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Theres an old saying Every dog has his day; I was on hand
to witness Oskars day. It was fun; it was exciting and a day
to be enjoyed by all. Or maybe I just dont get out enough!
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An Oskar_The Fishing Dog adventure
Table of Contents
Chapter 1........................A Million Dollar Day
Chapter 2.............................A Wonderful Day
Chapter 3.........................Everyones a Winner
Chapter 4.............................Humble Strategy
Chapter 5..............................Walk the Warp?
Chapter 6..............................ADoggies Day
Chapter 7........................Have a Wonderful Day
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Chapter 1
A Million Dollar Day
In a video Anthony Robbins sent me he made mention
of the Million Dollar Day, this was the 1st time a
$1,000,000 was made with online downloadable products
in under 24hrs. Anthony Robins went on to compare
John Reeses Million Dollar Day with Roger
Bannisters 4 minute mile. As the story goes the
critics of the day said that it was physically
impossible for the human frame to endure the 4 minutemile therefore it could never be run. On 6th May, 1954
Roger Bannister ran the 1st sub_4 minute mile in
359.4 proving the critics of the day wrong. His
technique as described by Anthony was to mentally
rehearse his race, he saw himself in the theatre of
his mind, running a 4 minute mile over and over
again. As Roger Bannister put this into practice the
mental movies became his kicker, the kicker becamethe internal blue print and the certainty with which
he believed he could run a sub_4 minute mile. If you
were to watch the video of the historic race you
would see that Anthony used the right word kicker,
250 yards from the finish line came the now famous
Bannister burst, his own personalize blue print for
running his race.
After Roger Bannister ran a 4 Minute Mile it became
a reasonable goal in the mindset of many with 24
running it in the next year alone. Today its still a
benchmark but it is more often run and 17 seconds
have been taken off Bannisters record. But it was
Roger Bannister who had forever shattered the myth of
that human barrier. So it was with John Reese and the
Million Dollar Day. Today it is an accessible
target for internet marketers for much more than a
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million dollars has been realized in less than a day.
Today most of us have our very own opportunity to run
our own 4 Minute Mile. The glamour of Roger
Bannister race may not be there nor the dollars ofJohn Reeses day may not be put into our bank
account, but the vaults of our experience may be
filled with value, riches and empowerment if we have
our very own personalized 4 minute mile. The
important thing is to internalize it and recognize it
for what it is.
As I watched the video in John Reese I saw some ofthe same unique ingredient I had within myself at a
similar age. It stirred me to remember a wonderful
day I had. My day did not give me worldwide
recognition on the day, nor is it written in an
encyclopaedia like Roger Bannisters record; neither
did I receive as much money into my bank account as
was deposited into John Reeses account. I think
thats why it has taken so many years for it to wash
up on to the shores of my consciousness. As I thought
about Johns Million Dollar Day something awakened
in me, a spark ignited the flame that burnt 30 years
ago. As John spoke about his day I realised I had
reached much the same level of personal satisfaction
that was being conveyed by John. As I listened to
John I thought thats it, thats the kicker and
certainty Anthony talked about. The internal blue
print, I had my day 30 years ago in a much different
setting but never the less it is still powerful
enough to give me a Wonderful Day whenever I think
about it.
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Chapter 2
A Wonderful Day
My conjecture is most people including yourself have
experienced a Wonderful Day without realising it or
translating it into the arenas of your life where you
think about it and enjoy. It might be time to smell
the roses in your own garden instead of the media
heroes of the big screen.
You may need to get this, so dont laugh at myexperience, well not just yet; get what I am saying
then you can laugh at me, if you must. Years ago
before I found a hammer on a road in a town called
Bowen and thought to myself Ill become a
carpenter, I was tomato picking for an existence. I
had heard of people picking a great numbers of tomato
buckets in just one day. A tomato bucket was a 20
litre white plastic bucket that had to be filled tooverflowing before it was deemed full. I worked on a
tomato farm on the north side of Bowen in Queensland
Australia. I lived in a tent on the farm, cook with a
camping stove, an extremely modest arrangement. The
farmers nick name was Porky. Porky Hansen could
grow a good crop of tomatoes but his crop never
seemed to be a bumper. Yet there was this story told
of a picker called Dave who could almost always pick
his 200 buckets in a day, he held the record for
picking the most tomatoes in a day on Porky Hansens
farm.
