Many people support the notion that good results are impossible to achieve without a lot of hard work. Even though this statement has some truth in it, success is not only about the amount of effort and time we’re willing to invest in our goals. Quite often, it’s possible to do the same amount of…
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar We all started off knowing absolutely nothing. Every single person you admire today started out with zero knowledge at some point in their lives and careers. The differences between you and them at the moment are…
The one thing that everyone in this world has in common is Time. No one has ever been able to create a day that is longer than 24 hours. Bill Gates, one of the richest men in the world, has 24 hours in a day and so does everyone else. Yet most of us make…
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis For many years people have set for themselves life goals based on their age. For instance, “By the age of “X”, I want to have children; by the age of “Y”, I want to buy my own…
“There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…” ― John Lennon Too many times, I’ve heard people say things like “I’ll be the happiest when I relocate”, “I’ll be happy when I get that job”, “I will be happy when I build/buy my house” or “I’ll be happy when I get…
Fate is the philosophy that a person’s future is pre-recorded and cannot be altered, hence the saying, “whatever will be will be.” Fate is also the development of events outside a person’s control, regarded as predetermined by a supernatural power. Ever heard of the popular saying by John Lennon “Everything will be okay in the…
We don’t have to look very hard to find it; it’s everywhere, the Me, Myself and I syndrome. Social media encourages it, songs, motivational speakers, influencers etc. – all projecting the need for us to focus on ourselves, it’s all about YOU. We live in a time where individuals take tremendous delight in being self-centred…
“Regret is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but does not move you forward.” – Erma Bombeck The myth “Your Mistakes Eventually Catch Up with You.” might be true, if you harbour regrets from your past errors or misdeeds. A mistake in general, is a decision or action that we later…
I was taught as a child that when I see an elderly person – I greet, when on a bus or at a reception and an elderly person walks in – I should rise, so they can sit. All of these values and more, are rapidly disappearing from today’s world, leading to the prevalent belief…
Generational wealth is a component of financial planning that focuses on ensuring that future generations inherit stable, substantial financial resources. I do have a question, though: can you teach wealth creation? Don’t you suppose many business-people, scholars, financial planners and others would be extremely wealthy if all it took to become affluent was knowledge? They…