You are free to Choose, but you are not free from the consequences of your choice. A sobering thought… From the moment you open your eyes in the morning, you are faced with choices. While some may be more important than others, you are consistently exercising your decision-making abilities. The option to choose is something that we no longer just value but now expect. Norman Vincent Peale has this to say about the power of choice. Read more…
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Contentment – I’m sure this is something we’ve all wished for at one stage or another in our lives. Yet it can feel like a huge, abstract, elusive concept. When I think of Contentment, it always reminds me of the poignant Jim Croce song “If I could Save Time in a Bottle”. Have a listen…………… https://youtu.be/dO1rMeYnOmM That feeling of being suspended in time, when everything feels so perfect………….. How do we explain contentment? Wikipedia defines Read more…
Motivation – the buzz word of the last few years! If I asked you to describe motivation – how would you define it? Definitions of Motivation: Dictionary: Motivation NOUN 1. A reason or reasons for acting or behaving in a particular way. ‘escape can be a strong motivation for travel’ 1.1 mass noun Desire or willingness to do something; enthusiasm. ‘keep staff up to date and maintain interest and motivation’ Wikipedia definition: Motivation is the Read more…
The Power of working with a Life Coach: Your life CAN be ALL you’ve dreamed it would be – or it can be nothing. You CAN start making your dreams a reality today and change your life from Ordinary to EXTRAORDINARY! The decision is Yours. So what’s it going to be – ALL……………… or nothing? YES! Help me make my Dreams a Reality!
“Happiness” – a word that is bandied about countless times in a day, out loud and in our minds, during conversations, in the midst of disagreements or arguments, in our private lives and in the workplace. During my many years as a Life Coach, what I hear over and over again from so many of my clients is statements like– “I’ll be happy if I can only lose 10 kg, when I find my true love, when I get that work promotion, when I can buy that new home or car…………” All the “if’s” and “when’s”! Does any of this sound familiar to you?
This brings me to ask: Is Happiness a destination? Or is Happiness a journey?
Let’s explore a bit more:
This is a question that man has grappled with since the beginning of time – and still today continues to ponder.
Create your Dream Life – Vision Board Workshop So, tell me, have you all had a chance to reflect on your accomplishments for 2018? What worked for you – and what didn’t? Has your list of 2018 New Years’ Resolutions got anything ticked off? Or does that guilty feeling of mild shame, maybe regret, come welling up when you look and it and realize that all those very good intentions were only that, just intentions, that never became reality? Read more…
Your WORD for 2019 is? I bet all those of you following my Life Coaching blog and Facebook page thought I’d got lazy and stopped blogging and posting! Nah……….. not guilty! Instead of bombarding everyone on 1st January, as many other sites have done, I thought I’d give you all time to settle in to the year and catch your breath. A fun exercise to start your year, is to pick ONE word, any word, Read more…
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. A bush with such a sweet, heady fragrance when it is in full bloom. This had me thinking about our lives. Are you just existing, trudging from one day to the next? Has life lost its bloom and scent of dynamic aliveness? When you reach that moment in your life, where a nagging feeling of discontent creeps in and a longing for something more, something better, begins playing in your thoughts, that Read more…
This last weekend I was walking my doggie in a local park. Along with us, there were lots of other dogs, of all shapes, sizes and breeds cavorting happily around. I guess we were all celebrating the start of long, warm Spring days again – the gateway to summer. As we continued on our walk, I came across a beautiful configuration of trees, a gateway, as seen in the photo above. This brought to mind Read more…