Knowing Who You Are

As a coach I have worked with hundreds of people one to one as a coach. As a speaker I’ve addressed thousands more. What I constantly find is people waste a lifetime wrestling with an idea of who they are and who they feel that they should be. I point out that if an item…

I Know You Can Go Through This Easily!

Part of the challenging terrain of modern anxiety, stress and the sense of life being overwhelming and intense, is a result of fear-laden clusters of unconscious ‘thought energies’ in the body and mind that cause what modern psychologists term as the price we pay for a complex modern lifestyle. However, this could be more precisely…

Freedom of Imagination

“I was born in the back of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of these things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory…” Isabel Allende’s words, her soul’s magical expression from her novel Eva…

Connect

Lately I’ve been becoming more and more aware of the intricate way we’re all connected to each other. The ‘6 degrees of separation’ theory says that, through the network of the people we know and the people they know etc, none of us is more than 6 steps away from knowing everybody else. But, when…

Healers: Balancing Compassion and Boundaries in Relationships

I was just having an ongoing discussion about compassion and how we process what we experience.. someone made a very good distinction and reminder, about the importance in differentiating between the person, and the action.. that is ALWAYS a huge factor.. because we may be the sum of our actions.. but we are not every…

Going with the Flow

I am sitting in the middle of Riad Saba, with the gentle sound of flowing water from the fountain in front of me, the stone floor cool under my bare feet. Riad means garden and these beautiful buildings are built with trees and plants in a central courtyard and feature a fountain or swimming pool… The windows only…

Some Think They Were Born To Aspire (Video)

Some people are here to inspire others. Inspirational words from Rasheed       Rasheed Ogunlaru is an acclaimed life, business and corporate coach whose simple ‘become who you are’ approach has helped countless business owners connect with themselves, their businesses and their customers. His background spans over 20 years in coaching, training, media, PR…

A Flight of Inspiration

Debilitated from having pushed myself dancing in California, I travel, armed with crutches, to New York State, to our annual family reunion at my uncle’s house. I haven’t seen family for more than a year, and never in this condition I’m in. Everything I do at my uncle’s house and on his pond is an effort. At…

Silence

I wonder if silence actually exists? Even as I sit here in silence I can hear the hum of the computer, my fingers on the keyboard, the breeze singing through my wind chime, a dog somewhere in the distance… If I was under the sea, I would hear the sound of my own breathing. In…