When I was a student Benjamin Franklin’s now famous quote “By failing to plan, you are preparing to fail” is one of my favourite quotes. I think, because I spent so many years in boarding school, I enjoy structure and routine. At times I feel it becomes a bit debilitating as I don’t do impulsive things often enough. Sometimes the…
As we head into the silly season, I always feel that people get more and more burnt out as another year is coming to an end. COVID has taught us many things but the most important lesson it taught us, is that we must take nothing for granted. I think I can speak for everybody when I say that most…
In the last few weeks, I have really been battling to stay positive. I think we all underestimate how negative load shedding can make you. To be honest I feel that no riots, weak rand or corruption makes our nation as negative as load shedding does As I am sitting on a plane writing this blog, I feel that we…
The Oxford Dictionary says aspiration is “a hope or ambition of achieving something”. To hope that you will achieve something will only remain a hope if you don’t actively pursue a dedicated plan to reach that goal. Without an action plan nothing will happen, and people will continue to hope and dream. When you set your plan in place it…
There is a very good reason why death and public speaking are the two most feared things in the world. People fear public speaking more because it is more likely that you might need to get up and speak somewhere today than dying. So what exactly is the fear about? What could possibly put the fear of death into you…
In March 2020 our president Cyril Ramaphosa declared a 3 week full lock down which was later extended to 5 weeks. My wife and I decided to take our kids to the Karoo during this time so that they can at least have a farm and more space to move around. Yes, I do have very busy boys! While it…