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Weekend Reflection: More haste, less speed

Dec 19, 2018

Surely one of my biggest disillusions – in ten months back in South Africa – is how rushed, and at the same time, inwardly focussed many people are. If one doesn’t take active steps to prioritise your activities, then everything becomes important.

When everything becomes important, life moves faster and faster. For this precise reason you then neglect things that are indeed important, such as good (old and new) friends, family and your health.

Who is that one person you have the liberty to phone at 3:00 in the morning when the pawpaw hits the fan?

Take it a little easier, think and prioritise your activities. It doesn’t help if you run faster in the wrong direction. Slow down in order to speed up.

Merry Christmas and 2019 to you and your loved ones! We will chat again in the new year.

REMEMBER!

About the author

Jacques Basson

After a wonderful childhood in Riebeeckstad and many years at the Kovsie campus to perfect my pool game (half-truth) and complete a business degree, my corporate sales and marketing career started with the Coca-Cola Company in 1999. Coca-Cola’s management development programme, Kusile, quickly developed by business expertise and five additional companies and senior roles in South Africa and England later – for among others Parmalat, Ecolab, Luxottica and Polaroid Eyewear – I started a commercial cleaning company, VanBroc Cleaning, in 2007, followed by a joint venture with a commercial cleaning company in Austin, Texas in 2012. After 14 years in England my family and I moved back to South Africa early in 2018 and we currently reside in Centurion. Of course, Klipkouers podcast is the new baby in the business family and I need your help raising the child!

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