The elephant's 2008-2009-2010 Greatest hits:

2009 was huge! We built on the success of our 2008 project by leading anoter team to India, and created jobs for many poor Indian rural women. Read the press release. We consolidated our main business, Beautiful Silks, employing 4 full time staff in a recession. I wrote, taught, and was guest speaker twice at a TAFE college.

From do-it-yourself legal kits to tender applications for green motor sport, from software policies for a Danish software company to business plans for a Welsh social work company, research in international real estate markets (and tax effective ways to own real estate), advice on carbon trading for indigenous Brazilians to corporate structures for an international soccer media company to remanufacturing junked shop fittings which now adorn our Melbourne silk warehouse, thinking around corners has been a success! The last two years also saw me:

• wrote the Fair Trade Standard for agricultural produce, village tourism and small-business produced manufactured goods in India;
• write a business plan for the growth of the City of Albany in rural Western Australia - to double its population in 30 years;
• writing and editing investment, tourism and health websites,
• arranging the importation of electric bicycles into Australia to ease traffic congestion in the major cities,
• assisted five would-be franchisors in the writing of their franchising manuals;
• writing occupational health and safety manuals for the building industry,
• establishing corporate social responsibility policies for industry in Australia;
• marketing New Zealand's largest organic farm as a place for time-share living;
• designing the marketing push for an American on-line arbitration company to enter the Indian market,
• developing a women-friendly training institution for crowd controllers,
• planning a "bio-diesel-from-chicken-fat" facility in rural Victoria;
• arranging the import of Australian woollen clothing to Israel;
• advising on the import of Israeli water technology and efficient farming methods to Australia
• obtaining planning permits for Victorian land that many others said wasn't possible, increasing the value of the land by around a quarter;
• completing our rural development subdivision in the Victorian countryside.

My wife and I planned our "downshift" to our Warrnambool property with three accommodation units in a rural zone (and the first of its type now to have sub-division recommendation), 100% water recycling, rainwater tanks and composting toilets.

We then "upshifted" again, subdivided the property, and built a successful textile business for , now in its 12th straight year of growth. Thinking around corners provided me with success as a lawyer, provided the substance of my Ph.D. thesis and enabled me to retire from full-time work at the age of 42. Download my resume.