Daily Letter

A short, daily burst of inspiration in fewer than a 100 words.

  • "A thought-provoking collection of ideas and musings that if taken to heart, have the potential to add immense depth and richness (with compounding interest) to your life"

    Shane Dryden, co-founder Yuppiechef

  • "Not once have I been sorry that I signed up for Pierre’s newsletter 😁"

    Nerine

  • "Getting this letter is a breath of fresh air amongst the sea of emails in my ever-growing inbox each day. It’s the one I excitedly click to open, waiting to see what image will load accompanied by an insight into Pierre’s wonderful strategic brain."

    Mireille

  • "It delivers a daily dose of thought-provoking insights that encourage you to pause, reflect, and ask new questions – a powerful boost for advancing my personal strategy!"

    Ronel

  • "If you want to be reminded how to be a decent human in just a few sentences, then this is it."

    Ronel H

  • “Pierres’ Daily Letter has become the weekday spark of inspiration, motivation and perspective for me. To me his letters serve as a reminder to not turn my rhythms into routine, but to stay intentionally present in every day”

    Jacobs

Read some letters

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very melodramatic

The stories my mind makes up is incredible in a terrible way, one little hook or one little comment and my mind races around in circles coming to the conclusion that all is worthless and we're just a day away from living on a trash heap.

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one by one

Step by step, block by block, one small generous action on top of another, that is how you build something that lasts.

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rock of sponge

In choosing the way forward, intuition or gut should play a major role. A friend of mine, former CEO of a major retailer, always says that intuition is always right, and if it wasn't the right path then it wasn't intuition. :)

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You need to...

At a famous zoo, they discovered that the animals were experiencing stress from being in public view. They started experimenting with 'resting' them, by giving them some privacy.

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Unfathomable. Vastness.

Overwhelmed by the continued violence against women and in particular the recent events in Cape Town and South Africa. That one conscious being can intentionally kill another is unfathomable.

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The work that you do...

I think about work, a lot. Not just my job but work in general. I think about the nature of it, why we do it, how it frames us, the pressure I put on it to give me an identity.

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hope

We are restless creatures, as I’ve said before on this blog, we are never satisfied, always wanting to change something.

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say good stuff...

Speaking affirmations and writing them down in the morning is a popular practice, but here is one that I believe is even more powerful

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Train Naked

A reminder what this blog is about. Repetition in the mother of learning. Repetition is the mother of learning.

The ancient Greeks trained in the nude in the gymnasium

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