The power of being satisfied and affirmations for manifesting the state of being satisfied

August 23, 2023/in Create & live a fulfilled life, Life Coaching, LwTee Wellness Retreats, Personal development, Principles & Tools of Creation, Self-development, Self-healing, Solo wellness retreat, Wellness for professionals /by Teresiah Malatji

In this article I am discussing the power of being satisfied and affirmations for manifesting the state of being satisfied.

Simply put, being satisfied is the ability to intentionally pause, observe and know that your cup is full and able to satisfy you. It is knowing that you deserve to enjoy the full cup. It must be intentional because we have forgotten how it feels to be satisfied.

One of the life goals that we must achieve in life is the simple goal of being satisfied. The word satisfied is such a positive word packed with beautiful energies that we need for our mental and physical wellness. Satisfaction is an essential element of being fulfilled.

Unfortunately many of us have the ability to achieve life goals but struggle to experience the beautiful power of being satisfied. We are wired to create and create more without taking a pause to observe and experience what we have achieved. We have cups that are full and overflowing but we are unable to see the full cups because we don’t know how to be satisfied with the little things that we have created. For example a simple goal such as writing this article, finishing and publishing it, is a goal that I must be satisfied with. I must pause, observe that it is done, enjoy this achievement and enjoy the fact that it will make a difference in somebody’s life.

The benefits of being satisfied

When we are satisfied we align with joy energy, peace energy, stillness energy, calm energy, the state of being relaxed, the energy of pleasure & more. When we are satisfied we feel pleasure. We experience joy. We experience the state of gratification which has the power to bring forth more. We experience the source of delight. We also experience the state of being relaxed and deal with anxiety.

We experience abundance & overflow of positive energy. Satisfaction turns the little that we have already achieved into abundance. When we are satisfied we are also aligning with the abundance of the universe which will in turn avail more building blocks for more manifestation of what we already have.

When we don’t pause and experience satisfaction, we can unintentionally harbour the energy of lack. Hence the need to constantly do more. Satisfaction gives us the ability to strike a much needed balance. It helps us to pause and gather the strength needed for the journey.

We align with the powerful stillness of mother earth & the universe. I like saying that the future is old and we are always rushing into the future. We have the tendency of rushing and running away from the present which is fresh and full of vitality. We are rushing against the natural process of aging. The universe is still and yet it creates more. Mother Earth is still and yet she is grounded and strong.

I encourage you to to use the power of focus and concentrate on the things that you have now, the things that you have achieved thus far and learn to be satisfied.

The power of now is very important because it gives us access to energy that is available to serve us at this moment. As discussed in Chapter 13 of Principles & Tools of Creation the greeting in the Zulu language puts it nicely when it says “sawubona”, which means that I see you, you exist and you matter now. When we focus on now, we are greeting the energy that exists now and is here to serve us now. Therefore, when we focus on now, we are also multiplying all the energy needed to create now. Energy can be scattered but when we are present and focused on now, we have the full attention of energy that we need to create.

Being satisfied is not the end, it is just an experience of what is present. It is the power to pause and receive. It is the power to breath and feel what you have. We have the ability to be satisfied and still create more. Satisfaction blesses us with the power to take the much needed breaks without feeling guilty. When we pause to experience satisfaction we are able to celebrate each milestone. We can easily feel proud of our achievements and tap ourselves on the shoulder.

I can go on and on about the powerful and amazing benefits of being satisfied.

How to make affirmations that will manifest the state of being satisfied

As discussed in Principles & Tools of Creation, a word is energy and words are energy. As energy, words are used to bring into existence the building blocks that are needed for manifesting.

The energy of satisfaction already exists in the spiritual dimension and waiting for anyone who will call it forth. When we affirm, we align every cell in our body with the energy that we are affirming. The energy of satisfaction already exists in its pure form. It is available and ready for anyone who will align with it. You can align with this energy through words. Unless you need to deal with other underlying issues, the time it takes to feel satisfied can be instant if your ground is fertile for this energy. To learn more about the power of energy read Principles & Tools of Creation.

Allow yourself to pause, receive, feel, and experience. Use whatever sense you need.

Understand that affirmations, if drafted properly, they will serve multiple purposes. They bring forth building blocks needed to manifest our desire. They help us to focus and become self aware. They serve as new intentions, strategy, plans and vision. They change the memories in our DNA to align with the new intentions. They positively change the memories within our DNAs. They change our thoughts.

Below is a set of affirmations that you can use to elevate your frequency into to the realm of being satisfied. Be flexible, go with the flow and add more affirmations that are relevant to you.

I affirm and declare that I am a creator and a co-creator.

I declare that I have the ability to pause, observe |& know when my cup is full and ready to satisfy me.

I declare that I am satisfied with everything that I have achieved.
I affirm that I am satisfied regardless of what is happening in my life.
I declare that I have the ability to focus on what I have now.
I declare that I have the ability to focus on and appreciate what I have now.
I declare that I have the ability to pause, receive, feel & experience the present moment.
I declare that I have the ability to pause, receive, feel & experience the abundance of what I already have.
I declare that I have the ability to pause, receive, feel & experience the energy of being satisfied.
I declare that I have the ability to pause, receive, feel & experience the energy of joy.
I declare that I have the ability to pause, receive, feel & experience the energy of peace.
I declare that I have the ability to pause, receive, feel & experience the energy of happiness.
I declare that I have the ability to pause, receive, feel & experience the energy of calmness.
I have the ability to pause and connect with the stillness and calmness of mother earth and the universe.

I receive knowledge, wisdom and understanding of the root cause of my inability to be satisfied.

I receive knowledge, wisdom and understanding of the attributes that I need to create a state of being satisfied.

List the things that you already have and have achieved

Take it further and right down the things that you have now.

Get a journal and list everything that you have achieved, from smallest to big.

Right down affirmations of gratitude as follows:

“I am satisfied that I have achieved …….”

“I am satisfied that I have…..”

Whenever you feel disconnected or unfulfilled, take a pause and remember the power of being satisfied and meditate upon your affirmations. The above affirmations are integral to the meditation of slowing down and pausing.

Intend to make these affirmations part of your daily ritual until you exist in a state of knowing how to experience satisfaction. To learn more about the power of words read Principles & Tools of Creation.

Some of the benefits of affirmations for being satisfied

If you think that this exercise is just a simple act of speaking out words, you have another thinking coming. This exercise will help you to embark on a journey of Self-discovery, Self-development & Self healing.

While some of the causes of being unsatisfied are external, some are internal. Affirmations have the power to reveal hidden traits and traumas that that we have inherited from our parents, grandparents, great grandparents and all the way to our first blood lineage ancestors. To learn more about the grounds that we are born into, I recommend that you read Principles & Tools of Creation.

The revelations of the spiritual attributes and traumas that are linked to our inability to be satisfied is a step towards a process of Self-healing. Your inability to be satisfied may have been caused by many things including, being born into a family that does not know how to be satisfied. It could be that you have inherited a gene of an ancestor who did not know how to be satisfied or an ancestor who was an over achiever and so forth. Some people don’t know how to be satisfied because they were born into poverty. They fear to pause and enjoy.

Maybe you were raised in a family that expected a lot form you and did not allow you to be yourself within your abilities. Maybe you were never appreciated by those close to you and consequently developed the desire to prove them wrong. I can list a lot of hidden factors that are embedded within our memories that are manifesting as an inability to be satisfied.

Are you the parent that is never satisfied and teaching your children to do the same? Are you a satisfied parent with children that are not satisfied?

The above process of meditation and affirmations will begin the process of healing you from your inabilities and traumas that you were initially not aware of.

I encourage you to document your discoveries and your experiences in your journal.

