For the last five years I have been waking up EVERY night like clockwork between1:30am and 3:00am. I put this down to stress, as I have had my share of it during that time culminating in having a cancer diagnosis four months ago, and I am still recovering from the nasty radiotherapy.Two months ago I made the hard decision to retire, after 35 years of hard work. I was convinced then that stress has contributed to the cancer and insomnia. I am pleased that I made the decision as here I am at WA

I am pleased to say that I just completed the level 3 training. Google Analytics is all foreign to me, hope in a few weeks time it would make more sense to me. I am almost 3 weeks into my WA experience, I must say it's exceeded all my expectations. What amazes me the most is the level of positivism on this community. We're currently living in a world full of angry people, 2020 is the year of outrage. There seems to be a prize given to whoever gets offended first, evident on any social media pla

The resilience equation "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional” The quote above is one of my favourites, it has been attributed to Haruki Murakami. At school, one of my favourite subjects was mathematics, particularly algebra. I loved solving equations. Later in life I could relate to the equation commonly found in accounting. ASSET = LIABILITY + EQUITYThen recently I read an article about Ray Dalio’s equation. PROGRESS = PAIN + REFLECTION I see that there is a connection betwe

About DrJohnSince my third diagnosis of cancer in May 2020, followed up by a major surgery and grueling radiotherapy sessions, I made the decision to hang up my dental hand piece. You can read my story 'Why me to lucky me a dentist's story on surviving oral cancer'. In addition to the cancer, I also suffered debilitating neck and back pain for three years prior to the (third) diagnosis. The decision to retire from dentistry was both hard and easy. Easy, because I came to terms to the fact that