The fact that it was the BBC who is funded by license payers, might be the reason for the quick cancellation too.

Had it been on ITV which is funded through advertising revenue, the show may have been allowed to run for another season or two to find its feet.

Who knows?

What I do know is that Derren created an incredibly popular show that ran for 10 series over 11 years, and then created a show that was cancelled after just one series.

The high was HIGH, and the low was incredibly low.

It just goes to show that you cannot always hit success every time.

In football, the very best strikers in the world only have a goal scoring rate of 0.50 per game.

These guys are paid millions and they can’t even score one goal in every game.

They fail just as much as they succeed.

Many of them fail more than they succeed… but when they score that goal in the last minute of the final… it counts more than any previous failings.

You don’t need a lot of successes to be incredibly successful.

You can fail ten or twenty times and have just one success, but that one success can change or affect your life for the better.

It is the same in anything you do.

You can write ten books, star in ten films, buy ten crypto currencies, nine may do ‘ok’ or even fail badly… but that one which does well, does spectacularly well.

Think of the one hit wonders in the world of music.

A singer can (they could, I don’t know so much about today with digital streaming) live quite comfortably off the back of just one successful song.

Most people would know that singer for that one song, yet they may have released several albums over many years after that successful one song.

The singer may have a decent sized fan base and that one song will have introduced them to their other music… but for most people, it’s that one song that they know.

The singer can have a career that is unknown to most of the world.

They are mostly known for that one song… but as I say, that one successful song helped introduce people to their other work, which, although never enjoyed the same success as that one song, it helped them to carry on enjoying their new career in the music world.

You only need to succeed once to change your future for the better.

Kind regards.

John Harrison.

PS… if you are looking for success, try publishing your own series of eBooks.

You only need one to do really well to prop up the others, but combined, the income from several eBooks will give you a comfortable and enjoyable life.

Learn more here:

The 30 Day To £30K Challenge System

Let’s not forget, writing and publishing is far easier than a lot of other forms of work.

There will be people who will try and tell you that it’s not, but it really is.

Also, let’s not forget, there are people who are not professionally trained or have any previous experience with writing that make a tonne of money publishing written content.

If they can do it while ‘professional’ writers are trying to convince you that it is hard, that tells me that it’s not as hard as they try and make out, and that those ‘professionals’ are lying because they are ‘miffed’ that people who haven’t ‘paid their dues’ are doing better than them.

This is ‘gatekeeper’ territory and it is often nothing more than a case of jealous self-preservation by discouraging the competition.

The other thing to take into consideration here is that there are more than enough readers and subscribers to go around.

People like what they like and if there is more than one newsletter that appeal to them, money permitting, they will subscribe to as many as they can.

The point is this… if you fancy making money writing newsletters, give it a go. You will never know until you try it, and you really shouldn’t let others dissuade you from giving it a go at least.

If you would like to follow me on Substack, here is my publication: Streetwise John Streetwise Guild.

If writing is not for you and you would prefer to make money by having a punt on specific football games like our good friend Stephen Lewis who bags himself between £380 and £725 each week in TAX FREE profits using just a smartphone or a tablet.

Then click the link below to learn more:

The Kamikaze System

Kind Regards

John Harrison

PS… Stephen also uses a little known button in Betfair which locks in profit taking away any need to sit and monitor the game he is trading.

This is a safety switch which means that should the team that everyone expects to lose, does actually lose, Stephen still walks away with a profit.

Very few people know about or use this button. I didn’t know about it until I was told.

When he clicks the button and sets up his profit lock, he is free to completely forget about the game.

Thanks to that button, his trading becomes a SET and FORGET system.

Here is that link again:

The Kamikaze System

When Musk took ownership of Twitter, he illegally fired thousands of workers. Who can blame them if many of them went over to Meta, although I don’t know if that is true as Meta has also recently laid off quite a large number of staff.

Another reason why a large number of Twitter users are turning their backs on the platform is that Elon ‘cancel culture hating, freedom of speech for everyone’ Musk is cancelling anything he does not like.

He has insisted that Twitter should treat certain words he doesn’t like or agree with as ‘offensive’ and ‘bullying’ even though he has refused to do the same with words and behaviour which promoted hate and violence.