For employers, leaders and employees

I have to also focus on employees, leaders and employers because of the stress and anxiety that gets created at work. Is is very important for employers to create a safe space for their employees to experience the state of being satisfied.

Employers and leaders must allow employees to know that it is OK to pause and be satisfied. Allow your employees to achieve key performance indicators within the wellness space of being satisfied.

Unfortunately, it is impossible for leaders to give their employees the state of being satisfied if they themselves don’t know how to be satisfied. Being satisfied should be incorporated in the culture of wellness.

I hope this article spoke to you and will ignite the process of Self-discovery, Self-development & Self-healing.

I declare that you have the ability to receive and experience the power of satisfaction. I declare that you have wisdom, knowledge and understanding of the energy of Satisfaction. Enjoy the journey of being satisfied.

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Create & live a fulfilled life: a healthy balance between the interests of the spirit, the physical & the soul persons

March 7, 2023/in Create & live a fulfilled life, Life Coaching, Personal development, Principles & Tools of Creation, Self-development, Self-discovery, Self-empowerment, Self-healing, Social development, Social goals, Wellness, Wellness for professionals /by Teresiah Malatji

Let us desire to create & live a fulfilled life. A healthy balance between the interests of the spirit, the physical & the soul persons is one of the key ingredients of creating & living a fulfilled life.

I know that I am about to speak to someone because when the soul speaks there is always an audience that needs to hear from the soul. This message dealt with me already and you are the next person to receive.

During one of my preparations for my monthly social and professional goals, my soul said to me “Terry you know my purpose but you are not fully allowing me to do what I am meant to do”. I immediately knew and understood the message because it was the truth.

In this article I am unpacking the discussion with my soul and what followed thereafter with the hope of helping you create the balance. After such an honest and much needed dialogue between my physical, spirit and soul persons, I made a decision to allow my soul to manifest her purpose fully without any delay. I sealed my decision with a set of affirmations. This was the beginning of a beautiful and enlightening journey between my soul, spirit and the physical persons.

As soon as I said yes, I felt a veil of imbalance being torn. I saw the beginning of a balanced life in a way that I never did before.

The meaning of a balanced life

One of the key ingredients of living a fulfilled life is creating a healthy balance between our personal, social and professional goals. This is possible when we have identified the purposes of the spirit, physical and soul persons and created a balance between the three persons. A balanced life is one that recognises and honour the role of the three persons. We are on our way to creating & living a fulfilled life when we yearn to create a working collaboration between the three persons. An individual with a balanced life has the power to contribute towards a healthy society.

Why is it difficult to create a healthy balance between the personal, family interests & the soul’s interests?

The concept “finding a balance between the purpose of the soul, the spirit and physical persons” sounds like an easy and doable task. The truth is, it is more easier said than done, even for those who have found their soul’s purposes.

As I discuss in my forthcoming book Principles & Tools of Creation, the physical and spirit persons are more family oriented and also focused on the personal interests. On the other hand, the soul is interested in contributing towards a healthy community or society.

Our challenge is that, we have become entangled in the personal interests that favour and feed the spirit and physical persons. Our need for survival and maintaining our lifestyle has become the main priority, understandably so. Unfortunately, the Soul person is neglected and therefore the society is not well, because the souls who are the healers of the land are neglected by their co-creators (the physical and spirit persons). The land is traumatised and wounded. This unfortunately continues from one generation to the next.

As part of my calling, I receive revelations, wisdom & knowledge through my thoughts, almost on daily basis when I show up in my sanctuary. Some of the revelations, knowledge & wisdom that I receive must be shared as soon as I receive them. If I do decide to share them, I must also do so without holding back.

I made a decision, a while ago to manifest my calling through my company Life with Terry. Consequently, instead of sharing those revelations, I developed a practice of writing down and archiving the revelations. These habits were influenced mostly by my dominant attributes of overanalysing, overthinking, perfectionism and strong desire to align every knowledge that I received with the objective of Life with Terry. The need to align my soul’s purpose with Life with Terry was also influenced by the desire to monetize and fulfil my personal goals.

While there are revelations that require analysis, some of them don’t. Some revelations are prophetic, angelic and urgent and therefore must be shared without delay, because the delay may render them irrelevant. Also, some of the revelations gets lost in the process of wanting to align the business model with the soul. There are many people waiting to be healed through my soul and delaying will do more harm.

My soul’s desire to be the healer, the restorer, the comforter, the deliver, the enlightener, and the teacher exists now and does not wait for a business model to be perfected, tested and amended. The soul does not function according to the business world that has become self centered.

Prioritising the business and the business model of Life with Terry caused my soul to take a back seat. Unfortunately prioritising the personal interests with focus on financial gain does not guarantee a stress free life. In fact it consumes us to a point where we fail to achieve some of our most important personal and social goals that are essential for a healthy society. We become more and more emptier as the bank balance gets more and more fuller.

We have become successful at the expense of the ultimate truth- equality, love, peace, health, relaxation, justice, balance, abundance, freedom, tolerance, empathy, light, positive energy and so forth. While businesses are succeeding, the society on the other hand has become more and more unwell. When there is a balance, none of the three persons is taking more priority than the others. It’s a win win.

A business model requires a well structured plan, with business processes, milestones, timelines and deadlines. A business model is also revenue based, because the spirit and physical persons must achieve their life goals using money. Whether we like it or not financial wellness is a must for achieving personal and social goals. However, we can achieve financial wellness without destroying the soul’s purpose. The soul desires to heal, to fix, to enlighten, to awaken, to restore without any delays or any financial gain.

The challenge for me was the need to insert every revelation, wisdom and knowledge that came through my soul, into the business model or into my personal interests. The soul had to wait for the personal interests to manifest. Unfortunately the manifestation of personal interests take long. Not only does the soul have to wait for the personal interests, it has to compete with the business energy that can grow into a monster that eventually gains the power to control the physical and spirit persons.

The other challenge is that, by focusing on the business interests, I also created a limiting belief system. I believed that the only way my calling can generate income to support me and my family was through a specific business model incorporated in Life with Terry. As I discuss in Principles & Tools of Creation, a limiting belief system has a negative impact on my power to attract abundance from the unlimited universe.

As if the above challenges were not enough, I also had to deal with the need to prove that my business has something special to offer. I had to work so hard to stand out in order to attract clients to my business. The business needed to prove itself and to be validated.

The soul on the other hand, couldn’t be bothered to prove to anyone that she has something special to offer. She does not require any packaging. Her essence is what matters. Business regulations and rules repels her. She does not need any validation. She does not need to force anyone to come to her for her to heal them. She knows she is a healer and therefore anyone who needs healing must just believe and come to her without her proving herself and going through so much commotion.

Signs that I was letting go and allowing my soul to thrive

When I accepted and made peace with the true and unselfish nature of my soul, I allowed my spirit and physical persons to avail themselves outside the scope of the business model or personal interests. This made it easy for me to be flexible and go with the flow.

The mere act of accepting my soul’s way of doing things and the need to balance my three persons made it easy for me to let go of my attributes of overthinking, overcomplicating, overanalysing, perfectionism, overplanning, and over-archiving the many teachings and revelations that I received. I embraced the importance of acting with urgency and availing myself for the call.

I learned that while a business model is essential for business success, it must not be implemented at the expense of fulfilling our highest purpose that is beyond personal interests. In my case, while the business model will continue to exist, it will not do so at the expense of my soul who is also an integral part of Life with Terry.

I knew that my soul was receiving attention when she started revealing her attributes to me. I knew she was getting attention when she poured out her wisdom to create the balance that speaks to the ultimate truth.

