Hope For My Fellow Futurists: Finding Peace In The Present
Visionaries. Big picture thinkers. Dreamers. People who are always leaning into the future, always scanning for possibilities; making meaningful connections from their perpetual big picture vantage point; straining with hope for an ideal future. If futurism is not your natural bent, you either wish you were like the amazing visionaries who seem to see the […]
Are You An Ageless Student?
The youngest person in my English Honours class is probably 21. The only student with a wedding ring, I am more than a decade older than the talented and promising post-graduates that I share a learning space with. And I am privileged to be there. I have tried this before, and I have failed before. […]
The Day I Killed My Credit Card
14 July 2014. A day that will be engraved in Cheryl history as the day that I won a small but significant battle in my fight for financial freedom. I’ll be honest. I’ve closed credit cards before. There have been cycles in my life where I used to get mad at myself and resolve that […]
Organisations Don’t Owe You Anything
The sooner we understand that organisations don’t owe us anything, the sooner we start making a real contribution in the working world. I have been working for 16 years. I started at the delicate age of 17, fresh out of high school, looking for work because I didn’t have the money to pursue a full-time […]
Overcoming The Sting Of Failure
What is it about starting a new year that fills one with a complex mixture of optimism and secret despondency? Maybe it’s because we have such good memories. I was telling my husband the other day that my goals for the past five years haven’t changed: Get closer to God Lose weight Write more Travel […]
Run Your (Own) Race
Today I made history. Not the kind of history that would make the evening news – but the kind of personal history that celebrates my freedom. I woke up super early and although my irritated body tried to talk me out of it, I drove to the Cradle of Humankind to participate in my first […]
Dying To Be Reborn
I am an idealist. I see in pictures. My life is full of metaphors and meanings – often resulting in the tell-tale eye glazing reaction of the person I am trying to channel all this passionate towards. Which is why I love writing. The white space just absorbs all the feeling and fear and clarity […]