It seems that Twitter’s demise is more of a result of Musk himself, and Threads might just be the platform that dishes out the final fatal blow.

We can only sit back and see what happens. It is going to be interesting to see how this all pans out.

I’m just fascinated how Musk has managed to wipe $29 billion off the value of Twitter in less than nine months.

It’s early days and I’m sure Musk isn’t worried too much.

The value can go back up and may possible exceed the $44 billion he paid.

While users are getting used to new changes and dealing with the ‘uncertainty’ of it all, the value will swing up and down like a pendulum for a while.

I don’t know about you, but it seems that being a tech-billionaire is a lot of drama. I much prefer to make money without all of the added hassle of brawling in a cage with other tech-billionaires, and taking each other’s companies to court.

I imagine you are pretty much the same.

As much as you might like to have Musk’s and Zuckerberg’s wealth, I’m sure you would settle for a nice extra daily income of between £110 and £350.

For most people, between £110 and £350 is more than enough to cover the costs of the day, including entertainment, and that is what David Houghton makes most weekdays for just ten minutes work.

He spends no more than ten minutes checking one financial market to see if there is a trade. If there is, he sets up his system and then goes about his day.

This system makes him between £110 and £350 most weekdays… which is the equivalent to a day’s wage for most people.

If you would like to know more about David and his ten minute morning system, click the link below:

The A Minus B System

Kind regards

John Harrison

PS… As far as effort is concerned, this is one of the easiest systems for making money that I’ve seen.

You don’t need to know a lot and you only need to work ten minutes in the morning and for that it will give you between £110 and £350 most weekdays.

Here’s that link again:                               

The A Minus B System

Advertising… that’s how.

Every carton or can of FreeWater has advertising on it which is paid for by businesses and companies wanting to get their product, service and company details into the hands of ordinary people.

It seems that this is the ultimate win-win scenario.

In fact it is a win-win-win-win-win situation.

Everyone wins with this.

1. People get free drinking water.
2. Advertisers get their products, services, and company details into the hands of people.
3. Charities raise money to help more people.
4. People in remote villages are supplied with clean drinking water thanks to the charity work.
5. The environment wins as there are less single-use plastic bottles made and thrown away.

The only downside to this that I can think of is whether the advertisers are getting a good return on their investment.

If they aren’t, then companies will stop paying to advertise on the water cartons and FreeWater will need to constantly find new advertisers.

The idea of getting your product, services, and company details into the hands of a lot of people is a nice one, but in reality, the audience could be the wrong one and not an overly responsive one.

Companies could simply be paying to see their adverts being thrown into the bin.

It is the paying advertisers that fund this project, and if they are not getting a notable profit back from their ad-spend; they will cease to run the advertising.

Without the advertising revenue, FreeWater cannot distribute water for free.

I think it is a wonderful idea, but with so many social media platforms giving people and companies the opportunity to share videos, pictures, and posts – which effectively are free advertising campaigns, companies need to really see a decent return for their money to even consider this kind of shotgun and scatter advertising.

The internet and social media platforms are responsible for ‘shaking up’ the advertising industry and have helped to halve the advertising revenue that was enjoyed by offline newspapers just two decades ago.

Companies and businesses are spending less on offline advertising choosing to spend more on online forms of advertising, with many focusing on creating content that goes viral online costing them next-to-nothing.

That is the incredible opportunity that the internet and social-media platforms have given us.

Today we can share videos, pictures, and posts with people for free.

We have the opportunity to get our products, services, and details out in front of a lot of people for no cost at all.

Yes, it can take some work and you need to know what to do to get the best results, but it is possible to get your content out in front of millions of people at no cost to you.

If the product you are selling is high priced, you can make a lot of money by simply selling a few each month.

Discover how here:

How To Build A Six-Figure-A-Year Income Without Spending A Penny Of Your Own Money!

Kind regards.

John Harrison

PS… Once you have this up and running correctly, it can reward you with an automated passive income for many years.

Here’s that link again:

How To Build A Six-Figure-A-Year Income Without Spending A Penny Of Your Own Money!

You’ve seen those funny pictures on social media which have ‘you only had one job’ written across them to highlight job based fails that shouldn’t have happened, well this is the same.

