Goodbye 2014 Hello 2015

Season's Greetings!

It's been a fantastic year here at Silke and we are extremely grateful to all our clients for visiting, commenting and sharing your thoughts on our communiques over the last 12 months.

Our goal has always been to keep you informed, entertained and enthused with our Integrated Wealthcare thinking on generally anything we think will be of interest to our engaged readers. As you all know, inspiration can come from many and varied sources, so we've always tried to bring you ideas from around the world, as well as within South Africa.

On this note, I would like to share some profound words spoken by Pope St Francis at the World Youth Day Rio conference in 2013:

"Dear young friends... If we want it to have real meaning and fulfilment, as you want and as you deserve, I say to each one of you, put on faith, and your life will take on a new flavour, it will have a compass to show you the way; put on hope and every one of your days will be enlightened and your horizon will no longer be dark, but luminous; put on love, and your life will be like a house built on rock, your journey will be joyful, because you will find many friends to journey with you."

Our mission for 2015 is continue developing our thinking through our Integrated Wealthcare business philosophy : "Our passion is to Serve Others With Excellence [SOWE] by helping people manage their money in a way that makes their life journey more meaningful." Shane Thom

My goals for the remaining days of 2014 is to stay positive in thoughts, actions, not to wish the remaining days away and to enjoy every day to its fullest and find a mistletoe bush with lots of berries... [Remember you cannot think yourself into anything, you need to reinforce this with positive action]

"If you can dream something, you can do it. As long as you do not align your actions with your dreams, you are not fulfilling your destiny." Harold Klemp

Please note that our offices close on 19 December and reopen on 6 January 2015. This will be our last Communiqué until end January 2015. Should you experience any emergencies during this period please email us at engage@silke.co.za

In closing, the Silke team would like to wish you a great Christmas, festive season and New Year and whatever you are doing, please do it safely!

Thank you again for your support, time and friendship during 2014.

"Let's talk soon."

Shane