What Do You Want?
In almost every presentation or workshop I give, I ask what people want and I always get answers like “I want more money, I want more time, I want more happiness…” I want more! Have you ever asked yourself what you want, I mean what you really want? Hi, my name is...
“To Get More, You Have to Become More”
The great business philosopher Jim Rohn always said: “To get more, you have to become more.” That is probably the reason why the Million Dollar Lotto winners are usually broke again after a few years. They have not become "more" first. Let’s make sure that this...
From Goal Setting to Goal Achieving
First of all, I wish you a very HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR! Did you set New Year Resolutions? Do they sound and feel good? I hope they do because you will need the emotion to keep you moving towards achieving them. I always say that you can only go as far as your...
Life’s Winters – Overcome Challenging Times
I wanted to write but rather went outside and filmed it. The weather is sooooooooooo Christmassy here
Are we grateful enough?
Are we grateful enough? Do we feel gratitude and appreciation? Do we see all the good around us? I often wonder when I listen to the moaning and groaning of people. Unless you give the conversation another direction it seems all they want to do is complain about what...
Ready for your Eulogy?
Does that sound morbid to you? Why are most of us so afraid of death? It's part of life, isn't it? Nobody knows when their time will come to pass on and apart from trying our best to live a healthy, good life there is nothing much we can do about this. But we can and...
YOU are good enough!
Let me share a post I read in a forum. It was about self-consciousness and being good enough: I decided that I'd go to McDonald's to get some food. Now I'm not overweight, but I do like McDonald's and I work a lot so there are times when I end up there too often. On...
FINAL Day 21!!! Living Into Your Purpose Action Program
During the last 3 weeks, we have talked about the importance of knowing exactly what you want. if you have followed each step, you have defined and fine-tuned your purpose, discovered all your strengths and weaknesses and created a vivid vision of your future. By now...
Day 20 – Time To Dream And Visualize Your Purpose
I’m sure throughout this challenge you’ve been thinking a lot about living with purpose and what that means to you right now. Hopefully, you’re living more intentionally already and are changing things here and there to better align with your purpose. You may even...
Day 19 – Your Answers to Who You Are
We are on the home run. Only 3 days to go and I have a lot of surprises in store for you in these last 3 days 🙂 Did you do your FREE Numerology Reading yet? If not, you've got to do it. It's amazingly accurate and will give you some wonderful insights into who you...
Day 18 – Time To Realize The World Doesn’t Resolve Around You
Much of what’s going on in today’s world makes us focus on ourselves. We’re supposed to look out for our best interest, compete with others and do whatever we can to be better and have more than our neighbour. We’re constantly surrounded by advertisements and media...
Numerology – The Science That Knows WHO YOU ARE
Last night I found something crazy in my inbox that truly blew my mind. It was the opportunity to get a Free Numerology Reading. Before doing this reading, I didn't believe much in this type of thing because a colleague had once done a very superficial one for me and...
Day 17 – Creating Purposeful And Meaningful Relationships
A big part of living a more intentional and purpose-driven life is the relationships we have. We are social creatures and we need other people around us to feel happy and complete. That means creating purposeful and meaningful relationships with family, friends,...
Day 16 – Living With Purpose Is A Primal Human Need
Having a purpose is a primal human need. Today I want to talk about spiritual health and wellness and the positive effect living with purpose has on us. I already mentioned in one of my earlier posts how beneficial living a purpose-driven life has on our physical...
Day 15 – When You Have A Purpose, You Are Not Afraid Of Failure
Something remarkable happens when you start to think about, and then live your life more purposefully. You start taking action. You start doing things instead of second guessing yourself and procrastinating. You get off the couch and get going on the things you’ve...
Day 14 – Going from Exisiting to Truly Living Life
We all get stuck in a rut at times. We live ok, often better than ok but still, we are not satisfied. There is an emptiness and we want it filled. I discovered my passion and purpose during a workshop with the great Jim Rohn about 25 years ago. My passion and my...
