According to Albert Einstein, you can’t solve a problem with the same level of thinking that create it.

 If you’re as old as I am, you were brought up to believe that the brain was the thinker and told the body what to do. Recent science has discovered that the heart has a little brain, too. There is constant communication between the heart and the brain, and the heart can actually tell the brain which chemicals to release into the body. 

The “before” picture was captured when my heart and my brain were not talking the same language. I was in fight-or-flight mode, thinking with my brain and not listening to my heart. The “after” picture is me slowing down my breathing, finding a place of neutrality and calm, and choosing a better-feeling thought so that my heart and mind were in coherence. From that space of peace, I was able to see the possibilities instead of the problems. In that moment, I raised my consciousness.

The more your practice, the more permanent it becomes.

The “before” drawing is me thinking with my head and the “after” is me thinking with my heart.

As part of a task for a 3-day Creategy (Creative Strategy) course run by University of Cape Town back in the day, the “before” picture, which I picked up on Google, accurately sums up my attempt on that day when the lecturer said: “Draw your hand.” 

Clearly, I’m no Picasso.

The “after” picture happened when I switched off my brain. In the exercise, we were taught to switch off the logical, judgemental, “you can’t do this” part of our brains and trust our natural ability to create something beyond what we thought was possible for ourselves. Suddenly, I was an artist! Without thinking, some other mechanism kicked in as I got into the flow of creating something I didn’t think was possible in me. 

As a side note, anybody can do this and here’s the trick… 

Choose any object you’d like to draw. For 20 minutes, draw it while LOOKING AWAY from the paper you’re drawing on. Yes, you’ll be drawing scribbles, but your mind doesn’t know that. It’s paying attention to the details of said object and not caring about what you’re doing on the paper. The self-criticism is switched off and you get so caught up in the details of your hand that you forget everything else. You get into flow.

After twenty minutes, draw it again, this time looking at the paper when you’re drawing. You’ll notice that your mind automatically remembers the details and you’re creating from an entirely different space. 

Well, to be fair, it’s not really something you should READ as much as it is something you should DO. It’s a series of steps that helps you get to know your future you and bring to life your vision. Simply skimming over it won’t add much value.

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Do you ever have those moments when you’re completely immersed in an activity and everything else just fades into the background? According to positive psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, the experience in that moment is known as flow.

As a certified Flow Consultant, I’m able help you find your flow in your life and in your business. In “Marketing from the inside out,” I focus exclusively on marketing because that’s usually where we find the biggest bottlenecks in business.

As part of the mentorship program, one step at a time, we remove those stumbling blocks and allow abundance to flow.

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While the free Genius test tells you what your dominant genius energy is, the Wealth Dynamics test tells you how much  of each make up your unique 100%.

For example, I am 52% Dynamo, 32% Steel, 8% Blaze, and 8% Tempo. By understanding my inner genius, I am able to play to my strengths and I can help you play to yours.

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