Copyright James Kelly 2008 all rights reserved

Introduction

How do you know when a good deal hits you in the face? Even so, how would you know you had a “Sure Win”?
Trouble is that quite often you don’t as there are so many bad deals out there it is sometimes difficult or impossible to tell the difference. Not only that but your greed can cloud your reason and a swindle can easy take on the persona of a good deal. It is elemental of the tools of trade used by seasoned con-men to embellish a sow’s ear to present as a silk purse.
Once having been bitten by scams you find yourself becoming more and more sceptical and instead of trying to find a worthy deal you simply ignore all propositions casting them into the clever swindles basket.
The purpose of this book is to let you how I became involved in a sure win after spending most of my life immersed in the quicksand of bad deals and the quagmire of certain losses.
It is important to understand the essence of a rip off in order for you to construct some parameters which will allow you to thoroughly analyse propositions as they emerge and with your knowledge be able to draft them into the good deal box or the bad deal box. In other words – you need to prepare yourself to recognise a sure win when it comes your way.
Read and grow rich! Yes that’s right. All you have to do is read this book; then you will become rich by following the basic and easy instructions making sure you understand the simple details and you will grow rich without risking anything and without having to spend more than a few hours a week doing it. Sound good? Well there is one other thing I left out. The greater percentage of people who win money through the lottery, the football pools and the like are either dead broke again in less than five years or simply dead – suicide victims. Why? They haven’t been trained for success.
They haven’t spent ten seconds thinking about what it is like to be truly successful. Yes it’s pretty easy for people to consider failure because that is what they do most of the time. They start failing at school and then at their job and then within their marriage and finally they become failures at parenthood. All because they haven’t taken the time to find out the successful way … the winning way! And guess what? Countless books on the subject of success in any endeavour have been written, published and lay gathering dust in the corridors of learning. All you have to do to get rich is read the book and follow the instructions!
It is said that most millionaires gained and lost their fortune two or three times before they became truly rich. Well be that as it may I do not consider it a necessary ingredient of making your fortune and then keeping it as long as you prepare yourself for success.
You have to be convinced from page one of this book that you will become successful or you have a serious desire to become successful otherwise there is no point in reading to page two, in fact stop right here! Put the book back on the shelf and walk away. You have had something for nothing! Congratulations. A free page. Riches are not for you. If you are willing to devote more time to planning your Sunday dinner than you are to mapping your financial future then this is not for you and you will truly end up where you deserve.
I assume that you have decided you genuinely desire to become financially successful and that you will take the steps necessary to achieve this end.
Close your eyes for just a moment and using your mental time machine and your tremendously powerful imagination set this scene for yourself … it’s five years from now and you are sitting in your study in front of your computer checking your financial progress during the past 24 hours. You look around you. What do you see? Do you see a fine house with plush fittings and lavish but tasteful furnishings? You pick up your bank statement. Does it have a positive balance of eight figures or more? You glance behind your shoulder to the driveway in front of your home.
Do you see your gleaming marque – Ferrari – Lamborghini – Aston Martin – the envy of any motoring enthusiast – crouching there in the shadows awaiting your command? Do you have a golfing date at your exclusive country club that afternoon? Do you not bat an eyelid as you write the cheque for the next semester fees to the elite school your children attend? You look on your desk and notice that you have left the travel brochure open at the page which outlines your upcoming luxury cruise on a vessel that has twice the number crew as passengers.
This is your new life! Do you like it? Do you want it? How badly do you want it? Badly enough to keep on reading until the end and then taking action on your future? That’s all you need to do to make your dreams come true.
What I have to tell you about doesn’t take education, experience, erudition or a big investment. It does take your determination to take action!
Back to the present … think about your friends right now. Are they successes or failures? If you had a million dollars in cash would you give some to your family? Your friends? Anyone who asked for it? Just because you have some money it doesn’t give others the right to ask for some or have some of it. Of course you have to learn to exercise “largesse” by which I mean it’s OK to become a little generous but in a small, modest and meaningful way. Send the air tickets to your mother so that she can fly out to see your sister who lives in far away lands. Give your loved ones a special gift and not necessarily at Christmas or on their birthday. Do it when they least expect it from you and make sure the gift is worthy of you. After reading this you might consider that the best gift you could possibly give to the ones you love and respect is a copy of this book – think about it. Read and grow Rich!
Before you read on let’s just get rid of that nagging question in your mind. If this is so good and such a Sure Win then why is this guy (me) telling everyone by writing about it in a book? Well for one thing I get to keep a percentage of the money you spend to buy it and guess what – that’s why most authors write books.
My main motivation in writing it, however, is to set out to convince you to take action on the means set out in this book that will make you rich. In return for this, I will receive a royalty on every reader who takes action based on this advice. Yes I’m doing it to make myself even richer than I am now. What greater motivation could I have than that? I would be untrue to myself and you if I told you I was doing it for the benefit of mankind. The people with whom I associate and who are mentioned in this book contribute a substantial amount of their wealth towards the welfare and wellbeing of children suffering with cancer.
So much for altruism! Back to the virtue of selfishness. Save yourself and then you are qualified to save others if that is your desire. Get it the right way round though!
I hope you enjoy my anecdotal recollections of the swindles I experienced personally. It is through these experiences that I was able to compile the ten rules of a good deal. I hope you can learn from them and with my map in hand avoid unnecessary potholes on your journey down the road to financial security.
Learn the ten rules and apply them to deals you may have looked at in the past or may be looking at now. See if they apply to you as they have been most successful for me.
Finally I wish you every happiness at the start of your journey to wealth and gratification and invite you to write and share your successes with me.

