Use $1 on Sunday to really annoy someone on Monday. Really?
What can you do with a single dollar on a Sunday that will really annoy someone on Monday?
Yikes! The house is on fire!
As kids we loved to play with fire. As adults, has much changed? We all play with ‘fire’ everyday… will you get burnt? Find out…
What happens when you lose your career, job, money, investments, marriage… etc.
Big epic olden day battle movies. Scenes of battles and fortress sieges. Good verses evil …and good triumphs. And, I love the old testament stories. Here is an interesting snippet: Next Abimelek went to Thebez and besieged it and captured it. Inside the city, however, was a strong tower, to which all the men and…
Caught in the World’s economic crisis? Here is the way out!
The world is groaning under the global economic crisis as governments scramble to prop up failing bastions of greed. The little man in the street takes the full brunt from the excesses of the few who escape into the fantasy of living a life of extravagance. The world systems operate on Buying, Selling or Trading.…
Rumours of more earthquakes… will you be shaken?
The increasing intensity of earthquakes literally shake our world. The recent Chilean 8.8 Quake and the 9.1 Sumatran Quake in 2004 that generated an Indian Ocean tsunami have both impacted the Earth’s rotation and shifted it’s axis. These small shifts in the axis may seem insignificant in themselves but the implications to the world’s weather…
Tough times. Wishing things were different?
I love history. That wasn’t always the case. My History teacher at school had an amazing ability to send everyone into noddy land. No adventure or fun, just boring facts… but that’s now history too! My interest peaked when I travelled to England at aged 13 and walked through places that were built 1000‘s of…
The 11th Hour…waiting, waiting…
We were tired and exhausted. Our injured mate lay before us lit by the soft glow of our helmet lights. The darkness in the underground cave complex surrounded us and closed in. The cave-in had cut our return to the surface and all we could do was wait for the SAR Watch to expire. Our…
Responding in times of unprecedented duress.
Many years ago, in an organisation that remains nameless, I was seconded to a major project worth many millions of dollars. There were over 400 people on this project at the time. 70% were engaged from a consultancy firm. My role was coordination of the project management. From the information each person entered into the…
Dilligence in the face of adversity.
Have you ever watched a cow grazing. It just meanders in the grass chewing the cud, growing fatter by the day. In the heat of the day it will even lie down and rest. Just dumb and fattened. Nothing seems to perturb it – and the butcher loves it that way. And so it is…