Ever notice your world outlook is different from the next persons? That’s what I began to notice! It isn’t so much that there are physical differences in the world around us. We all experience rain, we know what the warmth of the afternoon sun can do for us and at night the beauty of a…
There comes a moment when it’s time to redesign the amazing things we create. To refocus on what is important and to improve on what we already have. That moment passed a few days ago and, though starting from the ground up, it is also a mental journey of rebuild what I know and want…
Ever caught yourself saying, “I’ll do that later’, or “Maybe next year”? That is exactly what I woke up to the realisation of this morning. I cannot say that I will do something later and in effect place some form of credit in the time bank! It just cannot work. You see, time is a…
Success Requires Interest AND Activity In a previous post I wrote titled, Focus for Success, I examined how focus requires attention to work and that attention is a finite resource we all have. Together with attention, Focus requires that we also have interest and activity in what we are doing to succeed. To have an interest in something according…
Focus in writing is what every writer needs to do. Focus on getting words on paper. Focus for success in whatever you do, is setting those goals and achieving them. This lesson has been a hard one to learn! It’s “Focus for Success”, Dummy! This has been the phrase that has been swimming around my head…
I am an Existentialist! What a strange statement to make! Who really cares about what I am? I care, and I am interested to know what you are! We all have outlooks in life. Some are tinted by a religious belief, others have thick blinkers on to avoid looking around. If anything, being a something…
Start Turning Your Phone Off! When I was thinking about the post title I was wondering how I could convey the importance of our time! Our phone’s are “stealing” it from us and along with it our curiosity of the world. Remember the times when you haven’t had your phone, when you thought of something and you…
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. H. Jackson Brown Jr. (P.S. I Love You) Our brains thrive on exploration. The difference of a situation, the excitement of a new experience. It is mind-blowing to think of all the…
It’s Thursday already. The week has been flying past and I have been busy – I know I have been busy but there is a growing list of to-dos on my right side and I seem to not even notice the light anymore. It’s Thursday and I need to prioritise! Today I thought it’s time…
First day at Primary School. New class, check. New friends, check. Shiny new school bag, check. Bell rings, children run about, and a teacher directs everyone to their various classrooms. We are introduced to our new teacher. I forget her name, as I have for all my teachers’ names; The lesson introductions begin. We get…
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. Maya Angelou We all know the 5 second rule exists! There is the 5 second rule for food – drop it on the ground and you have just 5 seconds to recover it before it becomes…
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity! Amelia Earhart Nike, have “Just Do It” as their slogan. An internet search on Google currently lists 51,300,000 results for the Boolean search on those specific words! When you are standing on the ledge of a bungee jump wondering if you should…
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Emerson makes the point of perseverance, and as I wrote previously about it I want to give you the encouragement to continue to get up. It is failure that creates the necessity to invent!
To stand tall in this world, you need the strength of perseverance! Maurice Randall Listening to the radio today, I heard Rachel Platten singing her Fight Song. I thought; do we all need a fight song or is it that we all need the encouragement for self assurance to keep us on track?
We must end our journey to begin a new one, or else how will be appreciate them! It’s time to leave and head back to where I began nine days ago!
Jagged peaks to rolling plains, the journey is varied and never the same! Today was really about going somewhere to be somewhere. (654km) I had to meet my folks and friends by nightfall and the distance in between us was vast. It is only when you are on the road and moving that you realise…
A dash from the roar of the sea to the height of the Drakensberg Mountains Waking up to the warm humidity of East London this morning and looking out my window at the green vegetation and lovely blue sky, I felt like my trip had gone well. I had visited a National Park, seen animals,…
Waking to the sea, driving past wind farms and arriving at an Estuary Harbour. The sound of the sea evokes all kinds of emotions in me. The rush of the waves, the ebb and flow of the low rumble always moves me. It seems to connect with some deep down feeling of calm that all…
What does a Coffee, Cape Hare and a Waterfall have in common? It’s a Long Drive of Course! I woke before sunrise today in the Karoo National Park. In the distance I can hear a lion roaring letting us all know that it is morning again and he is off to bed! What a sound…
To see the morning rise and enjoy the evening pass is to experience the day in full! What an amazing place to be! Thomas’s Place is certainly worth the stay, even if it is not far from the road, the air is crisp, the sky clear and I could hear the sheep having a little…
Burning Heat and Salt Pans, oh what excitement! Salt pans, in the middle of the burning heat of the Orange Free state in South Africa, no I wouldn’t believe it… not unless I had seen it today with my own eyes. Areas of land, drying out to leave behind crystal white salt. The temperature here…
Any trip begins with the first 324kms! South Africa is Big, their holes are big, the food is big and the animals are big, but nothing makes it feel so much bigger than when you drive between different points. I set off on Thursday afternoon for a trip to the Orange Free state, the farming…
We all know we have it, we can hear it sneering at us from the pile in the corner or the overstuffed drawer. It creeps in when you are not looking then slowly but surely does a small dance on the peaceful landscape of your mind. Get enough dancing thoughts and you have a…