Press Release: Richard Mulvey Designs a new keynote – SEX in the Workplace
Richard Mulvey has just released his newest keynote, SEX in the Workplace. It is a humorous take to a serious subject: Getting teams to think about creating extraordinary results for the organisations...
View ArticleJacques interviewed on Cliff Central by Timothy Webster
September 1, 2015 (09h00 – 10h00): Jacques de Villiers and Bonsai Shongwe were interviewed on Cliff Central by branding thought leader, Timothy Maurice Webster. The subject was the Power of Public...
View ArticleBurn the Haystack. Find the Needle.
I’ve no doubt that you’ve heard the idiom “Like looking for a needle in a haystack.” It’s based on the idea that it’s hard to find a sewing needle in a haystack. It means when something is almost...
View ArticleThe Strange Secret To Happiness
Here’s a hack I use to ensure my happiness (most of the time). When you’re in the traffic have you ever slowed down and given someone a gap so that they can cut in front of you? And, after this...
View ArticleNoah, Aliens and Disillusionment
A favourite dinner topic, around our house when I was growing up, was the UFO crash (with five aliens on board) in Roswell, New Mexico on July 8, 1947. That’s how you roll when you were born to liberal...
View ArticleWhy People Irritate Me
I find people irritating. Not everyone, you understand. Just some of them. You know the ones. Those that say they’re going to do something and don’t. Those that are humble and self-effacing when they...
View ArticleWalk The Yard
Prison genre movies appeal to something inside me. I’ve watched dozens: The Shawshank Redemption, Jericho Mile, The Green Mile and The Hurricane to name a few. And, loosely lumped into the prison genre...
View ArticleBeware Of Drinking The Guru’s Kool-Aid
I’ve been known to hero-worship someone from time-to-time. I’ve even anointed people with guru status. And, I’ve believed everything that ‘guru’ has said and taken it as gospel and blindly followed...
View ArticleDo You Think The World Doesn’t Love You?
The other day a friend of mine made a statement that gave me a moment to pause. “Do you know what your problem is, Jacques?” “You think that the world doesn’t love you?” I was shocked. In those eight...
View ArticleIs there a difference between an education and a degree?
22 October 2015 Dear Student, Go to University for an Education, not a Degree I’m happy to see that with the recent Rhodes statue protest (#RhodesMustFall) and now the fee increase protests...
View ArticleI’m too flabby for Facebook
It’s been apparent for a while now that I’m getting too flabby for my size 32 pants and the Siren’s song of stretch pants is starting to pull at me. I can deal with my daughter saying, “Daddy,...
View ArticleFollow the Call (Slowly)
I love the sentiment behind this quote by Joseph Campbell, ”Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.” But, for most of us ‘following your bliss’ is a bit of a...
View ArticleThe Insanity of Chronic Remorse
Robert Frost’s words have driven me to distraction for as long as I can remember: “Two roads diverged in a wood. And I – I took the one less travelled by and that made all the difference.” Whenever I...
View ArticleBook Review: Intent – Exploring the Core of Being Human
After reading Etsko Schuitema’s Intent – Exploring the Core of Being Human, I felt both excitement and trepidation. Excitement that I had found a roadmap on how to live an excellent life. And,...
View ArticleWe Are Right
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week you’ll know that there were two deadly attacks on Thursday and Friday in Lebanon and France. At least 43 and 129 lives were taken respectively....
View ArticleA speakers agency is not the way to go for unblooded speakers
Because I get so many calls to represent professional motivational speakers, I decided to write this article. Most new (unblooded) speakers reckon that a speakers agency will automatically put them on...
View ArticleWe Love The Lamborghini More Than The Lamb
Work On The Stuff That Matters Or You’ll Be Left In Tatters (alternate title) I don’t know about you, but when I see a beggar on the street, I feel sorry for him. And guilty. I have so much and he has...
View ArticleAre Motivational Speakers Like The Kardashians?
* I wrote this article for the PSASA newsletter. No motivational speakers were harmed in the writing of this article. The narcissists didn’t care and the rest didn’t read it In essence, I’m really...
View ArticleThe Warrior and the Artist
Have you ever wished that you were somewhere else or doing something else? I used to want to be somewhere else, doing something else until I came across the notion of the warrior and the artist. It...
View ArticleDon’t wait for tomorrow
Phew. We’re coming into the home stretch … December. For many of us it will be a time to kick back and relax. We’re going to eat a lot more, read more, sleep more and chill out more. December might...
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