on the 24th of July 2010 I stood before
what had been my family home just
outside Paris for almost a decade the
house was completely barricaded up it
was impenetrable the windows and doors
were barricaded it was pretty strictly
hot and eerily quiet I stood on the
pavement in front of piles of my
children’s clothes their toys
photographs various pieces of furniture
and kitchen equipment glued to the spot
paralyzed with fear and overwhelming
nausea my children were gone and I did
not know where they were every mother’s
nightmare
and so ensued a journey of over five
years which took me from France to the
Middle East to the Hague Tribunal to the
UK and back to France 37 times over that
period it’s been a roller coaster
of immeasurable difficulties punctuated
with moments of hope and belief an
unfolding of priceless lessons which
helped me break through barriers of fear
I believe that a thought is just a
thought and that we choose our thoughts
and that we are masters of our thoughts
in alignment with the universal law of
duality hot and cold in and out kind
unkind goes evil
it’s the idea where two extremities are
either sides of the same coin or if you
like a wide spectrum with each exponent
extremity on the same of that spectrum
and so it was for me in terms of blame
or responsibility victim or hero looking
for all escape routes or burning bridges
with no possible eventualities of
retreat so I decided that I would be the
hero of my story that I would be
responsible for everything I did
everything I didn’t do but particularly
how I reacted to what was done to me one
of my biggest fears that I had to break
through was the judgment and criticism
that I may not be a good mother or even
worse that I didn’t love my children but
what I realized is that no one can make
us feel inferior without our consent
and that’s actually what people think of
me is none of my business
so the day’s went from weeks in the
weeks to months in a month two years and
I learned to break the barrier of
mind-over-matter as’ failure was in
conceived
I’m in magical and I was at a point
where I had one weapon one strength that
overrode anything else and that was the
unconditional power of a mother’s love
I believe but at the beginning of every
new year we feel really full of hope and
enthusiasm and happiness do you agree
but let me tell you this isn’t a scoop
this year will probably be pretty much
like last year full of difficulty and
opportunity what I chose to understand
with that actually difficulty it can
also be an opportunity an opportunity to
break through the habits of negative
thoughts that do not allow us to have a
better mind for ourselves and the people
that we love I also read but for every
failure it has its seed of its
equivalent success so I thought to
myself wow with this huge failure in my
life I am surely destined for greatness
so I was able to trick my mind into
believing that this was something that I
could turn into a positive maybe the
struggle itself was necessary in order
to be able to break through those
barriers of thought I love the story of
the man who finds a young butterfly
still imprisoned in it
Christmas struggling to break free and
the man takes pity on the boss on the
full creature and breaks the Christmas
open hoping to ease the passage of the
butterfly into into its freezer but
unfortunately when the chrysalis is
opened the butterfly falls to the ground
and and it dies because it needs the
struggle to be able to grow the strength
in its wings to break free and just as I
had to with my struggle strengthen my
wings which enabled me to break through
the negative patterns of my internal
dialogue and mental images maybe my
willingness to learn or my willingness
to change was what serves me most
because I believe that when we want to
change and we are willing to change we
can focus all our energy on building the
new and not fighting the old and in fact
during that time as well
I built a brand new business which now
expands over four continents I had this
idea in my mind I wanted to build
something to provide for my family when
it was reunited I promise you there were
challenges every day and I had to drill
really really deep in order to push that
Boulder up the hill and there were times
when I fought it and times when I had to
stop and draw breath but I never lost my
resolve because my fuel was a burning
desire to reunite my family the juice of
belief is the fuel of life gratitude is
the antidote to all feelings of lack
even when the horizon is looking gloomy
and we still feel that that Boulder is a
very long way off the top of the hill I
have the
but one of the things that we must do is
always focus on the now because the
point of power is always in the present
moment I chose to break through my
mental prison of self-righteousness with
resentments and set myself free with
forgiveness now I have also found that
quantum leaps of progress well that
doesn’t really happen I would say it’s
more like incrementing its range on the
daily basis that allows us to really
take control of our thoughts I love the
expression we must take control of self
otherwise self will control us so as a
starter I thought about what I wanted
people to say about me at the end of my
life what I wanted to be able to say
about my life to find my purpose start
with the end in mind and that vision
served is a gravitational pull towards
excellence and servant leadership
I also surrounded myself with people who
found my flame who believed in me who
supported me who applauded me and who
picked me up and kicked me up the
backside when I was having a pity party
and then finally the power of Germany
writing every day my thoughts my fears
my hopes my aspirations my visions what
I was wanting to create because I know
that I am the creator of my own reality
and that every single reality that we
create starts with a thought so why was
it important to journal well I loved the
saying that the strongest thoughts
is weaker than the weakest ink and that
