Wherever you are in your life, you are writing your own story.You can write the story and craft your life however you’d like by envisioning the person you want to be and then starting (today!) to act like that person, and developing a personal development plan to get you there. Nothing is set in stone: …
If you’ve been following us for any amount of time, you will probably have noticed that we’re into using metaphors as a way of explaining complex issues? Well, we’re at it again to explain how easy it is to let your past dictate your future.Who we are can be thought of as living in our …
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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 …
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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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. …
This is the second in our series on managing and controlling emotions – if you missed Part 1, check it out now. Controlling feelings and emotions involves asking yourself “Is what I’m feeling helpful or harmful to myself or my relationship?” When you can, with intention, control how you react to any given situation, then …