Daphne’s blog

Business in a box! NO WAY Model my biz on a formula! NO WAY Neither of those would satisfy me. I’ve never fitted in anywhere. Ever. I can’t imagine my business fitting in a box or anything that came out of a box either. That said, the fundamentals are vital. Extremely...

There’s gotta be more to life than this! That’s what I kept thinking as I sat in the church pew waiting for the service to begin. I was just a kid, and yet I remember it as vividly as if it were yesterday. As much as I imagined what it could be whenever I shared my...

Up until very recently I never even gave loving myself a thought. Yes, I’d been raised with the biblical commandment to “love your neighbour as you love yourself” (Mark 12:31). Until recently I’d never understood it. It was like a foreign language. I’d always...

Blue, hazy days. Grey, dark days. Pink, rosy days. Bright yellow sun-shiny days. I have them all! What keeps me going is that I’m a positive person to the core. I’m fascinated by the future. I’m a dreamer who sees visions of what could be. For me. And for others. And...

Seriously. Over the previous few weeks my emotions had been all over the place. Up. Down. In. Out. At the same time, I felt like something was sucking the energy out of me. Almost as though I was becoming an empty vessel. It’d been a lot going on internally let me...

“Over the hill and down to the beach Is the place I go to to refresh myself. It does my heart good to dwell in such simplicity, To feast on the simpleness of life. ‘Salt-laiden sea air’, as the saying goes, Totally refreshing for me I know.” That’s the beginning...

You don’t know what you don’t know. I didn’t know what I didn’t know. I’d been through my coach training. I was certified. Actively coaching clients. I’d had coaches myself. I’d worked with numerous coaches over the years. Some had been helpful. Others not so much....

The pesky, annoyingly persistent kid. Who just keeps on going. Who never gives up. Tell me I can’t do something. I’ll go find a way to do it anyways. Tell me it won’t work. I’ll find a way to have it work. As a kid I was used to it. I was resilient. I just kept going....

Then and only then was I able to grow on the inside. To really grow up. Once I’d owned and accepted that what was in my life was because of me. And only me. That day when I chose to step out of victim mentality to become my own hero. All my life I’d heard excuses for...

I make someone’s life a bit better. There’s one lady in particular who comes to mind. Lovely, lovely lady she is. In respect to her privacy I can’t share too many details. Here’s what I can say. I’d been coaching her for several months. During that time, we’d worked...

When was I not learning something? The day you stop learning is the day you die! What I’ve discovered throughout my life is that I have learned every day of my life. Further to that, the value of my learning is always directly attributable to my purpose for learning...

Doing whatever it took to try to fit in. To not feel like a freak. A misfit. An outsider. All I wanted was to be accepted. Always trying to please others and keep them happy. At whatever cost to me was necessary. Didn’t matter how much, I kept trying. And never...