A tell-tale our family is on holiday is a jigsaw puzzle. A Stackpool holiday isn’t a holiday without a tricky new puzzle. The puzzling can take all holidays, with the puzzle spot remaining frustratingly off-limits for non-puzzling activities until the puzzle has...
For different reasons, all our kids left home once they finished school. The eldest, the family’s best writer, went west to Bathurst to study marketing. The determined actress left Australia to chase opportunities in Vancouver’s film industry. The quiet achiever and...
Jeff used to be ambitious. But now it is more frustration. Just as his advice business was about to attain a projected revenue growth set years prior, it wasn’t the sort of growth he was enjoying. He was the young principal with three partners in a $3 million...
Penny works within a busy accounting and financial planning firm in Brisbane. Raised and spent most of her adult life in the small country town near Toowoomba, she knows all about close-knit Australian communities and how important they can be for each other....
It was a simple question and I knew I didn’t do it justice when it was asked. In fact, I didn’t realise it’s significant until afterwards. I blurted out a quick response which didn’t properly answer it. I’ve thought about it since. In fact, I’ve thought a lot about...
Recently, Dieter Tode of Wealth Plus Solutions has been getting an impressive number of referrals coming through. So we quizzed him about his approach. When asked what he thought was the most important thing he’d done in the process of seeking referrals, Dieter said...