The person sharing the post ‘had just one job’, which was to effectively communicate all the information that a potential customer needed to make a positive decision.

If a potential customer has to go looking for more information that you could have easily shared, then you have failed in your work… it’s highly likely that they didn’t go looking.

The post I am referring to was just a photo of the flyer, there was no written information with the post explaining where they were, what time the restaurant was open and if there was anything special happening.

It was completely devoid of anything else other than the picture.

If the person who posted the picture believed that people already knew who they were, where they were and what their opening times were, then they are suffering from ‘mind blindness’ which is a term associated with people who have autism.

Mind blindness is the term given to people who struggle to understand that other people do not know what is going on in their heads.

When someone knows something specific, they often fail to realise that others may not. They just assume that people know what they know and so when they talk about subjects they leave out a lot of basic information that others would need.

It happens a lot with ‘experts’ who write articles about specific subjects that they post on websites and blogs.

Unless they are writing to an audience that should already know the basics, like a psychology professor writing for third year university students, they should always assume that the person reading is completely clueless to what is being written about.

You can never have too much information, but you can always have too little.

Lack of information is what leads to assumptions, and as the saying goes:

‘Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups!’

A lack of information leads to bad decisions and reactional behaviour which can be irrational, negative, and self-destructive.

Knowing just half the story can be incredibly damaging if it is acted upon… or not in this case.

Effective communication is key to success in life.

And it is incredibly vital when it comes to making money… that is for sure.

The thing is… effective communication is not something you are born with…

It is learnt.

I had to learn it as did many others who now make tens of thousands of pounds each month.

To discover how you can earn thousands of pounds with effective communication, go to:

One Letter From Retirement

Kind regards

John Harrison

PS… You just need to know what words to use, where and when to use them, plus what not to say and why.

In One Letter From Retirement, I show you exactly how to successfully and effectively communicate your ideas and products.

Here’s that link again:

One Letter From Retirement

People are different and so where some will find it appealing, others will find it off-putting preferring to go somewhere less ‘British’ in favour of something more authentically Spanish and less ‘tacky’.

What is interesting is that the show is apparently also popular in Germany and the Netherlands. A lot of Germans and Dutch go to Benidorm for their holidays too.

I have to wonder, are those who watch the show in Germany and the Netherlands similar types to the British who go to Benidorm, or do they watch it for a laugh and think that all the British are like the dysfunctional families on the show?

With Benidorm, Bargain Brits In The Sun, and Brexit, I dread to think what our European friends think of us!

I so hope they don’t think that we are all alike, although, saying that, not all of the families are the same on the show.

Anyway, I digress a little.

The point I am trying to make is that it is easier to sell products, services, and places when you clothe them in ‘stories’.

People have no idea that they are being sold to when they are enjoying a story. They see and hear things and ‘make’ decisions through ‘freewill’… or so they think.

Do you think it was an accident that Ray Ban glasses were used in the film, Top Gun?

No, like most products seen in films and television shows, they pay a premium to be featured because they know that it will result in a lot of sales.

The people who make those ‘freewill decisions’ are actually motivated and persuaded to do so.

The truth is, they didn’t make a decision between several different brands of the same product; they made a decision based on only seeing one… one which was purposely put in front of them.

Remember that when trying to sell products of your own… use story and only show potential customers what you want them to see.

A fantastic way to get stories in front of people is to publish a newsletter.

Not only can you publish a newsletter for free… people will pay you to receive and read your newsletters.

A fantastic platform to publish newsletters for free from is Substack.

Substack allows you to charge for your newsletters and will process the payments for you, and get this… the top ten writers on the platform collectively make over £15 million per year!

There are over 500,000 paying subscribers on the platform, who wouldn’t want a piece of that?

Discover more about Substack here:

Why You Should Consider Publishing A Newsletter With Substack

Kind regards.

John Harrison.

PS… People are flocking to Substack to read newsletters because unlike websites, they are not drenched in advertising. The pages are clean, fast to load and easy to read… now is the time to check it out.

Here’s that link again:

 Why You Should Consider Publishing A Newsletter With Substack

Finishing half way through a sentence may be a strange and difficult thing to do for many, but stopping half way through a paragraph is easier.

