Thea Westra - www.myforwardsteps.com - Each Forward Step Enhances The Value Of Your First!
Thea Westra Quick Facts
Main Areas: Self improvement and personal developmentCareer Focus: Founder and author at Forward Steps
Thea lives with Greg in Perth, Western Australia. She publishes self improvement resources at Forward Steps.
Her home site and the hub of all her online publications is Forward Steps at www.forwardsteps.com.au, and all her materials and resources, are being moved to www.myforwardsteps.com
Thea has personally challenged herself in her own life, particularly when she jumped out of a 23 year career, sold her home and moved across country on her own. After which she met her life partner, Greg.
She has read many self improvement books and a great amount of material over the past 30 years, plus participated in several personal development programs over the years. Thea has been coached, and coached others, for many years plus provided hundreds of resources online since 2002.
Thea worked in education for 23 years and was the founder chairperson of a non-profit artist group, managing a gallery space for two years (and is very proud of having sold 4 of her own paintings at over $680 each), before starting her own life coaching business in 2002.
She has four university degrees in the area of education (Dip.Ed.,B.Ed.,Grad.Dip.Ed.Admin.,Grad.Dip.Lib.) which serve not much purpose these days, other than demonstrating how committed she is to learning!
Thea now offers solely internet-delivered self improvement information, tools and services. Therefore no longer providing one-to-one coaching, other than by way of personal communication with the Members at myforwardsteps.com
Forward Steps is all about just that …forward steps. If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. Thea’s mantra is that “Each forward step enhances the value of your first”. Another favorite saying that she keeps at her desk, “Whatever you focus on, WILL expand”.
In addition, Thea has contributed chapters in books by various authors e.g. Christopher Westra, Jinger Jarrett and Priscilla Palmer. She has herself published ebooks, produced a monthly ezine since October 2002, maintained eleven blogs for four years, has several websites at which she presents practical resources for personal development and some web development, and online business information, plus participates at various online communities.
Thea continues to learn, and to expand what she provides to you online.
P.S. Thea has also recently finished her new book Time For My Life: 365 Stepping Stones at www.timeformylife.com
Time For My Life: 365 Stepping Stones
My Forward Steps
Rightness: Long ago, a brilliant psychologist proved that if you present a rat with 3 tunnels, only one of which has some cheese in it, the rat would explore all the avenues until he finds the cheese. And, after reinforcement, he will ignore all non-cheese tunnels, and go down only the one with the payoff. Then, if you take away the cheese, he will soon learn that it’s gone, and will begin to explore all tunnels again, looking for the reward. Human beings, in stark contrast, will go up a tunnel looking for whatever 'cheese' the situation is, never get any, but they proceed to go up that same tunnel for a lifetime. And what’s driving them is reasonableness, or rightness. That is, they get to say to themselves, quite logically: 'I saw cheese go up that tunnel. It’s got to be up there. I’ll find it, goddam it, if it takes me a lifetime.' So they get to spend a lifetime without cheese, but always being able to explain (to wives, friends, acquaintances—anyone who will listen) that they’re up a very reasonable tunnel. And they find people to agree that the cheese really belongs up that tunnel. (Those people are called really close friends!) If you’re running your life up a tunnel (or a series of them) with no 'cheese' for you; you’re beginning to get what I’m driving at: that running your life being right is pointless and I don't mean that what you’re doing is wrong; I simply mean it doesn't work, and that should be the main criterion…From EST: Playing The Game The New Way written by Carl Frederick in 1972
Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny…Mahatma Gandhi
Life is a bunch of accidents that happen to you and somehow you survive them by taking advantage of them and then something magical happens and violá - you have the beginning of your dream. But the accidents are the result of an intention - an intention created from a dream you are passionate about. So passionate, so strong is your passion that the energy of it fuels your intention. And when it becomes so strong that not even the Universe can deny it, that's when the 'accidents' take place. The double-edged sword, the element that makes it all happen - that binds it all together - YOU HAVE TO BE OKAY IF IT DOESN'T HAPPEN!! It's the excitment of the possibility of the adventure of the nothingness. You must be willing to trade what you have, that may look great but FEELS wrong for this nothing that could be something. It's the excitement of having the courage to leave behind what you have for the possibility of what could be. You must be able to let go of what you have. You must not need it or let it define who you are. You must be okay without it AND you must be okay if the nothing turns into that - just nothing. You become okay with the decision simply because you made the decision! It's the act of leaving what isn't supporting you for the possibility of something better that makes you like yourself more for simply making this decision. WHAT'S MY DREAM?? How do you recognize your true dream from all the other wants and desires in your life? IF YOU ENJOY THE PROCESS - IT'S YOUR DREAM! If you are enduring the process, desperate for the result - it's SOMEBODY ELSE'S DREAM!!…Salma Hayek
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us. It is in everyone. And as we let our light shine, we give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others….Marianne Williamson from A Return To Love
Her home site and the hub of all her online publications is Forward Steps at www.forwardsteps.com.au, and all her materials and resources, are being moved to www.myforwardsteps.com
Thea has also written a book titled Time For My Life: 365 Stepping Stones, and her book is available as a download version or as a paperback copy.
