When we know what needs to change but…

I find it fascinating how people can have such clarity about what needs to change in their lives but will either not take action or would take flimsy inconsistent action.

Most of us know where we are holding ourselves back from attaining that next level.

For you it might be procrastinating, fear of taking action, an acute fear of making mistakes and being disapproved of, the fear of setting boundaries – of speaking your truth, the need to be in control and fear of taking risks.

The truth is the people who are achieving the results that we are looking for are not different from us. At the most basic physical level, they get hungry like we do, they have to go to the bathroom like we all do.

The main difference might be that they are not willing to settle for mediocre results. They are willing to do what it takes, they are willing to do the uncomfortable, they are willing to let go of the safe and know and live in the unknown.

They value themselves and their dreams more than they do their comfort.

When is it going to be your turn?

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Both Victim and Saviour

It is fascinating that we can embody these two energies at the same time.

That of a victim who needs saving. Who is always looking outside of herself for help, for the next step, for permission.

There is support and we all need that. There is also suppression of our power and agency. For women that is often a consistent temptation. To be the damsel in distress who needs a saviour.

When we do that, we expose ourselves to predators who are ready to prey on us.

If only we knew how much power we have.

There is also our other vice, the need to save everyone and everything. We swop into every relationship, personal or professional and micromanage and save

We become Co-dependents to people’s lack of accountability. We become the answer to everyone’s prayer.

We water everyone’s garden while ours is full of weeds and dead plants.

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Change needs to be incubated

One of the reasons why the popularity of motivational speakers has waned is that change more often than not, requires an incubation and an integration period for it to sustain.

What motivation or any type of insightful communication including books is that they interrupt our patterns by providing an awareness of our unhelpful patterns or a more useful way of doing things.

Sometimes just the awareness is enough for a person to change. Or the person is inspired enough to build the habit and integrate the change.

More often than not, our habitual, addictive ways of being takes over and we revert back to who we are before the awareness; before our patterns have been interrupted.

Change can be an immediate decision, however that decision is not enough. The decision requires a transformation of your identity. That is so fundamental and often so uncomfortable; that if you are not incubated/supported you are not likely to sustain the change.

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Changing is breaking an addiction

For us to up-level we need to change. What brought you here definitely cannot get you there. One of the reason that change is so difficult is because change requires a breaking down of an addiction. An addiction/ a habit that is being who we are

Who we currently are is not just a habit but an addiction. Science tells us that when we think a thought, a chemical concoction is sent to our bodies to feel the feeling that is aligned with that thought.

Through repetition that thought becomes a belief, the feeling – the chemical concoction becomes an addiction such that the body demands it from the minThe mind in order to send the chemical concoction that the body craves thinks the thought, it then becomes a loop. This loop in turn determines our behaviour, our habitual response to that trigger.

Changing then requires breaking that habit, the mind no longer thinking the thought and the body not receiving the chemical fix.

That is why transformation that doesn’t involve the body often fails. When focus on our change interventions only at a cognitive/mind level. We live out an important ingredient to transformation the body, the emotions, the feeling.

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Change happens first at an identity level

Just like the buildings we occupy, the cars we drive, the clothes we wear had to be envisioned and confirmed in someone’s mind before it became a reality so it is with the things we want to achieve.

We have to first see ourselves as people who can achieve them. Our intentions have to be so locked in conviction that reality has to follow. I’ve seen it with things I’ve accomplished and with things I didn’t.

I wanted to be a Chartered Accountant, I studied BCom. I fell along the way, not because I wasn’t capable – there are people who have obtained that qualification that I used to assist back in Uni.

and of course there are physical circumstances that explains why I didn’t become a CA but the biggest factor was that I couldn’t envision myself as a CA. I felt unworthy, I believed that people like me, who came from where I come from couldn’t achieve that.

The same thing almost happened with obtaining the MBA. I almost left my studies on two occasions. What was different though was that the intention was stronger. The agreement was at an identity and or energy level.

It didn’t make it a smooth ride. I had to dig deep to finish my dissertation. However the achievements thereof had become inevitable. The decision was made at an identity level. I was already a person who had earned a Master’s degree. It was done.

So it is with the next level of income, of impact of leadership or whatever it is you want to achieve. You have to become it before you achieve it

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Is your company ready for a Black Woman Leader?

Mrs Nolitha Fakude in her book the Boardroom Dancing narrates an incident she encountered during her first few meetings as a CSuite executive. One of the executives made a point of forgetting to print a copy of his presentation for her on 3 occasions. On the first one she assumed it was a mistake, on the second she was so angry she didn’t follow much of that meeting and on the 3rd she finally spoke up and the CEO instructed that the presentation stop and a copy be organised for her there and then.

