How often do you hear the phrase “you never listen to me” tossed around? That’s because listening has become something that a lot of people fail to do well. By failing to listen, we don’t connect with other people as deeply as we should. One of the reasons why we fail to listen to …
Norva’s Food For Thought… Your mindset is how you view yourself and the things that you do. Some people have a positive mindset, the glass or the bag of crisps is 99% of the time half full. Others have a negative one, the bag of crisps is mainly air and the glass… it’s always …
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When you’re practicing being present with your children, it allows you to be fully in the moment no matter how much time you can spend with your kids during the day. It allows you to be more attentive, more easy going and less likely to concentrate on the performance of a child – whether …
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Norva’s Food For Thought… Today’s thought is a bit of an ouch but I know it will give some of you the motivation you need. The dreams that you’ve always wanted to chase will remain dreams when you’re dishonest with yourself and tell yourself that you know every step of the journey, you understand …
Goal setting is an important task if you want to create the future that you want. Being mindful in the present is what will help you steer towards the future. It’s important to look at it from this perspective if you don’t want to just be living in what you wish it could be or …
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Norva’s Food For Thought… I can remember teachers from my school days and differentiate between those who bored me and those whose lessons I absorbed well (even though school education was not the one for me). It made me think. As leaders, we should be doing the same – finding a way to …
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Being in a relationship can come with a lot of challenges and one of these challenges is communication. Marriage is one of the 5 core areas I teach in the Wivepreneurs community because your relationships can make or break your life as it can lead to you being happy and fulfilled or miserable and empty. …
Norva’s Food For Thought… Occasionally, when I feel an urge within me to move forward – to do something and make changes in my life – fear can keep me firmly stuck in my comfort zone. It’s not always that my comfort zone is a bad thing too – It’s just that I know I …
Regardless of what you do with it, there are only 24 hours in a day. No matter how hard you try, you can’t make more time. You can, however, find more time by being more mindful and in control of your days. You can take control of the time that you do have and …
Norva’s Food For Thought… Instead of telling myself that someday I plan to complete THAT project, I now have to give myself one of two options: Start it Again Full Throttle or Stop Completely. Unless you are the type of person who plans to do something in the future and ALWAYS goes back, these …