advice to those of you who don't have as large of an audience as me, as I've grown my audience. And as my, again, my past clients see my promotions on a regular basis to they see them on social media they might see them on email. So they, they essentially, I haven't had to create boundaries with people it's interesting. I mean, not with individuals. I haven't had to. Well, that's not true. I do regularly create some boundaries. I'll talk about that next but even without creating boundaries. People feel my boundaries, because I regularly promote my offerings. I think this is really important. They see. Oh, George has a monthly Q&A for people who have signed it for a recent course. They see that regularly. Oh, got it. So if I should ask. So, because the boundaries are apparent from my promotions, I don't even have to create boundaries individually with people. They kind of see that they sense that.  They sign up for this course so that they can ask me questions in a Q&A call or whatever. And yes, there are some individuals who are either not aware of my promotions or they see me very in a very friendly way and they say George is just answering my questions because I'm a friend. Okay, even if it's a question that he gets paid to answer as a business consultant or a marketing consultant or something like that. And so they email me. And at same, same, same thing to you at that point, you have a choice when I have a choice. If I, well, first of all, the choice is always, I don't have to respond to them. You don't have to respond to them.  Or you're not saying you're not going to respond to them forever, but you can't respond today or maybe even this week. Maybe not even this month. So this is where the snooze button on Gmail is extremely useful and on whatever email software you're using. Hopefully there's a snooze feature where like, oh, you know, John emailed me, he feels like a friend, but he was a past client. Anyway, he's asking me my expertise questions. I'm going to snooze John's question for at least a few days. I mean, this literally came up recently, actually. Actually, in the last couple days, two of them has happened. And one of them was in the crisis. And one of them was urgent question because it was an opportunity. And, you know what, I snoozed the questions for at least several days, and it was fine. I actually had another conversation with with John so called before I was able to answer the question and there was no weirdness there. There was no weirdness. Actually, John was very thoughtful and say, Hey, you know what, no worries if you can't respond right away.  When someone is not, you need to train them to have good boundaries, right, you just snooze it, or you can say, Hey, listen, it's a good question. It is the kind of stuff I typically talk to clients about. I'm really overwhelmed right now, but I'll respond as soon as I can.  It's okay to say, you know what, thank you, I'm going to respond to this as soon as I can but right now there's a lot on my plate right now. But, but yeah, I will I will do my best. Yeah, it's okay. And, and you will do your best you snooze it for a week if you need to snooze it for the weekend snooze it for whenever, and if it comes back. And if it's starting to feel resentful that you responded this person. Okay, if it gets to that point then then then guess what it's time for you to create your group program and say you know what listen, I, this is the kind of question that I that I typically answer my group programs and I know we're, I know we're friendly but I want to make sure I prioritize our friendship first, and then these kinds of consultee type questions can be done in a more real client setting. I hope that's okay because I love hanging out with you as a friend and I want to continue seeing you I want to continue to continue talking with you but when it gets to this kind of stuff that I do for my quote unquote day job. Then it's like I need to set that kind of boundary. I hope you understand and thank you or you know what, if you if it feels better that you work with somebody else was not so much of a friend I have I have great referrals for you. These people I really trust. You might want to work with them and then we can still continue being friends and that way things are really clean and clear. How's that for a response. So please comment below because I'm not the only one who's come up with this situation. I bet a lot of you have as well please tell us below how you would respond to this kind of situation and any other thoughts about this. Thank you so much.


The 17th Amendment changed the accepted method for electing senators to represent citizens' state-level interests in their central government. It came about due to apparent failures in the state governments to represent their people. This amendment took it out of the hands of the state political bodies, putting the question of representation back on the citizens. It changed the election from legislative action to voter action. At one level this seems a reasonable direction of change. It assures the U.S. citizens that they have election choices and assures Congress that it will have senators who are answerable to the people. At least that is the first impression. The problem was state governments that did not represent their people. These were American citizens who lived in the state. These were citizens who had been guaranteed a Republican form of government. The challenge was in the states acting as sovereigns instead of recognizing the sovereignty of their own citizens. Leadership, uneducated in the meaning or potency of sovereign citizens, turned a blind eye on this misrepresentation. They attempted to resolve the internal government problem by recognizing the right of citizens in the states to choose their own representatives in the Senate. That could only be accomplished through a change in the Constitution so that was their direction of action. They did not solve the basic problem of the failure of state governments to be Republican, a failure to represent their citizens. Our political leadership considered this a matter of sovereignty. They had no governmental resolution. The states were considered to have the sovereign right to govern in their territories even as the federal government was accepted as having sovereign right to rule over the nation. That sort of thinking prevented any action to guarantee Republican form of government in the state legislatures. Even though that special responsibility had been specifically directed, there was no apparent direction for resolution. So we had an independent amendment to treat the symptom improper representation in Congress instead of addressing the problem. Any resolution would have had to require an action that assured the states did represent their citizens. That could have been accomplished by common legislation. One solution would have been to empower citizen use of the federal courts to act against state level leaders who refuse to represent their people. Sadly, this solution was not available where the national leaders had already decided that they were sovereign in office and did not need to represent the people either. It was a best alternative. They just had to fulfill the process requirements and they could change the constitution's existing election process. Our 18th amendment was sold as the noble experiment. It attempted at the urging of a large and very vocal part of We the People to reduce alcoholic consumption by banning its commercial aspects. It was an experiment in social engineering by people who were