How to Make Great Decisions, Quickly Recently, I’ve faced the most difficult decision of my entire life: should I leave my husband or stay? Was this marriage over or would I give it a second chance? It’s been a gut-wrenching process and a time of shame, guilt and doubt. Our love story started as a…
How To Live & Die In Your Mind ‘Your mind is either the place of liberation or execution.’ The mind is where battles are either lost or won. Talent is not necessarily the key to winning. Belief has a greater part to play in any victory celebrations. So how can you tame the mind to…
How To Find Your Way When You’re Lost ‘If we don’t get lost, we’ll never find a new route.’ Joan Littlewood Life is a discovery. Life is a journey. Life takes you places that you and I never planned on visiting. That’s what makes it so exciting. Getting lost can at times lead you and…
Empower Your Mind: The Life-Changing Benefits of Reading I am in love with my mind. Why you may ask? Because no matter how much I put into it, it never explodes. It is a reservoir that is always thirsty for fresh revelation and new insight. It is hungrier than a lion and more voracious than…
How To Building a Champion Spirit ‘Stir up your champion spirit through the power of association.’ There are times when I know that I need to be inspired. That’s when I sit myself down to either read a book, listen to music, watch a sporting event or view a good movie. The movie ‘Mr Holland’s…
How to Develop Good Habits ‘The best of all habits is the habit of continually striving for improvement.’ -Sir Rowland Hill In my early school years I was a poor student. I would rather be running around a field with my friends kicking a ball than paying attention in class. Even as I write about…
Bringing Together Two Worlds Apart The student came to the teacher, and before the student could speak, the teacher asked four words, ‘What do you want?’ The student replied, ‘What do you mean by asking me what do I want?’ The teacher responded, ‘What do YOU want?’ The student replied, ‘I never thought I could…
Integrity: Living a Life of Honesty and Character As an employer of others, the qualifications nor the CV that has been presented to me by a prospective employee has rarely impressed me. I look deeper than that. I am not overly concerned with what they know, but rather with whom they are and the principles…
The importance of being unashamedly YOU! ‘Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.’ Dr Seuss So many of us have lived our lives concerned about what ‘they’ say or think. But please allow me to join with Dr Seuss – the…
How to Be the Best Version of You And Live Your Best Life ‘First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.’ Epictetus What is the point to live a life below your potential? What reason can you and I give ourselves if we never rise up to…
How To Be Strong Without Being The “Bad Guy” Being strong without coming off as a rude or hurtful can be a difficult tightrope to walk for anyone in a position of authority. It can be equally tough when one is not in a position of authority, but must establish a strong stance to make…
Practicing to be Nobody-But-Yourself ‘To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human can fight; and never stop fighting.’ e.e.cummings I resolved many years ago that I would be the me that I had been…
Importance of Defining Success in Your Life We live in a media-driven world where many stereotypes of success are relentlessly thrust at us. At times these stories and these images can confuse us, and we can find ourselves at times pursuing a pattern of success that is not correctly aligned to what we have been…
Things To Remember When Life’s Really Kicking You In The Ass I hear so many people whingeing about the economy – that they are unable to get a job, that there is no opportunity or that they don’t seem to be able to earn enough money. The overriding word evident in their vocabulary is ‘CAN’T’!…
how to be more confident in yourself In some situations you’re feeling totally certain about yourself, while in other situations you doubt every move you make. Some days your confidence is high, while other days it’s low. Does it have to be like this? Does confidence have to vary or is there something better? The…