During our earlier Covid lockdowns, the public were directed by the Prime Minister and other government officials to “be kind”. Even more alarming, was the way that New Zealanders were treating one another, proving it was obviously necessary to ask people to “be kind”. People were unable to get what they wanted in a supermarket Read More
Today’s guest writer is Michael Hempseed, author, TEDx Speaker and PK speaker. Michael presented an elective on this topic at PK Christchurch last month. This was very well received so we asked Michael to share these insights so we could all benefit from his wisdom. I give talks all over New Zealand on topics such Read More
Lockdown produces some interesting by-products, one that I have witnessed is that fathers appear to have more time to interact with their children. It started me thinking about my own father who died a couple of years ago. I largely have very positive memories of my father. He was a man who was brought up Read More
Today’s PK guest writer is Graham Walshe the Executive Chairman of Brother International (NZ), leadership business speaker and former PK Board Member. He brings this encouraging message about connecting with others and sharing God’s love. Our faith must be a seven day a week 24 hour a day faith – which means it’s not all Read More
Years ago as a young Dad I took a sales team to Hong Kong as part of a sales incentive package. Those were the days when you could have overseas conferences that weren’t conferences but pure fun incentive package junkets. However, I should say that the team had achieved a great 12-month sales result, so Read More
Today’s guest author is Tak Bhana, senior pastor of Church Unlimited and popular PK keynote speaker. He shares the following significant message with our PK community. About forty years ago my nominally Hindu father was diagnosed with a terminal illness and given three weeks to live. That prognosis brought such grief and shock, but even Read More
It was possibly 15 years ago at a PK event that I was impacted by a 10-minute video that played during the conference after the morning break. I decided after watching that video that this would be my choice in the future if I faced a similar situation. Sometimes it is the effect of what Read More
If I am honest I have always desired to make my mark in the world. I guess in some ways we are all trying to achieve something to stand out, to create a legacy, change the world in some way. In fact in our modern age a whole industry of self-help schemes and coaching for Read More
What are the boundaries and acceptable behaviours we should have as a Christian man in the workplace? How many of us, when we look over our week, have inconsistent behaviours depending on our environment? A Sunday church behaviour, a Monday to Friday work behaviour, a home and family behaviour? Integrity is all about our character; Read More
Recently I included the 12 Step version of the Serenity Prayer in an article [here]; it started me thinking about the original version of Reinhold Niebuhr’s (1892-1971) prayer. It is stunning so I thought I would share it with you. God give us grace to accept with serenity things that cannot be changed, Courage to Read More