Does Preparation + Opportunity = Success? – and why only you can answer this question.
“Success occurs when preparation meets opportunity”. Zig Ziglar Our entire life is a process of preparation. Each moment is preparing us for the next. As we embrace that moment, it blossoms into the next seeding future opportunity and creating success. It means we’re evolving. Preparation My earliest memory of being successful at anything was of […]
Pain. Motivation or Demotivation?
An early morning trip to the bathroom. Putting my best foot forward on the return and kicking my little toe into the door frame. Muffled expletives from my mouth and not so muffled expletives exploding in my head. And hobbling back to bed. Pain. Oh yes. Pain. Getting up about an hour later with an […]
Design versus Default – The Secret of Deliberate Creation Reviewed
Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash There are so many takeaways in The Secret of Deliberate Creation. But the ideas around living by default, or living by design really jumped out at me as I listened. This is the program in a nutshell. Dr. Robert Anthony talks about this early on and using the Secret of Deliberate […]
Jewellery for Inspiration & Motivation – Why It Works
Have you ever had the inspiration of a great idea and thought I must write that down. And then you never do because you’re suddenly distracted by the next thing that comes into your awareness. That thing becomes absorbing and the great idea goes out of your mind and then completely forgotten. You find yourself thinking, […]
Ho’oponopono – Hidden Intentions, Heart Openings & Surrender
My previous post How Ho’oponopono Can Help You outlined some of the understandings I received by doing the Ho’oponopono Practitioner’s Course. Nine months to a year after that another opportunity arose to further develop my learning – Certification in Advanced Ho’oponopono. What follows are the powerful takeaways from it that inspired me. The course contained […]
How Ho’oponopono Can Help You
Photo by Faye Cornish on Unsplash If you’ve heard the name Joe Vitale you may have heard of the ancient Hawaiian practice of Ho’oponopono. Joe became interested in Ho’oponopono when he heard of someone who had healed an entire ward of criminally insane patients without ever having seen them in a therapeutic setting. This someone was Dr Ihaleakala […]
How a Couch Potato uses Sport for Motivation.
It is timely during the 2018 Super Rugby season that I review the 2017 season from a motivational perspective. The focus is on what I saw in the marketing of our local team. And because I’m a bit of a couch potato how it motivated me. I wouldn’t consider myself as a sporty type even […]