Fortunately, allowing my soul to thrive, cleansed me of the limiting belief system. I was no longer over burdened with the need to focus on one channel. In fact I also received wisdom that helped to amend the business model in a way that embraced my ultimate truth. I discuss in details the concept and examples of limiting belief systems in Principles & Tools of Creation, for those who desire to learn more.

The cleansing of the limiting belief system created in me a clear identity of my energy that is now supercharged & recognised by the universe within the law of attraction.

May we learn, and have the strength to let go of the human made systems that forces us to miss and manifest the soul’s purpose. When we do that, things will fall into place. We will find our home, peace and wholeness and the much needed fulfilled life.

While the business model will continue to exist, it will not do so at the expense of my soul who is also an integral part of Life with Terry and the most important building block of a healthy society.

Does this message speak to you? Have you been neglecting your soul? Have you elevated or silenced your highest purpose of the three persons? It is highest purpose not because it is above the purposes of the physical & spirit persons. I call it the highest purpose because when manifested, the soul person heals and grounds the other two persons. The soul makes it easy for the two persons to manifest and enjoy the attributes of the ultimate truth. Through the soul, the community receives healing and is led into the power of oneness and connectedness. What could be higher than this?

Self discovery

What are you personal and social goals that are taking over and silencing your soul’s goals? Have you discovered your spirit, physical and soul persons? I recommend that you embark on a Self discovery journey that will reveal your spirit, physical and soul persons, their attributes, their purposes and their collaboration.

As soon as you allow your soul to manifest, things will fall into place. Your business models & personal interests will model themselves around the soul’s purpose. We all need that much needed balance between our personal desires that are self and family centered vs the soul’s purpose to serve and heal the community.

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Recommended article to read Create & live a fulfilled life- the power of a seed

Create & live a fulfilled life: The power of a seed

March 3, 2023/in Create & live a fulfilled life, Lifestyle, Personal development, Principles & Tools of Creation, Self-development, Self-discovery, Self-empowerment, Social goals, Uncategorized, Wellness, Wellness for professionals /by Teresiah Malatji

Create and live a fulfilled life by creating a seed that has all the essential building blocks of manifesting your goals -personally, socially & professionally.

I only declare that my season or cycle or year has begun when I have completed the development of my seed or seeds for the season or cycle in every area of my life. Once created, your seed will ground you. It will help you to be intentional.

When we say that “compliments of the new season” we are referring to the twelve months cycle of creating or manifesting, generally starting from January to December. Unfortunately for many for us we speak these greetings without thinking about and knowing its power.

A cycle has the beginning and the end. January as the beginning of the season is spiritually significant and therefore can be used to plant the seed for the entire season. The seed for the entire season must therefore be natured and protected in order to bless us with the season of a fulfilled life, throughout the year. This applies only when you consider January to be the beginning of your season for purposes of creating and living a fulfilled life.

We use a season to plant and measure the progress of our desires, plans, visions, dreams and so forth. What have you achieved in the last season of 2022? What will you achieve in this current season of 2023? What are your plans for this month? or week? or today? What seeds have you prepared? What seeds have you planted to declare that your season has begun?

Like the 12 month period of the year, creation is a cycle with the beginning, the middle and the end. Within the 12 month season, we find multiple cycles that have the beginning and the end. For example, we have a month cycle that has plus or minus 30 days. A month has four week cycle that has 7 days, with Monday as its beginning and Sunday as its end. We also have a day (a 24 hour cycle), with the beginning and the end. All these cycles have one thing in common, the beginning and the end.

Do not be religious about the 12 month season or a month or a week cycle. You don’t need to follow the conventional calendar for purposes of creating and living a fulfilled life. For example your week cycle can start on Tuesday and end the next Tuesday. You can also have a six month cycle instead of 12 months. You can also have a 24 month cycle, if you wish.

Be innovative and allow yourself to be cleansed from any limiting human made system. For example, if you read this article in March or any other month, you can choose March or any other month to develop your seed and begin your cycle as soon as you finalise your seed. Let your cycle begin when you are ready with the seed and when you are done with manifesting the seed, not when the calendar says it is the beginning or the end.

Until your process or period of seed production is complete, your year or cycle or season of creation is not yet started. Declare that a season has started when you have developed a complete seed that is ready to germinate, grow, develop and produce fruits.

When most people declare in January that it is a new year, I don’t declare that it is my new year unless I have completed the manifestation of the previous season and seed phase for the new season. This gives me a unique position to be in charge of my season without being placed under pressure by society.

When people get to December and worry that they have not achieved so much, I on the other hand look at a different month as the end of my cycle to accommodate manifestation of my seeds. If I develop new seeds and have no knowledge of the completion of their manifestation, I am at liberty to extend the cycle. For example, I can state that my cycle will start from February 2023 and end in February 2024. If I am not done by 2024 February, I can extend my cycle with pleasure.

What is a seed?

According to Chapter 5 of my forthcoming book Principles & Tools of Creation, a seed is any building block that is capable of being conceived and birthed. A seed is also any building block that is capable of being reproduced, increased, multiplied, added to, maintained, grown, developed, restored and innovated. A seed is the first raw material for every creation.

What we do at the beginning of the cycle or season will determine the nature and success of the entire season. What I do at the beginning of every cycle or season determines the journey and the end of the season or the cycle. The success of my seasons rely on the kind of seeds that I create at the beginning of each season. I respect and honour the seed phase which is the most important phase of the cycle.

If my cycle is a week, the success of the week depends on the seed for that week. If it is a month, the seed for the month determines the direction of the month. Therefore, we must intentionally create time to prepare our seeds for each season or cycle if we desire to manifest effectively & efficiently.

In order to create and live a fulfilled life during your season, you must have a seed. In this case, your seed is your plans, goals or strategy or vision, that you must achieve in your social, personal and professional life. A balanced fulfilled life embraces all the three categories. In Principles & Tools of Creation I discuss the physical, spirit and soul persons. Each person deserves to be fulfilled. A balanced Self has found a healthy collaboration between the three persons. Therefore when drafting life goals for the year I cover all these three persons under the three categories.

A well thought and intentionally prepared seed places you in a position of being in charge of your life in all the three categories of life. If you are an employee, don’t wait for your employer to give you a year plan for your professional goals. What do you desire to achieve professionally? Is your current employer aligned with your professional goals? Align your employer’s year plan with your personal, social and professional goals. Be ahead. Be in charge and in control. When you don’t plan, they will plan for you and around you.

What happens during the seed phase?

The answer is simple. We create the seed. We create the seed by putting time aside to map-out the journey in every area of our lives, personally, socially, and professionally. We unpack and thoroughly draft the specification of our desires, our visions, plans, dreams and so forth.

Retreat for purposes of creating a seed

Treat the period of preparing a seed as a retreat. When at a retreat, you are away from the busy life and your focus is on the seed. Be disciplined until the process is over. Avoid announcing the process of seed production to the public.

Where you possibly can, avoid exposing yourself to the public. Avoid any distractions. Protect your energy. You are energy and you can easily contaminate yourself with any type of energy that you do not need during the conception phase. Any negative energy that comes through you will form part of your seed. Limit the amount of time you spend on social media or in public. The seed that you plant must be aligned with a positive energy. Your nucleus of energy must be positive. Your nucleus is central part of who you are. The seed that you produce is automatically linked to you spiritually.

How do you prepare your seed for your cycle or season?

Get yourself a journal, either electronic or manual. Preferably electronic so that you can easily amend as and when you deem fit before completion of the seeds.

