by Jacques de Villiers | Apr 1, 2024 | Eccentricities
Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 50/365 Imagine that you’re a contender in a game called life and that the world is your gymnasium. We’ve been taught that our job is to play the game to win. I don’t know about you, but I haven’t...
by Jacques de Villiers | Feb 9, 2024 | Eccentricities
Article 21/365 of Jacques’s writing quest. I don’t know about you, but I belong to a bunch of WhatsApp groups. Most of them have a specific goal and in my experience, most of them lose their shape. People share irrelevant messages in groups, causing us to...
by Jacques de Villiers | Sep 2, 2021 | Eccentricities
You’ve probably heard all these motivational sorts talk about finding your purpose. But a purpose is not to be found … just by being born, we’ve already found and fulfilled our purpose.We tend to confuse purpose with an outcome. You’ve probably...
by Jacques de Villiers | Jan 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
Find your purpose in 5 minutes with a pencil. Do you remember Forrest Gump’s iconic quote, “My mom always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” He clearly had a smart mom. I was writing a piece of text with a pencil...
by Jacques de Villiers | Dec 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
I was reading about Jonah and the whale as one does when Stephen King starts to get boring. You know the story. God commands Jonah to preach repentance to the city of Nineveh. Jonah wasn’t keen on this. First, the city was known for its wickedness. Second, it was the...