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Singapore has long been one of the world’s great places for restaurants and bars so they are not difficult to find. But seeking somewhere special and memorable is not often that easy. Take a taxi down to Clarke’s Quay and you might never need to search for great restaurants, wine bars, pubs and gift shops ever again.

One of the delights of dining out in Singapore is the climate. The rainy season has its moments but generally the showers pass by early evening and there is nothing better than sitting on the banks of the river watching the world go by as you wile away the hours quaffing your favourite bevy.

One fine establishment not to be missed is The Bungy Bar which is right next to the GMAX Reverse Bungy but make sure you have a ride on the Bungy before you imbibe. For the smokers there’s a fantastic riverside deck where you have no need to be hassled while you enjoy a cigarette.

The Bungy Bar provides a large range of spirits, mixers, alchopop and beers from around the world. Additionally you can partake of their fine bar food as you enjoy the Singapore nightlife and decide in which club to finish of the perfect night.

Let us know what you thought by sending a comment to our blog.

Thirsty Swagman, an Australian company based in Perth is attracting international travellers to join Europe’s longest pub crawl during the 2008 Oktoberfest. The booze extravaganza will last 11 nights across several European countries – hangovers permitting.

Parties and pubs may make for common bedfellows, but when Australia’s Thirsty Swagman touring company www.WorldsBiggestPubCrawl.com) plans a European pub crawl, they shake things up a bit.
This year, during Oktoberfest, Thirsty Swagman will be offering an “adventure drinking” excursion for party-hungry travellers with Europe’s longest pub crawl. he multi-country pub crawl will kick off in the beer tents of Oktoberfest 2008. Revellers will enjoy an 11-night party across Europe visiting Munich, Maria Alm in Austria, Prague, and Dusseldorf (home of the world’s longest bar).
“This concept of combining international travel with pub crawling has never been offered before,” said Kenneth Hart, founder of Thirsty Swagman Pty Ltd. “This is a unique way to ee some interesting places in Europe while having fun and meeting real locals at every destination.”
The record-breaking alternative travel outing has been dubbed the “Euro Hard ‘n’ Fast” tour. But there is a limit … the adventure drinking tour is accepting only 24 people, and is a practical travel option for either solo travellers or even a small group of friends.
“Every place we visit is unique,” says Karen Logan, Media and Online Manager at Thirsty Swagman. “For example, in Dusseldorf visitors can drink at more than 350 pubs and bars ithin a single city block. We’ll be taking our tour group there on Germany’s re-unification ay when they can meet a lot of locals and other travellers, as over 100,000 people can
pack those pubs that night.”
The tour includes all transport from Munich to the end of the trip, 3-star accommodation (which is about the European equivalent of 4-star in Australia) – twin-share (including breakfast), entry to beer tents, pubs and bars with discount drinks available at some, video production, t-shirts and a bi-lingual (speaks English and drunk) party/tour guide.
The company has set the price for this tour at$2,990 per person.

The company was launched in April 2007 in order to offer an alternative to the usual monument and cathedral sight seeing type tours. All trips are purely pub and bar based and usually takes in the local night life in the various countries.

For more information about Thirsty Swagman www.WorldsBiggestPubCrawl.com