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Motivation

Focus On Your Why

November 17, 2019November 17, 2019 / Holly / Leave a comment

  Do you need a little help to get unstuck? Focus on your reason for something rather than on the obstacles. A strong WHY helps us to keep our focus on the path to achieve it. The plans and all the HOW reveal themselves as we become intentional about where we are headed. When the road gets tough, we … Continue reading Focus On Your Why

We Lead By Example

June 15, 2019June 15, 2019 / Holly / Leave a comment

  Leadership is leadership.  Parenting is leadership.  Whether we are leading teams, family big or small, classrooms full of children, organisations, churches, businesses, society, clubs ... the group that we are leading is simply a group that we are leading.  No matter the situation: We lead by example. When we become aware and mindful of … Continue reading We Lead By Example

Proverbs of Leadership

January 19, 2019January 19, 2019 / Holly / Leave a comment

  Awake early, I wanted to read my 'instruction manual', fully intending to focus on the chapter appropriate to the date.  Instead, I was drawn to writings around, but not within, the central point that I'd thought I would be reading through. Thus, rather than reading the chapter of Proverbs for the seventeenth day of … Continue reading Proverbs of Leadership

A Compilation Of Quotes

November 2, 2018November 3, 2018 / Holly / Leave a comment

A compilation of five quotes to ponder mindfully as you go about your life and conduct your business today.   "You are either spreading lightness, or you are spreading darkness ~ which one feels best to you? Choose that."   *   "Love gets more done than grind and hustle do."   *   "Lose … Continue reading A Compilation Of Quotes

Notice The Gold All Around You

October 12, 2018October 12, 2018 / Holly / Leave a comment

Dear Readers, Today I thought "it is time for a little catch-up".  How quickly we can lose our days, when we do not stop and take in the little moments, which are each as precious as life can get.  Hence this post. It is Friday, my week has been crazy, I have been learning all … Continue reading Notice The Gold All Around You

Self-Assessment Makes Ways

September 15, 2018December 15, 2018 / Holly / Leave a comment

From time to time it is a good idea to take a few moments to stop and consider how we are making choices, decisions, impacting the lives of those around us and further afield. It is known that 'what we give out comes back to us'.  Therefore, it makes good sense to do an honest … Continue reading Self-Assessment Makes Ways

About The Word Nice

July 18, 2018July 18, 2018 / Holly / 2 Comments

  Do you feel the same way about the word "nice"? My English teachers at school taught me to seek alternatives to the endless use of nice to describe everything. I'm so grateful to those forward-thinking women who taught me, by the use of word choices, that life can be a range of other adjectives … Continue reading About The Word Nice

Meeting JT Foxx For the First Time

June 21, 2018November 30, 2018 / Holly / 2 Comments

It is not every day that you meet a fox.  It is not every day that one is adorned with the silk tie belonging to JT Foxx either. I am honoured to have met JT, to have been 'crowned' with his elegant tie, standing alongside a maestro with anticipation of great things to come, and … Continue reading Meeting JT Foxx For the First Time

What We Focus On

February 25, 2018February 25, 2018 / Holly / 2 Comments

  The following brief piece was written in response to a flood of challenging and heartbreaking news, pouring in and being spread abroad by our general worldwide media. *   What we focus on, we get more of. Stop focusing on guns and watching violent films, and the appetite to make and supply them will … Continue reading What We Focus On

What We Work And Fight For

February 7, 2018February 7, 2018 / Holly / 3 Comments

  The thing that you work and fight the hardest for, is the thing that will bring greatest satisfaction, and be appreciated the most, when breakthrough comes. Nothing truly worth having ever came easily, at least not without great moves of the ground beneath first ... Grace is what gets us there ... "full measure, … Continue reading What We Work And Fight For

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Holly

Holly

Drawing on personal experience of life lived on three continents thus far, I write on how to live life excellently. My writing addresses leadership and life principles, incorporating fundamental values for success, mindfulness, faith and spirituality. Subjects covered are wide ranging ~ from autobiography to the business of life in general; from raising young people to matters of brain, health and wellbeing; from natural lifestyle choices to matters of heart, home and environment. Sustainability in real terms is always at the core of my approach. My passion is for positive outcomes in all areas of life, with firm foundations, boundaries and respect being paramount elements of success. I am intentional about living a life based on love and an awareness of the connectedness of all things. Our actions have results and we are each responsible for the fruit of our lives. It is my hope that my writing will empower others to live their own best lives, with courage, integrity and love at the core of all that we think, do and create. ♥

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