Stop being so generous with your money

During high school I worked for a mobile car wash company. Three of us would arrive at a car dealership and while the boss sprayed down the cars with a power washer, the two of us would follow three or four vehicles behind him with a chamois drying them off. It wasn’t...

Thanks for the assignment, now let me do it

Have you ever been given a task by a friend, family member or work colleague that seemed pretty straight forward until you actually started to do it? Simon worked in an office for a multinational and whenever a visiting director or vice president would take a tour,...

She doesn’t want your help

The other day my wife was sitting in the living room in a chair while my eight year old son was on the sofa. She looked deep in thought with what I interpreted to be a touch of her concern on her face so I said to her “Hey hon, is everything okay?” she looked up and...