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Tag: life

  • What are my Values?

    By Noeleen Bontempi What are Values? Let’s discuss a bit about your values. What is the difference between values and beliefs and how does this affect our behaviour? You may ask yourself why this is so important? Knowing what your top values are saves you time, effort and energy. It is also important because if…

  • 5 Rules for Life

    by Lori Deschene When I first sat down to write this piece for 5 Rules for Life, I wrote Live without rules five times, each followed by a reason to keep your approach to life flexible. The way you live is largely a reflection of where you’ve been, who you’ve been, and the beliefs you’ve…

  • Z – Zoom your Zeal

    Z Zoom your Zeal Are you passionate about anything? Is there something you have a burning desire to do, learn, explore or develop? Are you following that passion or is it simply a dream, something that you might someday get around to, when you’ve stopped hiding behind all the excuses you’ve got stacked up in…

  • S – Set your Standards

    S Set your Standards What’s your bottom line? The line below which you just won’t go? Do you know what it is? Do you have one for different parts of your life? I have! For work my bottom line is cleaning and prostitution, they are the two professions I point-blank refuse to evenconsider doing. They…

  • L – Lose your Limitations

    L Lose your Limitations How limited are you? Are you living the very best life that you can? Or are you making do? How do the people around you treat you? Is that any different to the way you wanted your life to be, because if it is, you are limiting yourself from being the…

  • K – Kickstart your Knowledge

    K Kickstart your Knowledge Are you where you want to be on your journey in life? If not, how do you get onto the path you want to be on? Do you even know where you want to be? Or do you just drift along like seaweed with the tide, ebbing and flowing, ebbing and…

  • J – Jumpstart your Joy

    J Jumpstart your Joy Are you happy? Truly happy? Honestly? Most people when asked will say, “Yes, I am, but….” and they will tell you about the “but”.  And right there they leave their happiness behind and walk into some form of discontent. It is rare to find a person that is truly happy with…

  • D – Decide your Destiny

    D Decide your Destiny Yes, simply decide where you want to be in life and take the necessary steps to give your life the X-Factor you want for it. You will be surprised how much you will achieve by yourself and how much help you will get to assist you on your way once you…