Let’s assume that my cycle for 2023 is made of twelve months. I will then use January as the period for preparing my seeds. If I complete the seed phase at the end of January, then my cycle will begin in February 2023 and end in February 2024, unless extended. The manifestation of the seeds may reveal new plans that requires more time to complete. There may be things that happens beyond your control that contribute towards the extension of your plan.

Life goals & power of affirmations

When preparing for my seed, I first unpack my life goals and then convert those goals into affirmations. Affirmations infuse my plans with spiritual building blocks. When I affirm, I announce my plans to the universe. I invite the relevant co-creators to the table of co-creation.

Affirmations unlock the process of attracting the essential energies for manifestation. When we make affirmations, we are acknowledging that we are co-creators in the universe and are ready to receive building blocks that will contribute towards the manifestation of our goals. Most of the building blocks will come in the form of wisdom, knowledge and understanding that we must put into practice in the process of manifestation. Some of the building blocks will come physically and require your intervention to put them together.

My plans/ goals/ strategy should cover the entire 12 month cycle. Each month of the entire 12 month cycle will consist of monthly goals that I must achieve to manifest the 12 month cycle. If I wish, I could further break down my monthly cycle into weekly cycle. At the beginning of each month, I prepare seeds for the month sealed with affirmations.

I divide my seeds into the following categories: personal goals, social goals and professional goals.

Under Personal goals I have: Physical wellness goals, Spiritual wellness goals, Mental wellness goals and Financial wellness goals. I unpack all activities that I must carry out on daily basis in order to achieve my personal goals? This is the beginning of success. If I am well personally, I will be able to achieve my social and professional goals.

Under social goals, I have: any goals that will benefit my immediate family, relatives, friends and the community. These goals must improve my relationships with my family, friends and community. What are my desires for them and what role do I play in helping them to achieve those goals. Look out for A guide to financial wellness to learn how to prepare financially in order to achieve some of the social goals.

Professional goals will be packaged according to the number of projects that you have for the cycle. For example, I will include goals such as 1. Finish writing Principles & Tools of creation; Sell x amount of copies, Secure x amount of speaking gigs; Develop a marketing plan for the book; Prepare x amount of ebooks and so forth.

Make sure that you have goals that are achievable and doable.

If there is anything that I can vouch for, it is the power of making affirmations. I have achieved and continue to achieve the affirmations that I have drafted, affirmed and continue to manifest without ceasing. I have manifested my career of healing, coaching and writing with affirmations. I share some of the things that I have manifested in my social and personal life when doing retreats. Life with Terry is a product of effectively drafted affirmations. I use affirmations in every area of my life- personal, professional, spiritual and social.

How to convert your goals into affirmations?

Converting goals into affirmations is easy. You simply states your goals in a way that announces that they are achieved. For example, using the professional goals above: My simple affirmations will be drafted as:

“ I declare that I have completed my book Principles & Tools of Creation.
I declare that I have developed a guide to financial wellness ebook.
I receive wisdom, knowledge and understanding to manifest my goals.
I declare that I am goal driven, passionate, eager to achieve all my goals.

Your goals together with affirmations become your official seeds for the year / season / cycle. The above examples of affirmations are simple and easy to prepare for a beginner. The basic rule of affirmations is that you always state things as if they have already happened. The affirmations must be linked to your name by using the word “I”. Avoid using phrases such as “I will” or “I shall”. It is done in the spiritual realm. Use words such “I have” or “I am” and so forth. Any start is a good start and better than nothing. As a beginner your affirmations will be simple and straight to the point.

As you graduate into an advance stage of affirming, your affirmations will have more details when you begin to understand co-creators such as your sources of intelligence, various types of energies that you call forth to the table of creation. Your affirmations will also include the calling forth of essential spiritual attributes that are responsible for manifestation of each affirmation or a group of affirmations. One affirmation leads to the building of more affirmations. It is a beautiful and powerful process of creation when you know the principles & tools of creation.

When you are done with each seed that is converted into affirmations, print them out, keep them in a place that only you can reach. Bless and anoint them using any method that resonates with you. Do not be religious about these matters. If you feel that words alone are enough then use words.

For a detailed guide on making affirmations, I recommend that you get a copy of a guide to making and manifesting effective affirmations and the book Principles & Tools of Creation as soon as they become available. The good news is that we do not have to wait for the release of the guide and the book to begin the important work of creating seeds for your cycles- daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. You can start now. I started with few words and as I grew spiritually, my affirmations developed into a booklet of more than 50 pages.

Please note that this article is one of the four articles that unpacks the power of a seed. Look out for the next three articles that will unpack the components of personal goals, social goals and lastly professional goals. Subscribe to our newsletter and join our community on Instagram for updates.

Coming out soon in 2023 from Life with Terry

Principles & Tools of Creation
A guide to creating & living a fulfilled life: Self discovery
A guide to creating & living a fulfilled life: Self development
A guide to creating & living a fulfilled life: Self healing
A guide to creating & living a fulfilled life: Making & creating effective affirmations
A guide to creating & living a fulfilled life: financial wellness
A guide to creating & living a fulfilled life: Intercessors

The power of intentional parenting

November 14, 2022/in Personal development, Principles & Tools of Creation, Self-development, Self-discovery, Self-empowerment, Self-healing, Social development, Uncategorized /by Teresiah Malatji

A guide to becoming an intentional parenting

There is power in intentional parenting. How did I do that? How on earth did I manage to do so much under those uncomfortable physical conditions? How did I successfully achieve my parental goals when I was going through so much? How did I manage to wake up, wake the children up, prepare them for school, prepare their lunch boxes, drive them to school and gather strength to fetch them from school? How did I manage to prepare them breakfast, lunch and dinner, help them with homework, put a smile on their pretty and innocent faces when my body was not in a condition to achieve not even the ordinary? The answer lies in the power of intentional parenting.

I can testify about times when I diligently carried by motherly duties as their comforter, motivator, cheer leader, life coach and so forth when it was extremely difficult. For some mysterious reasons I became that super mom until I was done with my motherly duties. Immediately when I am done, my body will go back to being ill. Other times, the symptoms disappeared completely. Let us not forget the days when most women go through PMS and its unbearable baggage. The list goes on and on. This is the story of most women. One day we will talk about the abuse of the feminine energy by society, her trauma and unpack how she can begin to heal, but this article is not about that.

I consider myself a generally healthy person. However, I have had my share of physical and mental challenges that are worth mentioning. I can count many times where I was not well physically but recovered quickly, not because I had faith. Let’s be honest, sometimes there is no time to think about faith. I am certain that I recovered quickly because I was fuelled by my love for my children, strong desire and intention to be present for them – physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. The strong desire and intention of being well for my children gave me the miracle and motivation that I needed. It was the faith that I needed.

The build up of our intention and love for our children become so strong and get deeply embedded in our subconscious minds to serve us when we need it the most. For many years, I have built a foundation of an intentional mother and it is paying me nice dividends. I can count many blessings that I received as a result of me being an intentional parent. For some of us that much needed help will come from friends and family members.

There are times when the illness should have stayed longer, but did not because it found inside me a strong desire and intention to be present in my children’s life. In some cases I received the strength to go through some of the life challenges, until they passed. Other times challenges that were meant for me, passed without touching me. All because I have the energy of an intentional parent.

There are times when I did not feel like waking up to achieve my professional goals, but the thought of my children and the strong desire to leave behind a healthy and rich legacy for them was the motivational speaker that I needed. Not only did I feel motivated, I received and experienced those powerful attributes essential for achieving life goals. There are plenty of rewards that we receive from being intentional and dedicated parents who continuously surrender to the calling of becoming parents. Some of the rewards are physical and others are spiritual.

