Failure

Failure occurs when we neglect to study and learn from our past experiences. There isn’t a person, situation or circumstance that bears responsibility for our experiences. When we base our present decisions on our past, change becomes negligible. In life we are always graduating from one level to another unless we fail to learn our […]

Grooming

Grooming happens in every aspect of our lives. If we fortunately or unfortunately come from an household that deliberately favours one child over another we’ll understand how it feels to be left on the periphery and considered to be the other by our own family. This stigma is also present in all aspects of the […]

Today

Today is the day to work at being better than we were yesterday.  Tomorrow is a distant destination that some of us may never experience.  Now is all there is. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2026

Joy

Joy isn’t acquired through having a lot of money, a lavish lifestyle or a prestigious job. To experience joy you have to tend to it and nurture it before you can fully experience it. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2025

Showing Up

How we show up in the world is determined by how we think of ourselves. Self assurance is a prerequisite to showing up as we truly are, an embodiment of knowledge, creativity and experience. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2025

Thoughts

We have to be conscious of what we dwell on. Thoughts are seeds, we gestate them, breathe life into them and they become one with us. We are the precursors of our life experiences. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2024

Strength

Strength is who we are at our core, not the means we have to intimidate, subjugate, and annihilate. Life is a blank slate, we draw on it whatever we need to experience. Let people be. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2023

Symptom

What we are experiencing or seeing right now might only be the symptom of a larger problem. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2022