Each of our intentions carries a degree of uncertainty. A goal is a weak intention for means of achieving it aren’t yet well considered. You are uncertain whether you will achieve it, and in what time frame. Once you want to do something the intention has advanced beyond a goal, through consideration of means and…

You ask advice: ah, what a very human and very dangerous thing to do! For to give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal—to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT…

Wisdom is the mark of an educated man, and a fitting definition goes as follows; Wisdom is knowledge and its due use, knowledge of the best ends and best means. A bloke who is open to all possibilities, who does not disregard ends and means based on advise but rather on experience is bound to…

It was July 2011. A group of us needed a place to watch the Super Rugby final. We were spending the uni vacation pruning vines down near Pemberton in Western Australia. After working a half day that Saturday, we got cleaned up and headed into town. Before the hotel, we replenished our supplies at the supermarket and bottle-o. Especially the bottle-o! There is…