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Understanding The Human Need For Control: Navigating Fear, Insecurity and Uncertainty

Explore the human need for control, its roots in fear and insecurity, and how excessive control can affect relationships, work, and personal well-being.

Long Story Short - Episode 1- The Year Of The Tiger

This is the first of a series of blog articles where I will take a "fresh" look at "old" pieces that I published in the past, keeping it short and sweet. The main idea is to highlight the key concept or lesson that I shared, getting straight to the point and giving you food for thought. Long story s

Go Figure!

We are living in a weird kind of world. Our physical needs are well catered for in a modern and comfortable environment, but our mental state is in turmoil, we often feel disenchanted and disempowered. The world does not make sense anymore and everything seems to be upside down. Go Figure! This arti

Slippery Slopes Ahead

“There is no slippery slope towards the loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the people and their leaders” Alan K Simpson. We are all on some slipery slopes to some unpleasant place called tyranny. A lot of people say I don’t want tyranny, I want to

Things Are Not What They Seem, First Impression Deceives Many ...

" Things are not what they seem, first impression deceives many, the intelligence of a few perceive what has been carefully hidden ”. Phaedrus c.444 – 393 BC. Phaedrus, whose name translates to bright or radiant was an ancient aristocrat who enjoyed the company of philosophers. He was particularly i

Don't Put a Label on Me!

Don’t Put a Label on Me. Don’t put me into a box and stick a label on it before you even get the chance to know me. I am not the same person I was when I was 20, 30, 40 years old. I am the sum total of my genetics, my upbringing, but also the books I read, the countries I traveled to, the ups and do

A Story About Freedom Within the COnfine of Reunion Island

I wrote the first draft of this article - A story about freedom within the confine of Réunion Island - in our little hideaway cabin up the hills where my youngest daughter and I spent our week of quarantine (called septaine here as it only lasts 7 days). The year 2020-2021 would be remembered as the