Category: Writing Quest 2024

Motivational speaker, Jacques de Villiers writes about bad bosses.

Bosses Gone Bad

Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 52/365 There’s been a narrative going around for as long as I can remember that employees leave bosses not companies. 

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Motivational speaker, Jacques de Villiers writes about the purpose of work.

Find Something To Fail At

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

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Motivational speaker in South Africa, Jacques de Villiers writes about starting a cult.

How to Start A Cult

Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 49/365 Millions of people believe that Charles Darwin coined the phrase, “survival of the fittest.” It was actually philosopher Herbet

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Jacques de Villiers writes about Motivational Speaker Joey Evans keynote From Para to Dakar.

The Point Of It All

Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 48/365 I saw Joey Evans’s presentation “From Para to Dakar” at The Tryst in Woodmead on Tuesday night. It’s a

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Motivational speaker, Jacques de Villiers writes about pilfering perfection.

Pilfering Perfection

Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 46/365 Me: I’m imperfect, fractured and a failure.  God: Where’d you hear that? Me: I just know. When I go

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South African motivational speaker, Jacques de Villiers writes about predatory attention in sales and marketing.

Is Your Cup Empty?

Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 44/365 Are you in marketing and sales (or any human endeavour for that matter) and struggling and failing to achieve

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Motivational speaker Jacques de Villiers writes about Map of Consciousness and Religion.

Spiritual Home

Jacques de Villiers – writing quest: Article 43/365 I’m spending a month at Zawia Ebrahim, a spiritual retreat nestled in Walker Fruit Farms on the way to

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