Daphne’s blog

Everything in your life. Everything in your business. Absolutely everything ... YOU created! Watch the video to find out why. If you like what you've seen and you WANT MORE, I'd love for you to join my community. You can, as long as you include this...

Could be your health. Could be your finances. Could be your relationships. Could be your family. Maybe all of the above. Research shows that while 7% of the population in the USA is depressed, a whopping 33% of entrepreneurs suffer depression. I’m guessing the stats...

Whatever you are resisting will keep on persisting ... And show up over and over again ... Until you choose to ... PS watch the video to find out what to choose to do! If you like what you've seen and you WANT MORE, I'd love for you to join my community....

Yes, it’s true! That which you resist will persist until YOU choose otherwise. Whatever you’re resisting will persist in showing up in your life until you stop resisting it and move through it. Whatever you truly desire is waiting for you on the other side of your...

Words are fun, right? Making up new ones to fit particular circumstances. Creating words from other words. “I can’t”, my younger self said. “There’s no such word as can’t, what you’re really saying is that you’re not willing to try,” said Grandma. What Grandma meant...

Removing my heels prior to climbing on the stool to retrieve my bag from the top shelf seemed the safest thing to do. I was on my way out for dinner. All ready to leave home when I realized I wanted to use that bag. Yes, that bag. My favourite going-out bag. I...

Roaming tussock clad hills amongst the many rocky outcrops on a frosty winter’s morning rugged up in my warm jacket, hat and mittens. I was a young girl on an exploratory mission, relishing the isolation and the freedom. Dreaming and imagining what it’d have been like...

Alone in the café I’d find myself wondering how to improve turnover. How to make it all better. How to entice more patrons to walk down the stairs for their daily coffee fix rather than going to the latest and greatest new café to open in our town. I remember feeling...

Months and months of working harder, and working longer and longer hours. Yet I didn’t have more money to show for it. Like a let-down balloon wondering where all its air had gone I wondered where all the extra money I’d made had gone to. Where was it? I sure was...

“The world will be saved by western women.” Dalai Lama How are we doing lovelies? We’re high achievers us women. Yes you are. But are we achieving what we want to achieve? Are you achieving each day what you truly want to achieve? We’re overstressed. We’re...

I’d purchased some soil for my new garden. Supposedly high-quality top-soil. It certainly appeared so when it was delivered. Beautiful, fine texture, easily handled and moved. Job done. I could dig it, plant it, care for it easily. The hard work was done! And then it...

“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.” – Gertrude Jekyll It’s spring in New Zealand where I live and that, for me, means gardening. I love getting my hands dirty....