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A few months ago I stood at the edge of the Midmar Dam, heart pounding, goggles fogging, questioning my sanity and scanning for emergency exits! I had signed up for the Midmar Mile, a one-mile [...]

As I write this I am sitting in my home office. I have my patio doors open and I can hear my kids playing and laughing in the garden (well, mostly laughing) as we sit, along with the rest of [...]

This morning on my way to work I got beeped at. Repeatedly. There was a long queue of us, waiting to go through the traffic lights (the robot) and the driver behind me clearly didn’t want to [...]

Life is busy. We know that for a number of reasons, the most obvious one is because it seems to be the most regularly given answer to the question, “How are you?”.  And the problem with living a [...]

I am very much a ‘forward-facing’ kind of person. I don’t know whether it is because of my coaching training or my teaching background; both of which focus on setting goals and objectives – [...]

You’ve heard the saying – ‘You Are What You Eat’, right? Well did you know that what you eat can also be what you think? And sometimes what you feel too? Don’t believe me? Well let me try [...]

Conflict. It’s a horrible word isn’t it? It fills us with dread and despair, causes our backs to stiffen, our jaws to clench and our foreheads to start perspiring. The worst thing, well in my [...]

Anxiety. Worry. Apprehension. Fretful. Tense. Angst. Trepidation. Nervousness. Disquiet. Fear. Just a few of the synonyms used to explain the feeling of anxiety. None of which, if you ask me and [...]

Yesterday morning, my kids ate pizza for breakfast. Yep. It’s out there. Let the judging begin. To be honest though, I’m not sure that there would be anything that you could say to me that [...]

It’s that time of year, where everyone is feeling like they are on the ‘home stretch’. The finish line; the holidays, are within our grasp and we just cant wait to get there. And yet, I have lost [...]