STRATEGY

“Don’t Eat Your Seed Wheat”

Post author:Written By Owen Thomas
Post published:March 17, 2022
Post category:Life Choices Previous Posts STRATEGY

In times of crisis and upheaval, it is always good to look at what you can control compared to what you cannot. It pays to look at the fundamentals again to set the foundations of your life as secure as possible. As the great political strategist and opportunist of the 1500s, Niccolò Machiavelli is quoted as writing, "Never waste the opportunity offered by a good crisis." One of the critical foundations is looking after the money we earn and use it for its maximum results. These principles are easy to implement and easy to forget, so a good reminder, is always worthwhile. Like a drifting boat, it is incredible how far you can travel when you're not paying attention. So here we go.

Quotes That Changed Life Part Two

Post author:Written By Owen Thomas
Post published:September 24, 2021
Post category:Life Choices STRATEGY Your Personal Philosophy

On January the 1st, 2017, I sat down to read the first page of The Daily Stoic. A book that features 366 meditations on wisdom, perseverance, and the art of living. The first day held a quote that summarised everything I’d learnt in the previous twenty-five years. So simple, powerful yet can change a life, The ideas written nearly 2000 years ago contained inside are helpful at any time, but now more than ever - Enjoy.

Quotes That Changed My Life

Post author:Written By Owen Thomas
Post published:September 16, 2021
Post category:Life Choices STRATEGY Your Personal Philosophy

Many quotes from famous thinkers have been splashed on the internet and social media in the current cultural landscape of vaccinations and pandemics and ensuring economic upheaval. They have been used as verbal grenades to lob at the other side in arguments that have been polarised into straightforward black and white world views. Yet my history shows - it is all too easy to neglect the substance of the quote and its equal vitality to our viewpoint. What is the quote that changed my life and could you use it too?

More FAST THREE

Post author:Written By Owen Thomas
Post published:March 4, 2021
Post category:Life STRATEGY Your Personal Philosophy

Life itself has three parts - birth, life and death. Our bankers ever afraid of fraud created a banker’s 3 with a flat “top” to stop it being changed into an eight. And for those of us who are religious in nature many religions have Triple Gods - The Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost, in Christianity and the Hindu Trimurti with Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. So today again we have three fast, easy to read, potentially life changing ideas to ponder, raise questions and absorb or reject. You won’t be bored.