Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs.

Ralph Harper (1915–1995),

Where across the course of your day today, could you consider where it might be that you recognise who in your life helps you steer with more clarity, hold your focus, and keep your purpose on the road; and who might be distracting you from the destination you’re meant to reach?

Many years ago, I was driving “friends” home from a nightclub as they caught me out on my Irish goodbye.

An Irish goodbye, if you’re not familiar with the expression, is where you leave a function without saying goodbye to save yourself the time involved in saying goodbye..

While chauffeuring these 4 “passengers” to their homes, one of them covered my eyes while we were on the freeway in a 110-kilometre-per-hour zone.

I reactively elbowed him in his eye, to which he howled and cursed until his drop off point, and I have never seen that clown since.

The word chauffeur comes straight from French and originally meant “stoker”, as in a person who stoked the fire.

In the early days of automobiles (late 1800s), cars were…