There is a season for everything
It’s winter here in Australia. In Melbourne, where I am right now, it’s particularly cold. And now is the perfect time of year to do some major pruning in the garden and to plant any new trees that I want…
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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.
YOU need to take action if you want to experience different results
I remember a friend of mine saying that nobody does anything voluntarily unless they get something out of it. That even people who appear to give their time, their money or their services selflessly, even they are motivated by getting…
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What are your triggers?
We all have triggers that can send us off into thinking or behaving negatively, don’t we? I’m fairly certain that if I asked you what yours were, you might take a moment to think about it, but you’d probably be…
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Put on your own mask before helping others with theirs
If you’ve done enough air travel, you’d have heard this instruction on every trip. You know that if you don’t look after yourself first, you won’t be in any position to help anyone else. That’s all well and good on…
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Do you love yourself?
You are special. Do you know that? I mean, really know that? So many of us have been brought up to reject such statements about ourselves. We are taught that it’s wrong to love ourselves or to see ourselves as…
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What are you filling your mind with?
If I want to get somewhere by car I need to make sure it is sufficiently fueled with petrol. I’m not going to get far if I fill the tank up with vinegar. If I want to have enough energy…
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To assume: – ass-u-me. It makes an ‘ass’ of ‘u’ and ‘me’
My sister and brother-in-law are in the process of building a house which happens to be a few doors down from me. It’s been taking a while as they’ve been building it themselves. And by a while, I mean a…
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e-motion: energy in motion
In my corporate coaching and facilitation work, I’ve helped leaders of organisations bring their people along the journey of change – whatever that may be. One of the first steps that needs to take place is to create a picture…
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Be honest about what you want
It’s time to get honest about what you want – not what you think you are supposed to want. Not what other people want for you, or for themselves, for that matter. Not what society says you should want. Not…
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Just pick something already!
Sometimes our past success appears to be what gets us stuck. What do I mean by that? I’ve done years of research and I’ve worked through a number of self-development programmes and I have proven that they work. I set…
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