Living Life Purposefully - By Jane Chetty

The first week of February is national Fresh Breath Week in order to highlight how to get your mouth into mint condition to be ready for romance this Valentine’s Day.

Better than New Year’s Resolutions! Get clear on what you want for 2012 and then create it! This FREE 30 minute Audio Program from The Fairy Godmother is a guided visualisation technique to help you get clear and create your dreams and goals for 2012.

Everywhere you go you can’t escape the pervasive story about the credit crunch and economic crisis. If it is not the TV blabbing about economic doom-and-gloom, then it is probably your friend or colleague in the cubicle next to you moaning about money.

Aristotle said: All who have mediated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on education of youth. Powerful words spoken so many years and absolutely relevant today!

So how do we light that fire? One of the best ways to light that fire is to put books and reading high on our value list! If we, as parents and teachers, really value books and reading, the chances are that our child will too. When we walk our talk, really do what it takes to ignite the child’s interest in books.

I was taught most of the fundamentals about life by my Father and therefore learnt to think like a boy. It certainly has served me well in many aspects however I believe that I learnt to copy the social behaviour of men and never really got to know how to appreciate the intrigue of being a woman.

I’m talking about those times in life when you feel you need to make a decision, and you need to make it FAST but you’ve no idea which one to make, and it feels like life or death situation.

Within each one of us lays an engraved purpose on our hearts. We were born with a calling and were created for a reason. Each one of us has a unique destiny that only we can fulfill.

The most sensual people I’ve known are those comfortable with their bodies. The best lovers are those who acknowledge themselves as sensual and sexual beings.

Embark on your path to enlightenment and reach your true potential.

Whenever I had to do a presentation, started a new job, had to lead a team or even had to present my writing, I always thought that I was not good enough or at all.

Start with one positive thought. If you repeat that thought over and over again and focus on it enough, the mind will latch onto it and do its smart work of looking around the physical world for other thoughts to match it.

Your mind is forever making up stories; it is a non-stop story-making machine. When you focus or concentrate on a specific thought, your mind links that thought to other thoughts and abracadabra, it creates strings of thoughts that it labels ‘the truth’.

If you haven’t yet heard about the White Envelope project, you MUST read this inspirational story below! And then read on to see how you can be a part of this wonderful concept, and others like it.

The lavish gifts that we receive or the expensive technology that we own, have got nothing on life’s simple pleasures. We should all take a few steps back to enjoy the journey of life, with all its little idiosyncrasies and pit stops.

Desiring to feel inspired is a natural need embedded in all of us. It gives us the creative edge to perform in our personal and professional lives and allows us to stretch ourselves beyond our expectations.

We are each on a journey, flying at super speed or stuck on the highway of life watching those in the fast lane whizzing past us and wondering where they have been and where are they going?

This article is an attempt to get into the Guinness book of records for the world’s fastest article ever written with load shedding. I have just seen that we are without electricity for the next 4 hours and I have limited time available on my notebook battery, so here goes.

We are so busy always being busy; it's an inevitable part of what we now call normal life. But it is good to stop once in a while for reflection … and a little inspiration goes a long way.

4 Totally Top Tips to organise your life - 1.A place for everything and everything in its place, 2.File, don’t pile, 3.Quality over quantity, 4.Find everything you need when you need it, get everything done when it is due.

Using positive affirmations can make you feel good, happy and powerful every minute of the day. Affirmations need to be said every single day so that their power can grow and develop over time.

In South Africa, our high levels of crime have left many people traumatised. Being affected by crime can lead a person to have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Here’s a look at PTSD – and how to cope with it.

Silent meditation is the follow up of our last month’s meditation (letting go of thoughts). It is used to settle your mind into a realm of silence.

Intellectually stuck-in-the-mud. That’s the easy definition of the concept “analysis paralysis”. It’s that situation where whatever you think your decision or course of action could be, it seems that it might end up with a result that you do not want.