THE ENORMITY OF THE ROLE OF BOUNDARIES IN THE CONTEXT OF SELF-LOVE CANNOT BE UNDERSCORED ENOUGH. As a foundational cornerstone of feeling safe, healthy, and positively regarded in the world around you, boundaries are critical. They are at the core of creating and maintaining healthy relationships. In particular, Self-Love, the relationship with yourself, is almost […]
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You Cannot NOT Communicate
A few lifetimes ago I came across NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) It was one of my first blushes with coach training. At that time I had no idea that I would journey into coaching professionally. At the time all I had wanted to achieve was to learn ways to be a better manager, a better […]
10 Ways in which Perfectionism Burn You
Perfectionism is probably the only self-limiting pattern of thinking and belief that is revered and desired. Maybe it’s because of the word itself? Who knows? Anyhow, Perfectionism is perceived as a desirable mindset that leads to perfect results, perfect achievements, perfect relationships, a perfect life. To perfection itself. This cannot be further from the truth. […]
How are your map reading skills?
GPS was a real game-changer for me. Map reading was not a thing I excelled at. On a flat piece of paper, I could tell you where North, South, East, and West is. Off paper, on physical terrain? ….. Now that was a different story altogether! Moving to Johannesburg from Cape Town at the age […]
Forget Passion. Screw Purpose
Anytime anyone asks me what either my purpose or my passion is, the singular experience that sets in for me is brain freeze. Except, it’s not short lived like when you gulp down a freezing cold slushie…this brain freeze morphs into brain fog and it has this unnerving habit of lingering inside of me for […]
Live By Design
I hung out on the lux side of life. But I lived on the proverbial wrong side of the tracks. It was the ‘wrong’ side for the obvious reasons. Life was tougher, and it was a whole lot rougher. All the same, I wanted for nothing and mostly, it was a good life. For me […]
You got ships to Burn? I do.
Once upon a time, long, long ago in a beautiful, far, far away land, a certain Captain Cortés rolled up in a battalion of ships, dropped anchor and set upon said beautiful land with ambitions of conquest. His sailors were tired, hungry and weary from their expedition and Cortés knew that conquest was only possible […]
If not now, then when
The Re-Invention of our Lives means Marching off our Maps Once upon a time, long, long ago, maps were beautifully drawn and bore the inscription ‘Hic Sun Dracones’, Here be Dragons. To the extent that the world was known, it was safe to travel, and you got a green light. Beyond that, travelers were warned […]
I AM
Few things carry more power in our lives that what we say after the words, ‘I am’. By itself, ‘I am’ bears testimony to our existence. What follows determines the condition of that existence. Everything that follows ‘I am’ 100% begins the creation of our reality. Despite its power, very few of us consciously know, […]
Bespoke
Bespoke adjective “a bespoke suit” “the bespoke tailors of Savile Row” Have you ever experienced the bliss of wearing a well-made suit made to order and made to fit? If you have, you will know that magical feeling of being draped in the design of your own imagination. It is way more than knowing it’s […]