I use to ask the packers (women who worked in the
shed the year before) to tell me the stories of Dave
and how good a picker he was. I heard stories of how
he picked good and clean no leaves or over ripe fruit
and still he picked greatest numbers, I thought if
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only I could pick like Dave who had worked on Porkys
farm just the year before? He wasnt working there
the year I picked at Hansens farm however I did meet
him the next season! But for this year he was myinspiration; the legendary Dave stories gave me hope,
he picked 290 or so buckets one day and had the Porky
Hansens record. I would crave to pick like Dave.
Then one day while picking Bob a picker; no doubt the
fastest picker on Porkys farm really cut loose on a
patch of tomatoes, Bob picked 280 buckets and made an
early day of it. I pulled out all stops, I stayed the
full 8 hours as I always did and I couldnt pushmyself any harder, I picked 190+ buckets, the 3rd
highest tally that day and I had picked my very
hardest.
I latter heard that was probably the best picking we
were going to have that year and I still hadnt
busted the 200 buckets barrier like I had the year
before. It was rubbed in by the other pickers. But I
found nothing to be discouraged about and I looked up
to Bobs ability. I wasnt picking to pick more than
Bob or the Legendary Dave; I was being inspired by
them! That day however I did learn; I noticed the way
Bob laid his buckets out and I realized he had
buckets in place and efficiently lay out and always
had plenty on hand, where as I was slightly
inefficient and ran out of buckets a little early. I
started to realize if I had good tomatoes, closely
laid out buckets and enough buckets I could break the
200 bucket barrier for that year, so I didnt lose
heart. I had a realistic goal for that season; my
expectations were I thought very possible.
There werent many good picks left in the year and
Porky was making us pick the same patch twice and
sometimes thrice for lack of tomatoes, but through itall my confidences and ability to pick increased
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although I never picked more than Bob. Bob was king
while he was in the paddock he could always pick the
most. Looking back I know Bob could really pick
better than me, and to pick better than Bob neverentered my head, he was there for my inspiration.
One a Sunday we moved on to a new patch of tomatoes,
Porkys farming ability had excelled, it was a newly
ploughed paddock down on a loamy flood plain, plus
hot weather had brought on a bumper crop. I found
myself in church that Sunday night, and a friend
asked how the picking was. I knew I was picking wellso with a realistic attitude I made a bold statement,
Im going to pick 250 buckets tomorrow. By then
with consistent picking and a positive plus attitude
I had over time created a blueprint in my mind that
allow me to speak it with certainty.
The Monday came and the tomatoes were good just as I
expected, but they were good for everyone else as
well and I run out of buckets; I made sure the slower
pickers had plenty of buckets, this would help there
tally. So I ended up scraping to pick 230 buckets
that day and once again I was the last picker to
leave the paddock. I had done my very best a big
effort I was not meaning to skite the night before,
but I had overestimated my outcome. However I was not
disappointed because I had given it my all I hit the
sack and slept, but woke up early wanting to get outthere again. It was now the 1st Tuesday of November;
if youre an Australian reader you would know its
the Melbourne Cup. The Day that stops a nation,
but it never did not stop me nor had it crossed my
mind what would take place as the day unfolded! The
Picking was still good and soon we were all running
out of buckets, when just before midday the pickers
began leaving the field one by one to cleaned up andwatch the Melbourne Cup so I never quite ran out of
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buckets. Then this is where I can see grace showed
up, Anthony Robbins says you have to have it; and
sure enough grace was there for me.