Day 13 – Embrace Your Dreams and Interests
Over the past few days we’ve taken a closer look at time - our only truly limited resource. We looked at how we spend our time and what may be sucking time away from us and I asked you to switch off all social media for a couple of days. I would love to hear if you...
Day 12 – Here Is A Real Challenge For You
How are you doing with your time journal? What time thieves did you discover and eliminate so far? I can't wait to hear what they are. Remember, nothing changes unless we change. That in itself is a challenge, isn't it? The last few days we talked about the time we...
Day 11 – Stressed? Overwhelmed? What Is Sucking Up Your Time?
By now you should have a good idea what drives you and what you would want to do to live a more purposeful life. Now, let's look and how you can "find" the time to actually do it. We live in hectic times and our most precious commodity is and always will be - TIME....
Day 10 – Small Things You Can Do Right Now To Make A Difference
In yesterday’s session we started to look at what you can do immediately to live with purpose without getting overwhelmed. Did you share what you chose in our Facebook Group? Today I thought I’d share a list of various things you can do to live more purposely and make...
Protected: Day 9 – Where YOUR Purpose Makes A Difference
Most people think that a purpose has to be huge. We believe the intention of a PURPOSE is to change the world, i.e. peace on earth, unite all religions etc. THAT IS A MYTH! Your purpose does NOT have to include the whole planet. Even if you positively touch just one...
Protected: Day 8 – Find Your True Calling
Finding and following your calling is a big part of living your life with purpose and passion (and with a great satisfaction). Finding that calling though, can be a pretty big and intimidating task, particularly if you put yourself under pressure to come up with the...
Protected: Day 7 – Why What You Do For A Living Matters
How did you do with your values the last two days? Please, share in our facebook group. The homework of the last 2 days can make all the difference in the way you see yourself, the way you see your life and the way you see your future! In case you did not get around...
Protected: Day 6 – What matters MOST – Core Values!
“Without values there is confusion and chaos. When values disintegrate, everything disintegrates. Health disintegrates, poverty attains dominance over affluence, societies and cinvilizations crumble. When we pay attention to these values that society has always held...
Day 5 – What Do You Most Value in Life?
It's time to seriously look at your values because they are what drives you to do what you do or don't do in your life. They decide for you on auto-pilot what is right or wrong. It all happens in your subconscious and has a huge influence on how you live your life...
Protected: Day 4 – Let’s Talk About Happiness
Day 4 - The Connection Between Purpose and Happiness When you start to make a difference and live a purpose driven life, something amazing happens. You become happier and more fulfilled. I’m sure you’ve experienced this in your life. It doesn’t have to be anything big...
Protected: Day 3 CLARIFY YOUR PURPOSE – What is your Purpose?
The first step on this journey towards living with a purpose is deciding that it is a worthwhile endeavor. I hope my last 4 or 5 blog posts have convinced you of that. The next step is to figure out what exactly your purpose in life is. It’s a pretty big question,...
Protected: Day 2 – The Many Benefits of Living Your Purpose
Why It’s Important To Find and Live Your Purpose In the last few blog posts we talked about what it means to live with purpose and I briefly touched on why it is important to do so. Today, I want to dive a little deeper. Making the decision to live your life with...
Protected: Day 1 – What Makes My Existence Matter?
What makes my existence matter? For millions of people, this is a daunting question. A question they cannot answer. You might ask yourself what your life purpose is. Or whether everybody really has one. Does my life have any meaning at all? Should I be doing more?...
The Purpose Gift
Each of us enters this lifetime with a purpose. We are here for a reason and being human, we want to leave a legacy. Unfortunately, we usually forget our passions and purpose as we grown up and are molded into our parents model of the world. However, as we get older,...
Only 3 Days To Go To Clarify Your Purpose
Over the course of the next 3 weeks, we’ll take a closer look at living with purpose and how you can start to live every day more intentionally. We’ll look at how this will affect all aspects of your life and you will get plenty of hands-on tips and suggestions for...
