Area Tabler of the Year

Jan Albert De Kock

A mister WINSTON CHURCHILL described success as not final, and failure is not fatal, but rather that it is the courage to continue. In my table career I have also found this to be true, much like traffic lights managing the flow of traffic, Ive received green lights, move with caution and stop lights. ROUNDTABLE traffic light is managing the flow of my live, goals and dreams, and has done so for the last 8 years. With many green lights most of them in succession and a few move with caution lights, to halter my speed and make sure I move in the right direction. But mostly stop lights, there where I needed to change my direction, perception and to grow, because without failure, we can not grow. Success has different meanings for all of us, and can be defined as such.

. Success is defined for me as followsthe promotion and recognition of myself as myself, for achieving the goals that are in my reach, and are reachable with my specific talents and gifts.

The BICEP - the muscle for show, our men have been conditioned from a young age, to show our muscles and flex our bicep’s as a promotion of our man hood. It is a big bulky muscle and if you aren’t careful in how big it becomes, one has the risk of not even wiping your own ass. BUT the TRICEP - the working man muscle, the one not on show, the one that does all the heavy lifting, and puts the food on the table. Is the one I've always wanted to live by, “less impressed and more involved”-Matthew McConaughey. It is easy to do a few things for show, it looks important and feels important and sometimes tastes important, but like a Afrikaans saying goes “dit het niks met die prys van eiers tedoen nie”.