How Do You See The World?

Hannah du Plessis

"And how will I speak? I will laud my enemies and they will become friends; I will encourage my friends and they will become brothers.  Always will I look for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize, I will bite my tongue; when I am moved to praise, I will shout from the roofs. If I have no other qualities, I can succeed with love alone.  Without it I will fail though I possess all the knowledge and skills in the world." - Og Mandino

When you meet someone for the first time do you look for things to judge or criticise or do you see things you can admire or compliment?

You can be sure that you'll find what you're looking for.

Whatever it is that you are looking for, that will reflect right back at you. If you look at others negatively, you will in turn be viewed negatively by others. 

This is why you should view others with love in your heart, and deliberately look for the good in them. You will make friends that will trust you and do business with you.

So instead of doing things with dollar signs in your eyes, just focus on the friends you are making. When your new friends feel valued by you, guess who they will do business with? Would you rather do business with someone who just wants your money, or would you prefer doing business with a friend who values you?

You can't do any business effectively if you have contempt and dislike for other people or if your own best interests come first. 

Focus today on another person. And see how that person responds to you.

And remember what the Good Book says: “Love others as you love yourself” – for if you can’t look for and acknowledge the good in yourself, how can you look for it in others?

Take this lesson to heart, and be all you can be!

You Are Totally Unique

By Hannah du Plessis

"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You." Dr. Seuss

You are totally unique.

That’s right; there is no one else like you on this planet. You are totally unique.

Have you ever met anyone that is just like you? I mean exactly like you: Your hopes and dreams, your likes and dislikes, your physical appearance: eye colour, hair colour. No, even identical twins are not 100% similar. If you ask them, they will tell you how they are different. There will be something somewhere; a preference, a mark, a slight variation in colour.

If you look even further, we have different fingerprints, different retina patterns, different DNA, our talents and what motivates us. Each of us an individual masterpiece created totally unique by the Creator.

If you look at psychometric testing: Each test gives different results: Each one gives different preferences, shows how we are motivated, shows different talents and gifts, each one unique, each one a masterpiece.

Is it surprising then that we want different jobs, and even if the job is the same, like a nurse or a teacher, we do it in a different way. No two exactly the same. Your best friend may be excellent at doing admin work. You may be better at working with your hands. I know I thrive on challenges, so I am excellent at sales and marketing. But my best friend is different; she likes to have a job where she is creative in a quiet, peaceful way. No two people have exactly the same preferences or do things exactly the same way.

Your potential, which is really a combination of your gifts and talents, describes in detail who you are. It is so detailed that it defines precisely how you are unique.

Just think: How many people have the talent to be able to do a heart operation, or build a rocket that works from scratch? How many people have the talents to be able to find the cure for a disease?

This is only one gift or talent. However, most people have more than two things they are excellent at. If you have any unique gift, that gift puts you in the top 1% of the population for that gift, and when you speak about odds like that, when you add more of your talents or gifts the odds of others having the same can increase to one in ten billion. There aren’t even that many people on earth.

Resources to help you find your talents and build your self confidence so you can be all you can be:


Find a psychometric test.


Work on your self confidence.


Create your perfect life.


Books on self confidence:

10 Simple Solutions for Building Self-Esteem: How to End Self-Doubt, Gain Confidence & Create a Positive Self-Image 

What's Holding You Back?: 30 Days to Having the Courage and Confidence to Do What You Want, Meet Whom You Want, and Go Where You Want


Unstoppable Confidence: How to Use the Power of NLP to Be More Dynamic and Successful


The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence (Revised)

You Are Your Own Enemy

by Hannah du Plessis

"Our duty as men and women is to proceed as if limits to our ability do not exist"- Pierre de Chardin

Yesterday we discussed how what others say and do can limit us. Today, we look at how we can harm ourselves.

Your own self-talk - your thoughts - can limit you. Don’t limit yourself by what you think and say. Keep your thoughts positive. When you think a negative thought, quickly find something to be grateful for and replace it with that thought. Don’t choke your own creativity by thinking negatively.

Don’t doubt yourself because it holds you back. Don’t be afraid of taking risks because what is the worst that could happen: you’ll fail and learn something?

William Shakespeare said: “Our doubts are traitors which tempt us to lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."

Werner von Braun was one of the scientists responsible for developing the propulsion systems of rockets that got the first satellite into space and the first man on the moon. He said: "Man belongs where man wants to go"

What does that tell you about limits? There are none!!!

Do you want to change your world? Do you want to change your income, your marriage, your level of happiness? Then take the word "impossible" out of your vocabulary.

Everything is possible!!

You live according to what you believe, and you will believe that which you repeat to yourself. 

Speak the truth:

• Today I will have an incredible day
• I am a Winner and have a winning attitude.
• Today I will work hard and put in massive action. 
• I will do what others are not willing to do. 
• I will persevere with enthusiasm and determination. 
• I will plan, and reach my goals. Everything is possible. 
• I have unlimited potential. I will live with passion throughout this day 
• I'll do what it takes. 
• I will embrace my opportunities to learn, grow, help, and love people. 
• I will persevere against all odds. 
• I will succeed!

Write out your own self-talk that you can read to yourself every morning.

Break through to success!

Tomorrow: Our past limits us



Books on success:


The Success Principles(TM): How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be 


Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals 


Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life 

You Can Do Anything

By Hannah du Plessis 

"Man belongs where man wants to go" - Werner Von Braun


How many times have you said to yourself that you couldn't do something? That something is too difficult to accomplish? That something is impossible to do? That something could never work?

What comes to my mind when I hear that something is "impossible" is the Wright brothers who were trying to fly. People laughed at them and told them humans can't fly it's impossible. They were laughed at and ridiculed. Until they built something that worked.... and they could fly. 

What do you do when someone tells you that you can't do something. Do you listen to them?

Negative self talk and listening to negative comments and advice from others are limiting you. Man has no limits. We can accomplish anything we set our minds to. We can do anything and go anywhere. 


Believe in yourself.  Believe in your dreams. 

You are invincible!

Book: Believe in Your Dreams