Freedom

Goal setting is one of the easiest ways to achieve success and your dreams but most of us shy away from setting goals because we do not know where to start, what to include and we fear failure if we [...]

As we enter the last month of 2021, many of you may be asking – “Where has the year gone to?” We have certainly experienced a very interesting 18-24 months, where some have thrived, others have struggled and others are [...]

Two months left in 2021 (fortunately four months for the financial year which is then still a third of the financial year). Worse yet, 32 working days before we close our office for the December break. If your life is [...]

People ask: What stage of a life cycle is considered to be adulthood? Research results say: “Adulthood is the period in the human lifespan in which full physical and intellectual maturity have been attained. Adulthood is commonly thought of as [...]

When it comes to living our best lives, it is obvious that we need a stable economy that provides work and economic opportunity for all South Africans. In order to add value, the needs which are to be served have [...]

August is Women’s Month. We just celebrated Women's Day this past Monday – this day is dedicated and mainly designed to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women, and to create awareness for women’s rights and gender [...]

An article in this morning’s Business Day caught my attention. Headlined – “Capitec eyes bigger market share and hints at offshore expansion”. In the article CEO, Gerrie Fourie, was quoted as saying – “We need to get to 20%-30% of [...]

I remember as a teenager, watching my mother going about the house doing her chores and thinking to myself, “I would love to be happily married, have children, and run a home one day but I would also like to [...]

Think of a 911 Porsche. The Porsche 911, launched in 1963, traces its roots back to the 356 Porsche of the 1950s which actually shared a drivetrain with the Volkswagen Beetle. Similar underpinnings but a vastly different package. Which would [...]

If I remember my primary school history class correctly, it was a French philosopher Rousseau who said, “Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.”   Whether taxes, civil responsibility, or the responsibility for people, the carefree freedom we enjoy as children, teenagers, [...]

If you go to Google and type in ‘challenges that business owners face’, one of the results listed in 2018 is ‘Lack of business funding, marketing, and cash flow’. Now, if you Google ‘business challenges for 2021’, suddenly results are very, very different; ‘how to avoid burnout, how to avoid fatigue and how [...]

Freedom, in general, can be said as the state of being free, or not being imprisoned or enslaved. It could as well be interpreted as the ability to act without restriction. Something is "free" if it can easily be altered [...]