With over 30 years of experience in the banking and home loan industry, my hope it is share what I have learnt over the years with my blogging community, inspire conversation around the subject and in the process discover unique insights into this ever changing environment.
In our previous blog we explored the notion of Distraction and its associates, “Procrastination” and “Important”. In this blog we’ll discuss an old term, Opportunity Cost. On BBC, there is a programme, The Chase. It is a quiz show with a panel of normal people who pit themselves against a brilliant expert in general knowledge. At a point in […]
A blog for the honest readers amongst us 🙂 Who doesn’t know this word? It is the cousin of Procrastination and the bedfellow of Important. In fact, anything in life, personal or business, which takes more time to perfect than a morning cup of instant coffee, can go from Important to Distraction in seconds. If […]
Just for a break, let’s look at and consider one of the oldest learning forms known to Man. I believe it has enormous relevance in a modern day, South Africa. Let’s check out the trusted Wikipedia for the definition and then unpack it for our and others’ benefit. Mentorship,, [the art and skill of Mentoring…my words], […]
The medium-term budget speech on Wednesday was the first by our new aspiring-to-be-president Finance Minister. I could not help but wonder if, between the position he has been given and the nuclear rush [so it seems], he has not been given a poison chalice by his incumbent president. The Medium-term Budget Process….. I remember the […]
The following excerpts from FNB’s Agent Survey are copied for information. These trends do little for estate agents’ and originators’ motivation but they do allow us to reflect on what’s going on and our reaction to it. Carry On Up the Khyber [Khyber] was the kind of comedy I grew up on. The Carry On […]
This has been a hard month for blogs. “No news is good news” the saying goes. This really is a time of no news. I’m beginning to think that this is the New Normal. On the one hand, it’s not that bad and many of us are surviving on what’s on the table; certainly not […]
I have been battling for a topic for my next blog. There is always a raft of bad news available and so it is easy to be negative. Once Peter Dirk-Uys, of Evita Bezuidenhout fame, was asked where he gets his material. His answer: “I read the papers.” But, this morning it struck me, things […]
All good things have to come to an end. At least that’s what my Mom used to tell me. Coming out of World War 2, I can imagine such a view but it does not really have to be true. However, this is the last of the Personal Effectiveness series that I have enjoyed the […]
Some serious property news on the wires at the moment! Wasn’t the news of the rate reduction good news? On the one hand, as is the case in America, a reduction in rate can mean the economy is not firing well but, as so in our case, we had good news on the Inflation front […]
In our last blog, we asked the question Risk or Passivity? The next day these quotes arrived in my inbox and I thought they rounded-off the thinking in the Part 5 blog: So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to […]