Hello world! Why Cape Town?

hello hello and hello again…..well this is my first venture into the world of blogging. I remember one of my friends telling me about this 3 years ago…but she was a writer so it all made sense that she would have such a “thing”. All I could think was what a weird word. Over the past few years I have found myself writing more and more to my clients, for e-mail programmes, for articles in magazines, or answering questions for journalists. Sounds posh eh? But I have been journal-ling for well over 25 years. Eeeck does that make me REALLY old? Na, haven’t even hit forty yet and have energy and passion for the next 50 years too, so get comfy with this blog site! Below is the latest letter I sent out to my data base, just so you get the drift as to where I am based, and what I am doing here. You may also get the idea as to why I chose this particular picture for my site…even though it was taken in Australia.

Well hello from the mother city of Cape Town, South Africa. Oh yes yes yes, this is my new home: If the grape vine has been working effectively at all, then you may already know that I know really do reside in Cape Town. If not, then it might come as a wee shock to your ears. So grab coffee and come chat with me for a while….So dear friends  and special clients, here is my very long overdue letter to fill you in on all the details of the past few months, bring you up to speed on my personal details, and let you know what this means going forward as always there is a plan that is unfolding! Many of you will remember that at the beginning of the year I decided I wanted to climb Kilimanjaro, and due to a variety of reasons, I needed to re-look that commitment. I guess it seemed like I had another mountain to climb, so to speak. The cape Town mountain.

One of the things that I love to teach and share is the true art of manifesting goals rather than leaving them as elusive dreams. The bottom line is that setting the goals is the easiest part. It is the day in day out, week in week out implementation of them that is far more of the main task.To ramble a bit…When I returned from the UK to set up my coaching business just three years ago, and decided to re-locate my South African residence from Durban where I had mostly resided all my life, to the big, bright lights of JHB, I did so with wide open eyes. A lot of you already know I am not the worlds best city girl, although I can dip in and play that part very well, just not for too long!! My soul always long for the sea and space. So upon deciding that JHb could be my home for a while, I consciously said that it would be for a maximum of three years.Well, this December 5th, 2006, would have been three years to the day that I set foot on jhb ground. Then, less than a year after that decision and big move, I bought my first JHB apartment, (maybe matchbox is really a better term) also stating that it could love me, and vice versa for a maximum 2 years of me living in it. So, in line with that goal, linked to the first one, I rented it out to a tenant just two weeks short of that time frame. And that was last month. The office that many of you visited me in, no longer exists in that form, and is being loved by another soul. So whilst some of you are thinking, ooh heck she moved to the sea really quickly, the truth is that it had been part of my goals for the last three years. My dream was to have built up a client base and a name of some sort in jhb, and then to stretch my wings out to the cape and the sea. And yes, there is even yet another step for me in that there is a wee country cottage waiting for me somewhere very quiet and remote..this year will be about finding that little safe haven somewhere in the country of the western cape to escape from the mother city when needed.

So part of this mail is to share my sheer heart jumping joy at being able to sit at my lap top in my office and be peering at the sea.  My office looks straight onto Big Bay Beach (just past Blaauberg) and to the right I can see Robben island too. As I cast my head a little leftwards, the mountain looms out of the land in all its magnificence. Without moving any other part of my body, I can see at least 50% of her, and by just leaning forward an inch or two, I get about an 80% view. Not bad eh??

When I met my partner at the beginning of this year, I shared then that I was somehow coming to the cape by the end of this year. Non negotiable. So after both of us putting it out to the universe, putting in for a transfer etc,lo and behold we are now both here together. Amazing. To get to walk with my family on the beach every afternoon is a treat I cannot fully explain. I was on the beach again at 6.00 this morning having a walk, run and meditate. And I thought fourways new design Quarter in JHB was exciting a few months ago…My longer term plan was always to be fairly mobile both physically and technology wise.  This move to the sea is really just a move of my residence to somewhere that I feel more at home, more creative, more in touch with my essence. Because part of me always felt trapped in jhb at a cellular and soul level, and here by the sea I can breathe deeper again.. Much deeper ..But that is for living purposes mostly. My work will happen all around the globe as it does now. I already have clients in Jhb, Durban, Cape Town, Cedarberg, Ireland, White River etc. I absolutely love the mix of seeing some of you face to face, never meeting some of you in the flesh and chatting to you on the phone, and some sharing time only in workshop settings etc. So, in actual fact, none of that changes, just that very regular weekly access to me in jhb reduces its flexibility a wee bit. Maybe you will miss me more that way. I will also definitely be returning to JHB every month from the end of
January 2007. Yep every month.  In between that we can also work on the phone (you may have to try that just once). I am also getting more into skype (the online web telephone service if you have broadband), and this is in line with my plan for more international work with clients. The “How to get your Groove back!” 8 week e-mail programme has really taken off in the later part of this year, so if you have friends that need a kick start to life,  please get them to give me a call. I have also been doing a fair amount of training for a fantastic coaching company doing some ground breaking work on Now Discover your Strengths. I will be offering this as a public workshop for you to attend next year.Between now and January I am also in the process of creating new programmes for next year, so watch this space. I will also be creating a blog really soon (well hello here is is!!), so for those of you that have been wondering where I have been and why I have not been communicating much with you other than through my second web site self coaching solutions, that will be rectified soon. After being “told off”  by one of my clients a little while ago saying that she didn’t think I was enough of a presence on the old e-zine took it to heart and will definitely be communicating more. Blogs are the newest form of communication and you can even have RSS feeds that you set up that inform you when I make a new addition of ramblings. From next year I will be spending more time sharing the ideas from my beach walks with you here on my blog – sharing insights and ideas for living an awesome life. So I think that is all for now. I look forward to hearing from you all again. It is time for a walk on the beach, so until next time, have an awesome evening.

Love
Kate