How many times have you stopped doing something that your heart aspires to do because of what others may think? We are all victims of this. Including myself. As I am writing, there are still some things that I am very passionate about and have been a big part of my life that I keep Read More
To read the first piece in this two-part series the importance of teamwork and learn about the first two stages of group development, click here. Once you navigate through the forming and storming stages, you finally arrive at a place of acceptance. The third phase, norming, is when we mutually understand and accept our differences. Read More
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” – Henry Ford Dr Bruce Tuckman carried out research into the theory of group dynamics. In 1965, he published a theory known as ‘Tuckman’s stages of group development’. According to his theory, there are four phases of group development – Forming, Storming, Read More
To read the first piece in this two-part series on learning to perceive suffering as a life lesson, click here. Emotions are normal and inevitable. There are no negative or positive emotions, there are only emotions. It’s the meaning we give each experience, whether it is lousy, awful, crummy or wonderful, great, amazing. Whatever words Read More
We hear it all the time. From a physical point of view, you have to work hard, you have to sweat and you have to have a level of pain or discomfort to get what you want out of your physical body. If it doesn’t challenge you, then it won’t change you. Isn’t that the Read More