Building Tolerance Towards Yourself

by Karen Powell The idea of needing to build tolerance towards yourself implies there’s something wrong with you, or that you’re struggling to reconcile something within yourself. You might be feeling a lot of guilt for something you’ve done (or failed to do) and you’re having a hard time forgiving yourself. So let’s look at the feeling of guilt first. …

Changing The Way You Think About Money

The MYD Africa Golden Moments Series takes a look at some of the magic of MYD, highlighting some of it’s most insightful episodes over the years.  This episode is no exception, taking a look at Creativity Coach and Lifestyle Mentor Karen Powell’s tools for being money-wise.  MYD: Let’s talk about expectations and beliefs, how do they mould our experience in …

Afrospection with Karen Powell

Creativity Coach, Karen Powell shares here her learnings and lessons from the past year, her self examination from Africa… her Afrospection. Karen’s favourite that quote right now: “Be yourself and everything else will fall into place.” If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one quality or ability, what would it be? KP: I’d love to have my 20/20 vision back. …

Building Tolerance Towards Yourself

by Karen Powell The very idea of needing to build tolerance towards yourself implies there’s something wrong with you, or that you’re struggling to reconcile something within yourself. You might be feeling a lot of guilt for something you’ve done (or failed to do) and you’re having a hard time forgiving yourself. So let’s look at the feeling of guilt …

The MYD Show – Uncover Your Muse with Karen Powell

Are you or someone you love is a perfectionist? If so, this episode of the MYD Show is just for you. The coach, Karen Powell, joined us in studio to change perceptions of perfectionism. Karen, who is a self-confessed ‘recovering perfectionist’ shared with us why perfectionism has the potential to rob us of our dreams and passions and how it …

How to Side Step the Pitfalls of Perfectionism

“Perfectionism is more about fear of failure than the desire to produce excellent results.” Perfectionism is described as a fast track to unhappiness and a sure fire way to derail your passion and enthusiasm for life. To understand why and how perfectionism can be dangerous, 99FM’s MYD Heart spoke to creativity coach and lifestyle mentor, Karen Powell, who prepared the …

The MYD Show – Life and Expectations with Karen Powell

Karen is a creativity coach and lifestyle mentor, a regular guest and coach on the MYD Show. This time, she has brought us a very beneficial toolkit. These tools assist us to understand what our beliefs are around money. With this understanding we are able to see why we make certain decisions and have certain behaviours around our money. With …

The MYD Show – Balance and Cycles with Karen Powell

Balance is something life constantly seeks. When we are not in balance in our lives, difficult circumstances can be harder to weather. Bringing balance into our lives gives us the solid foundation we need to be able to maintain control over the things we can control, ourselves. Karen Powell is a creativity coach and lifestyle mentor. In this episode of …

A Toolkit to Create Balance In Your Life

“This foundation not only creates a greater sense of balance, but it will also help you recover much quicker in the inevitable times of imbalance.” Life is a balancing act; one is which we are striving to achieve our goals while still balancing all of the areas of our lives. Balance within all the chaos of our lives not only …

The MYD Show : 25 – Fear of Change

  Change can be scary because of the element of the unknown that comes along with change. However change is most certainly an opportunity, one that cannot be fully realized until you can bravely face the inevitable uncertainty. Change comes in many forms in our daily lives and how well we embrace change determines how well we can capture the …