Values: Which value shapes your destiny?

Values: Which value shapes your destiny?

valueIf you want to know where you’re headed, look in the direction you’re facing. If you want to know why you’re going there, look no further than your values.

What you value determines where your life grows and where it doesn’t. Your values are critical in shaping your life. A great tool to find out where you need to do some values work is the “Wheel of Life.”

The “Wheel of Life” is commonly used in Coaching to determine problem areas in our lives. Using the template (left), you imagine the outer wheel is valued at 10 and the hub is valued at zero. You then place a line in each segment rating it from zero to 10 to uncover where you think you’re out of balance. Read more

Healing Grief and Loss: The 5 stages of getting over grief

Healing Grief and Loss: The 5 stages of getting over grief

healing griefHealing grief is not a simple process. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross wrote extensively about the “5 Stages of Grief,” yet little is written about “healing grief.” In five years I lost four of the closest people to me: my best friend; my father; my mother; and recently my older sister Erika (no, it wasn’t easy). I realised how little is written about healing grief. Not much is offered to help people to get through their grief. That is why I decided to write this article. Read more

A Life Beyond Limits: Some questions and answers

A Life Beyond Limits: Some questions and answers

a life beyond limits book

How do you create a life beyond limits? This is a conversation about wealth between Rik Schnabel and Simon Shields after Simon read Rik’s book, “A Life Beyond Limits.” We thought you might find this interesting and revealing…

 Is wishing to be wealthy a good thing?

Simon says: I would like to have a genuine passionate desire to be wealthy. The idea is growing on me. I understand now the reason why wanting wealth is natural and healthy. Though I never thought of it like that before. With a little more reading of your book, I feel that my desire for wanting more of life will come. Read more

Turn your disadvantage to advantage

Turn your disadvantage to advantage

butterfly circusCan we turn your disadvantage to advantage, really? As long as you can learn from your limitations, you will turn your world around.

Over the years I’ve coached and trained thousands of people and I can hand on heart say that those with the biggest obstacles are usually those with the greatest assets. Let me share a couple of stories with you and I will aim to advance your thinking in this context. Read more

7 Beliefs that will change your life

7 Beliefs that will change your life

Excerpt from 7 Beliefs That Will Change Your Life.

Beliefs cause wars and they can bring about peace. They will make us cry just as easily as they will incite us to laugh. In fact, our beliefs determine everything we can do and everything we cannot. The beliefs of our presidents, our prime ministers and leaders determine the state of our nations, their beliefs hold enormous power, as do ours. Yet little time, if any at all, is invested in determining our beliefs or changing them. The Power of Beliefs will give you the tools and the insights you need to move your career and your life forward. You will know your beliefs more intimately and you will also discover how you can change them. Read more

Relationship bliss – it’s all in our love language

Relationship bliss – it’s all in our love language

five-love-languagesCurrent research provides evidence that the relationship between “Appreciation” and our “Emotional” interpretation is directly influenced by our language. Relationship bliss is all due to our love language.

In Dr Gary Chapman’s book “The Five Love Languages” he has identified five different ways in which we all show love, appreciation and feel rewarded. We can get this totally wrong if we don’t know another person’s “Love Language.”

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