Recently, I decided that I would not be going ahead with the self-confidence development program that I have been trying to write for a number of months. I had invested a lot of time, effort and thought into this program and had felt that I knew exactly what I wanted from it. However, in a…

Earlier this week, I declared a seven day boldness challenge, where the idea was that I would actively choose bold at least once per day for seven days. It was interesting that, in the days after the challenge, I wasn't sure that I had successfully taken on the challenge. My attempts at incorporating boldness didn't…

Choose bold. Those words have been echoing through my being for a few days now; ever since my conscious choice to be bold, when I contacted the author of one of my favourite emotional literacy books. I have felt totally at peace since the catch-up with the author, yet I have also felt something else.…

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about forgiveness. The experience of forgiveness that I described in the post felt as though it was the very last piece in the closure puzzle for a particularly difficult part of my life. When I finally hit publish on that article, I felt totally at peace. In…

In my opinion, I am great at making offers. Actually, sometimes I don't know when to stop making offers and then I wonder why I am busy. I am not so great at accepting offers. I think I am a product of my upbringing in that regard. I grew up in a small town where…