Hey, if you have an investment portfolio and you want to do something about the Amazon Forest Fires, here’s a really simple and easy thing you can do I learned about during an anti-gun protest:

Go through your investment portfolio, find out if you have any stocks or shares in Blackstone and get rid of them.  Sell them.

I’m not saying or suggesting that you bought them knowingly.  Banks often do not inform their clients about the contents of an investment portfolio--they select the companies in the package and they only inform the buyer if it’s a risky package or not.  That’s why you have to check for yourself and get rid of stocks from companies like this one.  You don’t know what you’ve bought until you look inside and find out.

By the way, if you look up the names of companies that sell guns or support the NRA and check your portfolio, you can hit them as well.  Those kinds of companies will also be tucked away in a portfolio.

They’re anticipating growth.

Take it from them.

Also, ask a trusted financial advisor about clean energy companies to invest in going forward.

Bullies will face a less satisfying response to their bullying behaviour

Why hitting back at bullies won’t work

What is true for one person is valid. It is their point of view. We all have a point of view that is true and how we see the world. There are things you can discover by accepting that your point of view can be shaped by previous experiences, being dominated by people who want to impose their point of view on you or by fear. What would be best would be a…

The difference between “hitting back” and “reacting”

The difference between “hitting back” (which they don’t want and will stop them) and “reacting” (which is what they want and they will keep going) is thus:

Hitting back is premeditated, in other words an action planned to match an attack, not respond to it.

Hitting back has equal clout as the attack.

Hitting back is “defending yourself”, although schools and worplaces particularly try to not see…

Groups bully groups, of course. This can even become legalised bullying by that biggest bully group of all: the government. Not any particular government of course. But governments in our modern social structure have power and control over us and the public tend to believe they deserve too much of what is handed down to them instead of seeing government as a legal means to bully a whole nation of…

How to avoid bullying 4 cyber bullying

It was reported in the news recently that young people consider cyber bullying to be a normal part of everyday life. That sounds as if that means that young people are learning to recognise when someone is bullying them.

If you know when you’re being bullied over the Internet, the next stage is realise it is not personal, not specifically targeted at you and that none of the things being said or…

How to avoid bullying 3

One of my main points is that certain people have a propensity to be bullied. If you look at the Release Valve Theory at the beginning of this book, you will see that being bullied often is a kind of learned behaviour, developed to remove tension from a room, even before the person has learned to speak.

  It is my belief in writing this, as I am a recovered one myself, that if a high-risk…

How to avoid Bullying

There is a very simple thread to the theory I am using to define bullying. Bullying is one specific behaviour, whatever scale it happens on or in whichever style it is delivered. All acts of bullying share some simple characteristics. My job here is to define those characteristics to guide you in this book’s most crucial task, which is so you can learn to identify when you are being bullied.

  I’…