Guzzling Food Makes You Fat!
on Nov 5, 2009Eating fast makes you fat and eating fast-food fast makes you even fatter.... No surprise here. The surprise to me was the fact that our brain plays a large role in this fast fat making process... Eating quickly makes you put on weight because your s...

The Success Power of Imagination
on Nov 5, 2009"Imagination is NOT a talent of some people, but is the health of every person!" - Ralph Waldo Emerson"Nothing happens unless first we dream!" - Carl SandburgI love dreaming and using my imagination to turn some of my dreams into reality by making th...

What About Adaptive Leadership?
on Oct 22, 2009“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man!” - George Bernard ShawThis week I had various inspiring mentoring ses...

How Mentoring Can Be An Effective Business Strategy
on Oct 21, 2009"Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction!" - John CrosbyBy Ray B. WilliamsMany small to medium sized companies have become so successful that they have been "corporatized," a term coined that describes the fe...

The Ultimate Guide to Better Business Writing
on Oct 9, 2009100 Tips, Tools and Resources For Better Business WritingBy Amber JohnsonMost successful businesspeople have developed professional communication skills over the course of their career. They’ve written their fair share of memos, letters, emails, an...

My Quotes
on Oct 4, 2009Besides writing stories, I like to think of and write down inspirational quotes. Every now and then I think of a new one. Some of these quotes I use in the stories on this blog, I tweet some of them on Twitter or I use them in new chapters for the bo...

Pretty Women Lower Male Stress!
on Oct 2, 2009Flirting with an attractive woman really does make men feel good, scientists find, as they discover it causes a surge in health-giving hormones!Researchers found that just being in the presence of a pretty member of the opposite sex causes a temporar...

Leadership Development? Go Sailing!
on Oct 1, 2009“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover!” - Mark T...

Platforms 4 Uniting Entrepreneurs & Investors
on Sep 25, 2009Two months ago fellow Dutch entrepreneurs Bart Beukers and Ivan Roth toured the world to meet many entrepreneurs, investors, business leaders and government officials. They even spent a couple of days in my hometown Sydney. The goal of their roadsh...

New Platform Uniting Entrepreneurs & Investors
on Sep 25, 2009Two months ago fellow Dutch entrepreneurs Bart Beukers and Ivan Roth toured the world to meet many entrepreneurs, investors, business leaders and government officials. They even spent a couple of days in my hometown Sydney. The goal of their roadsh...