<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8958407563043703710</id><updated>2012-02-16T19:29:22.315-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Goodbye Welfare</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://goodbyewelfare.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8958407563043703710/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://goodbyewelfare.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>T-Rex</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18316502960023221959</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>3</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8958407563043703710.post-7030408178346999667</id><published>2010-12-06T04:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-12T14:10:40.881-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Knock backs perpetuate drive</title><content type='html'>Ten years ago my dream was to live in and own my own home but&amp;nbsp;I was knocked back by the banks for a housing loan because I was asset poor,&amp;nbsp;not enough&amp;nbsp;income and for being a sole parent. But I wouldn't give up! I now own 15 homes.&lt;br /&gt;Five years ago, I wasn't able to&amp;nbsp;get a&amp;nbsp;welfare&amp;nbsp;organisation&amp;nbsp;or government body to help me&amp;nbsp;promote an&amp;nbsp; education package for&amp;nbsp;at risk, homeless or&amp;nbsp;disadvantaged clientele&amp;nbsp;teaching&amp;nbsp;ways out of&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;poverty cycle and&amp;nbsp;on how to build an indepedendent&amp;nbsp;financial future.&amp;nbsp;I was told I was 'giving false hope!'&amp;nbsp;and 'there's some people in the world you just can't help.' Nevertheless, I wrote and published my own simple to read&amp;nbsp;handbook and utilised it in my work. The success stories of my&amp;nbsp;clients&amp;nbsp;reached further afield and the book grew&amp;nbsp;in demand. The handbook is now purchased in bulk by community organisations,&amp;nbsp;libraries and&amp;nbsp;universities as well as being sold commercially. &lt;br /&gt;Three years ago, I tried to get a publisher in Australia, but again I was knocked back, again and again. I was told... &lt;em&gt;'Poor people don't usually buy books,'&lt;/em&gt;.....and the&amp;nbsp;one I like the most... &lt;em&gt;'People on welfare don't really want to get off&amp;nbsp;so the book wouldn't sell!' &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since 2006,&amp;nbsp;'Goodbye Welfare' the book, has gone into its 5th reprint and now sells worldwide, including a US version.&amp;nbsp;I still don't have an Australian&amp;nbsp;publisher but I&amp;nbsp;have one elsewhere.&lt;br /&gt;It just goes to show that there's always someone who will&amp;nbsp;want to hold you back but ...........Don't let them!&lt;br /&gt;If you trully believe in what you're doing you must&amp;nbsp;go for it regardless of what others may think or say.&lt;br /&gt;After all....this is your life and you only have one shot at it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8958407563043703710-7030408178346999667?l=goodbyewelfare.blogspot.com' alt='' 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