Generally, a mother is blessed with physical and spiritual attributes of conceiving, giving birth and raising a child successfully. These physical and spiritual attributes are packaged as the feminine energy. However, an intentional mother receives these attributes multiple folds. Some of us are born intentional, in general and others have to develop the ability to be intentional.

When we intend to become parents, we create a formal covenant and acceptance of parental duties. We create an internal energy that vibrates at a higher frequency and attract the essential building blocks that we need to become effective parents. The attributes of the feminine energy for purposes of raising children are all the attributes that you can think of that are essential for raising children. I will write an article about this.

When we intend, we accept a collective and family lineage calling to continue the human race by raising human beings that will achieve multiple goals for the benefit of mother earth (collectively and within families). It is this covenant and acceptance of the parental duties that makes the universe to release all the essential building blocks needed to achieve our parental goals. In addition, all the relevant co-creators in the form of angels, spirit guides, spirit guardians, and ancestors come together to collaborate with us when we intend.

I believe that these blessings or rewards or powers are given to anyone who intend to be a parent regardless of gender. I am encouraging you to embark on a journey of becoming an intentional parent.

Benefits of becoming an intentional parent

Intentional parenting:

triggers a process of embarking on a life-journey of self-discovery, self-development, self-empowerment and self-healing. We are not only healing ourselves as parents, we heal our children, their children and so forth. We also heal our family lineage, from our generations, to our parents and all the way to our ancestors. The spiritual cords between family members is very strong and extend beyond the physical realm.
breaks the family patterns of abandonment and trauma caused by dysfunctional parenting.
reveals our strengths and our weaknesses. It is this revelation that will motivate us to work on ourselves for the benefit of our children.
prepares us to become present parents. When we are present, we enjoy every moment of our children’s development and milestones. We tap into the power of Now.
attracts and manifests all the essential attributes needed for achieving parental goals.
blesses us with attributes that contribute towards our physical, mental and spiritual wellness.
creates responsible & effective parents who contribute towards a healthy society.
makes it easy and enjoyable for us to go beyond the ordinary.

How to become an intentional parent?

The first step to take is to understand the meaning of the word “intention”. We intend when we put in place a plan or purpose or goal. Intention is the beginning of achievement of goals. Intention is one of the tools of creation. I discuss intention in detail in Principles & Tools of Creation,to be published soon.

Write down a list of goals and plans that you must undertake and achieve in order to become a successful parent.

What are the goals or plans that you must achieve as a parent at every stage of your chid’s development?

How will these goals or plans benefit your children?

How will these goals contribute towards a healthy society?

Craft effective affirmations and declarations to create a new identity of a successful parent.

Move beyond just being a parent by default and become an intentional parent. Create your intention through words. Words spoken through affirmations are powerful tools of creation. Affirmations create a covenant between co-creators in the physical and spiritual realms. I discuss the power of words and affirmations in my book Principles & Tools of Creation. Make an oath with sentences such as:

I receive with thanks the calling of being a parent to X & Y.
I receive this responsibility and declare that I will carry out the calling with love.
I affirm that I will carry out my duties diligently.
I affirm and receive with thanks the following physical and spiritual attributes essential for my parental duties: (name all the physical & spiritual attributes that come to your mind).
I declare that I am ……(list all the physical & spiritual attributes essential for becoming and effective parent)

The above examples of affirmations are just a start. As soon as you start you will know what to include in your journal of affirmations. Should you wish to have a one on one consultation to learn more about affirmations, click here. Create an intention by putting a parenting plan in place. Constantly think about your intention of parenting your children until it becomes second nature.

Write down a list of physical & spiritual attributes that you need to achieve your parental goals.

I wrote down all the physical and spiritual attributes that I need to achieve my parental goals successfully in my affirmations journal. The mere act of writing down and affirming the essential physical and spiritual attributes was an act of intention. This activity blessed me with attributes that I needed to achieve my parental goals. It elevated my parenting abilities to another level.

Continuous meditation upon my affirmations was an essential step towards changing the data in my mind and preparing me for my parental goals. The process of manifestation begins with thoughts. We attract with our thoughts. Use affirmations to change your thoughts and attract manifestation of effective parenting. Obviously affirmations is not the end of the journey. Actions must follow your affirmations. It becomes easier to act when we have dealt with the data in our thoughts. Creation is a process. Some process takes longer than others. The manifestation of your ability to parent diligently and the time it will take to receive the physical and spiritual attributes needed for this parenting calling will differ from one person to the other.

If you have a desire to embark on a journey of self-discovery, self development to identify the essential physical & spiritual attributes needed for you to achieve your parental goals, we offer one on one life coaching at you your own pace and time. We are also here to help you through a journey of self-healing, to deal with the undesirable physical and spiritual attributes that are making it difficult for you to achieve your parental responsibilities.

I am sending love to all the mothers who have managed to achieve the most when conditions were not favourable. I am dedicating this beautiful song by Babyface to you –Standing Ovation. I am also acknowledging and appreciating all the men who honoured the role of parenting.

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It is a season of connecting

October 13, 2022/in business development, Life Coaching, Personal development, Principles & Tools of Creation, Uncategorized, Wellness, Wellness for professionals /by Teresiah Malatji

If you are not already aware, I am excited to tell you that we are going through a season of connecting. In this article I share valuable lessons about the season of connecting and things that we can do to utilise this season effectively. Be spiritually awake so that you can use the spiritual realm to create effectively & efficiently.

On 5 October, we held a webinar entitled “the power of seasons”. We talked about the meaning of a season, different types of seasons, how to identify seasons and so forth. I can tell you that it was a much needed session. We also talked about the fact that we are currently going through a restoration season and the attendees were advised on ways to effectively utilise this season to restore things in their lives. We mentioned that one of the qualities of a good season is that it brings forth an intense energy that is fertile for sowing or planting or starting things.

It is possible to experience more than one season within the same period. I am sharing this post to make you aware that we are also going through a connecting season. The spiritual world is always fresh with knowledge, wisdom and understanding available for everyone at the right time. Use this connecting season to connect personally, socially, spiritually and professionally.

Do you feel in your spirit, or your heart, a deep yearning to connect? Do you have this undeniable desire to connect either socially with new or old friends or family, or professionally with those who will take your venture to the next level or spiritually? Do you feel in your heart that you have done all the work behind the scene with regard to your projects, business or career? If your answer is yes, you are not alone. Don’t ignore the signs. Claim the season and begin to identify the key connections that you need in your life.

As we discuss below, be intentional, take actions as you affirm their manifestations. Remember that there is a time for prayer or making affirmations behind the scenes and there is time for getting out of your comfortable prayer or affirmations zones to take visible actions. All you need is that one first bold step.

If it lands on your thoughts, come through your feelings or if you have a strong desire to connect with old and estranged friends or family, you are experiencing both the connecting and the restoration season as connecting with estranged friends or family members is an act of restoration. It is so beautiful when all things are interconnected. The spiritual world is such a beautiful space. It works for our good. Don’t resist.

Things you can start doing to establish new connections

Affirm on daily basis that “it is my season of connections, and I am connecting to………” I am receiving all the important connections needed in my life to achieve goals…..” Be specific with your affirmations. Affirmations are building blocks and they must represent every essential building block needed for manifestation. Should you wish to learn more about the power of affirmations, categories of affirmations and how to draft effective affirmations, check our LwTee 9 days wellness retreat™️ and available packages.

Be intentional

Be intentional about establishing new connections. One of the tools of creation is the power of intention. Intention elevate a desire to a plan. Intention brings forth all the attributes needed for one to achieve goals. We also unpack the power of intention in my upcoming book Principles & tools of creation.

