Swart Donkey

“You are what you eat” is mostly literal. Our bodies regenerate every seven to ten years. When I started yoga, my diet had mostly descended ...

You can, and many do, do a Yoga Teacher Training course not to become a teacher of others, but to improve how you teach yourself. One of the...

Working in investments involves periods of existential crises. Trying to explain underperformance can be really testing even if you are a ha...

You can think of risk as stress, and stress is not all bad. “Discomfort is the entry ticket to a meaningful life”. In exercise, you have Hig...

Building wealth takes time. 15 years is an aggressively short period to build an Engine (Capital that can earn enough to cover your expenses...

From a standing start, a big enough Capital Engine to give you complete financial independence is an incredibly ambitious project. Even if y...

Capital is a living organism, and Consumption is a form of killing. We need to consume to live, and so we need to ask how much of the Cons...

There are levels of relaxation. Usually we just touch the surface. Weekends and Holidays are often “Concertina Leave”, where the work squi...

Ken Robinson points out that if you ask a classroom of five year olds who can draw, they will all put their hands up. It is only 10 years ...

Part of why I shifted gears in my career was a recognition of where my energy was being directed. Aside from the technical and business pa...

When I was at University I was probably at the peak of my powers of stubborn pig-headed focus. During study weeks, and exam periods, I cou...

The idea of continents as separate land masses with different identities is very recent. The Fertile Crescent is a connected area t...

Airlines insist you put your own gas mask on before helping others. This isn't selfishness . Quite the opposite. Playing the martyr  is...

In 2011, I went on a month long Yoga Teacher Training Course . One week in, I felt completely relaxed. What's more, I knew that a week ...

The time you make controls your world . We are very powerful at ignoring things that don't contribute to the things we have prioritised...

Tim Urban tells us we are at ' The Tail End ' of many of our most important relationships. It is a cliche to talk of great friendsh...

I am not sympathetic to the response, ' I don't have time '. We all have time. 24 hours in a day. We choose between various op...

I have had various stabs at playing the piano. Today is the start of another. When I purged most of what I owned and headed down under fo...

While on Table Mountain with two friends recently, we sat to take a break. In truth, two mountain goats sat to wait for a donkey to catch u...

I always have to pinch myself when I am in Camps Bay on a beautiful day. It feels like you are trapped in a post card. There are lots of bi...