PLAN AND PLAY  

PLAN AND PLAY  

A few years ago, a senior representative of a pensions company in South Africa made an astonishing  point at a Conference Dinner. He said that the first person who will live to be one hundred and fifty  years old is already fifty years old. As if that was...
HERE THE TWAIN SHALL MEET

HERE THE TWAIN SHALL MEET

Mark Twain is known for many things, principally as the creator of the fictional stories about Tom  Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, but he is also celebrated as a popular humourist, entrepreneur and  speaker. He probably has never really been noted to be a...
FURTHER LESSONS FROM FATHERS  

FURTHER LESSONS FROM FATHERS  

In the middle of the last century the cartoon antics of ‘Tom and Jerry’ (the cat and mouse duo) were  hugely popular on television and film screens. While these two characters were always fighting, they  also often involved a bulldog called Spike and his...
I’M YOUR DAD  

I’M YOUR DAD  

We have all read them, all those sayings about winning and losing. Vince Lombardi famously (or  maybe fatuously) declared that “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing” while Knute Rockne  stated boldly, “Show me a gracious loser and I’ll show you a...
WARNING ON WINNING 

WARNING ON WINNING 

For years, mainly courtesy of the Stella Awards, there has been circulating a popular story of a man  who “purchased a brand-new motorhome. On his first trip home, having joined the freeway, he set  the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver’s...