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A few hundred meters from where I live, I leaned my bike against a tree and walked down to the river bank to watch the salmon coming home to lay their eggs. One of these salmon taught me five important lessons. Salmon live in the cold freshwater and sea waters in and around the North Pacific and...
07/02/2013
I love ice cream. Every night, Rika and I each have one 70 calorie, chocolate covered ice cream while watching a movie, Prisoner, Downton Abbey, or another favourite show. But if we each had a high calorie ice cream every night (or a tub of it), we`d be very fat. As Hesiod said, “If you add a li...
07/02/2013
Every now and then, one is tempted to lower one’s standards in favour of the quick buck. It never pays. Problem is, most business owners have no real standards when it comes to goal setting and parameters. Your income is determined by your goals, and unless those goals are clearly defined, which...
07/02/2013
My daughter, Lynnette (left), is an avid reader. I noticed the bag a Salvation Army volunteer bell ringer was carrying as she manned her kettle. On the black bag in bold, white writing, was the question, “Who is John Galt?” These bags, she told me, are given away with all purchases of Lululemon ...
07/02/2013
By correctly prioritizing and managing your life, you will find the benefits amazing: More time Less Stress More control and peace of mind Better results When people complain they don’t have time to do important things, they simply haven’t learnt to prioritize their activities and attention. Dra...
07/02/2013
  In our increasingly socialist society, where business is attacked and blamed on a regular basis, while government ineptitude and dishonesty is overlooked, here is why you should be proud to be an entrepreneur. Indeed, those who decry the pursuit of wealth as evil are usually the most greedy par...
07/01/2013
When I ended my Skype call this morning with a coaching client of mine, Estrellita, I felt buoyed up and happy. It’s a pleasure to deal with intelligent, driven producers who have integrity and guts. In the same way, just the thought of some people I have known makes me quite bilious. I had a fa...
07/01/2013
A Filter is a device (sometimes a membrane or layer) that is designed to physically block certain objects or substances while letting others through. It removes contaminants and unwanted impurities, scans and blocks, strains and, well, filters. The acceptance rate for US Military academies runs ...
07/01/2013
“Milton Hershey had a long path to the top of the chocolate industry. Hershey dropped out of schoolin the 4th grade and took an apprenticeship with a printer, only to be fired. He then became an apprentice to a candy-maker in Lancaster, PA. After studying the business for 4 years, Hershey starte...
07/01/2013
When hack jugglers drop a prop, Penn Jillette calls the event “A sudden gust of gravity.” In South Africa, we used to refer to unexpected misfortune as “Die blinde sambok” – the Blind Whip. The  Chinese for Unexpected Misfortune is San Chang Liang Duan, which literately means “the three are long...
07/01/2013
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