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Personal Energy
When we think of energy, we can think of people who subtract – who take energy away from us. Other people add and our energy lifts. The very worst are those who divide. They seem to be deliberate...
“If you made the mess, you must clean it up” – my mother
I was asked to speak about “South Africa in 2050”. Having heard Clem Sunter talk helpfully about a “High Road” and a “Low Road” I tried to structure my contribution in the same way – ...
“We have been taught to live in fear”
On pages 18 and 19 in his best-seller “Conversations with God (Book 1)” Neale Donald Walsch writes these profound words, and we have used them on our Programs to explain why human behaviours ar...
From candle power to megawatts
The difference between “living”, “living fully” and “just existing” is energy.
What you say and do does not matter as much as what you are by Adriaan Groenewald of Leadership Platform
After an all-day conference it was clear that what you say and do does not really matter as much as what you are!
A businessman’s assumption about a school
I remember with some embarrassment my first few years as a councillor at St. Stithians College. I confidently brought the recipes for a good business to the quarterly meeting of the Council and the...
Spectre of Verwoerd haunts Schooling in ‘non-racial’ South Africa
There is so much written about our education system and what ails it – perhaps too much. But every now and again someone writes a piece that is really worth reading. Paul Hoffman of “The Instit...
Belonging to a group which has worthy purpose
When we unpack all we have learnt about personal energy, number three on the list is the experience of "belonging to a group (community, team, organisation, school, family, country etc.) which we b...
