by Mark van Straaten | Jul 24, 2019 | Inspiration, The stuff of Life
Change is an agent of growth. If you want to grow almost anything – you will have to change! I have always held to the axiom, “be on the front end of change, so that you are able to lead change and not have change lead you”. And I have always enjoyed change and...
by Mark van Straaten | Jul 3, 2019 | Inspiration, The stuff of Life
This is part of 2 of a 5-part series on How to Grow almost anything. When one of my daughters was around 5 or 6 years old, she used to get terrible pains in her legs. For us as parents, it was always agonising to see her like that in pain. They were in fact growing...
by Mark van Straaten | Jun 26, 2019 | Inspiration, The stuff of Life
Insanity versus Sanity! We all want grow something It seems to me that most of us want to grow something. I don’t mean plants. I am talking about growing something else. It could be to grow personally, or to grow a business or to become fit or whatever. I am one of...
by Mark van Straaten | Jun 20, 2019 | Inspiration, The stuff of Life
The world of the generous gets larger and larger; the world of the stingy gets smaller and smaller. The one who blesses others is abundantly blessed; those who help others are helped – Proverbs 11:24-25 Your church is not white enough! I recently had a...
by Mark van Straaten | Jun 11, 2019 | Op Ed, The stuff of Life
A lot of uncertainty Most people will agree that we are living in a new reality. This new reality is the certainty of uncertainty. I don’t want to mention all the instigators of this uncertainty, but here are few of the main culprits: Global debt – national debt as...
by Mark van Straaten | Apr 27, 2019 | The stuff of Life
A ringing noise in the ear A friend used to sleep with a noisy fan in her room. Why? To drown out the ringing noise in her ears. Then another friend, let’s call David, started complaining about a ringing noise in his ears. As he told the story of how it began, I...
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