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So, quick update; loving it in Dubai. If you ever have the chance to come and visit, you HAVE TO! I recently moved to Dubai, read all about it here. 

Dubai has a certain magic to it. Everyone that stays here will tell you to come during the winter time. Which starts around about the end of September. Average temperature highs will be 26˚C (I am yet to experience it). Summer months are May till September and is an average of 40 ˚C and seriously humid. But now start of September you can see people returning from holiday, even the birds are starting to return. I think it is safe to say that Dubai is getting its mojo back.

So today, for the first time in 3 months I visited my blog again. WOW!

I was so busy going for interviews, planning what new direction my life would take that I completely forgot to track the activity om my blog.

This just means that I am doing something right. I just reached 1000 page views.

I know to some it is not a lot, but this is a MAJOR milestone for me. It is a bit surreal, I mean that is hundreds of people all over the world reading MY stuff. Kinda cool!

So sorry for the looooong delay in posts. I think I was looking for some inspiration, and as some of my old students would tell you, you can’t rush inspiration. When it comes, it comes and you need to be ready for it when it does. Check out my new website with exciting new ventures. 

Trying to force something is so tedious and never fun. When I feel like I am forced to write it will take me hours on hours to write 300 words, but when the inspiration strikes it can take a full 15 minutes to write 200 words. You get the point.

I have stopped thinking that I purely need to do something because I have to. I want to be a person with passion, and I can’t be that if I am not true to myself and what I want to do with my life. Surround yourself with good people, but don’t get me wrong, this doesn’t mean you can stop doing anything and everything you don’t like. I don’t like doing the laundry but that doesn’t mean I can stop doing it. I do like walking around in clean clothes so certain things must be sacrificed for the greater good. So my only option is to do the laundry now, and start working really hard and really smart at what I love and then pay someone to do the laundry for me. 

Does that make me lazy? Hell no, that just means my priorities differ from the next person. We all need to follow our passions for the next person to succeed. The guy on the corner opening his first laundry business would agree that one man’s chore is another man’s choice.

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.”

- Steve Jobs

So guys and gals, keeping it short and sweet today. Already working on a new post. “Strike while the iron is hot”. 

So please subscribe and be on the look-out for: “Why I didn’t get my dream job” 

Love,

6 Steps to success and less stress!

Sooooo, just need to catch my breath for a second! This is the first time in a really long time that I managed to go to the gym, be home early, start dinner and still have time to lie down on the couch and open my computer for something other than work.

Classes started, personal life was a bit hectic but nothing we can’t handle. With that said this blog entry kept me on my toes as I am starting a new blog entry after writing the previous one all the way to 700 words and decided; “Nahh I am not feeling it”. Yes yes I know I need to get the writing thing under control and start speeding things up. I get a lot of comments that I am not pushing out content fast enough, I promise I will try my best. For now this will have to do.

So, in my previous blog I spoke about procrastination and I think that it is one of my worst qualities. One of my best qualities I believe, is being ambitious and having a constant drive to better myself and my situation. Yes I do believe that I sometimes take things too far. It was exactly this thought that made me think, “When is enough, enough. When do you stop thinking about the future? When do you stop being ambitious?”

Conclusion?  You never do. You never stop thinking about tomorrow and wanting to better yourself. You should never stop chasing your own personal form of success. You should never stop trying to be successful. There are so few people who actually reaches the “Self-actualization stage” of Maslow’s hierarchy. Well I am one of those ambitious people who think that I can make it to that stage.  I believe that the day you stop learning and stop growing is the day you stagnate and your whole “being” starts to fade.

So before this happens to you, here are 6 steps to ensure that you keep your eye on the prize.

6 Steps to success!

1. Start a new project.

Do something you love for the love of it, not the money. You know you are in the right place if you would rather be doing what you are doing for free, than not at all. Your passion might just be contagious and in process you start a new business venture. You will be willing to put the hours in to make it work. So start an online course, something creative or maybe a new sport. Just do something that takes you out of you comfort zone.

2. Start aiming for extraordinary not ordinary

“The greater danger most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short: but in setting our aim to low, achieving our mark” This is something I tell my students on a daily basis. You need to aim for a 100% mark. There is no glory in aiming for 50% and receiving 40% but if you aim for 100% the chances are that you will achieve 80%.

3. Set a goal for yourself.

Life is just made up of thousands for small goals. Whether you want to participate in a 10km run this year, learn how to make 2 new dishes for dinner or improve you relationships with friends or colleagues. Set a goal for the next month. Make sure your goal is SMART, (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relative, and Time-bound).

4. Make it permanent

Write it down, tell it to someone and stick it somewhere you will see it on a daily basis. My cupboard has four A4 pages inside and I need to open it every single day before I can get ready for work and before I can get in to bed in the evenings. It is a constant reminder of where you are heading.

5. Act as if you already have it

I am not saying spend R2 Mill because you aimed that you will be winning the Lotto. Remember the SMART guidelines. I am saying, before you go to bed you tell yourself “There is no need to worry about money as I already have more that I can spend” Before you know it you will receive that what you already imagined to be true.

6. Be thankful

This is the most important bullet for me. This makes the difference between being “arrogant, always wanting more and never being satisfied with anything” to “anything that you receive from this point on would be a blessing in your life”. Maybe you could alco be thankful for the people in your life and make a difference in their lives. Have you noticed that the day you are in a good mood everything else seems to be going right but the day you are in bad mood or in a hurry everything seems to be going wrong?

“Most places in life are continuously telling you that your dreams aren’t possible or practical. You don’t want to hear that when you are under the age of 30, what you want to do is race after them.” Steve Jobs

Whether you are under the age of 30, or you can still remember that stage, it is important to be young at heart and follow the fire that is ignited every time you think about making a change in your life. Thank the people in your life for what they have done, and aim for greatness. 

 As I am starting to doubt my life and everything I do, my amazing husband leans over and shows me the following quote; “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being excited about what could go right”

Love,