Square One

July first is less than a week away. Halfway 2015 Hard to believe. My main New Year's resolution was to look better after myself. It hasn't really worked out the way I intended it to go. I started anti-depressants just before the turn of the New Year. I needed to take the edge a bit of my border case living. I needed to find some peace and space in my head. I wanted to create a place where I could start dealing with some of the challenges in my life rather than fight the symptoms.  It worked for a couple of months. Afterwards,...

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'Failing'

Last week I wrote a blog about trying to live for a month on the South African minimum wage. I failed. I lasted for about 24 hours. I thought this would not be too hard. I have completed some challenges: I did abstain from chocolate for a whole year during 2014. I finished my degree correspondence. I lost 30kg's in 6 months....

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Living the minimum wage life

South Africa, my country is second on the gap between rich and poor list in the world. I employ six staff. I pay them salaries. So I looked into minimum salaries as proscribed in the South African law. They are low, very low. You might be pleased to know that I pay my staff substantially more than the minimum wage, but I am sure there are...

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