Every morning you wake up, God has blessed you with a new day – an opportunity to exercise your potential. Our days are borrowed, not owned, so it is our responsibility to use them well, in a manner that serves love and peace to others. You might be waking up with disappointment in your mind…
As we welcome 2021, we reflect on the year that was. One that challenged many mentally more than they have ever been. 2020 brought a shift in reality that was truly unexpected, which required many to change the way they perceived life, and ultimately challenged their worldview. When a year brings as much challenge and…
“The Great Mind De-Clutter” is a term I’ve coined to represent mental clarity, not just the prospect of mental clarity itself, but the process of it’s acquisition. “The Great Mind De-Clutter” is a term I’ve coined to represent mental clarity, not just the prospect of mental clarity itself, but the process of it’s acquisition. I…
You ever heard a song come on and it just changes your whole day? It’s like something remarkably emotional comes out of you – you may have never heard that song before but somehow you think you have – it’s pretty cool, hey? It just resonates with you. There’s actually some science behind it. When…
It’s often difficult to break free from feelings that we hold towards certain people – with our friends, our family and other close relations. Feelings of resentment can build up if these feelings are suppressed over time and we can find it difficult to live our day to day life with the burdens we carry…
We need to be committed to whatever we desire out of life because if we are not, we’ll fall off track too easily, be distracted too easily and give-up too easily. Commitment is the cornerstone of what it takes to keep striving for a goal, trusting in a belief and continuing on a positive growth…
Anxiety can cripple you and control you and your day – but only if you allow it to. When we get anxious it’s mostly because we have a fear that something is worse than what it actually is. We amplify its connotations into something that seems monumentally more severe. Rationalise your thoughts today and try…
If you see something and you don’t like the way it is or the way it operates – seek to change it. Have the guts to stand for a world that you believe in. Einstein said, “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” Albert Einstein A…
If you have all these grand ambitions and visions of yourself in the future, you must get them out. They are your purpose in life. If you never work on them and build them up for the world to see, nobody will ever see them. Only YOU are capable of making a unique mark on…
Opportunities present themselves all the time in life, even if we do not see them. Sometimes there’s so many things we could choose to do and they happen to appear all at once. So how do we choose what to do and what to let go? Maybe you’ve been asked to attend two different gatherings…
There are solutions that exist to all the problems that surround our life and sometimes we just need to think outside the box and look at these problems from a new perspective. Thinking outside the box means being creative in the way you approach things. Seeking a new perspective means giving up your old metrics…
The reality is, and you’ve probably heard this quote before; If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer For those that do not know, Wayne Dyer was an American self-help author and a motivational speaker. So, what was he trying to say when he shared this…
Do you ever get this anxious feeling that you’re behind or in some ways off track in life? Maybe your goals keep escaping you or they’re taking a long time and you get demotivated and disappointed with yourself. Then you look back to all the times you’ve failed or the things that haven’t worked out…
Maybe your choices have put you in a situation that is more pressurised than normal. You might have to complete usual tasks in a shorter amount of time or you may be tired from lack of sleep. Whichever you find yourself, you must grow and adapt because the betterment of your future self is at…
There comes times in life when we feel like we’re really pushing our limits. We’re trying to fit so much more into our day or our week than we ever have before. Over time we have built up more and more opportunities and we continue to take them – that’s a great thing if we…
In life there’s things I will not understand, not now, not tomorrow, maybe never. So how do I deal with that? What purpose will they serve me? That’s one of the burning questions of life – why do certain things happen and for what cause? Both good things and bad things. First I want to…
The greatest we can offer to this world is rooted in discipline. Discipline is what allows our true self to shine out through the darkness of insecurity and fear. Our creativity nature will blossom if we consistently place ourselves in the correct environments to grow and learn. Creativity is the use of our imagination or…
Thank you to Clayton Jennings for sharing this uplifting work and much much more. An inspiring and empathy drawing video. This is one of the most honest and open representations of how we can feel about anxiety and the thoughts that sometimes control us. This a representation of perseverance beyond the demons of anxiety that…
Seeing the world through your own lens is an inherent necessity – it’s a must. That’s if you want any sense of lasting fulfilment in life. Your lens defines your thoughts, from these thoughts you generate a perspective and it’s from this perspective of yourself and others that you develop a metric for validation. Your…
Michael Jordan, arguably the greatest basketball player of all time said, “Limits, just like fears, are often just an illusion.” What can we draw from this statement? It packs in a lot of messages and it also encourages us to develop our self awareness. What I believe Michael was trying to express is that we…
You will be judged and people will make assumptions about you, whether they are fair or not. That’s a fact of life and you need to grow to accept that fact. You need to learn not to take the things that others say personally because nobody truly knows you more than yourself. When you find…
Being a ‘yes man’ so to speak is a difficult character to uphold. At different times in our life we might find ourselves making a lot of sacrifices for others, but we need to be careful that we don’t jeopardise our own health – mentally and physically. So how we can still help others, but…
What if we never quit on the things that really mattered? What would it mean for who we are now or who we could be in the future? It would mean a stronger will power and a more decisive attitude. When we don’t quit it’s because we care about what we’re working towards and anything…
Compassion is to show concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others. It entails actions that are focused on lifting others up with the intent of improving their well-being. Compassion can sometimes be hard to show and maybe even a little uncomfortable. This is because true connection can leave us vulnerable and exposed. When we…
In truth, every choice we make is infinitely free. It’s a gift to have a free will. The decisions we make in day to day life often seem pressured and forced. We sometimes feel a lack of control in our choices because of the circumstances surrounding us or the situations we find ourselves in. So…
We often get caught up in our own dramas in life and we can be challenged by them. Some days they are worse than others, and that’s where we have to learn to consider our circumstances and their severity. Sometimes we don’t realise that the issues someone else is facing are twice as hard as…
The Mind: Our Greatest Asset and Biggest Challenge The mind is a wonderful tool, and you might’ve heard this mentioned this before – it can be our best friend, as well as our worst enemy. The reason why I am so passionate about mental health awareness is because many people struggle to understand their own…
If you listen close enough, you can hear a silent whisper. It’s the man above, directing you to where you need to be. He might seem to work in ways, that sometimes don’t make sense, but how can something so grand as his plans fit into the realm of what we already know – get…
We all ponder different decisions at different stages of life. We tend to spend more time thinking about the ones that mean more to us – the ones that have more riding on them. It’s easy to sometimes overanalyse a situation and make it into something more intimidating than it actually is. Mark Manson makes…
There are a lot of times in our life when we will be unsure and this can manifest into insecurity and fear. But, why do we shy away from what can actually help us to grow? On the other side of fear is an unimaginable freedom – a freedom that says we are capable of…