Okay listen to this, by lunch everyone had left the
paddock and I was doing great at this point, but
nothing too spectacular, then the truck driver came
back with two truckloads of empty buckets and spread
them out and dumped them as per normal near where the
next picking was to be. I was the only one picking so
the buckets were there by the truck loads, literally!
When I finished the row I was picking I went to thevery next row allotted. Another picker would have
picked it had they have stayed. Im sure the tomatoes
on that row were the best that farm has ever grown.
So good some buckets were close together as ten pins.
Every empty bucket was dumped in the paddock and so
handy I couldnt help myself; I cut loose.
When the truck driver came back after watching the
Melbourne Cup I could see he was surprised at what he
saw, full buckets galore! I felt sorry for him and
apologised up front because now he had an extra late
truck load to take back to the shed. That day I
picked 325 buckets of tomatoes. My mind even needed
adjusting to it. Our tallies had always been out that
year, my pay had been deducted every week even though
I knew I wasnt miscounting my buckets. This time I
was the only one left standing in the paddock, thebuckets that afternoon were mostly mine, I had really
isolated myself, this could be dangerous, but what
followed was so uplifting. The report from the shed
was exact, not one over not one under, all the
buckets that afternoon were clean of leaves and full
of good fruit same as Dave use to pick.
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Chapter 3
Everyones a Winner
I often wonder if the record of 325 buckets on Porky
Hansens farm was ever broken. One thing is for
certain I did not go out there to find a record or to
break it, but I did go my hardest that season. The
limitations that were in my heart and mind would
forever be reminded they had got it wrong. Sometimes
when I pick up a tomato in the supermarket I
remembered Porky Hansens bumper crop, or whenAustralia stops for the Melbourne Cup, I still to
this day have a pause and think; I somehow weave
thoughts all together with a mystical thread and tie
it all into a memory so graced, somewhere in the mix
of it are good thoughts and I have the most
Wonderful Day.
Whatever happened to Bob who could pick more thanme, I guess he did? No doubt he would be among the
few tomato pickers who picked over 400 buckets in a
day. But there was a picker I knew well, a gentleman
always, he picked the same farm as I for a season and
if Im not mistaken he picked 450 buckets one day
without letting others know; Harry Richards is
legend. Another legend that comes to mind and is a
good example of someone who achieved something
remarkable but this time it was done in the public
eye, his name is Steven Bradbury.
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Chapter 4
Humble Strategy
Australia's first ever Winter Olympic gold, also the first such medal won by a
competitor from any Southern Hemisphere country, was won by Steven
Bradbury in the 1000m short track speed skating. Well off the pace of the
medal favourites, Bradbury was positioned at the rear in the semi-final, only
to see his competitors crash into each other, allowing him through to the
final. Again well off the pace in the final all four other competitors crashed
out at the final corner, leaving a shocked Bradbury to take the gold medal.
-The above was an extract from Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia:
Its sort of like this, Where were you when
Bradbury won gold? Well I was in Canungra Queensland
building with young Aaron Mahoney at the time of the
2002 Winter Olympics. We were having a good time at
work and I was encouraging Aaron to hang in there,stay a bit longer, try a bit harder get that little
more done in a day. He proved himself a good worker
and didnt need much encouragement; it was a fun pass
time. Aaron and I had some choice good times and
right in the mist of our weeks working together
Steven Bradbury won his race. He made our days
happier as we would recall his races and the comments
he made after the race. He said something like this;
that his plan was to try and stay on his feet and be
in a good position to pick up a bronze if something
went wrong amongst one of the leaders. In reality he
figured in his mind he was off the pace to tussle
with the leaders for the gold, but felt if he could
stay on his feet he could race someone for the bronze
(he saw bronze as his goal). So he had figuratively
given the gold to the winner, he inadvertently was
the winner he had given the gold too. He was sober in
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thought moving within the guidelines he knew to be
true of his capabilities. In his raced he executed an
extremely sober plan, and was rewarded with his
sports ultimate accolade. In a sense the Gold was atrue reflection of the gold within, which is the way
he thought. Think about it without pride he acted
within his own true judgements, he didnt assume a
place that was outside his grasp but the
circumstances changed and meet his resolve with their
best possible reward. Im so impressed by his golden
attitude at such a critical moment, and I am reminded
of the old proverb Pride comes before a fall. Hedidnt fall, did he? There is a lot to be said about
staying on your feet especially in ice skating. It
also begs the questions Was he competing with
somebody else or was he competing with what he was
capable of? Was he racing to beat the others or was
he skating with his best wisdom, and did grace find
him or did he find grace? Whatever way your mind
tosses the events of the 1000m short track speedskating in the 2002 Winter Olympics, it is still
Steven Bradbury who slept with the Gold medal under
his pillow the next night, I sure he partied all that
first night.
