Inspiration

When it comes to building a winning team, what does it really take? I have had the privilege of playing in some very successful teams throughout my professional Rugby career. I also played in a few teams that were not successful at all, even though there was enough talent for us to be successful. So what separates a winning team…

When I started playing sport in primary school, I tried every sport that was available. I was reasonably good in many of the sports, but I somehow enjoyed the team sports more which is where I learnt about the benefits of working as a team. I have seen with my kids that this is often a personality trait, and one…

August is women’s month in South Africa and there is a very good reason why women get a month for society to reflect on how important they are in our society. I am sometimes horrified by the way women are treated in this country. Gender-based violence has become a pandemic of epic proportions and yet we sit back and hardly…

In life you get natural leaders that can motivate people by the shear brilliance in public speaking. Martin Luther King Jnr, Abraham Lincoln, Margaret Thatcher, Adolf Hitler and one hundred more. They had the ability to get up on a stage and make people believe in what they said, even if it wasn’t true. I certainly wasn’t one of those,…

Murphy’s Law says that if I can go wrong, it will but I have never seen the negative side rather the positive. In October 2022 I started playing the wonderful new game called Padel which is a combination of tennis and squash. If you haven’t tried it then please do yourself a favor and try it out. The third time…