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About 18 months ago we bought a dog. As you can see, Prince Caspian (pictured) is a Dalmatian, you know..the fire dogs, or “101 Dalmatians” fame. Dalmatians are known to be “boisterous”. To me boisterous meant loud, playful, energetic. Nobody told me they were born with a permanent mixture of steroids and speed flowing in [...]

Russell Cronwell (15 Feb. 1843 – 6 Dec. 1925) was an American Baptist Minister, orator, philanthropist, lawyer, writer, and founder of Temple College. Russell was best known for his speech, “Acres of Diamonds”, which he publicly gave over 6,000 times. The speech is about an African farmer who had heard about foreigners coming to Africa [...]

Not long ago I was being interviewed by a journalist from a major newspaper about my company nobankruptcy.com.au. One of his questions pertained to how it became an overnight success and how I was so smart to come up with such a business concept. 
At this point I had to laugh. Firstly, there are many [...]

Recently I posted “One minute please” where I talked about making every minute we have count. As an aside and to get a different perspective of time, a recent post by Alltop listed 20 things that happen in 1 minute; I have listed 10 below: 1. 250 babies are born..of which 113 are born into [...]

I think to succeed in life we have to first decide we want to succeed on purpose instead of just accepting what is served, but the flipside to this is we have to appreciate what we have today, because if we are not good stewards of what little we have, how can we be trusted [...]

Someone once told me that time is my master. Being young and green, I agreed. Now that I’m older, I disagree. I control time in that I dictate what I do with my time. Will I waste it or will i use it to make a difference not only in my life, but to the [...]

I recently heard about a woman whose father had to have a heart transplant. The procedure was successful and all was well, however, several months later the father suddenly died. At the time the woman was living in another city as she was working on her master’s degree. Immediately she dropped everything when her father [...]

When I was a young boy, one of my pet hates was drawing margins. I thought it was a waste of time and the teachers were all so anal about it; some wanted a 2cm margin – in red pen – others wanted a 1cm margin – in pencil – all this fuss over a [...]