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Chapter 5
Walk the Warp?
Here is a thought that needs pondering; what is the
common denominator with Bannisters 4 Minute Mile,
Reeses $1,000,000 day, my 325 buckets of tomatoes
and Bradburys Winter Olympics Gold? An answer is;
they are all personalized efforts of considerable
internal achievement. Okay remember when I said to
you earlier not to laugh, just yet! Well now is the
time to laugh. How can I possibly rank 325 buckets oftomatoes alongside the 1st 4 Minute Mile, the 1st
$1,000,000 day on the internet and the Southern
Hemisphere 1st Gold at the Winter Olympics?
If you judge these achievements externally they are
all quite different, they are to be judged
externally, that is the legitimate viewing parameter.
But what if the individual who attains is not able tobe externally judged by? I know for me, 325 buckets
in a day was a very intrapersonal experience. Is it
possible we internalized our goals? What if all our
goals were objective and not subjective, as though
there were others in the race? Internally Reese was
hatching a plan for a million dollar day, Bannister
was racing the clock, though others were in the very
same race, I was testing myself to see how good I
could do, and Bradbury was holding to a plan he knew
was his best bet, a bronze medal at the Olympics.
Compared externally Bannisters 4 Minute Mile with
John Reeses $1,000,000 day there is nothing in
common, you cannot cash dollars in for a better speed
around the race track. Money can really buy very
little. The only true comparison is in an internal
similarity considering personal achievement levels.
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Picking 325 buckets of tomatoes doesnt have the same
level of fame, glamour or notoriety that the 1st 4
Minute Mile had, nevertheless if you dont confuse
the issues and think only in terms of the personalachievement I received, I can compared quite
legitimately with the 1st 4 Minute Mile run by Roger
Bannister, the 1st $1,000,000 on the internet by John
Reese and Bradburys Gold medal.
Now that the issues of personal achievement is not
confused or judged by per se a medias perception or
mentality I can talk to you openly about other realthoughts that are not often considered or even
recognised by the masses. Remember that 325 buckets
of tomatoes I picked on Porky Hansens farm, Id like
to think you have! Have you had an experience in life
where the very circumstances weaved its way into the
fabric or your life to make it a better place? I
dont know what to call this but I do feel it exists
and has the form of a destiny that warps, I take this
thought from time warping, todays science says that
time and space together are a fabric (space-time)
that warps twists and bends. When looking back in
time it seemed like everything worked together for my
good. I was picking a record number of buckets but
circumstances were in place to cause it to be so
before I even set foot on the farm, then I literally
pick into it. If I wasnt picking my best I would not
have picked myself into a row that was yielding the
best tomatoes Porky Hansen had ever grown and of
cause that just all happened on Melbourne Cup day
when everyone else had left the field. Im sure
destiny has an ability to wrap itself around us in a
warp like fashion but we have to walk the warp. I
dont think its my imagination when I see this in
Steve Bradburys race as well. Dont get me wrong Im
not saying that someone who has ability should go
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down a gear, but that if youre consistently at the
very limits of your destined boundary, than your
destiny has the facility to open another boundary to
you. I think that destiny has this facility builtinto itself to take us beyond the boundaries of our
perceptual perpetual existence, I hope Im not wrong;
if I am its a cool thought worth having anyway!
