Daphne’s blog

A few months previously I’d moved into my dream beach cottage. What should have been an idyllic life felt like a chaotic mess. I’d gone from living alone in a large to house to sharing my tiny home with a predator. The predator had moved into my home as a boarder....

Three years ago I was treading water. Going through the motions. Letting life happen to me. Caught in an intricate web of family matters and life stuff that I was allowing to overtake my life. To almost suffocate me on some occasions. I was always at everyone else’s...

Long ago, before the world told me who to be, I was a playful, fun little girl. A beach girl at heart. Blissfully happy in my own world. Imagining it to be. And so it was. I was content. I loved the beach and spent every minute there that I possibly could. Playing on...

One day, many years ago now, everything changed for me. I literally became my own hero. My own personal super-woman! Up till that day I’d always thought I was in a life sentence. After all I’d chosen to get married. I’d chosen a life sentence because I’d been brought...

Once upon a time, no so long ago, I became my own knight in shining armour and rescued myself. I’d waited long enough for a real ‘knight in shining armour’ to come and rescue me. You know, the fairy-story kind. Pretty soon it became obvious nothing would change unless...

Just walking out and never returning? Truth is, I have and I did. (You can read about that here) The reality is that many business owners feel like walking away. They've wished it could be different one time too many and now is their time to give up. Each person’s...

I’d hit a wall, and the bus got me at the same time. I crashed and burned. Yep, you guessed it. I’d burned out. AGAIN. For the umpteenth time! The worst burn out up to then! I’d been giving out all the time. Bits of me. To my kids. To my clients. To everyone who...

He’s a PREDATOR. He primed me right from the start! From our very first meeting. Looking back now that he’s finally gone I can see it all so clearly. The very first time I ever met him was in a bar where I’d agreed to meet some friends of mine. They weren’t there when...

Many years ago when I was in my marriage, I was advised “I needed a counsellor”, “we needed a counsellor”, and then everything would miraculously turn out OK. I lost count of how many I went to. I have no idea how much it cost. I only know that it didn’t help. But I...

I’ve always wanted to do it my way! To live my life on my terms. To not follow the rules. They were made to be broken weren’t they? Or at least bent? Doing it my way, without anyone telling me what to do has always been really important to me. It’s not always been...

Alone in the café I’d find myself wondering how to improve turnover. 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. What was happening was that every time a new...

How clear are you? Do you have a clear picture of what you want to achieve in 2017? How does that feel? Are you checking into that feeling each day? How clear is your vision? Here’s the thing. The clearer your vision is the more likely you are to achieve it. You get...