Childrens Corner

My parents are getting on and are into their 80s now. Like Granny did, they still hop on and off planes and travel around the world. hey have been there at she start and end of all my adventures, heering me on. They even went looking for me when per and I were ost in the wilds of the frozen North after our balloon came down in a lizzard in Canada. Their example reminds me to enjoy life.

In 1999, e ought a game reserve in South Africa and built a lovely house. ere we spend time together as a family. In fact, I am so aware of how precious time with them is, I ration myself to only fifteen inutes f business a day when we’re together. I don’t use modern adgets like email or mobile phones, but in Africa I did learn to use a atellite phone to keep in touch with the office. Many bosses, who pend all day in their office, are baffled. They ask, ‘How can you do it ll in just fifteen minutes?’

I say, ‘It’s easy. Make every second count.’ That is true in both my business and personal life. I am able o say that now because I am older and perhaps wiser. It wasn’t lways the case. My first wife, Kristen, got very irate because I was always on the phone. She said I spent my life working and couldn’t raw the line between work and home. She was right. Part of the rouble was that I worked from home. I couldn’t resist picking up the hone when it rang, which it did, non-stop. I wished I could just let it ing- but I never knew when it might lead to a nice deal.

Taken From : Screw It,Let’s Do It