Live your true life
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.
In a previous blog I quoted Eleanor Roosevelt, saying that “All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets in”. That quote got me thinking more deeply about water and about references I’d heard made about a…
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Eleanor Roosevelt once wisely said: All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you. Words will only hurt us if they connect to something going on inside of us in the first place, or…
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I was listening to talk-back radio earlier this week where two guests were discussing the topic of forgiveness. The commentator kept bringing up different scenarios and asking whether the guests believed the wrong-doer should be forgiven, or if he should…
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I should have. I would have. I could have. (Also known as the should’a-would’a-could’a spiel). I should have started saving. But didn’t. I would have started that diet. But didn’t. I could have changed jobs. But didn’t. Regret. What an…
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I heard a great quote this week: Getting ready is a stalling tactic. I don’t remember who the quote is credited to however, I think there is a lot of truth to it. So many of us plan, plan, plan…
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Letting go of what you know in order to move forward into uncertainty is much easier said than done. Fear of the unknown is a common blocker that many of us use as a reason to stay stuck and ‘making…
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It breaks my heart when I witness so many people around me who don’t see, let alone value, what they have in their lives, whether it be their own gifts and talents or the material things in their lives. The…
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I once read a definition of insanity that went something like this: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result”. Yep… And just how many of us do this? We get up, make…
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This week, I sadly, and all too prematurely, lost a friend. She was vibrant, active, fit and, by all appearances, healthy. Out of the blue, she was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour. She had just enough time from being…
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Stuff happens. That’s just life. But why is it that some people manage to get through their challenges, leaving only a distant memory behind, while other people carry that baggage with them, metaphorically living out of that suitcase for years,…
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