Focus on Now

Focus on creating new and meaningful connections that will usher you into the next phase of life. Like intention, the power of focus is also a tool of creation needed for manifestation. Focus on what you have Now and what you can do with what you have Now to start making or reviving or restoring connections. Don’t delay. There is no better time than Now.

Plan & Implement

Put simple and doable plans in place, such as following new pages, or individuals on social media aligned with your personal, spiritual, social or professional goals. Join groups on social media that are aligned with your thoughts, your vision and so forth. Subscribe to professional organisations that offer valuable connections and networking platforms. Get out of your comfort zone and make impactful comments that will get you noticed. Share your views, talk about who you are when given an opportunity. Find conferences or events that are aligned with your professional goals. Make it a mission to identify networking platforms and avail yourself. Be out there. Beat the fear of rejection. What is the worse that can happen? Rejection fuels us to keep on pushing. The sooner you start, the sooner receive valuable feedback. Feedback will help you to go back to the drawing board and improve. Revive your old contacts. Take that bold step and call that estranged friend or colleague or acquittance. Host friends and families. Just do it and satisfy your soul.

The rest will fall into place

Often we don’t have to get all the needed tools from external sources. We must use the starting tools that we receive and the rest will fall into place. Affirm and receive in faith, intend, focus, plan and implement. If you are looking to enhance your spiritual attributes, lear more about our one-one life coaching.

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Funding beyond the education of our children

September 29, 2022/in Life Coaching, Personal development, Wellness /by Teresiah Malatji

Can parents play a role in creating an enabling environment for our children’s employment?

The number of unemployed youth in South Africa is a serious concern, not only for the economy, but more so for parents who have raised their children and put so much funding in their eduction.

Unlike in the past, education is no longer a guarantee that our children’s future is secured. The employment dynamics have changed drastically. Also, unlike us the older generations, the youth is more free to express themselves about pursuing other ventures of life that has absolutely nothing to do with formal education.

Some of the solutions to the high rate of unemployment will have to come from the parents. As parents, we cannot sit, fold our hands and expect the government and private sector to come to the rescue. We live in an era where parents need to think beyond the education fund of their children. We must have these thoughts as a matter of urgency if we want to alleviate the unemployment crisis.

Are we doing enough to find innovative solutions to help alleviate the unemployment rate that is negatively affecting our children? Soon this problem will be faced by most households.

As I was exploring this topic, I thought of some solutions that we can put in place as parents to make a difference. I am sure there are plenty of solutions that we can think of.

Fund our children’s internship programme

Unfortunately, many companies require prior work experience when they advertise jobs for new positions. This requirement decrease the odds of getting hired within the work environment that is already highly competitive. As parents, we must intentionally fund our children’s internship programme to help them access the highly competitive world of employment that requires prior work experience. We must be prepared to go beyond the responsibility of covering education fees and leave the rest in the hands of our children and the potential employers. Approaching a company with a proposal for your children’s internship programme will show the company that you mean business. Beyond education there is a serious challenge of unemployment. The challenge is unfortunately faced by both the educated and the uneducated. The benefit of giving my children access to the employment world must help them increase their chances of being considered by the same company should a need arise. My child may impress the company so much that the company is left with no choice but to create a position for my child.

What will the internship fund look like?

The fund will cover essential daily expenses, transport to and from work, lunch and tools needed for the intern to carry out their work successfully. The nature of the fund will obviously differ from one company to the next. Transport fees may be include bus, train or taxi fare. It may include fuel if the intern already has a car. If the parents are able to, and the work requires the intern to have own transport, they can buy the intern a car. If the opportunity is far from home, that daily public transport will be impossible, the fund will have to cover monthly rental and groceries and any rental related expenses.

Internship programme management

As a funder of the internship programme, the parent must make sure that he or she is happy with the key performance indicators that are put in place by the company that allowed the child to carry internship. As a funder I must be comfortable with and satisfied that my child will carry out activities that will help to build work experience needed to further his or her career. The last thing you need is an intern who becomes an expert at making tea when I could have easily created the tea making position at home. You must also create a channel for a regular feedback sessions with the employer. Remember that the company is not making you a favour, your child is also contributing towards the success of the company.

Fund our children’s businesses or ideas

We are going to have to take a role of startup funders as parents if we want to remove tour children’s burden of unemployment and increase their chances of making it as entrepreneurs. Many children may want to start a business but are discouraged by lack of financial capacity. While we have many funding programmes from angel investors, government funding and capital ventures, the competition is tight. The requirements to access those funds do not always favour every entrepreneurs or inventors who require funding. More often, inventors don’t get selected because their field of interest does not fall within the sectors covered by funders. The red tape factor of funding applications and processes makes matters worse.

There are many business incubators and business accelerators programs that are created to help small business. However, like funders, these incubators have requirements that will not favour every aspiring entrepreneurs. I have worked within the funding and business incubation space for many years and have seen potential ideas being dismissed because they did not meet the funding or incubation requirements. Also, the need to conduct multiple due diligences for many applications makes it impossible for funders to make decisions faster. Time is money and the sooner one gets funding the better.

Business development support

In addition to providing funding for your child’s startup, I recommend that you fund their business development. In cases where funds allows and where the capital amount needed for the business is way too much, you may need to hire a professional fund manager who will ensure that your child is using the funds effectively. Some of the responsibilities of an experienced fund manager include carrying out the necessary due diligence to determine the risk and developing risk mitigating factors, creating milestones for further funding and putting in place the necessary business development intervention. Having a third party to manage the fund may help to minimise a potential strain between you and the business child.

If not managed, the funding can go to waste. It is a known fact that not every business will get to maturity. If every measure was put in place to manage the business, I don’t believe that we can talk of failure. I learnt so much from running my own businesses. I had access to valuable lessons that a classroom will not offer. Giving your children access to those lessons is an investment that they will need in the business and professional life. The ground laid through us funding them to spend time running business will also increase their chances of obtaining funding from other funders.

Depending on the kind of business your child is pursuing, you may also hire a business mentor who will give your child the much needed business skills. Never underestimate the value of a business mentor who have run businesses.

Another important intervention your child will need is the services of a life coach who will cover multiple areas of life to prepare the entrepreneur ti become the best leader. The early phase of business is critical for developing a culture of a business. The culture of a business always reflects the attributes of the founder. The business culture and success gets threatened If the attributes of the founder are not dealt with as early as possible.

The benefit of funding your child’s business or idea

When you have a funding instrument dedicated for your child, focus is on your child and not many applicants. The requirements for funding will be developed within the abilities of your children and their ideas. In this regard, you will have the freedom to include any sector or field without limitations set by other funding instruments. You will also have the freedom to set milestones that will help you determine if your child deserves further funding. As a parent funder, your child will not have the pressure and the burden created by conditions that are generally put in place by funders.

Ways to become an angel investor for our children

Get a loan on behalf of your children

Get a loan from a bank, on your children’s behalf if you are in a position to repay the loan. Obviously because they have just finished university or are not working, they won’t have any credit history to qualify for a bank loan.

Create a startup fund as soon as your children are born

Create a funding investment account for your children as soon as you start investing for their education or later in life when you have read this article. Most parents normally start saving for education as soon as children are born. This can be done through financial institutions such as banks, sanlam, discovery and so forth. The sooner we start investing, the better.

Use your savings to fund your children’ businesses

For those of us who already have savings, we can use those savings to remove the financial burden of starting a business for our children.

Raise funds on their behalf. There are a number of options that are available. For example, you can sell assets that you own to use the proceeds towards the funding instrument. You can dedicate a certain percentage of your monthly income towards funding their business or ideas, if you do not have savings a at the time the need for funding arise.

