Healthy and Fitness

Think very carefully before you jump into your garden with no sunscreen on in the hope of achieving that golden glow tan, and take into consideration the options available.

Before you even consider starting to build your tan up, it’s important to make sure your skin is prepared. If your skin isn’t adequately primed, you have a higher risk of sunburn (which in turn leads to more serious damage), uneven tan patches, and dry skin; making the whole process a waste of time! With beauty treatments on the rise, it’s easier than ever to make sure you take the first step to a great, safe tan – by getting a full-body scrub. Having a professional body scrub will ensure your skin is exfoliated, meaning dead skin is removed and makes way for new cells, leaving your skin a blank canvas for your tan. Combining this with regular moisturising will help your skin prepare itself for the sun.

Before retirement, I was the founder of a franchising company. I like to think of myself as successful, and I often considered myself one of the most knowledgeable franchisors, but that’s not really saying much because there are only about 2000 – 3000 active franchisors in the country at any one time. That’s because franchisors have a failure rate in the first five years; a 5:1 ratio. That is to say all the new startup franchisors that you see in the franchising directories, only one in five will still be expanding their franchise operations after five years.

As I am in conversations with leaders across various disciplines, there is a consistent conversation and temptation. Each longs to be successful, to rise to the top of the pile. Entrepreneurs, community organizations, and churches want to do well. So we look for those who we have deemed successful. The Fortune 500 of our industry, and we emulate them. We try to walk the way they walk, and talk the way they talk, market the way they market, and organize like they do. And in the process we lose ourselves.

In the world of four wheel driving, most people know about winches and snatch straps. They are very different in many ways (including the price) but will achieve very similar outcomes. A Snatch Strap is basically a long strap with some elasticity in it, allowing the strap to stretch up to 20% of its length. The idea behind these is simple – when a four wheel drive is stuck, you attach the strap to rated recovery points on both vehicles and one vehicle pulls the other out. The advantage of a strap that can stretch is that you can get a run up and when the strap takes up it will stretch and the energy is slowly applied to the stuck vehicle. If you did it with a rope that didn’t stretch, it would either snap or it would put some serious shock onto both vehicles.