The office grapevine has always reminded me of the game ‘Telephone’. Imagine you whisper something in someone’s ear, and they whisper it to another person and that person tells another person, and so on. Imagine you start with, “On Saturday, Sue gave Mark the hugs that we all sent for their new baby.”  By the time it gets to the last person, it might sound something like, “On Saturday, you gave Mark the drugs heavy all scent further new baby.”  Doesn’t make much sense, right? That’s the game of Telephone!

Which would you choose: a very comfortable corporate career with one of the world’s largest and most successful companies, or pioneer your own business to be your own boss (a.k.a starting from scratch)? Anthony Rose left the former to pursue the latter, and it made headlines. Now he’s sharing more about how he came to be in the business, and what made him decide to make such a drastic change in his work and life.

 

 

Preceding the arrival of a newborn, there is a powerful wave of change and excitement in the air. A baby isn’t called a “little bundle of joy” for nothing, and naturally, parents and family members would be fussing around to ensure that conditions are at the optimum for the smoothest delivery of this little V.I.P. This might include shopping for infant clothing, baby cots, going for routine visits at the gynecologist’s or arguing over whether “Linda” or “Leenda” fits better as a name. Just as the joy and excitement of having a baby do not start nor stop at delivery, it is never too early to embark on important financial planning for a family and their child from birth and beyond. 

We are all photographers and videographers now. At nearly every minute of every day, most of us are carrying powerful, high resolution cameras in the form of our smartphones, ready in an instant to record meaningful (and not so meaningful) moments of our daily lives. The result is a global glut of personal images, and our lives’ most precious memories literally held in the palms of our hands.