No-one has an easy life. Even the people who look as though they do have their own struggles. Some of those struggles might be self-inflicted, but everyone has challenges.What matters most is what we do when struggles come. Our choice of responses can make life better or worse, for ourselves or others. Inner strength allows …
Personal power comes with self-development. We begin to develop it in childhood, and continue to grow throughout our lives.It is about strength, resilience, confidence and the capabilities we develop, with the primary aim to being master self and not others. Personal power is about our own attitude or state of mind, NOT a way to …
The critical inner voice – we all seem to have it.The good news is that that voice is not you and you are not it. Let’s give it a name – W8 (Weight).You know the feeling when you hear it. It feels like a huge weight has landed on your shoulders. The vicious voice in …
When you talk about your family members to someone at work or at a party, do you use their names? Do you say “David, Cassie and Alexandra”? Or is it “my husband and my daughters”?Obviously it depends on who you’re talking to and for what purpose, but we’d like to encourage you to try using …
Sometimes it seems easier to allow others run our lives for us. But then we complain and make excuses why things are not going our way or making us happy. These are left over feelings from our childhood and should be left there as they are not serving us now.So what happens if we don’t …
Imagine you are dropped off somewhere on this planet. It is your mission to live your life any way you choose for the ± 80 years allotted to you.If you could look back to the beginning, knowing what you know at the end of your life, how would you choose to live? What legacy would …
Most of the time our emotions feel like weird, disembodied things that happen to us, rather than things that we control like our arms and legs. We don’t quite understanding how our feelings and emotions work, and sometime they can seem completely out of the blue or out of place.Our physical bodies do have an …
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It’s a cliched saying but a very real problem.Disciplining kids is a painful but necessary part of setting your kids on the right path towards becoming functional adults. If a child has misbehaved or acted up towards one parent (whether mum or dad) then that parent should be the one to mete out the punishment. …
Why you should never say “wait til your father gets home!” Read More »
Without realising it, a lot of us spend a lot of our day talking to ourselves. Sometimes it is running through our to-do lists or mental reminders, sometimes it is analysing our actions or reactions. But unfortunately, a lot of the time we are putting ourselves down or doubting ourselves.Negative self-talk can take many forms. …
In all of our lives, there are different factors and focuses constantly pulling at our time and attention. Most of us have partners, work, kids, hobbies, friends, extended family and many other interests tugging at us at all time.How and where we put our time and attention is a cause of stress and concern for …