2025 was a yeah of calm, stable and promises of new life. When I sit back and think of everything that happened this year I don't remember great vacations, exotic places visited or lavish spending sprees. I remember a year of not being caught-up in the rush and...

I made a decision in the beginning of 2024. That it is time to make a shift in my career. I've been in my current role for so long, and I was good at it. But when you are in the thick of a situation you tend to forget what you are sacrificing, what you have gotten...

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I never thought this would be a scenario I would ever find myself in. And I may have exaggerated a bit in the title of this post. After what I've been through the last few months in my job I started smoking again. The challenges I faced at work had both a positive and...

Aint no use sitting around and sulking. Nobody is going to get things done for me. So get up. go get'em!  I thought I'd start by completing some yearly reviews... watch this space: 2022 - ?? 2021 - ?? 2020 - ?? 2019 - Holding on 2018 - Priorities 2017 - Unexpected...

I've recently found myself on the wrong side of a mandatory vaccination policy of the company that I work for. When my breach of policy became official I was put on leave until it all got sorted. This ended up being 4 weeks leave. During these 4 weeks I found myself...

Many people will be glad this year is over. But I am afraid not much is going to change going into 2021. With COVID-19 sweeping again across the country and the world I cannot see things go back to "normal" anytime soon. What is normal anyway? The new norm of working...

I was blown away by this talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-079YIasck   5 Hindrances: - Sensual desire: From senses, as you climb you get distracted, hunger, etc. - Ill will/aversion - negative emotions, dislike against something/ situation / person. In climbing...

It's day one hundred and fifty something of lockdown. Will we ever get out of this? Will it ever get back to normal? Is this the new normal? Here's the things that have been consuming my life the last 4 months: Work My Son Sleep Star Craft 2 Studying Home...

I've been reading about the Sumerians and the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic tale (or poem) that is found on a tablet that is the second oldest surviving piece of "literature" in the world. The tale of Gilgamesh was discovered in 1849 CE by the archaeologist Austin Henry...

In my journey to start to follow the 12 rules for life by Jordan B. Peterson I am going to focus on this one for the next week: Stand up straight with your shoulders back Posture means a lot. Standing up straight, shoulders back does a lot more than we realize. It...

As the lockdown continues I start to make peace with the fact that this way of living will be my life for the largest part of the rest of the year. I'm thinking maybe even until September. It's now when you really start to think about things in a more permanent sense:...

It's been 28 days of lockdown in South Africa. I would never have guessed that our me, my family, friends, work, country and the rest of the world would ever be in a situation such as this. Today is day 39 of the lockdown and we are all in a fixed new routine already....

I really like Jordan B. Peterson. He's aggressive yet composed stance on many controversial issues that plague humanity  today makes me take notice and empowers me to look at things in a new way. I kinda forgot about him for a while as things got really intense here...

As we wait for the President to address the nation, let's take a few minutes to reflect on the near 5 weeks of lockdown we've had. I realized that I should be extremely thankful for my job and the fact that I can work. Our family is coming out of this lockdown...

I finally had time to take photos of my Tolkien books collection. Check it out over here: http://namelessone.co.za/tolkien-books-collection/. Creating the list on here gave me some vigor and renewed enthusiasm to pick up this hobby again. Man I love collecting old...

The lockdown in South Africa has been extended. We are not going to be in lockdown for a total 5 weeks, if it does not get extended again. I get the feeling that everyone is starting to feel a bit apprehensive on the ability of the people, the government and the...

Everyday living has changed over the last 2 days. This is day 2 of lockdown in South Africa. I am working from home, harder than before. My wife is at home with our son. Yet it works. It's pretty cool. I have my "office" upstairs and this is where I go to in the...

Officially my first post in 2020. The circumstances could not be more interesting, challenging, exciting and sad. So much has happened since my last post. Restoration has started, but the wounds are still there. A long road still needs to be traveled. Since then I...

28 December 2019. 3 Days left. 3 Days left before another year ends. 3 Days before we get the chance to begin again. I for one am starting to feel a bit of optimism when looking ahead.With all the crap that hit me this year and the miles and miles of crap I still have...

This is the one year of my life where I am unable use just one word to sum up everything that happened.Looking back I can see how little I posted, looking at myself I can see "the years" really started showing and looking forward there's so many hurdles...

With everything that's been going on this year staying in touch with my goals and plans is simply not a priority (anymore). Luckily after a much needed break to paradise (which was probably a dumb thing to do considering our financial situation)  I had some time to...

So for the first time ever I had the opportunity to go through a deck of "inner cards" (which I still assume is the name). Inner cards come in a deck of cards and have proven to bring clarity, efficiency, transformation and Self-Leadership to the inner lives of people...

How do you know if you have depression? I found myself in a situation where I need to ask the question to myself: Do I suffer from depression? Don't we all? And if you are able to tell how do you do something about it? With the recent events that have shrouded most of...

When you need a break you need a break. That feelings inside you that tells you that you need to get away is just not going away. Your work, the place where you used to escape to is now also becoming an irritation. You need a holiday. But guess what? You just don't...

So this year has been a long 8 months that I would prefer to never have over again. And although the hard work is being done that would hopefully restore the damage, heal the wounds and prevent the pain from re-occurring I cannot see things really changing until early...

So I hardly post here anymore. All I can say right now is that life sure knows how to throw a curve ball. Just when you think one part is so amazingly off the charts awesome and rewarding another part starts falling apart. When do you make that call? When do you...

There's something that has always bothered me about the Enneargram (the latest personality test everyone is raving about) tests. Actually I have the same resistance towards all personality type tests. Which brings me to my point: I'm not a 5 I'm a 6. Since the day I...