It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

People like to talk the talk, but when it comes to the walk they stay seated.

People really have a choice today. To continue to sit around and hope some saviour comes along to remove all your troubles and worries or stand the fuck up and act.

People love to criticise the US but those who do don’t understand the rumble that is going on in the nation. People are starting to stand up.

People are beginning to participate in their local councils, their states, their schools and social services. They are voting out the woke, restoring policy, removing CRT from education and the corrupt out of positions of power.

There is nothing stopping us from doing the same, the problem is many kiwis are too lazy. They don’t want to be seen to rock the boat but don’t mind sitting on the couch and be seen to have a whinge.

If we all do a little extra, if we stopped asking the metaphorical mummy and daddy to solve our problems maybe by 2030 we would have a far better country to live in.

It takes balls to stand up against authority, it takes resilience to stand up and say no.

After spending my own money helping myself and others get better work place policies it became far easier to stand the fuck up and say no.