Psychologists say that humans struggle to forget things that are half finished, which makes it easier to go back the next day to and carry on where you left-off.

When you finish something, the brain starts to automatically forget it. It is known as the Zeigarnik Effect, after the famous 1927 experiment by Bluma Zeigarnik.

The experiment observed that waiters were able to remember complex orders when the order was interrupted or incomplete, but as soon as the order was finished, it faded from memory more quickly.

The other thing about finishing half way through a paragraph is that you can read what is written and be reminded as to where you left-off and what you need to write next.

Leaving a job half finished is a great way to start fresh again the following day without the head scratching that comes from trying to figure out what you need to do next.

I don’t know if this works for everyone, some people may struggle ending the day on an unfinished paragraph or project, but studies show that it works, and both Hemingway and Dahl’s success is testament to it working for them.

Another way to avoid any form of writers block is to have a list of ideas to write about that you browse through before you start typing.

I add to that list daily whenever I see or hear something that influences an idea for an article, email, or product.

When it comes to newsletters and emails – which I make a lot of money from – I have a list of questions that I read most mornings to help me come up with ideas if I have exhausted all of the ideas on my list.

They are:

1. Who and what have I seen out and about lately which I found interesting?
2. What did I watch on television last night which I found interesting?
3. What have I read recently which I have found interesting?
4. What have I been told about/heard about recently which I found interesting?
5. What have I seen online lately which I found interesting?

Those five questions will help you to find topics to write about for articles, emails, and newsletters.

Those five questions can be your own personal goldmine if you use them correctly.

Discover how you can make thousands of pounds writing and sending simple emails, click the link below:

The Email Secret

Kind Regards

John Harrison

PS… Once up and running, it can take as little as ten minutes to write a money-making email that you can send to your email list.

Plus, this is away to make money that you can take anywhere in the world and you can work on it at any time of the day or night… whichever suits you best.

Here’s that link again:

The Email Secret

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Mark and Sarah, who at one point were spending £60 a night on takeaway food and bottles of wine, would have spent over £10,000 if they were doing that every day for six months!

I don’t know how long they had been spending £60 a day, but it was an expensive habit.

Both of these stories are prime examples of people essentially ‘wasting’ money.

Now, before you start shouting ‘it’s their money to enjoy’, at me, I know!

What I am saying here is that there are a lot of people who will constantly say that they do not have any money spare to invest or make positive changes to their lives… yet they can afford to fund habits that are harmful and costly… just like these two couples.

People fall into habits of behaviour and do not realise how much time and money they are losing each month.

Both couples have saved themselves at least £5,000 over a six month period since changing their behaviour. The money they wasted could have been put to better use… which it probably is now.

With Mark and Sarah going to the gym regularly, having more energy and a ‘revived’ relationship, and Kassie and Toby moving to Amsterdam (to remove themselves from the toxic drinking culture of the UK), they have reinvented their lives and are much happier for it.

I can only imagine how much money they could have made if they had used their money to do what Kate Davis does each week day morning instead of blowing it on food and drink.

Before leaving the house for work in the morning, Kate trades the financial markets, very often making a day’s wage before she starts work.

Since lockdown in 2020, Kate has been making an extra £750 – £1,725 a month while doing her morning workout before work.

After generating over £20,000 in TAX FREE profits, Kate decided to put everything she does down onto paper and asked us if we would kindly publish it on her behalf.

Through her comprehensive manual, she has taught many others to generate very healthy TAX FREE profits of up to £185 per day!

The good news is… Kate wants to send you a copy of that manual – which has taught hundreds of people how to make up to £1,725 in TAX FREE money each month – for FREE!

If you would like your own copy of Kate’s wildly successful Treadmill Trader manual, click the link below:

Get Your Free Copy Of The Treadmill Trader Here!

Kind regards.

John Harrison.

PS… Most days Kate spends as little as half an hour before work and makes between £50 and £185 in TAX FREE profits.

And she does it using just her phone!

Here’s that link again:

Get Your Free Copy Of The Treadmill Trader Here!

