What if I do nothing?
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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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.
Comparing your inside with other people’s outsides
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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Notice the feather. Don’t wait for the Mack Truck.
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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What are you waiting for?
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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Will it make you bitter or better?
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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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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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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