How Loud Should They Cry Before We Respond?
How soon do you direct your son to a chair when he is trying to take something on a higher shelve but just cannot reach? When would it be the right time to intervene? How do you balance between depriving a child to learn against making him a real spoilt brat?
Whence Did All Your Magicles Cometh?
Certain times of the year are bound to carry our memories back to specific instances in our short lifetimes wherein we wonder how we actually manage to come through! I wonder what your special periods would be, the June month is one of them for me
If You Were Meant To Do Something...Please Just Do It!
I once read a quote by the world greatest Mohamed Ali where he commented about his boxing career: “It's just a job. Grass grows. Birds fly. Waves pound the sand. I beat people up.” At the time, his quote just meant nothing at all to me but, I tell you, today it means everything!
Oh! How I Wished Everything Was Just Black or White!
Yesterday I took my family to the Royal Show. My 10 –year old son went to buy some drinks for us. When he came back he says; “Dad, someone asked me where I stay ….and I told him I stay here in Pietemaritzburg”.
Why Delay Our Passions To A Next Life?
I never consider myself a historian. Infect nothing bores me more than war stories. But as they say “every cloud has its silver lining” I recently got attracted to one of those hard to resist World War II anecdotes.
Why Have You Ignored Your Acres of Diamonds?
Have you read the classic book "Acres of Diamonds" by Russell Herman Conwell? The story of a person who sold his home and land to travel far and wide in search of diamonds - only to die penniless.
The Chisel, the Hammer and the Sweat Completes the Miracle!!!
I borrowed today’s topic from one of my greatest mentors. What a phrase to inspire someone to finally “take action”. The motivational speaker, philosopher and the teacher, Jim Rohn, could never be more precise. The statement just “wowed” me and I hope it does the same to you.
Life Does Not Give Us What We Need; But We Get That Which WE DES
We all have desires in our lives. Some of us long for as miniscule things as just having a cigarette puff and yet some of us are a little extravagant – their desires may range from a Sporty Ferrari to a private jet...
