Category Archives: Mindsets
Goal Setting For Success
We’ve all heard about the power of setting goals. Everyone has surely seen statistics that connect goal setting to success in your business life as well as your personal life. I’m sure if I asked you today what your goals were, you could rattle off a few wants and hopes without giving it too much…
The middle class better watch out for what’s coming next
How long has our money system been with us? Humans are great adapters. I find it astonishing how quickly we adapt to new technology and forget the old things. Grandparents who grew up without age spots on their hands, chronic medication, cell phones and credit card debt remember these things – but usually only when…
My Manifesto On The Truth
I have found that the truth whispers, while lies shout. I have found that information that comes to you is generally lies … And these lies are in the form of half truths which are the most dangerous forms of lies. Whereas you have to go out and find the truth, it seldom comes to…
You Reap What You Sow
Send to me by facebook friends Good morning said a woman as she walked up to the man sitting on ground. The man slowly looked up. This was a woman clearly accustomed to the finer things of life. Her coat was new. She looked like she had never missed a meal in her life. His…
Socialism: A Great Equalizer
Send To Me My Facebook Friends An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great…
Where there is a will there is a way….
…it all starts with an idea The Idea Frederik Braun was visiting the alpine city of Zurich in July 2000. Strolling through the alleys of Zurich’s center, he came across a railway model shop, which evoked childhood memories in Frederik at once. During the following hours, the idea of realizing a long forgotten childhood dream…
Why Quitting is a Virtue
Why You Should Quit By Jason Leister I think quitting is underrated. As I look back over my business and life, there are a lot of things that I probably should have quit far sooner than I did: I should have quit technology consulting the minute I realized that selling time for money had some…
Use Your Troubles As Stepping-stones
One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn’t worth it to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his…
You Are Special-Don’t EVER Forget It.
A well-known speaker started off his seminar holding up a R100.00 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, “Who would like this R100.00 bill?” Hands started going up. He said, “I am going to give this R100.00 to one of you but first, let me do this.” He proceeded to crumple up the R100.00…
