Autumn is a precious time of year and is perhaps an altogether more positive metaphor for another special time: the tail end of middle age when we are far from elderly, but far from young. You look up one day and realise that while you were busy building a life with your family, or perhaps […]
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Make your life easier – Part 3
Don’t avoid digital help. Whilst there are many dystopian stories about how robots will take over the world, those projected realities are highly unlikely to ever manifest. AI, big data and cloud storage can be our friend in making our life easier – which is what technology was always intended for! Granted, we can easily […]
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Make your life easier – Part 2
Every time we say ‘YES’ to something new, it seems to just make our life more complicated down the line; more events to attend, increased responsibilities and less time to relax and do what we really want to do. Finding just the right amount of order in your life is one of the secrets to […]
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Offshore investing and the new expat tax
As of 1 March 2020, an amendment to the South African Income Tax Act will have definite ramifications on the lives of South Africans living and working abroad. Now that this infamous ‘expat tax’ is in effect, SA expats are now obligated to pay up to 45% of their foreign income to the taxman when […]
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Make your life easier – Part 1
Every day our lives get a little more complicated. That’s the reality of the world that we’re currently living in. It’s not easy to keep order in your life – even if you’re one of the few who excel in keeping things in line! Finding just the right amount of order in your life is […]
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The NHI: What we know so far
South Africa has just had its annual Budget Speech, with one of the many controversial topics not addressed being the National Health Insurance scheme. Yet President Ramaphosa stated very recently that he expects it to be fully rolled out within the next five years. The NHI was initially to kick off on 1 March 2020 […]
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Accountable is defined as an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility for one’s actions. Accountability, however, means preventing something from going wrong. These are two very different meanings, the first brings back thoughts of being sent to the principal’s office in Primary School, knowing the fate that awaited me (the good old days of corporal […]
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The Kaizen philosophy is one which has been used by many successful companies in order to encourage employees to continually improve, and rather than scold them for mistakes, it encourages them to continuously evaluate what went wrong and then improve on it. In Business Kaizen is defined as those activities that continuously improve all functions […]
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I recently came across the clarity paradox, which tries to explain why successful people and organizations don’t automatically become very successful. Greg McKeown author of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less explains the the clarity paradox in 4 phases: Phase 1: When we really have clarity of purpose, it leads to success. Phase 2: When we have success, it leads to […]
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Post Election Blues(or yellows or reds)
The elections have come and gone and the people have spoken(in one way or another), there have been winners and losers, and I’m not only referring to the political parties. Voter turn out was disappointing in my opinion, but I guess that is a reflection on the last 5 years if not more, and it […]
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