I recently came across a little book about ‘ikigai’. It’s a Japanese concept that means ‘a reason for being’. The word refers to having a meaningful direction or purpose in life, constituting the sense of one’s life being made worthwhile, with actions (spontaneous and willing) taken toward achieving one’s ikigai resulting in satisfaction and a …
Do you want to reduce your financial dependency on only one source of income – for example the net salary generated from your full-time employment in a large company? Would you like to get out of that dependency well ahead of your formal retirement age? In my case that is the age of 66! You …
Once upon a time there was a farmer in ancient China who owned a horse. “You are so lucky!” his neighbours told him, “to have a horse to pull the cart for you.” “Maybe,” the farmer replied. One day he didn’t latch the gate properly and the horse ran away. That evening, all of his …
