In Cape Town, where I currently live, we have experienced a rather unusually cold and wet winter. So when the sun and blue skies made a welcome appearance on the weekend I decided to get myself down to the beach. I\’m so glad I did. It was thoroughly rejuvenating and […]
How often have you struggled with a personal dilemma between taking action to bring about needed change in your life and resisting that action to prevent possible negative consequences? In Make This a Better Year – Part 1 I explained why people find it so difficult to embrace change. A
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A life of abundance would seem to be our birthright as human beings. Spend a little time reflecting on the make up of the universe and, closer to home, the natural environment offered by our planet. It doesn’t take a great deal of observation and reflection to conclude that abundance
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One of the great things that my exposure to life coaching has taught me is the power of living in the moment – or living for now. If you don’t know what this means, hearing people talk about it may well irritate you. It did me. Being a person more
With the Easter holidays offering an opportunity for families to share time together, the ‘family dynamic’ is something that readily comes into sharp focus. If, like many others, you believe that your own family dynamic is challenging, hugely frustrating or even downright dysfunctional, it could be that you are struggling
What you believe in will determine the actions you take and the consequences you expect—and will most likely get—from those actions. It follows then, that the beliefs you hold are pivotal in determining whether a life of abundance is attainable for you. “Believe me, you can have anything you want—and
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If you\’re in employment are you truly doing what you love? Probably not, if numerous recent surveys are to be believed. In one global survey of 30 000 workers, between 28% and 56% said they wanted to find new work. [box type=\”shadow\”]\”If you do what you love, you\’ll never work
In my opinion a great deal of what is wrong with the world we live in can be laid at the door of the approach that some people choose to adopt to exchange. As Robert Louis Stevenson once said: \”Everybody lives by selling something.\” We all survive and try to
This weekend I dipped my first toes into the water of a long overdue project to clear some clutter from my domestic life! As I began the lengthy process of revisiting my possessions, deciding what to sell, give away or throw away, what to keep and where to keep it,
Many years ago I learnt a valuable lesson about how to deal with and overcome seemingly intransigent problems that create unnecessary stress and frustration in one\’s life. Sometimes lessons go unheeded as the memory of what was learnt fades with time and a refresher course is required! My repeat lesson
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There\’s one simple yet important principle that is always at the heart of effective life coaching … we are all unique. Yet, despite this uniqueness, we all strive (either consciously or subconsciously) for one thing… balance. Put these two concepts together and it follows that each of us has our
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There can surely be nothing in this life quite as debilitating as the feeling of fear. I’m not talking about the kind of adrenaline rush brought on when you find yourself in sudden and immediate danger – and which can often result in heroic deeds of courage. I’m talking about
No matter what you may think about the hyper connected world we live in today – and thanks to our media, its not hard to believe we are all going to hell in a hand basket – there\’s no doubt that the Internet, voice over IP (Skype, for example) and
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Bodies at rest tend to stay at rest! This is what my school PT instructor (with ambitions to be a physics teacher) used to bark at us as we sat in the change room contemplating an energy sapping session of star jumps and burpees outside in the cold winter weather.
The Law of Attraction was at it again yesterday … I spent Saturday night at a reunion with people from my era who had grown up and been schooled in the Helderberg basin. What fun it was to reconnect with friends and colleagues after so many years. It was a
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This last weekend as Jenni and I contemplated the forthcoming arrival of our daughter’s 21st birthday, I thought it might be appropriate to compile a list of 21 Tips for leading a more joyful life. No doubt you have some of your own to add – or perhaps you would
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We all know, deep in our hearts, that we are responsible… We are responsible for our lives. The good, the bad and even the ugly bits that go to make up the totality of our experiences. “Happiness comes from within!” “Money can’t buy happiness!” And on the clichés go… [box
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The art of generous listening is a vital yet underrated skill in today’s world where people frantically fight for ‘share of voice’. \’Share of Voice’ is a term commonly used in the marketing and advertising industries to describe the degree to which companies or products dominate media advertising in their
“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’ – George Bernard Shaw Have you ever heard the saying: “There are people who make things happen, people who watch what happens and people who wonder what happened”? Your ability to
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