What on earth are the boundaries of our perceptual
perpetual existence anyway? Well it might be best
not to take that entire class just yet, but Ill give
you a little story about Oskar my little fishing dog,
he illustrates it better.
But first here is a thought; we all need to run our
own race or walk our own walk and in a way that
enables us to meet with destiny on our best terms.
When we do this in a senseit equates to our very own
4 minute mile. We all need to cut our teeth
somewhere. Our lives have a boundary we are not aware
of that is like a set of railway tracks, a continuous
loop we travel on each and every day, this is done
subconsciously. Off the tracks you cant go anywhere,
but on the tracks is a safety but you cant have a
different result, if you travel the same old track,
it will be the same old loop. Youre not aware of the
fact but this track is your own doing. When you think
youre making decisions to carve your own way through
life each and every day youre not really.Its the
same old, same old! Yes, that also includes your
conscious effort! To add yet another dimension to
this, consciously your boundaries are only perceived
and not real although that perception is quite real,
it is only the perception of a boundary we ever deal
with and not a boundary itself. It is my suspicion
our boundary of existence is not able to be detected
by a conscious effort, maybe it is stumbled upon
subconsciously, or are we directed by the Holy Spirit
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to find it; I think its given to each individual
divinely if we walk in it? The implication of all
this is quite staggering, the conscious mind never
really deals with it because it does what it doesbest, selectively assimilates only the data that it
might be able to use rationally and consciously. If
we make a conscious decision to go in a wise
direction the whole time your subconscious is not
interrupting your conscious endeavours it stays
travelling the same direction, you can consciously
keep your decision on track. You may wake up 2 or 3
days later not fulfilling your wise decision andthink to yourself What happened to that decision;
what happened was your consciousness didnt even
detect the internal boundaries of the subconscious
let alone the real boundaries of our existence that
may be externally imposed if ever reached or they may
be withheld at one time or another. Heavy stuff to
convey so for a lighter look let us go to the
illustration. Its best to jump out of the human formand look at a true story about my Australian Sydney
silky terrier. Let me tell you about Oskar my fishing
dog and he can explain it better than I can. Youll
see!
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Chapter 6
A Doggies Day
Its is hard to judge all our experiences unerringly
while continually trapped in a human form, because
from here we dont see things as they are, we see
things as we are. So lets take a break from being
human and look at things in Oskars world. Sometimes
when we see the same situation through different eyes
we see things in a dissimilar way. We are not looking
from our same old attitudes, and a whole new world isopened up to us.
This is Oskars equivalent to Bannisters 4 minute
mile. I will have to interpret Oskars barks for you;
I hope I do Oskar justice.
One day I took my little fishing friend with me into
the high country of New England Tablelands, there a
unique event unfolded. The area I fish was flooded
seven months earlier by a huge flood and this was my
first trip back here since the mighty flood. The
banks were cleared and I was able to walk up stream
further than I ever had walked before. Then up there
Oskar disappeared into the bush I called and I
called, then I heard a thumping noise and all of a
sudden out of nowhere came this kangaroo it was as
large as me and bounding straight toward me in full
hop, at the last bounce it bounced away off to the
left, then scooting out of the bush complete with
dust from a corner skid, Oskar appeared, he was in
full gallop, he had rounded up his first roo. Oskar
is 7+kg this Roo was 70+kg so, go figure! Oskar was
pleased with himself and if I would have played my
part we could have caught that roo together, well
thats what he thought anyway!
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After that trip many times we went off trout fishing
together each year. He continued to tack off on his
own up the bank sides finding wildlife trails and
chasing wallabies. I didnt mind that much; it wasgood for the little guy to have some fun. For the
most parts where I fish the banks are steep and he
couldnt get anywhere near the wallabies, they would
see him coming and hop away before he got there.
