Category: Change moments
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Six tips to make a successful career change
It’s easy to get sidetracked and lose perspective when you’re planning to change careers.
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Financial planning for newlyweds
You don’t have to feel like a deer in the headlights when you start planning your joint financial future, writes Letitia Watson. Charl and I got married straight after finishing our studies. Financially we literally started with a clean slate – we had nothing! Did we stand back and really ask ourselves where we were…
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How my life changed when I let the world into my home
Why let one room in a two-room apartment go to waste, when you can open your doors and let wanderers and wayfarers from around the world stream in? That’s what Capetonian Lena Sotherin did, and this what she has learned from her experience. Being a single thirty-something has a lot of perks. But living alone…
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And then there was Kayla
By Yolandie Horak Change Moment: Starting a family We were planning to travel. Destination: Ireland. We were already talking about it with friends, super excited about the prospects of a new country and new experiences. We’d been overseas the year before and touring London and Europe had been amazing, to say the least. We craved…
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Showing distance the middle finger
By Tamlyn Patterson Change Moment: Tying the Knot It was the day after the 2010 Fifa World Cup, Monday the 12th of July to be exact. We had gone big the previous night as did the entire universe and to make the hangover even worse, it was a Monday and typically it was mundane and…
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My surprise wedding!
On Saturday 5th July, my brother Lester celebrated his 40th birthday in heaven – his ninth one without us. I wanted to do something special on the day, so I took a few minutes at my gig to play a tribute to him. I made sure Mamma and Pappa were there: I was going to…
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How I wrote and self-published my first book
I had no intention of being an author. I was supposed to be Marketing Manager, I was working towards it. A challenge can give you a NEW name; you think I’m crazy, right? It’s quite amazing how life can throw you off one good path, so you can go onto an even better one. You…
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Guardian angel
Losing a child is one of the hardest things to go through as a parent and I would not wish it on my worst enemy, but i’m jumping the gun here, let’s start at the beginning. My husband and I got married on the 10th of August 2013. It was, as you would hope, the…
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Life unexpected
We had been planning on trying for a daughter and at our 12 week scan, we found out that it was a girl. We were both over the moon
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Writing what you don’t know
They speak of “bottoming out” when you’re in addiction recovery; that point at which you have absolutely nothing left to lose and no options left. I haven’t ever stepped my way out of a relationship with substances, but I have made a few precarious life-leaps. My twelve parcours. A parcours is described as a route…