Why?’ is the reason it matters to try something in the first place.

When you start paying attention to good things, they will start growing in size and multiply in number.

You do not get a better education, better results, better food, better allowances and – later in life – better salary, better working conditions or better life by demanding them from someone else.

Everyone around us, however nice and likable, will be unreasonable at one point or another. Everyone has an upside and a downside. If you want the most out of your relationships with others, manage the downside and nurture the upside.

It is not natural for human beings to NOT grow to the next stage of life when they should.

If you want the world to take you seriously, be important. If you want to be important, solve problems.

Everyone you work with, in order to achieve a goal, must have something to lose if it is not realised and something to gain if it is realised. These are the people that are going to stick around you through thick and thin until the job is done.

If you get your relationships right, everything else will almost always be a given.

Your whim wants you to speak when you must be paying attention and go mum when called to give a speech. Your whim whispers ‘sleep,’ when you should be burning the midnight oil and urges you to go and dance the night away when you should be recharging your batteries for school the next day. It says bum when you should be busting your bum.