About Wanda-LUST
Wanda-L.U.S.T.
L-everage. U-buntu. S-ustainability. T-ransitions.
A web magazine edited and published by Wanda Hennig
1) Leverage
Use this site to view and then leverage our expertise in:
Writing, social media coaching and consulting, South Africa (RSA) – United States (USA) connect, travel and tourism, corporate and nonprofit PR and communications;
And let us show you how to leverage yours:
Via life coaching, business coaching, writing and social media services.
Learn why you are your own best investment.
Become your best investment.
Contact us by e-mail for discussion, communication, consultancy and referrals.
2) UBUNTU
Ubuntu, Zen practice, co-active coaching, sustainability — different words but a unifying philosophy. Seen the movie Avatar? I see you! Read on. Editor.
Ubuntu is an African philosophy expressed in Zulu as umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu. This translates directly as “a person is a person through (other) persons.” Archbishop Desmond Tutu has defined Ubuntu and we quote him here, with gratitude:
“One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu — the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can’t exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can’t be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality — Ubuntu — you are known for your generosity.”
“We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.”
Please click on this link to see ubuntu discussed in three videos by South Africa’s former deputy minister of health, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge.
“A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.”
Here is Madiba with a few words on ubuntu:
3) Sustainability
Draw a circle, dissect it into eight or more wedges and name each wedge for a different facet of your life. On a scale of zero through 10, rate your satisfaction with the different parts. This is a useful coaching tool. It’s a way to get a picture of what’s going well in your life or your business, to see where you might want to make shifts. As with a juicy orange, the segments are interdependent. When some are ignored and neglected — not given enough sunlight or good soil to continue with the orange metaphor — we don’t have a big, ripe, juicy, balanced life.
The conversation on sustainability, while covering a myriad of issues, for the most part stresses environmental, social and economic factors and the survival of the planet. But doesn’t sustainability starts with how we live our lives day to day? How we work with people? How we relate to ourselves?
Holding sustainability as a value is about supporting health and wellness, satisfying careers, prosperity and abundance, happy relationships, being generous to ourselves, to our fellow human beings and the planet.
WandaLUST is committed to sustainability-in-action.
4) Transitions
Ever been lost in transition?
Good transitions are key to good writing. They’re also key to good living. In coaching, the opposite of “stuck” is “transition.”
Transitions can take you across a continent or across the globe. From business failure to abundance. From making poor relationship choices to good ones. From no kids to motherhood; and from motherhood to the empty nest.
Right now, job transitions are a focus. Yesterday you had a job. Today you got laid off. Now what? Last month you didn’t see the reason to have a blog or to Twitter. Now you know the transition is inevitable. You have a business in South Africa. You want to share it with the world. Transitions are filled with possibilities.
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