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Empowering others

I am passionate about a lot of society’s causes like Animal Anti-cruelty and Recycling and I do my bit at every opportunity. My overarching passion though is education. I believe in the ability of education to empower others so I spend a lot of time educating myself. It doesn’t stop there though. I educate myself so that I can empower others by passing on the knowledge I have acquired.

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I am not a formal teacher or educator. I do most of my work at work empowering the newbies in the team. It gives me a lot of energy to see people thrive in their roles with the help of the tools that I can give them.

As a skin care product developer, product claims creator and consumer insights person, I find great joy in listening to people’s issues in order to identify their pain points and then guiding our product developers to create awesome solutions to relieve these pains for our consumers. It is a wondeful to see people post pictures of the results they have achieved from using our products and to know that those products have had a positive impact on their lives by giving them greater confidence to show up and make their contribution to the world.

I believe it is fair to say that if we take a closer look, whatever it is that gives us energy, is likely to be something that makes society a better place in some shape or form. It doesn’t matter if you do it through a formal charity or you do it through your job, what matters is that you do and you it with love.

Your job is you. My job is me.

The most valuable life lesson that I learned over the past 3 years, is that my job is me and your job is you. It’s a hard lesson to learn as someone who is always trying to ‘rescue’ people.

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It goes hand in hand with lesson that people will only change when they are ready to. And some are never ready to and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.

Just over 3 years ago I found myself in a situation when a person that I loved dearly just cut me off without any explanation. I could not wrap my head around it and everyone put pressure on me to mend the relationship but they had made it clear that they did not want to communicate with me. I was eventually advised to let it go as this person’s soul has chosen to walk a certain path. There was a lesson that they needed to learn which required them to walk a different path on this leg of their journey. This actually gave me a bit of peace and helped re-inforce the lesson I had already learnt which was that my job was me. I have no control over the decisions that others made for themselves but I do have control over the decisions that I make for my son and myself. I do not have control over the lens through which people chose to view me or my actions. All I can do is put my best foot forward every day and trust that I will have a postive impact on the right people at the right time. I don’t have control over the outcome, as that is in God’s hands but I do get to choose the direction I would like to take in life and the same applies to you.

I will keep it short and sweet today for a change. What’s the most valuable life lesson you have learnt is. Let me know in the comments.

An ideal day in the life…

How often do you give any thought to what your ideal day would look like? I realised that I don’t very often at all. I have goals that I am working to achieve but I have never put together what that would look like in the form of an ideal day. Hmmm…let’s see

I am an owl by nature but since this an ideal day, I would be awake to watch sun rise over the sea sipping on a mug of black coffee. Of course I would be living in a home near the beach because there is no way I would be getting up to drive to a venue to see this. I would meditate for 30min and then journal. Then I would be ready to face the day.

I would wake my family up (I do have a life partner in this day dream😊). I would make breakfast and we would enjoy it outside on the deck. Everyone would get ready for their day I would drop my son off at school. My partner would leave for his office. My ‘office’ would be my study at home where I would spend my morning writing my next bestseller and my afternoon seeing my coaching clients.

My son’s return from school will be an opportunity to enjoy a snack together and catch up on the days events. My partner will be the family cook and make dinner on his return 🤪. We will take a walk along the beach after dinner and spend the rest of the evening reading or watching a movie together. I prefer reading to watching a movie to be honest.

That’s my fantasy ideal day. My reality ideal day is to wake up at around 6am, meditate and journal. Get my son off to school and spend the first hour or two of my day working on my biggest priority of the moment.

Then I would let the rest of the world in by joining any necessary meetings. At lunch time I would eat and then potter in the garden barefoot just to ground myself and to take a moment to be present in nature. Alternatively I would walk for 30min to get some exercise in.

My afternoon would be filled with collecting my son from school and having that snack together when we get home. Then spending more time on a priority area followed by closing off the work day. My son and I would make and eat dinner together to get more quality time in then I would study for 90 mins or so. Next I would take a break to focus on my son before he goes to bed followed by at least 30 min of writing that first best seller. 😁 Shower and curl up with a book in bed.

As an owl, my ideal start to the day happens after 8am but until I make my first few millions and my son can drive himself about (or that life partner arrives to play chauffeur), I shall unfortunately have to get up at that ungodly hour of 6am every day…sigh.