Live your true life
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.
There’s a reason why your eyes are positioned at the front of your face. We are designed to keep looking and moving forward. Yet, many of us spend so much of our time in looking back. Looking back wistfully into…
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There’s a tree located on the nature-strip next door to my house. It’s in a row of three. This tree was growing up next to its siblings happily for a few years and then some really big winds came through…
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Imagine I handed you $525,000 and gave you one year in which to spend it. Would you go on a big spending spree, buying up anything and everything that happened to catch your eye? Or would you sit down and…
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After a busy and high-intensity week, I decided I needed a day to myself doing nothing. And I did just that on Saturday. I didn’t do anything! I didn’t even leave the house. I lazed around on the couch and…
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I had a picnic in a cemetery earlier this week. Now, for some of you that sounds like a perfectly normal event. For others – well, you are probably wondering if I’ve lost the plot. You see, I come from…
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It is election campaigning time here in Australia at the moment and everyone I speak to already seems to have an opinion on which party they want to vote for. But even if they haven’t made up their minds yet,…
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I believe that appreciation and gratitude are the foundation for happiness and it’s the appreciation of what we often think of as ‘the little things’ that can really impact how we feel about life. When I was traveling through China…
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When travelling to China a couple of weeks ago, I was part of quite a large tour group. Just like in everyday life, most people were really nice and very friendly. Most people on the trip didn’t have any set…
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I was travelling through China recently and became very conscious of the need to use the right language – in this case, Mandarin – to connect with the local people, to be understood and to get what I want. The…
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Have you ever really looked forward to going on a vacation only to find that when you got to your destination that it was cold and raining? Did you feel that those weather conditions somehow ruined your holiday? If you…
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