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Eugene Scheepers

📍 Cape Town

Surround yourself with clay-makers, change-makers and lie-breakers.

We are approaching that time of year again where people reflect on the last 12 months and set goals for the next 12. Most of them will start out with a bang in January and hang up the proverbial gloves by February. My 2022 reflection The last few days I

Increase your surface area for luck by saying YES more often

You cannot be lucky, if you don’t need to be lucky I can guarantee that somewhere in your life, you have seen someone succesful and said to yourself: “Wow, they are so lucky” or maybe you have achieved some success and someone said those words to you. I believe

Dare to fail, or risk leading a mediocre life!

This post is a bit different. It’s inspired by a quote I came across this week. It’s not often that I read something that resonates so deeply with me. So when I read this, I knew I had to share this with you. The quote is from a

Asymmetric Risk: Why it's better to try your luck with the prettiest person at the bar

This might seem like a very crude example but bear with me. You walk into a bar with the intention of getting to know someone new and maybe meeting the man/woman of your dreams. When you arrive, you realise that there is a wide array of options. You are

Marketing Field Guide for introverted entrepreneurs: Pitching your business to strangers

A week or two ago I attended Cape Wine 2022 in an effort to promote my new business-to-business (B2B) marketplace for bulk wine Daily Bulk Wine. The goal of attending was simple: Meet international clients and convince them to sign up to Daily Bulk Wine The Challenge The international clients

How to motivate your employees to practice self-improvement.

Recently, another company asked me to give a group of their employees a crash course on Digital Marketing. I quickly agreed to help them, but once I started planning my “training session” I realised that there might be an underlying flaw to the concept of “teaching” them to be better

Good ideas don’t exist! All ideas are bad once they are hit with reality

Disclaimer : this post is, for the most part, not my own original thoughts, but based on a podcast done by Tim Ferriss with Marc Randolph as his guest. Marc Randolph is one of the founders of Netflix and has an extensive entrepreneurial journey before and after Netflix. The ideas shared

The power of procrastination

I am just going to come out and say it. I am a master procrastinator. Procrastination is the habit of delaying an important task, usually by focusing on less urgent, more enjoyable, and easier activities instead. Most people would call me a liar for saying so. Sure I may seem

The case for tracking time spent doing "Deep Work"

We have all been there. We are working and lose track of time, lose ourselves in what we are doing and once we come out of this whirlpool of inspiration we know - I’ve made progress. We call it many things: * Deep work * Flow state * Being creative * Getting things

Maybe we should start paying people to think?

Hands up if you have ever been told: “You are not paid to think, you’re paid to do!” It’s never wise for the owner of a business or any leader in a business to ever dismiss an employee’s idea - based on their position in the company.