Marilda's Blog

Yesterday I met with the Ngunghunyani Dancers from Lulekani a village near Phalaborwa in South Africa.  I was asked to come as they needed some things very badly and didn’t know how to get them. As we sat outside in the shade of Jeffrey’s house, we needed a translator...

During the 2021 Christmas break, I was watching Marius Swart use a grinder. This is a piece of machinery that clearly needs some level of skill to cut through metal, cement, and other surfaces. I asked him who taught him to operate a grinder and he replied that he...

This morning I had a virtual coaching session scheduled with a client.  When we started, he warned me that they were experiencing a hectic thunderstorm and that he might have a power out. We decided to push ahead and continue the session with the thunder rumbling in...

“Passion is not a plan, it’s a feeling, and feelings change” - Terri Trespicio This quote out of one of Terri’s TED Talks has been simmering for weeks. It reminded me of how I’ve always been a little bit jealous of people who have an absolute crystal-clear knowledge...

If you’ve had a chance to read My Journey to kickstarting my WHY and How to kickstart yourself in these COVID Times you’ve got an idea of how my head works. (“Good luck with that: “my husband would say!) My thoughts are that if you understand your own WHY better and...

Over the last couple of months, I’ve often found myself saying more and more that the world will never be the same again. This past week I learnt in various ways just how much things have already changed. Chatting to some young people whose jobs have been severely...

If you’ve had a chance to read My Journey to kickstarting my WHY and How to kickstart yourself in these COVID Times you’ve got an idea of how my head works. (“Good luck with that: “my husband would say!) My thoughts are that if you understand your own WHY better and...

It’s an eye opener to realise that today in 4 months it will be Christmas Day. Totally bizarre to think that this year has disappeared… sped past while we didn’t really go anywhere. How we lost everything and gained so much in a few months. How many things changed and...

Here in the Lowveld in South Africa, October is known as the “dustbowl” of the year. 1 September is officially our Spring day, but we normally have very little rain then.  In October the temperatures are climbing into the high 30’ Degrees Celsius and often into the...