I want to let the world know that I am so proud of my mother. I want to shout it from the rooftops. So listen up world as I’m going to brag about some of the wonderful accomplishments that she has achieved throughout her lifetime to date. Firstly she gave birth to me. Wow! Now [...]
I’d just bought myself a brand new Toyota LiteAce. I was feeling like a million dollars. I had risen in the world of motor vehicle ownership by about one metre. I’d just traded in my Mini Minor panel van for this hot, and I mean really hot van. No rust. No more reliance on the [...]
Have you ever come across a sign that says ‘Wet paint don’t touch’? And what did you do? Yes probably exactly what I did. Touch it. I remember that as a little boy I was told to never put my hand on the hot fireplace, nor my foot on the hot mower – and what [...]
‘It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.’ Anon. I noticed this quote the other week as I drove past a local church and smiled. I remember thinking when I was married at the age of 25 how much my dad had learnt since I was 18. Oh how wonderful is the [...]
I hear so many people whingeing about the economy – that they are unable to get a job, that there is no opportunity or that they don’t seem to be able to earn enough money. The overriding word evident in their vocabulary is ‘CAN’T’! I’m sorry, but I’m going to have to do something that [...]
It may have killed the cat, but curiosity – a state in which you want to learn about something – has never killed a human yet. For it is the curious who make up the inventors, the discoverers, the explorers, the thinkers, the entrepreneurs, the risk takers, the leaders and those who are not satisfied [...]
As children we would often dare each other to do something that required a degree of courage or foolhardiness. It was more of a game than anything else which always produced interesting results. And if for some reason one of us failed to participate in the dare we’d be labeled a ‘chicken’. The principle of [...]
‘Wise men and women are always learning, always listening to fresh insights.’ Proverbs 18:15 Do you wish to be wise? Well here are some things that you need to do. Firstly, you need to always be willing to learn. Secondly, you need to always listen to fresh insights. So how do you go about these [...]
‘The mind is like a muscle and it can be developed.’ Peter J. Daniels I heard Peter speak again this weekend at my local church, and it’s twenty four years since I first came in contact with the author of that quote. For three days I shut myself away in a motel room with three [...]
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