I used to be a skinny kid, almost the kind of skinny you see on the telly, in kids who suffer from malnutrition. My parents struggled to feed me and I just wasn’t interested. Fast forward to more recent times, I learnt by myself how eating in excess and doing no exercise can lead to gaining more kilogrammes than I […]
It used to be that if you wanted to have a certain profession, you had to have completed your formal education in that particular field. This still stands if you want to be a surgeon, if you want to be a professor, if you want to be an engineer. However, when it comes to a whole lot of professions, positions, […]
A few days ago I was telling a friend why a job I held over 10 years ago, was the best JOB I ever had. And then I compared it to other jobs I held, jobs where I was unhappy and disappointed, jobs that left me feeling unfulfilled, dissatisfied and robbed of my own time with little to show for. […]
The proliferation of the ‘work-life balance’ concept in the last years has led to the creation of many articles and books in the personal development sphere, providing advice on how this can be achieved. Lately though, entrepreneurs and coaches seeded doubts whether achieving work-life balance is possible, or whether such balance actually exists. Hopping back in time with about 20 […]
The stationary industry is doing great this season. Premium price colourful paper with bits of advice about how to run your life are fashionable “must-have” desk accessories, especially in today’s world of self-development and self-help books. With the advent of Christmas and the New Year, with everyone deciding what they want to do in the next year, planners, to do’s […]
Do you know what the major difference is between the book The Secret and the movie The Secret? The book tells you that in order to achieve anything you want to achieve, you need to take massive action! Surprisingly perhaps, this is the bit that didn’t make it on the screen, although it is the most common sense, obvious and […]
