Daphne’s blog

“Trust is built with consistency.” – Lincoln Chafee Trust is vital. To you. To your life. To your very existence. “Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.” – Joyce Brothers Trusting yourself is crucial to...

Everything in your life currently … you chose it! You have chosen everything in your life. Everything in your life is a result of your choice. Everything that happens in your life is a direct result of choices you’ve made. Everything. Absolutely everything. You may...

Choices, choices, choices. Our lives are full of choices. Which way do we go? This way? That way? The next way? How do we pick? What’s the basis for YOUR choices? With so many choices out there how do you decide? So many pressures from all over the place. Do it this...

I have. Many times during my life. I was reminded of what that felt like recently… Writing away happily at my desk, writing my book truth be told. Twas getting late in the afternoon, about the time I usually check my email, when I realized I had no internet!!! What?...

Tinker, tailor, Soldier, sailor, Rich man, poor man, Beggar man, thief. Remember the rhyme from your younger years?  I do. It suggested that it was a "luck of the draw" kind of thing as to which you ended up being.   It gave me the impression there was a limited range...

What does the future hold for us? We live in a society today that demands instant gratification. We want it now. Or yesterday! Everything happens at the click of a button. In the moment. We’ve come to expect it. Right now! "We live in a world of instant gratification,...

Listening to my teacher review our story while returning said homework to us, I was waiting with baited breath. We’d been asked to write about something that happened during our weekend. Same old, nothing new, right? For some reason that I don’t recall I’d chosen to...

I wasted so many years being a 'people pleaser'. Doing whatever he asked of me. Allowing him to decide for me. Letting him tell me what to do, where to go, what to pick. In short, I was letting him walk all over me. I was lost. Lost in a fog. Drifting. Like a piece of...

I’ll happily admit it. I’d always been a very private person. Never wanted to put myself out there. Not wanted to share anything personal. Always shied away from the limelight. What I’ve discovered along the way is that I can’t hide. If I truly want to make a...

Oh NO!!! Not again! “I’ve got a headache. You’ll have to go and milk for me!” He shouted at me from the other bedroom as soon as my morning alarm rung. Happened so frequently it became the norm. I sank deeper and deeper into the mire that was my reality at the time....

Yep you heard me, your inner critic. You know it well! It’s that voice that keeps speaking to you. Criticizing you. Putting you down. Causing you to doubt yourself. How many times every day does your inner critic win? Every time you listen to your inner critic. it...

Wow. Jennifer Lopez really knows her stuff on this. The Bible says it like this, “love your neighbour as you love yourself” (Mark 12:31). I was brought up to that tune. Treating everyone else really, really well. I was loving my neighbour. But, I was not loving me....