When you subscribe to Twitter’s new Blue Tick system for $8 a month, you are no longer restricted to the 280 characters that Twitter is famous for; you can write longer posts of up to 25,000 characters.

And this bit is really important…

You can also now charge a monthly subscription fee for your content.

You connect a Stripe account to your Twitter profile to process recurring payments.

This could be a game changer.

Now anyone has the opportunity to publish content and charge people to access it.

This no longer just from the comfort of your own home… this is… from the palm of your hand profits!

It couldn’t get any easier!

This is a business you can carry around with you in your pocket!

I am not going to say that everyone will be successful with this, but imagine that you needed an extra couple hundred pounds each month to cover the increased food costs; this could be a great way to make that money.

Twenty people paying you £10 a month would be enough to help.

Imagine that you had 200 people paying you £10 a month… that would be great, wouldn’t it?

Twitter is very easy to use and you can share multiple pictures and videos per post.

Twitter has a global market and so you can potentially reach millions of people with your content.

I see no reason as to why a person cannot get at least 200 subscribers worldwide.

Even the most obscure topic should have enough people interested in it globally to be able to find enough paying subscribers.

I mean, if people are willing to pay a subscription each month to see a woman’s feet…

… believe it or not, there’s a whole feet focused platform called feetfinder[.]com for buying and selling feet pictures (there’s another possible way to make money for you!)…

…. then I am more than certain you can find people willing to pay for your content.

I’ve mentioned Noah Smith before who makes around $1 million a year from people paying a subscription to read his opinion pieces on the world’s economies… that is information that anyone can get from news websites and really doesn’t help anyone much…

Now, If he can make a million dollars from that… I’m sure you can earn at least a few thousand pounds or more per month with a subscription business.

Click the link below to learn more:

How To Cash In With A Subscription Based Business

Kind Regards

John Harrison

PS… Once fully established, you could be earning thousands of pounds each month from work which could take less than a day… depending on what you are providing.

A subscription based business is all about the numbers.

Give a large group of people something they want and need at a price they are happy to pay, and you can be paid multiple times for the one piece of work each and every month.

Here’s that link again:

How To Cash In With A Subscription Based Business

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He wasn’t alone; the New York Post interviewed others who were also following extreme budgeting plans so that they could retire way before the socially-accepted retirement age.

Shang Saavedra, 34, and her husband were saving 50% of their combined six-figure-a-year income. They gave themselves a monthly entertainment budget of just £20!

At eight months pregnant, Saavedra sourced all of her baby gear for free from people on social media. She was a member of the ‘Buy Nothing’ Facebook group which helped her to source a lot of free stuff.

Their goal was to be financially independent and retired from working within a few years.

Another extreme budgeter, Carmen Perez, started her life of extreme frugality when she was 29 and in £45,000 of debt.

Within three years she had replaced her debt with £40,000 in savings, bought a home in Connecticut, had left her job and was working towards a new career online.

As well as living frugally and following an extreme budget, Carmen started a side hustle to bring in more money.

She told the New York Post:

“Get a side hustle. There are so many side gig opportunities in the city that can help with adding money to your savings.”

I’ve talked a lot about side hustles and different ways to make money.

In 2019 when the article was published, it might have been a lot easier to save as it was pre-covid and pre-cost-of-living crisis.

However, she is absolutely right that a side hustle is a fantastic way to make more money which can be added to your savings pot to make your future better, or at least… make your life easier today.

Side hustles (a second income) can be hard work, especially if you have a full-time job.

Side hustles require work.

Making money doesn’t have to require work and it doesn’t have to be hard either.

It can be easy, just like ‘The Easy As 1-2-3 Betfair System’ by John Banks.

John Banks makes a couple of simple checks to see which horses qualify and then he places his bets.

It’s as easy as that.

There is nothing complex to learn or any complicated working-out to be done, simply check that a specific criterion is met, and you are good to go.

With the ‘The Easy As 1-2-3 Betfair System’ you could be doubling your money every 3 to 4 weeks.

Discover more here:

Easy As 1-2-3

Kind regards.

John Harrison.

P.S… You can started right away with just £100 and after 6 months, you could be sitting on a decent tax free £12,800!

Here’s that link again:

Easy As 1-2-3