However this one afternoon while hiking back from
fishing I came to a beautiful stretch of the river
where the bank was low and flat, the grass green lust
and long, and wallabies were grazing. I was thinkingI hope Oskar doesnt see them, but my mischievous
side got the better of me and I said to Oskar Hoppy,
hoppy, look at the hoppy. With that Oskar started
looking around till he saw the wallabies grazing.
Then the chase was on; it was fun to watch Oskar, he
barked way too early, like sending a warning shots
whistling over the bow, so the wallabies had a good
head start they went through a fence then Oskarchased till all were out of sight. Oskar of course
has no chance of actually catching one; he is just
7+kgs this is big for a Sydney silky but small in
comparison to a wallaby but thought so long as they
were hoping away from him he would right to chase
them. The idea that he could actually capture one of
these beasts was illogical but I often had a niggling
concerned that one day one might turn on him, a realpossibility in the bush, but I also figured that this
was Oskars main source of fun, a sort of doggies
adventure while on a fishing trip with me. Then I
became a little concerned because he hadnt come back
from the chase, I thought it should be over and he
should be back here with me by now. I called and
called again he didnt come then back from the fenced
area where he had chased the wallabies earlier I
heard him barking franticly he was barking like he
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was on to something and he wouldnt come no matter
how much I called him back. I knew something was on.
A snake, a wild dog, a dingo, a fox standing up to
fight him or maybe a roo had finally turned on him?I was there for him; I dropped all the fishing gear
and ran as fast as I could because I thought I might
have to rescue him.
I arrived out of breath to find my terrier had a
full grown kangaroo pinned between a tree and the
fence in a kind of Mexican standoff. The roo as tall
as me and it was hopping from side to side; Oskar wascovering his every move with swift darts and barks
but wisely keeping a good distance away. Oskar had
this bemused glazed look about him, I could see after
the chase he was in a state of complete exhaustion
but he was still pinning the roos every attempt to
escape. The roo moved with a side to side motion I
thought this roo is sizing Oskar up for one swift
kick. Roos have been known to kill even large dogs;
apparently they lean back on their tail and kick with
their hind legs. I put myself in a dangerous
position, between the roo and Oskar to give Oskar an
escape and yelled at Oskar Get out of here! Get
back, get back! Oskar ceased a new opportunity, he
immediately took up the 3 meters I had given him to
escape, instead of running away like I planned he run
between my legs and using me as his backstop
proceeded to corral the roo even further with greater
courage. To me things had escalated to an out of
control state of affairs. I was out of my depth! I
had lost it completely, for all my bravery this state
was suddenly far worse than the previous. Then in an
instant, it was like stardust had settled on us all,
something most wonderful took place. Oskars frantic
barking stoped and the world stood still till a slow
motion that came over the entire scene.
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It was an eerie change, everything so subtlety
hushed! The roo lay down on its left side in the
clusters of long feed grass between the tree and
fence. It even began feeding, the lush grass asthough I went there. Tranquillity filled the air, the
sound of silence, my panic was dissipated, and in
front of me I saw a large old man roo lying composed
and in absolute peace a fresh bite of river grass in
its mouth. I looked and there was Oskar still with
that exhausted bemused look on his face, not barking
and jumping from side to side as before but now
turning his head and looking from roo to me and backagain continually with his tail wagging in propelled
happiness. Now in this quietness I could read Oskars
every thought, they were as loud as his barking
earlier, he look at me and said Look at that, look
at what I did, Ive caught a kangaroo. Happy with
himself would have been the greatest understatement
of this century. Oskar is a dog that can smile and he
was really smiling. At that moment he had justaccomplished his purpose for barking and running the
wallaby trails and chasing after wallabies for years.