Now these are some of the encounters that Black Women in Leadership face on a day to day. They may not be much when taken individually, however they are happen all the time. Such that it becomes a death by a thousand paper cuts for these women. Going to work becomes a ritual of armouring, preparing for battle. You can imagine the burn out that comes with leading in such an environment

The question then becomes, as an organisation; what preparations do you make before you promote a Black Women into leadership? What are the land mines in your Corporate Culture that she might step on? What have you put in place to mitigate those risks, to create a psychological safe environment for her to thrive?

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The Power of your Intention

Intention is like a goal or a prayer, a wish or a hope. However, an intention is stronger than all these. An intention evokes our Self-sovereignty – the Divinity, the Creator in us.

An intention shatters the illusion of separateness from the Divine. An intention denies a Divinity that is separate from us, that we have to beg, impress, get permission from, to get what we want.

An intention is a command, a creation, a calling into reality that which we want to experience.

When we set an intention, we do not ask for permission from the Divine, we do not ask for, or check if it is the will of the Divine. We assume that what we choose for ourselves is what the Divine wants for us

Because we are not separated from the Divine, the Divine is in us, the Divine is us, we are the expression of the Divine.

We acknowledge that our intentions do not come from the human in us but the Divine creativeness that wants to express its expansiveness through our life.

Our intentions are an invitation to experience more of life, expansion, growth. That is the nature of life, of the Divine: to expand, to grow to evolve.

When we are nudged to grow; we don’t ask whether it is the right thing for us, we do not shame ourselves for our ambition. We accept the invitation, we chose it. We live in the inevitability of its manifestation, regardless of what our circumstances look like.

What is the intention that is calling you today?

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Lessons from goodbyes

I have a ministry of goodbyes. I’ve made a number of significant, life changing goodbye’s in my life.

I’ve left the religion I was born in, with that all forms of organised religion. I’ve said goodbye to close family members, including a fiancé I thought I would spend the rest of my life with. I’ve changed careers a number of times, I’ve left organisations a few times. Change has been a constant in my life.

This is what I’ve learned.

I’ve learned that the station in life that you are in, is supported by beliefs that you have adopted. Some empowering and some not so empowering. These beliefs define and support who you are, they are comfortable. That’s why change feels so unsafe, it is a form of death. A death of an identity, a way of thinking that we have identified with.

There is always a beautiful reward on the other side of change, new experiences, new people, new ways of being that can be incredibly fulfilling. The hard part, the part that most people would rather stay in places they’ve outgrown rather than face; is the transition.

I don’t blame them, transitioning is hard, it is scary, it feels unsafe, like death, because it is a a form of death. A death of an identity, a way of thinking that we have identified with. A death of who we are, a shedding of our old skin, a leaving of our cocoon, an unplucking of our feathers. A letting go of what’s familiar to allow for the new.

I’ve learned no matter where you are, there is always the next level that is calling to you. It may be the next level of income or position, it can also be a next level of thinking and of being. Regardless, after a while you get a nudge that the time has come for you to move from that which was once good for you to the unknown, the next level. Change is always the next level, even if it’s change from being a CEO to becoming a petrol attendant.

What is it going to be, Beloved?

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You are the boss

You are the King of the jungle that is you, You are the Captain of your Sheep, You are the Ruler of Your Universe. Nothing happens in your life until you say yes albeit an unconscious yes but a yes all the same.

You are the only one that can say yes, God, The Divine, Source, The Universe, Your Ancestors, Your higher self whatever you call it/her/him can’t force anything on your life that you deem unsafe for you to have.

‘But I want this’ you say, I have set and intention, I’ve prayed, I’ve visualised, I’ve fasted, I’ve affirmed, I’ve meditated, I’ve journaled but still I don’t have it. I have said yes, but all I get is more of the same

What you might not realise is that you have two governments inside you. The main cabinet and the shadow cabinet. The main is the intender it wants to create, to grow, to win. The shadow is the risk assessor/ the judge/the wounded one, it has the lowest risk appetite, it wants to protect, it wants to keep safe.

It might be the shadow cabinet but it is just as powerful, it will usurp power and take over if the main government is sleeping in the job. Your job is to get these two governments to agree. You have to bring the shadow into the light. Deal with the long list of risks it has identified, release, reassure, reframe. Only when the shadow government is in agreement with the main, can your intentions come to pass.

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