My thoughts on the RPRA, Ian Evans, DEFRA, Channel Racing and why although the sport in the UK needs a dramatic change I don’t think it will happen in my opinion. Let’s get real here folks.
Mark Lyford
Videos
Interview with Gabriel Radu – International Winner, from Constanta, Romania
Interview with Gabriel Radu from Constanta , Romania about his International Bourges win last week. Great interview with a great guy. The best part about this win was that the pigeon was 100% Romanian!
Keep Flying!
Mark Lyford
A few words about giving up, resilience and NEVER GIVING UP.
A few words about giving up, resilience and NEVER GIVING UP.
If you have ever felt like giving up this message is for you.
I have a lived a life that has been full of major ups and downs.
- Lived in the Bahamas, with a multi million pound business.
- Lost is all (and more)
- Bankrupt (twice)
- Divorced and my boys not living with me
- Got arrested
- Sent to prison for 2 years
- Launch a high tech biz which failed horribly
- Been suicidal without even knowing it
- Many failed relationships (Im lucky to have a great lady in my life now)
- Lived in a static caravan for 18 months
- Got conned by scammers for a lot of money
- Been penniless again
- Been threatened by trolls
- Only last Saturday had my car firebombed by three thugs
It’s safe to say I have experienced pretty much everything other than serious physical ill health.
Over the last 18 years I have felt like giving up many times. Too many to mention. Over the last week which has been one of the worst ever have I felt like giving up once or twice.
But here’s the thing.. I have NEVER given up and I will never give up!
The only time you will see me give up is when Im laying in my coffin being ready to be lit up… Until then this guy will keep going no matter what.
The great thing about experiencing everything I have been through it builds up a level of resilience in you that means you will keep going no matter what….
Im going to take a few days off now and be with my Gabi, I’m going to finish the rest of my pigeon lofts, tidy up the garden and I will be back on Monday with my RPI Live Show (for racing pigeons) I will also take the weekend to plan out my next move, which will include continuing with RPI and I will also be launching my new Real Entrepreneur TV show soon plus other things.
I’m a born entrepreneur, sometimes I have learned the hard way but at heart I was born to be one.
Intention is everything folks. If you have the right intentions thats what matters. And despite what my haters think I have only ever had the best intentions to do good by people, be fair and try and build a life and businesses that not only help me but others. I will continue with those intentions no matter what.
And to all my haters reading this.. You hate me? Why would you read it, listen or watch me when you hate me so much? 😉
At the end of the day I know who I am, my family, friends and good people around me who support me know the real me and what I’m about. Its easy to read google and get a one sided story. If people want to know the real me they only have to contact me.
So if you have ever thought of giving up. Please think of this post and ask yourself.. Can you carry on? Sure you can. No matter what. No matter what anyone thinks or you may think at the time.
Keep going, be a resilient mofo., never quite always keep trying and surround yourself with good people with the right intentions. Look up to the sky and see how blessed we are.
Life is short, so let’s make the best of each and ever day ehh.
One last thing. I am ALWAYS here for anyone who maybe struggling and wants to talk. Always.
Marky Out.
AN OPEN LETTER TO FACEBOOK. You are inadvertently supporting the bullying and harassment of people using your site.
UPDATE: 22ND OCTOBER 2019
Well I thought I was doing well by not having any of my Facebook live videos removed for two weeks now. Guess I was wrong. Again, every single live video I have done in the last two weeks form my FB page Racing Pigeon International has been removed over night. Including 4 video posts I boosted and Facebook took £50 from me to promote!
How can this be right that a few jealous people can just report my videos and Facebook just removes them without any notification or justification?I will continue my quest no matter how long it takes to get ALL of my live videos reinstated.
(In the meantime all of the video replays can been see on the RPI Youtube channel here)
AN OPEN LETTER TO FACEBOOK.
Facebook. You are inadvertently supporting the bullying and harassment of people using your site.
While I understand that you as a company had to take action due to the horrific nature of people using your platform to try and spread their hate, the systems you have in place are inadvertently harming good people trying to do good things with your platform.
For the past three months I have been the target of bullying and harassment on your platform while trying to build up my business and following on Facebook.
A large percentage of my posts and Facebook live videos have been removed as a result of people reporting them.
For the past two month I have had many Facebook live videos removed and over the last 6 days EVERY single live video I have done on my personal profile and my business page have been removed.
I have had no notification of the removal and only realised they were removed when people asked me where they were.
I even did paid advertising on some of the videos from last 6 days which were accepted twice by your ads department. There is nothing wrong these videos. They do not go against your community standards in anyway.
You will see videos I have done in the last few days have have tens of thousands of views and are liked by many people with people thanking me for doing them.
You will see that only a few horrible jealous people are the ones reporting these videos and posts.
I plan or planned to built up my following and business on your platform but it is impossible to do with the situation as it is. Your system should be made that your support staff actually review the content being reported instead of them just being taken down automatically . Every single video that has been removed should NEVER have been taken down.
I have worked very hard over the last 6 months because the sport of racing pigeons needs promoting. I plan to use facebook to help promote the sport but I find it impossible to do as things currently are.
Your systems need to change. It should not be so easy for people insistent on harassment and bullying to do this to good people on your platform.
If I were a different type of person I would give up as a result of things as they have been. It’s depressing that all my hard work just vanishes because of this situation. People should know that content they put out on your platform is safe from being targeted if it does not break any of your standards and policies. As a company you rely on paid advertising. Some of the content removed over the last few days has been paid for and ultimately you have earned money from as a company. This is simply not fair.
Therefore, I would ask that EVERY post and live video I have done and shared from my www.facebook.com/marklyfordpigeons account and my business page www.facebook.com/RacingPigeonInternational that have been removed be manually reviewed and be put back up urgently.
I will not give up until this stops and my hard work and content is back online as it should be.
Please Facebook, take this seriously and change the way you do things. It should not be so easy for people to intimidate others by simply clicking a report button.
Best Regards
Mark Lyford
Racing Pigeon International Ltd
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