Jealousy

One of the most destructive emotions is jealousy. It can ruin our relationships and our lives. The root of jealousy is fear – fear of loss, of being alone, of losing a person’s love and attention. It causes all sorts of very irrational, despicable and destructive behaviour – lying, spying, cheating, hiding, withholding, emotional and […]

My Toenails

I love my toes. In fact, I love feet. Nothing fascinates me so much as the perfection of the 10 tiny, perfectly formed toes of a newborn baby. I love my toes so much that even when I spent 2 winters at business school in Boston, my toes were always beautifully pedicured. I love my […]

The Gifted

I cringe when I hear people talk about “the gifted”. I have always felt that by categorizing some people (a minority) as gifted, we automatically create another category of “non-gifted”. This has very harmful effects on the latter as it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy – if children are labeled “non-gifted”, then they start to believe […]

School = prison?

Here is another e-mail conversation between my sister, niece and me about what really goes on in the education system – we are speaking here about secondary schools. I am sharing this because I believe that the only way to solve a problem is to come out of denial and face it squarely. We MUST […]

More on discomfort

Discomfort is good. We don’t like it, but it’s an emotion that tells us that some type of new thinking or experience is taking place in our life. It signals that we are getting out of our “known zone” i.e. the place where we know, and know that we know. If we are are to […]

Bizbabes

Three weekends ago I spent a weekend of renewal with five of my business school sisters! Lovingly calling ourselves the “Bizbabes” (actually, it was a spouse who suggested the name – which we quickly adopted), we have met “annually” since 1999 (I think). Our version of “annual” however has nothing to do with the calendar. […]

Feeling Uncomfortable

I am now attending a trilogy of personal transformation and enlightenment courses called “Living By Conscious Design”. The trilogy consists of The Awakening (2 days), The Clearing (3 days) and The Connection (3 days). Today is Day Two of the Clearing. For much of yesterday I found myself feeling VERY uncomfortable. I had an experience […]

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