Reconnect with your spirit
So many of us live in our minds and actions all the time. It’s all think, think, think and do, do, do. It’s not often that we take time to just be. It’s a busy world and we all…
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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.
Loving yourself – warts and all
I recently had a conversation with a friend about a video link she had sent me. In the video, a young woman was talking about her video blog on makeup and beauty and how she had received numerous judgemental and…
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Your decisions today equal your results tomorrow
Every decision you have made in your past has led you to be living the life you are living right now. The big decisions and the small decisions – they all count. It’s really important that you understand this because,…
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Rewind and re-write
How many of us are plagued by memories of our failures, our embarrassments and our regrets? How often do we dwell in the past, reliving and rehashing the things from our past that we wish never happened, or worse still,…
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If you can imagine it, you can be it
If you can imagine it, you can be it. You may have seen this quote, or ones like it, bandied about in motivational books and videos. But is it true? Can you really be and do anything that you can…
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Paralysis by Analysis
You’ve probably heard that term before – paralysis by analysis. Today’s post is about getting yourself to act before you think yourself out of taking action. We all know what we have to do to initiate a change in our…
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Words and beliefs in harmony
My aunt is in her 90’s and her mind is sharp as a tack. I recently visited her in hospital where she is undergoing some treatment for a physical ailment, and she shared one of her amazing stories from her…
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Why not get on with life instead of worrying?
Hugh Blair, a Scottish minister of religion in the 1700s wisely wrote: “Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come,…
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That 4-letter F word
It’s a word we use all the time without thinking. It’s so common now that we think it’s just part of the standard, accepted vocabulary used in any social, professional and personal situation. F. I. N. E. How are you? …
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Dealing with guilt when you want to say no
It’s OK to say no. We all know that. There are so many articles around telling us to free ourselves from obligations that others have placed on us, or about saying no in order to save our sanity when we…
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