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I watched the finish of the Tour of Flanders on SBS and I certainly did not see Peter Sagan pinch the podium girl’s bottom… There is no doubt that Peter Sagan is a youthful, cheeky kind of guy who is gifted in the cycling department. He had just come second in a gruelling race…(Read More)
Can you see the big picture? How many times when you were so obsessed with the fine details that you hit ‘overwhelm’?. Then someone tells you that the solution is to look at the big picture. As if that will fix things… Although the ‘big picture’ relief valve has a solid foundation, the reason that…(Read More)
You keep hearing the saying about the Journey versus the Destination and it can be quite easy to nod your head and agree – but somehow, you never get to do it in your every day life. …Some of you will have heard about the stack on Sunday 3rd March at Lansdowne. A grade had…(Read More)
Time plays such a major part of our lives. When we get bored, we find ways to kill time. But time never ever dies… When we are unproductive, we waste time. But we never ever have find a rubbish tip to bury all the time that we have wasted. When we are busy, we find…(Read More)
My wife recently took off on a holiday to Europe and Japan for almost 6 weeks. After her return, she was in pain for a couple of months from a wrist injury – and she admits it was from carrying around all her shopping during her trip. That is why I don’t go on holidays…(Read More)
Some of you may know of someone else who has read the book “Fifty Shades of Grey” I have not. But it has been a roaring success for the writer and the book sellers. And whenever there is success, there is blame. Such as the recently reported case of a woman blaming the book for…(Read More)
…and there is nothing much you can do about it In a Chinese fortune cookie, it doesn’t matter how the cookie crumbles , the message inside remains the same as the day out the baker buried it in there. Who would have thought that the Chinese fortune cookie is meant to be a glimpse of…(Read More)
The 80/20
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An Italian guy in 1906 observed that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population. Then a bit closer to home for him, he also observed that 20% of pods in his pea garden gave him 80% of the peas. So began the Pareto Principle, which was turned into the…(Read More)
I don’t have ‘hands free’ in my ute. So, I do not talk on the phone when I am driving (for various reasons besides being illegal). But I consistently see other drivers engaged in the ‘one hand steering’ mode because the other is busy cradling their phone… It gives me the shits. …And then…(Read More)
Lance Armstrong is right. It is not about the bike. Now all the news is about the drugs that he was taking. Yet, it is not about the drugs either. His fans are bitterly disappointed by the lies. His enemies are happy that they have been proved correct. The journalists finally have some juicy news…(Read More)