Register now for the 21-day CLARIFY YOUR PURPOSE Challenge
This challenge is a great opportunity to gain clarity on something super important – your purpose in life. Once you have clarity and take action on it, your life will change beyond belief and it will change for the better. Living into your...
Welcome to Your 21-day “Clarify Your Purpose” Challenge
First of all WELCOME and Congratulations on your interest in our 21-day "Clarify Your Purpose" Challenge. You will love it because when you actively participate in the challenge you will... Become more focused and efficient Overcome confusion and get unstuck Feel less...
Create YOUR Ideal Day
In the past, we have talked about the power of visualizations more than once. We will also use them in our upcoming "Clarify your Purpose" challenge. In my book "To be or not to be - the choice is YOURS!" I ask you to create a VIVID VISION of your ideal day. What do I...
Part 3 – How to Increase Self-love and Confidence
We have already agreed that our inner voice can be very critical and demanding. We tend to speak to ourselves in harsh words we would never dream of directing towards other people and with that, we destroy our trust in ourselves. Here is how to change that.
Part 2 – How to Boost Self-love and Confidence
When you like or love yourself more things simply become easier. You will be able to not take things personally. You will stop to belittle yourself or beat yourself up over small issues. You might even stop to hold yourself to an inhuman standard of non-existent perfection. I will also share a very powerful healing technique.
The Importance of Self-Love and Confidence
The legend of Narcissus tells of a young man who, upon seeing his reflection in a clear pond, fell hopelessly in love with himself. Unable to tear his gaze away from his reflection, he could not eat, could not sleep, until finally, he pined away and died....
How to Stop Taking Things Personal
Do yourself the favor of listening to this episode of my podcast with Joel Young, the Guardian of the amazing NPA technique and try it out on some of the issues you struggle with. Here is the basic NA process. You will find more details on Joel's website....
What is Life Coaching?
In the last few years, Life Coaching has become more and more popular. However, most people don’t know enough about it to decide whether it could be right for them or not. I have been in this profession since 1995 so let me try to clarify what coaching is so you can make an educated decision whether it would benefit you and fill the gap you might feel in your life.
Oxfords interviews Barbara Hofmeister
A short interview I did in Oxford, UK ...
You’ve got to Jump!!!
In this post I do not want to write, I want to share one of my favorite kick butt videos with you. Steve Harvey tells you what you need to do, loud and clear in less than 2 minutes :)...
Why is Life Coaching so effective?
I am being asked all the time what makes Life Coaching so successful. My answer is: It’s efficiency. But why is it so efficient? Because it is action based and forward oriented while most other self-development tools look at the past and try to find out why we are who...
Why we all need strong Confidence
When you think about Confidence, what do you think of first? Is Confidence really important? Until only a few years ago I was a fairly shy, introverted female – always driven to succeed but never really succeeding. The reason was my lack of confidence and self-esteem....
Look for the message
Last night I watched the film "Troy" on TV. I had seen it twice before nd the one scene that had stuck out for me was the scene where Brad Pitt sprang at the giant he was supposed to fight and slit his throat without a moment of hesitation. It had been the only way to...
Follow your Dreams
Good Morning or is it evening where you are? I got up at 5 am today with really inspiring thoughts, dreams and ways to get to them and I thought I just have to share all this with you. So I wrote my heart out - unfortunately in Livejournal and not here - and after all...
Achieve Anything by breaking goals into small steps
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Create a positive work space
As adults, most of us spend more time with our colleagues at work than we do with our families. Therefore loving what we do and being a member of a great team is essential for a fulfilled life. Today we will look into the qualities of great Teams and how to build and...
8 “Secrets” to Success
Author Michael Jeffreys personally interviewed 15 top motivational gurus in 1997 for his then upcoming book. After talking to gurus from Brian Tracy to Dr. Wayne Dyer, he distilled 8 Secrets to Success they all agreed upon.These secrets are still good today and are as...