The Secret of Success

If at first you don’t succeed, well you must just be like the rest of us mere mortals!  But what do we mean by succeed and against what are we judging ourselves and that level of success?

Having had one of those not so great days recently, I traipsed homeward feeling like I had done ten rounds with Iron Mike Tyson.  Ok, I still had both ears intact, but I was feeling a little sorry for myself, pathetic I know but very male.  In our house there is having a cold, flu or pneumonia and then there is “Man Flu” it is, I am informed by my boss, the same as a sniffle of a cold, but the patient acts as though he has double pneumonia!

In the presence of geniuses

It is not often that you get to be in the company of genius so when you get to be in the company of two of them you are in one of those halcyon moments, one you must cherish.

When you get to be in the presence of two geniuses coupled with two beautiful women, then you should chill, kick back, suck it up and learn to enjoy life!

The New South Africa

Sitting in the airport on a dark cold morning with a one hour flight delay may not appear, at first glance, to be the most inspirational place on the planet, but then first impressions can be often wrong.

Financial Maturity

I met a man and what a tale he had to tell. He was an older, if not wiser, man than most, but the story of his life over the last twenty years was remarkable, an adventure that was to my mind extraordinary and if anyone had told me such a tale 20 years ago I would not have believed them.

Financial Maturity

As I sit here in my nuclear fall out shatter, banned by my editor from mentioning soccer and yet  surrounded by tofu and recently stocked up supplies of low fat yoghurt, olives and other essential supplies I wonder if I will survive the World Cup food shortages (sorry Ed)! There has been a run on sushi, soft cheese and salami but there did appear to be lots of people buying up wine, especially the expensive French fizzy variety.