Do you ever wonder what your purpose in life is? Whether your answer is, you need a vision to become your mission or you may run the risk of being reduced to a machine, doing your daily activities day in and day out without a second thought or questioning what or why. Is this how you want to live?

Phone addiction is a dependency on our cell phones that may interfere with other parts of our lives as well as take up a chunk of our time and thoughts. If you consider your phone a part of who you are, you may well be addicted to it. If it is the first thing that you reach for in the …

Ferose Oaten is Managing Director of AVTS Roadworthy Stations and she is also the CEO of the South African branch of the German multinational testing, inspection and certification company TÜV SÜD. She was the winner of South Africa’s Most Influential Woman in Business and Government Award in the Services Sector.       

Rachel Jafta is the Chairperson of Media24 Limited. She has been a Director of Naspers since 2003, and Media24 since 2007. Rachel holds a BEcon, BEconHons, MEcon and PhD, and is professor in economics at Stellenbosch University.

Zola Ntwasa qualified as a Chartered Accountant (SA) in 2003 after having completing a Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting at the University of Natal (Durban) and a Bachelor of Commerce degree at the University of Cape Town. She is a co-founder and executive director of Jade Capital Partners, a property and private equity investment company.

When an inspired woman achieves, it’s not a plateau, it’s a beginning. Inspired achievers move forward all the time. They anticipate their next move and have another strategy immediately lined up. Their enthusiasm cannot be fabricated—it’s either there or it’s not. Achievers go for the challenge, so the next project is what they’re thinking about.

It’s always a little tricky with deciding exactly what to get for mum on this special day… most of the time when you ask, she’ll tell you that she has everything. However a gift with more meaning and value to her will always be the one which you made for her yourself. Here are 5 Do it yourself gifts for …

You are the fragrance of a flower, the gentleness of morning dew, the beauty of the twilight hour, the laughter of a rippling brook, the majesty of a tree, the calm of a quiet sea, the soul of a starry night, the grace of a bird in flight, you are my mother and I love you.

I once asked the delegates in a workshop if they could be anybody, who would they be? Most people chose to be somebody else and that shows how distorted our view of ourselves can be.

“Think big” towers above most other advice you will hear on how to succeed. In just two words, it lays out a plan for achieving your highest goals. The greatest challenge is to find ways to think big today, not someday. Here’s how to make sure that happens.