Triumph over adversity My passion is to help people overcome challenges and adversity. I love to see people who are knocked down, get up and start again. Does it feel like the ground has been pulled out from under your feet? Do you need some inspiration on how to get up and keep going? We never know when a life-changing …
Understanding The 4 Personality Types At Work
This original article by Helen Mitas was published in Women with Drive Sponsored by Porsche The workplace is full of different personality types. According to the DiSC profiling, a behavioural assessment tool, everyone falls into one of four broad categories of behavioural traits: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Conscientiousness. Profiling helps us understand how other team members prefer to work, and …
How to get out of bed in the morning!
Do you find it hard to get out of bed and into action? Do you prefer to hide under the doona wishing the alarm clock would forget to work? A lot of people think that those extra stolen minutes are beneficial but do they really help you feel more refreshed? When you need to go to work every day, it …
3 Signs a friendship could be over.
Removing clutter from your life can help you find a renewed focus and feel better about your living space. But has it occurred to you that your friendships may need decluttering too? All of us strive to pursue positive experiences and certain friends can make that challenging. An easy way to determine whether you are surrounding yourself with the right …
How to say No to Opportunity.
“Never turn your back on an opportunity” is a phrase most of us are accustomed to hearing. We are encouraged to “grab life with both hands” and go “outside your comfort zone” to constantly expand our skills and experience. All of this is true, as long as the so-called opportunity is a genuine one. Opportunities arrive in many different forms …
How to get over feeling let down
Feeling that we have been let down is the hurt we feel when other people do not meet our expectations or behave like we would. But are our expectations realistic? We are a result of past experiences that include our upbringing, how we are treated, our values and our self-perception. All these experiences program our emotional response to the world …
Life: How to see its lighter side
How do you see the lighter side of life? Do you know any six-year-olds? If you do, then you might want to consult them for some life lessons on happiness or seeing the lighter side of life. The average six-year-old laughs an average of 300 times a day! They see humour in everything. Adults, meanwhile, laugh an average of 17 …
3 Easy Ways To Beat The Scales While On Holiday
Going on a holiday? If you are like most women, you strive to shape up before you pack your bags so you can be more relaxed with your food choices while still looking fantastic in the photos. So there you are on holiday indulging in all forms of food and drink and throwing caution to the wind as far as …
How To Stop Perfection From Holding You Back
This original article by Helen Mitas was previously published in Women With Drive Powered by Porche Are you always striving for perfection? If you are, then you are putting yourself through a repetitious cycle of near insanity, as perfection is ever only a concept and never a reality. What most of us really strive for is to always put our …
The Third Key to Happiness
This original article by Helen Mitas was previously published in Woman With Drive Powered by Porsche What makes us happy? I asked myself this question when we were on a family holiday in Sri Lanka a few years ago. A war-torn, third world nation where the happiest people had nothing but a small hut with a dirt floor, no running …