Important note for parents

I need to mention that the above solutions must not exclude unemployed children who did not go to tertiary for various reasons. Not all children will finish college or university. Some children will not have the attributes to pursue education offered at college or university. We are not the same and we should embrace our uniqueness. It is our responsibility to afford our children room for them to be themselves and explore options that are in line with their strengths. The startup funding instrument will help them to pursue their passions or calling. Through the funding instruments, we must help them turn their calling and passion into businesses that will generate income for them.

I must also make a note that society has made us believe that tertiary is the next logical step after completing school. It is this belief system that has limited or blocked our abilities to attract means of generating income outside the scope of what we studied. It is also this limiting belief system that has led to many people changing their careers later in life to pursue their passion and calling that have absolutely nothing to do with what they have studied. Some children have tried without success to plead their case and to show their parents that their passion or calling cannot be natured through tertiary. Let us be open minded when it comes to matters of formal education and allowing our children to pursue their soul’s mission.

Funding of a programme designed to help them create and live fulfilled lives

One thing I have learned about life is that finding your true Self is the most powerful tool of life that one should embark on. We live in a society where we are groomed to discover many things about life before we can explore the truth about who we are. Many of us were raised in a society that made us to focus and dream about education, pursuing a career, finding a husband or wife and raising a family. The data in our minds is made of human made systems that are blocking our ability to discover our true Self. There are many benefits of finding true Self. Finding your true Self will definitely help you with Self-development, Self-empowerment and Self-healing. These three benefits are the most fundamental goals that one needs in order to achieve life goals in every area of life -personally, socially, spiritually and professionally.

We must give our children the tools that will help them find their soul’s purposes or mission earlier in life so they can enjoy the rest of their lives. They must find a healthy balance between their soul’s mission, physical and spirit persons. At the center of creating & living a fulfilled life is finding this balance. I cannot talk about creating and living a fulfilled life without mentioning our LwTee 9 days wellness retreat which is aimed at addressing some of these challenges. It is without a doubt a perfect programme for both parents and children who are at the age of exploring who they are.

I have no doubt this article will trigger some interesting thoughts and discussion amongst parents regarding matters of unemployment and their role in finding solutions for our children. What other ways can you think of? This is also a topic that must be discussed under one of wellness retreat program called In the presence of elders due to launch in August 2023.

It is time to let go, your fall season has arrived

February 13, 2022/in My daily walks, Personal development, Sunday Devotion /by Teresiah Malatji

You are resisting your fall season and delaying manifestation of new beginnings. You are too focused on the dead and fallen leaves that you cannot see the beautiful life that lies ahead. You are too attached to the word “permanence” and delaying the shedding of old and dead leaves. Your new leaves are waiting and ready to manifest but cannot, until the old leaves are shed and on the ground. May you find strength and courage to shed things that are no longer serving you. May you also find strength to shed old energies that are no longer aligned with you.

Last Sunday I posted an article about the power of pruning. The feedback I received made me realise that the message resonated with a lot of people. This morning when I meditated about what to share for this Sunday devotion, I was reminded of a message that I received a while ago when I was taking my meditation walk. You will see that I talk a lot about my meditation walks. They are my sanctuaries that allow me to connect to wisdom, knowledge and understanding. I realised that this message was meant to encourage you and to tell you that now that you have taken a step to prune, it is time to let go of what was pruned.

Lessons from Mother Nature

Mother Nature is ever ready to pour out her lessons to anyone who is ready to listen. I capture the lessons in my journal and use them when a need arise. As I walked, during this beautiful but cold day in the streets of our suburb, I noticed that I was blessed with a new and different view. I was seeing beautiful houses that were always hidden behind huge trees. The reason I was now able to see the houses that were hidden was because the big trees have now shed their old leaves and ready for summer season. I noticed the dead and old leave lying on the ground. The leaves that were hiding the houses behind the trees were now dead and on the ground.

Focus on what is positive

At that moment, Mother Nature taught me that many of us are unable to access the new beautiful views that are already waiting for us. Why? Because we are focused on the dead leaves that have fallen on the ground. I realised that it was possible for me to have missed the new views if I focused on the dead and old leaves on the ground. We are mourning old things in our lives and refusing to see what life has in store for us. Yes it’s ok to mourn but let your mourning not be permanent. I pray that you come out of your mourning season and see what life has in store for you. Seasons are part of life and creation. We cannot avoid seasons. We must learn to surrender to a process. Some seasons are there to restore us. Some are there to prepare and strengthen us for new birth.

Let go

Mother Nature further taught me that many of us are refusing to let go of the old leaves in our lives. We can feel that fall season has come, but we are resisting and are attached to permanence. Old things can be toxic and unhealthy relationships with friends, family, partner, spouse, colleagues, work, career, material things, plans, thoughts, habits, or anything that you feel must be let go off.

Take a bold step

I hope this message serves to confirm that you either have things that you need to let go of or you are resisting the process of letting go. Some of you only needed this article to trigger a process of pruning and letting go. I discuss in details the power of seasons in Principles & Tools of Creation. I encourage you to get yourself a copy of the book. You can also read more articles and listen to Life with Terry Podcast.

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What does Life Coach mean to me?

February 10, 2022/in business development, Life Coaching, Lifestyle, My daily walks, Personal development, Wellness /by Teresiah Malatji

It takes a village of Life Coaches to build a community full of healthy and fulfilled human beings.

To have someone trust you with their lives is such an honour and a big responsibility that I don’t take very light. I have come to revere my calling and will do everything possible to make sure that I impart the lives of those who cross paths with me with principles and tools they need to create and live fulfilled lives. I am a life coach to anyone who cross my paths and if you want to spend more time with me than the time I give for free, then we can establish a relationship at a cost.

The relationship between a Life Coach and a client is sacred and must be treated as such. Your life coach can become your spiritual teacher or guide who will lead you into enlightenment. The right coach can lead a client to a place of growth and development- personally, socially and professionally. Both parties must carefully think and seek wisdom before entering into a relationship. Life coaching can include either or all aspects relating to personal, social, professional and spiritual matters depending on the needs of a client.

Personally, the word life coach is a fancy and modern word for a healer, or a guide or spiritual guide or a teacher. They say “it takes a village to raise a child”. Think of life coaches as the much needed village that most of us were not not privileged to have when growing up. Civilisation has made it more difficult for us to experience the powerful effect of the wise elders who play a crucial role in building a healthy society. A life coach is like the much needed elder that you never had growing up.

You may have been raised by a village but still lack guidance in other aspects of life. Or you may be going through life changes or are evolving and need someone to take you through those changes or that evolving journey. That is the reason I believe that a life coach should rely more on their life experiences than theory when coaching. Many life coaches like me have honoured the calling to heal, teach, enlighten and awaken their fellow human beings. Depending on the gift of an individual, a life coach can be your guide or spiritual guide or guardian who is medium that can access wisdom, knowledge and understanding on how to navigate life.

The wisdom, knowledge and understanding of a life coach can come from different sources. Some life coaches have gone through training from various institutes. Some coaches have received their knowledge from serving as students under other experienced coaches. Others derive their knowledge from their blood lineage and departed ancestors who are knowledgeable in a specific field. Some are using their own life experiences to guide and help their clients.

In my case, my knowledge comes from my spiritual, personal, social and professional life experiences and direct access to sources of intelligence through my spiritual journey. To some people the sources of intelligence is God, or or a Creator or Supreme power, or the Divine, or The Source, or Modimo (a name used by my Pedi tribe to refer to the Creator). In this regard it is very important for a coach to reveal upfront their position with regard to and understanding of belief systems. This disclosure will give a client an opportunity to make an informed decision when selecting a life coach.