He had finally out wrangle a wild beast, the roo had
submitted and Oskar had captured! It was so funny to
walk with him back to the fishing cabin, my foot
sized dog now walking 10 foot tall. On the way back I
talked to him and really rubbed in what a great thing
he had done. He had gone from just a chaser to a dogthat had consummately captured! He pursued for years,
but in an instant his destiny had changed, he was
always a good dog but now hes a legend in his own
mind and for me his side kick for this story, I think
his effort is worth writing about. My little fishing
dog would never be the same, from that point on, just
mention the word hoppy and hes instantly alert!
Forever he would be, from this time on, an Australian
silky terrier that captured a full sized Kangaroo,
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and maybe even the first to do so. Oskar had taken
his own course, set his own pace and run a race that
I will always be remembered as Oskars 4 minute
mile.
There are a few facts I found out later, that I
could never convey to Oskar. Because even though I
still call him Oskar the fishing dog he now has an
air about him that is much like the John Reese
Millionaires Mindset. These days when he sticks his
head out a car window, he is looking for a sudden
movement in any paddock we drive by. He thinks ofhimself as Oskar the hunter; he has a roo wranglers
mindset or something of that nature, which may I add
is quite a reasonable deduction from his feat. No one
can take that thought away from him and I wouldnt
dare try. But there are some facts that Oskar will
never know and so his mindset will stay intact. I
thought it strange that the roo would lie down so
peaceable! I told Harold (the owner of the trout
cabin I hired) about the incident. He said there was
an old man roo that had a displaced hip they had
caged and kept for a while till he was on the mend.
The old man roo had become acquainted with dogs and
people and didnt leave the area after he was let go.
That explained the gentle look I saw in its peaceful
eyes. He did not struggle any longer but lazed down
in the grass in peace before a shouting man and
barking dog, in his long wise life he had seen it all
before.
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Chapter 7
Have a Wonderful Day
There is so much we could learn from little Oskars
escapade, the thrill of the chase for so many years,
the relentless pursuits, the courage in the face of
danger, the complete optimism even when I turn up
yelling to him, he saw me as the backstop coming to
his aid, finally in a split second of pure genius he
went through my legs using me as his enforcer he
seized the moment! Yes there is a lot to learn frommy little fishing dog, but I want us to focus on two
things that are abstractly related the first is the
backdrop to which Oskars courage is painted.
There are many moving parts to this scene that made
it possible, its easy to see that the backdrop
played a bigger part to the story then Oskar could
ever imagine. He could not have possibly wrangledtogether the numerous instances needed to make
capturing a roo possible, although having said that,
this is exactly what he has done. I still want it
noted; full credit goes to him for his achievement, I
believe that is the picture life is meant to express,
that is why it does so. His capture is real to the
point that a simulation is perfected, he knows
without a doubt he has out wrangled the roo. While
Oskar was mastering his roo chasing techniques,
Harold was nurturing back to health the old man roo
who had a displaced hip, at the same time while old
man roo was healing he was also becoming acquainted
to dog and man. I ask you, what are the chances of
meeting a tame roo in the bush, other than Skippy?
The second thing Id like to bring to your attention
to is; Oskar will never know! Because Oskar is a dog
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I cant explain to him it was a tamed roo he
captured.
But just maybe I have explained that something toyou? Oskar is sure he has caught a wild beast,
forever he will be a legend in his own mind! In a
sense he has that millionaires mindset that Tony
Robbins and John Reese talked about. In the video
they both agreed grace was the necessary important
ingredient, I think it is the important ingredient
working both within us and in circumstances, to the
point the desire in our hearts is a grace given,though what we fill our desire with is up to us.
Oskar has given you a live illustration; his desire
predictably because he is a dog was to run down a
roo, we being all Gods children have choices of
desire and morals as well as the obvious methods and
decisions not to mention motives we use.
I run it, it is my race, and I run it on my own, yet
Im not alone, its a gift and I took it, it was
meant for me alone.
There you have it and with Oskars expert help I
think Ive explained something useful for you; I hope
you see good reason to run your own 4 minute mile!
God bless and thank you so very much for your
precious time.
Have a wonderful day!
Neil Nicolson
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