Life. Everyone on earth lives in this intriguing arena called the world. Loss. Everyone will experience painful loss at some stage of their lives. Lockdown. Everyone has been in shut down in one form or another. Leadership. Not everyone has yet accepted this challenge. But you can. It first starts with you. In this candid conversation with Adriaan Groenewald, CEO of the Leadership Platform, I share openly about the miracle of life and opportunity in the midst of loss and lockdown. This ...
Life is not so much about what happens in our lives, but how we respond to what takes place in our lives. On this week’s podcast I have a conversation with Adriaan Groenewald, the CEO of The Leadership Platform. We talk about matters of life, leadership and legacy. This interview was held before the passing of my husband, Ernest. As I re-listened to the conversation, I was powerfully reminded of the statement I have taken ownership of this year and that is for us to write our plan...
If you love what you do, do it with all of your heart. If you feel half-hearted, you may feel indifferent or detached, prompting you to leave it. Finally, you may have to make a change and know that you cannot change anyone else, only yourself and your choices.
God is grace, pure and simple. His grace is available to us at every turn, especially when we need to turn things around in our lives. If not for His grace, where would we be? God loves to surprise us with His gifts of grace. Don’t expect Him to do the same thing the same way all the time. He is omniscient, omnipresent, and deeply involved in your life. Receiving His grace is the first part of our responsibility; the second is to live in recognition of His grace; then we need to be resp...
Imagination is such a powerful gift-and it can be used for your benefit or your detriment. The biggest enemy we have to overcome is what, how and why we think the way we do. Unless your mind is giving you consistent valuable feedback, useful information, edifying pictures and life-giving qualities daily, we have to know that there is continually a virtual giant we have to slay. I say virtual, because mostly it is our wild and unbridled imaginations that keep us ensnared and cowering in fear. ...
Allow me take you with me on this mosaic journey in Italy to highlight how one life connects with another. If we don’t capture and frame the moment, it may pass by unnoticed and become like any other. We are then none the wiser as to what impressive mosaic patterns could appear that could potentially reshape and reframe our lives.
Trying to resist the various circumstances, challenges and processes in your life is futile, since whether we like the notion or not, they all work together like a gearbox in a motor vehicle to get us moving onward. We may need to reverse every now and again or manoeuvre in a few different directions, but travel forward we must, otherwise we will never reach our destination.
Living a victorious life every day is going to require that you know your why for life. What makes you, you? What makes you want to get up in the morning and do what you have chosen to do? Or do you even want to get up in the morning? Successful daily living is about making the choice to make the most of the seasons of your life – the winter and the summer; the magnificent and the mundane. Dynamic daily living is about expressing gratitude, developing excellence in your life and becoming aliv...
Passion, excitement and self-ignition are the boosters to launch your personal rocket. Where would you like to go? What would you like to experience? It is going to mean you need to strengthen your inner person to be tough and resilient. It means not quitting when the challenges become intense and even terrifying at times. It is about standing tall to slay the giant in your head and in your land. It will mean regaining your awe for life. Becoming excited again at the prospect of what can be. ...
Life calls for us to prepare as well as we can for the good times and the less than best of times. We try to be ready in and out of season. You may feel confident that your boat is watertight. You can have your plans written out, solidly set up in your mind; you can even make future arrangements in light of these plans. But as life unfolds it sometimes brings a surge, a sudden rising of the tide, a change in the ebb and flow that interrupts the rhythm and timing of your plans, occasionally ev...
I believe we will all agree that what we need in the world right now is RESILIENCE for our times. Resilience is the ability to get up, to bounce back from the no’s and not now’s and to find the grit and traction to keep pressing forward despite the reality of what swirls around us. Some years back, I wrote a book called, What in the World are You Waiting For? I had no idea then, that what I wrote I would live through in ways that would completely redefine my life in 2020.
Working with multitudes of people over many years has shown me that there is no secret to success but there are requirements. Personally, I believe that internal transformation is the key to have external impact in any arena of life. Reordering your life from the inside-out removes the limitations and allows you the freedom to crown your life with extraordinary achievements.
If you desire anything to be changed on the outside, you first have to make the change on the inside. There is usually an internal transition that needs to happen before you can have an external impact. Every structure has a blue print and when it is constructed it is strengthened in its core to ensure the building doesn’t cave in on itself. Somehow we forget this when it comes to our own lives. We build the outside strong, sending all the right impressions, expressing what we believe others ...
Moving forward with purpose requires the passion that gives you energy and the will to fulfill your purpose. Passion gives you the adrenaline to push through even when everyone else is telling you it can’t be done. People who live without passion may find the journey of life more difficult than those who pursue life purposefully. Passion for the seemingly impossible should excite, ignite and delight you! Why stay stuck in the rut of routine when God has blessed you with His ability to dream, ...
It's not about doing it all-it's about doing your best at all you can do. Success or failure is not one great cataclysmic event, but rather a series of choices you have made over a period of time. Every opportunity you are waiting for will come as a response to the seeds you have sown. Start sowing to the best of you. What have you got to lose by having great expectations? You will lose bad expectations! Now that’s a great trade and you will rejoice at the harvest you reap.
Seeds of Hope can be planted in every way, every day by each one of us, and in due season we will reap a harvest. Join me on this interview with the founder of SucSeed, Nishani Ford, where we reflect on daily living, businesses and careers, relationships, creating wealth, and what we can do to help those who are not yet experiencing the harvest of success, It may be physically, relationally, financial or in other arenas. We discuss building a bridge between having a wish list and a strategy. ...
Many circumstances in life may have painful endings, but this never rules out enjoying a new beginning. The truth is that some things have had to end for you to enter a new beginning. There is no time like the present to declutter, reframe and restructure to find that pathway to your new beginning. We get to choose how our individual circumstances evolve.
New beginnings will call for you to examine your beliefs, your thought patterns, that all-important self-talk and your actions. A fresh start requires that you begin to design in your mind the kind of future you wish to step into. Doing it right today means no regrets tomorrow. An eternity mindset is the bedrock for powerful new beginnings.
Suezette Smit is a global leadership coach, an inspirational speaker and an author. It was a pleasure being a guest on her radio show "Vroue wat Voorloop" - "Women on the Move", aired on Radio Klein Karoo. In this hour of meaningful conversation, we speak about the poignant issues of life, faith, love, loss, the world of business, creativity, and inspiration and it is interspersed with pieces of music that will uplift and inspire you.
In the words of my guest, Wes Boshoff, "For far too long we have given our destinations and our decisions and largely, our lives to others. During the course of our lives, we are both passengers and pilots." So what then drives the decision to make the transition from one to the other? Listen to this impactful podcast for inspiration to be in command of the controls of your life with God as your Pilot. Wes overflows with gems for life-change, redirection and he talks about how to view crises...