Mi Journey Your Practical Guide To A Better Life

By Pieter van Rensburg

Why do some people become successful and others not?

Mi Journey will assist you to become the best you can be when following the practical guidelines presented.

In this inspirational and motivational account, Pieter van Rensburg shares his life journey in South Africa with some of the many storms he and one of his employers had to face.

He also shares the secrets to improve your life from a practical and spiritual perspective keeping you in mind.

Mi Journey will help people of all ages from high school to retirement. The book provides a blueprint for crafting a balanced and successful journey through life.

About the Author

Pieter van Rensburg is a business consultant and Organisational Development specialist in South Africa who loves people and improving organisations.

He views himself as ‘a dealer in hope’ and has assisted many people in their efforts to shake off their shackles of ‘failure’ and to become the best they can be. He has a special interest in human resources- and career development initiatives and has designed and delivered numerous interventions for individuals and organisations.

Amongst his passions, are safaris into Africa, deep sea angling and yachting and he is currently in the process of scooting around South Africa with a Chinese 170cc scooter.

He also designed an e-platform for business solutions and another one for managing your private affairs, including your journey [please visit www.MiLife.online to register for free].

Pieter is married to Desire and has two children: Ronelle and Paul and two grandchildren: Desme and Helgaard whom he dearly loves.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pieter van Rensburg
• Release date: Sep 6, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463973660

Pieter van Rensburg

Pieter van Rensburg is a business consultant and Organizational Development specialist in South Africa who loves people and improving organizations.He views himself as ‘a dealer in hope’ and assisted many people to shake off their shackles of ‘failure’ and to become the best they can be. He has a special interest in human resource- and career development initiatives and designed and delivered numerous interventions for individuals and organizations.Amongst his passion is safaris into Africa, deep sea angling and yachting and he is currently in the process of scooting around South Africa with a Chinese made 170cc scooter.He also designed an e-platform for business solutions and another one for managing your private affairs including your journey [please visit www.MiLife.online to register for free].Pieter is married to Desire and has two children Ronelle and Paul and two grandchildren Desme and Helgaard whom he dearly loves.

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Mi Journey

Your practical guide to a better life

Pieter van Rensburg

Copyright © 2019 Pieter van Rensburg

Published by Pieter van Rensburg Publishing at Smashwords

First edition 2019

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage or retrieval system without permission from the copyright holder.

The Author has made every effort to trace and acknowledge sources/resources/individuals. In the event that any images/information have been incorrectly attributed or credited, the Author will be pleased to rectify these omissions at the earliest opportunity.

Published by Pieter van Rensburg using Reach Publishers’ services,

P O Box 1384, Wandsbeck, South Africa, 3631

Edited by Colleen Figg for Reach Publishers

Cover designed by Reach Publishers

Website: www.reachpublishers.co.za

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Pieter van Rensburg

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To my wife Desire’, who supported

me through my journey

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Mi journey

2. Storms

3. Designing your journey

4. Your next step to success!

Powerful Readings

Notes:

Notes:

Introduction

Dear friend,

This book was written with you in mind.

I have been spared for sixty-six years to date and am very grateful for being able to open my eyes each morning. Many of my friends and family members have passed on and I am still walking on Mother Earth—indeed a blessing. I am just an everyday man with a typical story to tell—nothing glamorous! For years I have longed to share some practical guidelines on how to live a better life, based on my own experiences.

I’ve lived a full life so far. I am acutely aware that I made many mistakes (some of them very stupid) and that many of them could have been prevented. The problem was that there was no schooling in life skills; at least not when I was at school. The career guidance classes in our final year of school were just before mathematics and were primarily used to catch up with homework and for chit-chat or flirting with the girls. I still think that life skills education and training before leaving school would make the world a better place.

Think about it: with personal finance training, we will have less debt; proper career guidance with visits to preferred work places will result in better career choices; understanding diversity and human behaviour will help us to select the right partner and reduce the appalling divorce rate, and training in human relations will create less conflict. It took me more than forty-eight years after leaving school to gather knowledge of and insight into how life works, and I am still learning every day.

I often ask myself if I would have lived a different life and the answer is a definite no! Everyone has a story to tell about his/her journey. What follows is the story of my journey to date and I hope and pray to God to spare me many more months and years to enjoy it.

The questions I have for you are:

What is your story? Do you wish it was a different one? In which way?

Are you OK with yourself and your journey so far? It is not too late to change it.

How is your career, your financial situation, your health, relationships, and spiritual life?

How many months/years of working life do you have left calculated at an average retirement age of sixty-five? What will retirement mean to you?

Do you live a full life or are you just drifting from one day to the next with no purpose or goals?

What will the inscription be on your grave stone? ‘Here lies Pieter who always moaned and just cared about himself’, or, ‘Here lies Pieter who was an inspiration for others to become the best they can be’?

How will your family and friends remember you? Someone who made a difference to this world or someone who did everything for self-interest?

Are you realising your full potential?

Remember that you go through life only once and need to make the best of it.

Many of us are bound by our thoughts about our circumstances. We can all soar like eagles high above the ground on a new journey filled with joy and prosperity—we just need to change our thoughts and work on our dreams.

My contribution to your journey is this book and an e-platform to record and support your own life journey. For more information, please visit www.milife.online and register for free to gain access to the Managing your journey page.

What follows is a short summary of my journey to date with a few experiences I’ve had along the road and the lessons I learned from them. More important are the thoughts and tools that can assist you in creating a better life for yourself and your family.

Thank you for reading this book and may you be blessed by all your dreams coming true.

With the utmost respect for you, your family, and your journey!

Pieter van Rensburg

Chapter 1

Mi journey

Our journey begins in a safe harbour when we are at home still and our parents are taking care of us. As we grow up, we leave the safe harbour and venture out into the ocean; quite close to the shore at first. We then carefully start to venture offshore and study or start to work, get married and raise children. During our