Calibrate

We have to look at our lives through a telescope, assess what worked and what didn’t. Life has to be audited the way an accountant audits his books, the ledger has to balance. The lessons we learn from our failures is more instructive than the euphoria of our success. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2026

Success

We have to chart our own course. Do we make our own choices, or are we motivated by envy? Success is acquired through ingenuity and dedication. The life we want is always at our behest. Another person’s success doesn’t hinder ours. In order to be fulfilled in this life we have to pursue and accomplish […]

Winners and Losers

Winners are steeped in working towards their goals.  Losers on the other hand are losing their marbles because they believe that someone else is trying to take their place.  Self investment is the key to success. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2026

Introspection

We are born with the ability to find and execute our purpose. Competition becomes nebulous when we acknowledge that as individuals all we need to do is to awake from our slumber and invoke our creativity. Robots are programmable, we unlike them have free will. We are the only ones standing between us and our […]

Obsessed

What are your obsessions? Do you seethe with hate at another person’s accomplishment? Is gossiping part of your lexicon? Do you feel that there are limits to your success and that you have to jostle to keep others from taking your perceived place? Competitiveness does not engender success, it is posited on results, based on […]

Goals

We have to have goals in our lives. Without goals we become like leaves tossed by the wind. Purpose has to be our mantra. Fear, jealousy and hatred has to be cast aside. When we dwell on other people’s success or failure we sabotage our own endeavours. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2025

Accountability

We created the problem, but we avert our eyes to the collapse happening as a consequence of our actions. Instead of taking action we expect others to pull us out of the mire. We are each responsible for our own successes and our failures. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2025

Plan

We have to have a plan in this life, if we expect to succeed at anything. No plan, no success. Jealousy and hate is not a tool of manifestation. If we live our lives on the wings of a prayer we will always be beholding of another. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2025

Compulsion to Know

We have to let go of the need to insert ourselves in other people’s business. The only business we should be invested in is our own business. Dwelling on someone else’s success or failure robs us of the ability to carve our own success story. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2025

Resources

The world is full of expansionistic pundits, we are bombarded with pictures showcasing what success looks like, a life full of lucre and excesses. We are shamed into believing that that lifestyle can soon become ours if we work hard enough. Work doesn’t bring access to riches. Human resource is most essential to harvesting mines, […]