Author Archive: Vera Herman

Vera Herman is a transformation strategist, facilitator, speaker and coach with over 20 years’ experience in helping individuals and organisations design and build their visions and dreams, accelerate their business results, and create richer, more fulfilling lives. She is passionate about supporting people who are ready to explore, challenge and change any self-defeating patterns, and design, build and step into the lives they were meant to be living.

It is what it is

Have you ever watched dolphins surfing ocean waves?  They dive in and out of the water, gliding along with the pull of the waves.  There’s no struggle and no pushing. Dolphins live in flow. We all can. But the truth…
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Would you buy a crystal toilet seat?

I remember watching a talk given by Wayne Dyer where he shared his philosophy of being someone who is open to ideas. He demonstrated his point by stating that if he were to be suffering with haemorrhoids and someone said…
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Stepping outside of your comfort zone

There’s an obvious attraction to staying in our comfort zone.  It’s comfortable. It’s where safety lives.  Security. Predictability. Familiarity.  It’s also where we settle.  We accept things as being OK, or fine. It’s where mediocrity lives.   And it also where…
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Your mind doesn’t know the difference

I’ve written and spoken numerous times before on the workings of the mind, particularly when it comes to the mind creating fear-based scenarios which keep us stuck inside our comfort zones. The great news is that the mind can also…
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The Life Force Within

There’s a tree located on the nature-strip next door to my house.  It’s in a row of three. This tree was growing up next to its siblings happily for a few years and then some really big winds came through…
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Here’s a gift for you

Imagine I handed you $525,000 and gave you one year in which to spend it. Would you go on a big spending spree, buying up anything and everything that happened to catch your eye?  Or would you sit down and…
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Design your day

After a busy and high-intensity week, I decided I needed a day to myself doing nothing. And I did just that on Saturday. I didn’t do anything!  I didn’t even leave the house.  I lazed around on the couch and…
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Becoming your potential

I had a picnic in a cemetery earlier this week. Now, for some of you that sounds like a perfectly normal event.  For others – well, you are probably wondering if I’ve lost the plot. You see, I come from…
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