The monthly Ladies Networking Event held in Centurion is a
highlight on our calendar, as this is when the finalist for the prestigious
Margaret Hirsch Woman in Business Achiever Award is announced.
The winner for September is Karen de Villiers. Karen
is a CA and owner of Bizzacc, as well as President of BNI Fusion Chapter in
Pretoria. Her business offers Outsourced Financial Management, Financial
Management Workshops, Accounting, Taxation Services, Financial Statements and
Statutory Audits. Unfortunately Karen had a last- minute business
emergency in Bloemfontein, and was not able to take acceptance of her Award –
which will be handed to her at the next Ladies Networking Event.
The Guest Speaker for today was Annie Coetzee. Annie is an International Speaker, Human
Intelligence Specialist and Self-Empowerment Author. She has 16 years’
experience in the Public and Corporate arena in the field of Human Development,
which included high level Motivational ‘Power Hours’ and Inspirational In-House
Workshops.
The Topic of
Annie’s talk was titled ‘Transformation from the Inside out’ where she
emphasised the fact that to change our circumstances, we firstly need to change
our thinking. She spoke about the Truth about our belief systems – and
how positive self-talk and affirmations are extremely important, and should be
done on a daily basis. Annie is working with some older people, and
stressed that if they could change – anybody could change. Between our
current reality and our vision, there is a journey – and we are being drawn to
what we ‘activate’ in our subconscious mind through visualising and constant
affirmation. We need to realise that we are constantly being influenced
by the media and even our culture, family and friends influence our belief
systems. To overcome negative influences we need to set goals, have a
vision (vision boarding is excellent), and read books that can positively
influence us. Imagine what is possible, and then act in excellence.
Annie interspersed the talk with some fun songs – getting everybody to sing and
dance together – adding that it is important to add emotion to our beliefs.
We had some lovely
compliments from the ladies attending the event, and everybody had a great
time.
Miele was kind
enough to partner with us, and supply all the eats for the morning. A big
thank you goes to the Miele team - and
especially to Liezil van Wyk.
As always we had
some lovely lucky draws, with extra gifts sponsored by Annique, Miglio and The
Print Factory.
