Micro Blog

• How NOT to let people talk you out of a good idea

  April 06, 2011

  How many times have you suddenly said “Oooh, I have a good idea” and gone on to outline what your idea is? And how many times have the people around you told you all the ways that the idea would NOT work.
  Why don’t they think about it, and suggest w… continue reading
  

• Disasters, floods and fires

  March 12, 2011

  Every time there is a disaster somewhere in the world, I feel the insignificance of my efforts to do something good in the world. After all, I can’t go to the ends of the earth to offer my help in digging people out of the rubble.
  
  I can give money to… continue reading
  
  

• I think I want to be the chief

  February 05, 2011

  There is the story of the Store owner during the time of the great diamond rush in Kimberley, South Africa at the turn of the 19th century (definitely when the earth was flat!) The Store owner became a very rich man, and when he was asked how he did it, … continue reading

• Jane's nervousness is contagious!!

  January 24, 2011

  Jane is sitting watching the snow and building up her nerves to a crescendo. Why do we do this to ourselves.
  
  Here’s a funny story… I really do all my thinking while driving. It’s like thoughts just pop into my head, the same as they do when I am sleepi… continue reading
  
  

• Offensive advertising methods

  January 05, 2011

  I wonder why I find some people’s methods offensive of ingratiating themselves into a community like a bole worm into your intestines (wherever bole worms like to live! However, they sound nasty!)
  
  
  
  This is a community that wants to see their products … continue reading
  
  

• Grasp your opportunities

  December 07, 2010

  Grasp your opportunities like looking at a spectacular sunrise…… it will only last a few minutes and then will be lost.

• Do immigrants become great inventors

  November 19, 2010

  Being an immigrant conjures up visions of steamboat travel, steam trunks and a chicken or two strapped to your back so you don’t run out of chicken soup.
  
  
  
  

  However, I think we are all immigrants in time when we take the first step in visualizing someth… continue reading

• Success vs Failure

  August 24, 2010

  A sermon recently expounded the value of failure not as failure itself, but as a means of growing one’s sense of self worth and moving towards new experiences.
  
  
  
  

  Failure does not mean that one has failed in life’s work, but is just a measure of how much … continue reading