When the life coaching involves spiritual matters then there should definitely be some alignment between the coach and the client. There should be a common understanding or common ground to avoid unwanted discord or clash of energies or spirits. We must be mindful of the fact that in the physical realm, human beings still operate from a separation perspective.

Human made systems such as cultures, norms, religions, belief systems have created a language barrier which unfortunately goes limit the power of oneness and connectedness. As a healer, I cannot heal you when we are operating from a different ground. The energy of a life coach and that of a client must align for healing to manifest. While there are many ways to kill a cat, you must find a way that resonates with you.

Some of my clients who believe that they resonate with the person that I am, must still go through a cleansing of the wounds created by their religious indoctrination or limiting belief systems. Sometimes the cleansing becomes the answer to unhealed wounds that a client is suffering from. My advice for any one who is looking for a coach is that you should learn as much as possible about the coach that your desire to connect with.

They say “when the student is ready, the teacher with show up”. You will know when the time is right for you to create a relationship with a life coach. Trust the voice from within and know the right coach to create a relationship with. If you have to pray about or meditate about it until you are led to right person. The first hour of a meeting between a coach and a client is very critical and must be used to assess alignment between the parties.

As a society we must intentionally craft a society that is rich with accessible life coaches. As parents we must intentionally connect our children to various life coaches who will impart wisdom and knowledge to our children when they are still very young.

I pray that you find the right guide or teacher for your life and build a beautiful and meaningful relationship.

The power of pruning-your losses are your new gains

February 6, 2022/in My daily walks, Personal development, Sunday Devotion /by Teresiah Malatji

When life brings you losses, I pray that you see your losses as an opportunity to Desire, Intend, Create and Manifest new gains. For as long as you are still alive, know that you are still rooted and connected to the source of creation.

When you are still rooted like a plant:

You can shift and change direction.

You can create new plans.

You can start all over again.

You can reinvent yourself.

You can pick yourself up and rise again.

You can grown and develop.

You can heal.

Wisdom from Mother Nature

The other day when I was taking my meditation walk in our suburb, my attention was drawn to some of the huge trees that were lined up on the street. In particular, my focus was on the branches that were broken due to various reasons. Some of the branches were intentionally pruned by our municipality. I was encouraged by the new growth of strong and healthy branches that were emerging from the sides of the pruned branches. It was beautiful to observe how the pruned branches stimulated and encouraged new growth. I saw wisdom and the power of life in action.

I was immediately reminded that many of us are going through what is similar to the pruned branches. We have lost things or we are going through losses in our lives. Some of us have lost jobs, income, friends, families and many other things close to our hearts.

Desire, Intend & Manifest

The good news is that we can come out of our losses stronger and better if we can see our losses as an opportunity that places us in new positions to create new gains. Like the pruned branches, when you are still alive, you are connected to the roots or sources of life. You are still connected to the Power within, co-creators aligned within you and the Universe. Be encouraged and know that you are still connected to the sources of wisdom, knowledge and understanding that can help you create new solutions, new plans, new visions, new ideas, new career, new businesses, new relationships, and new everything.

Another interpretation of what I observed is that, sometimes in life our losses reveals our true identity needed to connect us to the source of life. We are surrounded by multiple energies that are blocking the binding sites required to attract new and essential energies.

Desire and intend to grow and develop in new directions like the new branches emerging from the old and pruned branch. When you desire and intend, you are positioning yourself to connect to the source of creation. You are also calling forth wisdom that will bring you new building blocks needed for new creation. Remember that you are also the creator and co-creator.

I was also reminded that sometimes we prune our plants not only to encourage new growth but to also design a new shape of the plant. In life, you have to intentionally lose or let go of certain things in order to shape your life and manifest a fulfilled life.

Do you feel like you are alive but still not connected to any source of life? Do you feel stuck and disconnected? I pray that this message will resonate with you, stimulate and encourage you. Some of you only needed this article to get back to your creation mode. Unfortunately some of you will need more than this article to prune and access your power to create new things. If you believe that you need further intervention to prepare you with pruning and creation, we are here to offer one on one life coaching, solo wellness retreat or masterclasses on principles & tools of creation .

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I am work in progress

December 1, 2021/in business development, My daily walks, Personal development /by Teresiah Malatji

I am work in progress

Two years ago, during one of my meditation walks, I was reminded that I am work in progress. At the time, I was too hard on my myself. I fell short of seeing how much progress I have made in life since I left my full time employment to pursue my ventures. I was encouraged to pause and assess how far I have come, and could not believe how much I have achieved. I wrote down a note to remind myself that “I am work in progress”. Today when I look back at my notes, I realise that I was making positive affirmations in my favour. The note also served as words of gratitude. It has been such an honour to observe my affirmations coming to life from that day. It is also true that gratitude brings forth more.

I remembered my notes

The notes were stuck in my mind. Declaring and reminding myself of these words “I am work in progress” has been such a blessing and a powerful tool of creation in my life. It is power that each and every co-creator must embrace. I could not have asked for a better phrase to be part of my daily life. It is a gentle and powerful reminder of who I am, of where I come from, of where I am going and what I can achieve in life. It is a reminder that we are all subject to a process of creation which we must surrender to.

We are not perfect

With these words in my mind and on my lips, I am kinder to my process of growth and development. I am kinder to the process of growth and development of the things that I am creating. I am more patient. I am not hard on myself as I was before. I give myself breaks and I am now more present than I was before. I appreciate every little phase that I go through and see it as growth.

Understanding and embracing that I am work in progress humbles me and enables me to be open to growth and learning. I allow myself to do what is humanly possible and leave the rest to unfold naturally. I am not scared of making and learning from my mistakes. My weaknesses are just a shadow of the strengths that are waiting for me to touch and experience. I am happier and calmer than I was before. As I surrender to the process, I get comfort and peace.

I now appreciate that I am not perfect and know that I am working towards experiencing my full potential. There is less desire for perfection when I remember that I am work in progress. Perfection takes away my inherent character of growth and development. Growth and development makes us who we are. It is fun to grow. It is such a joy to grow. It gives me reason for existing. I look at myself today as I am writing this blog and look back at where I come from and I see nothing but good work in progress. I am definitely not stagnant. I am moving. Every step I take ushers me to a new phase of wisdom, knowledge and understanding that is now a major part of my calling.

Prepare a note of affirmations and gratitude to yourself.

I have added below a heartwarming notes of affirmation to Self. I encourage you to write your Self similar notes (infused with your own affirmations) and experience the healing power of affirmations. Let us acknowledge that we are all work in progress.

I encourage you to take a pause, find time to be quiet and speak these beautiful & therapeutic affirmations to your Self more often.

I am work in progress.

Everyday ushers me closer to manifestation of my best version.

I am better than yesterday.

I am kinder to myself than I was yesterday.

I am more gentle with myself than I was yesterday.

I am not hard on myself than I was yesterday.

I am more forgiving to myself than I was yesterday.

I am patient with myself than I was yesterday.

I neither condemn nor do I judge myself like I did yesterday.

I can do exceedingly abundantly above what I did yesterday.

I am smarter and intelligent than I was yesterday.

I have more wisdom, knowledge and understanding than I did yesterday.

I am more worthy than I was yesterday.

I am more glorious than I was yesterday.

I am more self loving and self caring than I was yesterday.

I am more happier than I was yesterday because I have discovered happiness that comes from within.

I am more Self aware than I was yesterday.

I am more loyal to my rules, my standards and my lane than I was yesterday.

I am more protective of my energy than I was yesterday.

I don’t desire to be perfect because perfection takes away my power to enjoy growth and development.

I am more patient and know how to surrender to a process than I did yesterday.

I look back at where I come from and see nothing but beautiful work work in progress and I am getting better and better each day.

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