Author Archive: Vera Herman

Vera Herman is a transformation strategist, facilitator, speaker and coach with over 20 years’ experience in helping individuals and organisations design and build their visions and dreams, accelerate their business results, and create richer, more fulfilling lives. She is passionate about supporting people who are ready to explore, challenge and change any self-defeating patterns, and design, build and step into the lives they were meant to be living.

Living life by default or by design

If you have ever arranged a wedding – yours or someone else’s – you know just how much attention to detail goes into creating that event.  The same could be said for any major event – a big birthday celebration,…
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How full is your tank?

How far will a car go if its tank is empty? Not far, right? And what about you?  How far will you go in supporting your family, being productive in your job, or in contributing your gifts to the world,…
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Are you looking for solutions or obstacles?

Thinking of making a change in your life?  Want to try something new or different? What happens next will determine your success or failure.  It’s a simple thing, but a very powerful thing. It’s the questions you ask yourself. Are…
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Amplify Your Gratitude Practice

No matter where we are in our journey of expansion and growth, there is always room for amplifying our gratitude practice. How?  A simple way is to change the language we use around our everyday activities. Instead of saying “I…
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Be open to ‘the how’

One of the things that can hold people back in creating their dream life is the conditions that they place around what it is they want. People can get clear on what they want, but they also place all kinds…
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Focus on what you DO have

We’ve all done it.  You know…  The pity party.  The ‘woe is me’. The ‘why did this happen to me?’ It’s so easy to fall into the trap on staying focused on what we don’t have, what we’ve lost or…
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Birds of a feather flock together

Various studies have been done which have shown that a person’s income level is aligned to the average income of their 5 closest associations – the people they spend most time with. As the saying goes: Birds of a feather…
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What would you love today?

In my coaching practice, the single biggest question I ask clients to explore is “What would you love?” There is such power and expansion in that question.  It gives voice to a person’s heart which then opens up their mind…
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What are the odds?

Have you ever taken the time to recognise and celebrate your own uniqueness, gifts and talents? Have you ever taken the time to sit down and actually write down a list of these unique gifts? What about listing the things…
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Perfectionism

I was watching an interview with Caroline Myss last night and something she said struck me. And a whole bunch of childhood memories came flooding in. She said: “Perfectionism is just another disguise for fear.  The fear of criticism.” Wow….
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