So, what’s change gotta do with it? We like our comfort zones and strongly resist anything or anybody that will challenge or upset them.  We want our routines of everyday to stay more or less the same and tonight when we get home from work for example (for those who go to work!), we want [...]

  Going for the jugular You are really excited about your business idea. You really, really, want it to work out and have already done all the prelims. Everything looked good and said, nay screamed, “go ahead”. You know the crunch though, is the figures. At the end of the day they will have the [...]

Tracy strikes out Tracy“Smarty Pants” McKnight (51) got retrenched last year (sad story of half the world population it seems). She realised off the bat that there was little hope of her finding another job and decided there was no other way but to start her own business to support herself and her four kids [...]

A case study Alex bought a health food franchise a while ago. This opportunity seemed like a wonderful idea in our increasingly health conscious society and besides, he’s always wanted to do something like this, being himself very health conscious and clued up on nutrition. Well, instead of the ROI benefits he was looking forward [...]

An amazing discovery   I was most amazed to discover just how many people have a problem to finish what they start. A simple Google search revealed many links to the words “how to finish what you start” with lots of written articles, advice and reply comments on the subject.   Countless people seem to [...]

Imagine a hunter tracking game and he’s been on the move all day, barely stopping to rest and eat. Suddenly he hears the snap of a twig on his left. Immediately he crouches and scans the surrounding area, rifle on his shoulder, eye to the telescope. Then he sees it! A spotted deer fills the [...]

You’re late on paying the mortgage. Again. Not only that, the bank just phoned with threats of repossession. (Nobody else knows yet). On top of that, junior wants to go on his hockey team’s Antarctic – for – the Uninitiated trip that costs more money than you make in a year, and to break his [...]

You have been told in various ways that you have to give to get. Your mom told you when you were little, your teachers told you and later all the different business ideas you were exposed to, said the same thing. So now you want to do that. You want to make that difference. Because [...]

You’re worried. Very worried. You’ve been doing everything you know to do. Your SEO efforts are paying off and enough people visit your site. You’re regularly writing killer posts and guest blogging and getting some pretty cool comments. You’re building hard at that tribe and your following is coming along nicely… But… Nobody is buying [...]

by Elmarie Bouwer   Raw intense fear pricked his skin and fissured up his back. He had to will his heart to slow down its wild beating, much like when he’s outmanoeuvring a wild animal, intent on his demise. “Hey”, the pale young man on his left babbled in that strange tongue, “you look like [...]