neither sociologists nor engineers. It was an attempt to improve the American people by regulating their behavior. The intent was valid to increase the welfare of the people. The application was not valid, regulation of what some people did in accord with what their neighbors thought best. That was beyond the authority that could be delegated to the federal government as created by our constitution. Authority had been granted to regulate commerce. This form of regulation could be accomplished as it would be legal to do so through regular passage of laws. It had indeed been accomplished on the state level by just such actions. The fact that it could not be achieved through regular act of Congress should have been a warning. It is noteworthy that there was also an American eugenics movement that was intent on improving the American people by destroying undesirable human traits. While it could not outright kill those supposedly flawed American citizens culling the herd as it was a crime, it could and did work to sterilize them so that they could not pollute future citizenry. The seeds of social engineering had already been planted. These improvement concepts would soon spring to destructive life in Germany with the rise of Hitler. Without the protection of our constitution, those who gained political power set about the eugenics effort with a will, building the German super race by killing off those they thought to be inferior. Under the U.S. Constitution, even as it was misread, such an effort would not be approached as anything but criminal abuse of citizens. One note is that making the consumption of alcoholic beverage illegal would not have the public support that came with banning commercial activities. The law was a backdoor approach around the purpose of the people. It was disingenuous from the beginning. It was us looking for a way to regulate them when the leaders could not legally accomplish this through representing we the people. The appropriate rule has been presented. If any large block of people have to be directed on pain of criminal punishment, it is not what the people support. It is misrepresentation of we the people. Putting that misdirection into the constitution is indeed an experiment, but there is nothing noble about it. It is an open and documented abuse of representative authority. It is an exercise in benevolent but sovereign direction to the very people who hire those leaders. It must be pointed out that many of the states were also engaged in this regulatory excess and were also willing to misrepresent their own people under the urging of politically potent groups. When we come to the 19th amendment, the selling point is that this gave women the right to vote. It was one more witness to the impression that the constitution had created a benevolent sovereign government that could grant rights to citizens. The right is deeper and it is the right of the owner of the nation to have representation in the government that they own. It is a citizen's right and the real effect is leadership being all but forced to recognize that a woman could vote independently from her husband and father. They did not have to agree politically with the man who headed their family. This reflected the independence that had already been determined by the people and brought the constitution up to date with the will of the people. It also is politically harmless to leadership, addressing it as the granting of a right continued the fiction of sovereignty of government. It even protected that sovereignty from the states, insisting that the federal government was assuring this sovereignty, though granting it to the citizens of individual states. Our 20th amendment was a true update to the original constitution, both bringing it up to date with the political situation, recognizing the transportation potentials of the times, and adding greater definition to the ordering of government that had been established within the original writing. It set a shorter time between election and taking senior federal office. This took advantage of the remarkable increases in transportation, that it took much less time to physically relocate to Washington D.C. in order to effectively take part. There was less time when the outgoing representative was in office after another had been elected. There was additional definition to the handling of the exception situation, where a senior officer was no longer able to perform the duties of a his or her office. This was redefinition and expansion of the ordering of the government, accomplished in the original writing of the constitution. It appears that this was a sort of change that the forefathers had envisioned as a basis for including Article 5 in the original constitution. It was a direct update, rather than an attempt to legislate through the amendment process, or to address state sovereignty, or to recognize the rights of citizens. In the 21st amendment, the noble experiment of the 18th amendment ended most ignoble. The government attempt to improve the people from which its authority and powers derive had to be actively rescinded. And so these two amendments stand as a witness to the folly of trying to use authority delegated to the government from we the people to work change on the same people. The sovereign people of the United States failed miserably, and future attempts are unlikely to have a happy ending. The people are the source of authority, not its subjects. The people are the owners of the nation, not peasants living on the territory owned by an avalanche sovereign government. These amendments stand as a history lesson for those who would try to use the sovereignty of government to abuse the people. It does not matter if these are elected leaders or just pressure groups, it is we the people who own this government, and it is misrepresenting whenever it would serve one group of citizens at the expense of others. That is basic common law. The right and privileges of one sovereign citizen are inherent in citizenship, and they come to an end only where the sovereign right and privileges of another citizen begin. That is it. Citizen rights are already regulated in accord with common law. The right of one citizen only ends where the right of another begins. People are equally sovereign and have very limited rights to regulate and control one another. The U.S. common law does not favor one set of citizens over another, nor does it answer to what some majority of citizens think to be proper. The state has granted special authority to interfere when addressing crimes. Those behaviors that are so universally considered anti-social are harmful to others, that they can be absolutely banned. For those who cling to the illusion that the majority of people can represent all the people. There is a witness of our constituting agreement. It is an agreement, and where the people are not effectively agreed, the government has no agreement to authorize government action. What have we learned? Will we have regulations for the behavior of those who might disagree with the pseudo-science of climate change? Will we consider a constitutional amendment to recognize animal rights? Will we have amendments to take sides on attempts to settle the dispute of when a fetus becomes a person protected by law? It is not that these lack importance. It is that there is no effective agreement among we the people that can give foundation for government action. It is where we already have agreement, as in the case of women being entitled to the representation that the action is authorized.