Stick to your Dreams

By Bill Allardyce and Steve Gray

This book is about changing your mindset so that you can enjoy life, plan your life, achieve more in the same time. Be more satisfied within and most of all to be more comfortable on being who you are and being totally satisfied in your own skin/body. Reading this book will change your life for the better.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press AU
• Release date: Nov 4, 2021
• ISBN: 9781982292188

Bill Allardyce

Bill Allardyce was fiddling with a piece of high tensile (springy) wire when had a ahah!! moment and though he could make joined together chopsticks from stainless steel. Later he found that if they were stainless steel the Aussie Chopstick would cost $5.00 to manufacture. This would make them commercially unviable, at $5.00 to manufacture they would need to sell for $15.00, a price that no one would pay. Bill had a plastic manufacturer offer to make them from plastic, this would make them 20cents to manufacture which would set the retail price to be $1.00 per chopstick. This change in production bought the Aussie Chopstick back into being commercially viable. Bill was surprised to hear that he now had to have an Injection moulding die manufactured which cost $20,000.00, then packaging plastic bags, special size, 100,000 minimum run. Header cards 60,000 cards. Labour to put two Aussie Chopsticks in a bag and staple the Header Card on top, all costs totalled another 10,000.00. This made a total investment of 30,000.00 before the first Aussie Chopsticks were sold. Tupperware bought 350,000 Aussie Chopsticks, Amway Corporation (Australia) bought 250,000 Aussie Chopsticks, Woolworths, Coles, Kmart collectively sold 500,000 Twin Packs of Aussie Chopsticks making a total of 1.6 million Aussie Chopsticks sold in Australia alone. Imagine the size of the world market for Aussie Chopsticks. Bills hobbies are helping other people, his interests Captain Anglesea Fire Brigade Victoria Australia, Vice President Anglesea School Committee, Vic President Anglesea Football Club, Vice President Inventors Association Melbourne Australia, Vice President Geelong Chamber of Commerce and many other interests too numerous to mention here.

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Have you ever wanted to

crystallize your thoughts,

get motivated,

achieve all of your personal

and financial dreams,

goals and aspirations?

Here’s your chance to dream great dreams

and turn them into reality:

Bill Allardyce and Steve Gray

Bill Allardyce is a motivated, enthusiastic achiever,

who wants to share ideas with other people

and would like to help others to achieve their

Dreams and enhance their personal growth.

Steve Gray is optimistic, excitable and never says never,

well almost never.

Together Bill and Steve form a formidable partnership

that is sure to make a positive and powerful difference.

To get the most from this book we suggest that you read

it with a high-lighter pen in hand marking the sections

that appeal to you. Skim through the book often,

just reading the high-lighted words.

If you read this book from cover to cover five times,

fill in the lists and implement the various teachings,

it can change your life completely! For the better…

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Bill Allardyce.

My endless gratitude goes to my wonderful wife Carol, my daughter Susan, my son Michael, and the many friends, whose belief in me and my abilities has been unfailing.

Special thanks also, to my excellent, fantastic, amazing, fabulous friend Rodney (Rocket) Steere, whose friendly critique and suggested changes have changed this book from a good book to a fantastic book. To my good friend Craig Wylde whose regular telephone calls, faxes, motivational quotes and information inspired me to action time after time.

My very special thanks go to June Archer. If it was not for June’s untiring efforts, dedication, tenacity and plain hard work, this book would never have come to fruition. To all of the fantastic people with whom I have exchanged ideas and knowledge you all know who you are. If I were to mention names here, it would fill another book! My sincere thanks to you all.

Steve Gray.

Many thanks to all the support I have been given over the years especially from my wife Sally, my parents, family, friends and in-laws for their trust and support and of course to all of those wonderful people who have assisted in getting me this far. So much has been learnt and so much is yet to happen. To all the ‘lost souls’ out in the real world ‘seek and ye shall find.’

To Bill, thanks for allowing me to share some of my hard earned knowledge via this book.

Here we are at the fourth, edition after many years, it’s lighter, a few alterations here and there to freshen things up and make things more succinct. We hope you enjoy it.

CONTENTS

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1     Where are you now?

Chapter 2     Taking Control

Chapter 3     Love what you do

Chapter 4     Think about your dreams

Chapter 5     Focus on your dreams this is your path

Chapter 6     Aids to self improvement

Chapter 7     It is important to be well focussed

Chapter 8     Quality of life issues

Chapter 9     Plan

Chapter 10   Control your daily timetable

Chapter 11   Why goals aren’t achieved

Chapter 12   A final comment

FOREWORD

What possessed us to write this book?

Amazing isn’t it. Everyone!! We mean EVERYONE!! we know has some secret wish to be wealthier, happier, more educated, to travel, be famous, sell an invention, get married, have children, write a book, make a video and many other dreams and goals.

Often we can become side tracked and as the years go by we often find ourselves further away from our targets.

THIS BOOK WILL INSPIRE, ACTIVATE AND MOTIVATE YOU

to create the actions you need;

TO MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE.

This book can help you find what it is that you want to aspire to in life. By reading this book and then acting on it, you will cleanse your mind of many of your old views on life and start with new ideas. This will allow you to confidently go on to achieving your goals, dreams and aspirations no matter how big they may be.

By reading this book, you can re-think all of the targets you have set yourself to achieve in life. You will come to realize how the influence of other people can often stop you from even attempting to achieve, what you originally set out to do.

Many people have the view that they don’t want you to achieve more than they have. This is good for what they want to do, but don’t let these people (pull you down) or influence you on what you are going to do, if they do try to pull you down, then they are the people we call the dream crushers. This book will show you how to avoid their influence and how to succeed with your dreams.

Bill Allardyce - Steve Gray

INTRODUCTION

The purpose of this book

Where am I now, What am I doing here?

I remember a bully guy in town when I was at school, he said to me, Do not bother going back to school, you’ll spend a great deal of time chasing your tail, when you could be earning money in a job you will be better off, what will you get for that time at school? A piece of paper that probably means nothing in the long run… and how long will you be there living off your family and the taxpayers? Steve replied No, to me it’s straight forward, stay in this job and work hard, you’ll get there." Those words haunt me today. Where would I be? What would have happened if I had stayed?

At the time my goals were not working out. Everything that I wanted was not in front of me, it was hidden, but where would I find it? That was the question. my printing factory workmate changed my thinking and as it turned out he was quite right, because I worked with him for a long while and what I received at the end of it, lots of blisters, calluses and a very low pay rate. I often wonder how well off I would be today, if I had NOT let the dream crusher talk me out of a tertiary education.

My original goals were to do better than work in a factory, where most