Swart Donkey

Much of the anxiety I have experienced comes from expectations. Stated and unstated. Known and unknown. Managing both the conversations in m...

Life is random, ambiguous, and complex. Sometimes things can be interpreted in multiple different ways. That’s okay.  We interpret the world...

Part of how we are weighed and measured is how much income we make. The assumption being that salary (the price of our labour) is a useful d...

Difficult times force us to see. To cancel things that can wait. To put aside petty grievances. To focus. To deal with deep challenges hone...

Planning is not just picking one desired path. It is also preparing mentally, emotionally, relationally, and financially for the possibility...

We all have to eat. To eat, we need money. To get money, we need jobs. There are not enough jobs. Once there were not enough people for the ...

Calm and clear decision-making starts with managing expectations. If your desire for returns is too high, you open yourself to a new world o...

I like being a believer, so I have always been susceptible to “Drinking the Kool-Aid”. I try balance that with healthy scepticism and good o...

Sometimes you have to do things. If you are fortunate, what you have to do depends on what you want to do. There are realities to accept onc...

I am not afraid of hard. Hard is an incredibly sustainable competitive advantage. The first step of financial security is finding an income...

Milk doesn’t come from the shops. It comes from Cows. Most of the products we now end up using are assembled from bits that come from all ...

There are two big problems with the idea of a “Post Work” world I have discovered since I stopped being an employee five years ago. We buil...

I did Marketing courses at University, but I didn’t learn Marketing there. My approach comes mainly from following Seth Godin. I was once ...

I have always struggled with the concept of “covering reasonable expenses”. Reasonable is in the eye of the beholder. Even if people are t...

“ I’m slowing down the tune. I never liked it fast. You want to get there soon. I want to get there last ” sang Leonard Cohen. Sometimes w...

A lot of my anxiety comes from a feeling of having let people down, or being in a corner. A lack of control over expectations. Being disem...

One of the techniques used in teaching people to draw is to forget the object. Draw the negative spaces. Don’t draw the chair. Draw the sh...

In my Corporate incarnation, I once had a client telling me I was the worst Salesperson he knew. I took it as a compliment. In my line of b...

Traditional Western Gender roles can be oversimplified as an exchange of money, muscles and sperm for a home, a family and food. In very co...

The trick in hypnosis is that there is no trick. It is just a deep state of relaxation, and a willingness to hand over control to someone ...