power of journaling every day gives us
height sites and it gives us strength to
move forward towards what really we seek
to create so it’s been a journey of
immeasurable difficulties punctuated
with moments of incredible joy one of
the breaking of the barriers of beliefs
that I used to tell myself and I still
do out of this situation only good will
come and sometimes a gift is very badly
wrapped album excuse me it’s not very
appealing and it’s it doesn’t really
give us we don’t really want to open it
but sometimes when we we do unwrap that
that thing that’s in front of us we find
that done to me that it is a gift so
when we work towards breaking through
the barriers of fear stuff limiting
beliefs with vision and perseverance we
can then truly become the Magnificent
luminous and powerful human beings that
we are meant to be we can be the change
in the world that we want to see and as
we do that we reveal our own potential
to ourselves our mission and our why so
that we can have a life of joy purpose
and contribution [Applause]
what had been my family home just
outside Paris for almost a decade the
house was completely barricaded up it
was impenetrable the windows and doors
were barricaded it was pretty strictly
hot and eerily quiet I stood on the
pavement in front of piles of my
children’s clothes their toys
photographs various pieces of furniture
and kitchen equipment glued to the spot
paralyzed with fear and overwhelming
nausea my children were gone and I did
not know where they were every mother’s
nightmare
and so ensued a journey of over five
years which took me from France to the
Middle East to the Hague Tribunal to the
UK and back to France 37 times over that
period it’s been a roller coaster
of immeasurable difficulties punctuated
with moments of hope and belief an
unfolding of priceless lessons which
helped me break through barriers of fear
I believe that a thought is just a
thought and that we choose our thoughts
and that we are masters of our thoughts
in alignment with the universal law of
duality hot and cold in and out kind
unkind goes evil
it’s the idea where two extremities are
either sides of the same coin or if you
like a wide spectrum with each exponent
extremity on the same of that spectrum
and so it was for me in terms of blame
or responsibility victim or hero looking
for all escape routes or burning bridges
with no possible eventualities of
retreat so I decided that I would be the
hero of my story that I would be
responsible for everything I did
everything I didn’t do but particularly
how I reacted to what was done to me one
of my biggest fears that I had to break
through was the judgment and criticism
that I may not be a good mother or even
worse that I didn’t love my children but
what I realized is that no one can make
us feel inferior without our consent
and that’s actually what people think of
me is none of my business
so the day’s went from weeks in the
weeks to months in a month two years and
I learned to break the barrier of
mind-over-matter as’ failure was in
conceived
I’m in magical and I was at a point
where I had one weapon one strength that
overrode anything else and that was the
unconditional power of a mother’s love
I believe but at the beginning of every
new year we feel really full of hope and
enthusiasm and happiness do you agree
but let me tell you this isn’t a scoop
this year will probably be pretty much
like last year full of difficulty and
opportunity what I chose to understand
with that actually difficulty it can
also be an opportunity an opportunity to
break through the habits of negative
thoughts that do not allow us to have a
better mind for ourselves and the people
that we love I also read but for every
failure it has its seed of its
equivalent success so I thought to
myself wow with this huge failure in my
life I am surely destined for greatness
so I was able to trick my mind into
believing that this was something that I
could turn into a positive maybe the
struggle itself was necessary in order
to be able to break through those
barriers of thought I love the story of
the man who finds a young butterfly
still imprisoned in it
Christmas struggling to break free and
the man takes pity on the boss on the
full creature and breaks the Christmas
open hoping to ease the passage of the
butterfly into into its freezer but
unfortunately when the chrysalis is
opened the butterfly falls to the ground
and and it dies because it needs the
struggle to be able to grow the strength
in its wings to break free and just as I
had to with my struggle strengthen my
wings which enabled me to break through
the negative patterns of my internal
dialogue and mental images maybe my
willingness to learn or my willingness
to change was what serves me most
because I believe that when we want to
change and we are willing to change we
can focus all our energy on building the
new and not fighting the old and in fact
during that time as well
I built a brand new business which now
expands over four continents I had this
idea in my mind I wanted to build
something to provide for my family when
it was reunited I promise you there were
challenges every day and I had to drill
really really deep in order to push that
Boulder up the hill and there were times
when I fought it and times when I had to
stop and draw breath but I never lost my
resolve because my fuel was a burning
desire to reunite my family the juice of
belief is the fuel of life gratitude is
the antidote to all feelings of lack
even when the horizon is looking gloomy
and we still feel that that Boulder is a
very long way off the top of the hill I
have the
but one of the things that we must do is
always focus on the now because the
point of power is always in the present
moment I chose to break through my
mental prison of self-righteousness with
resentments and set myself free with
forgiveness now I have also found that
quantum leaps of progress well that
doesn’t really happen I would say it’s
more like incrementing its range on the
daily basis that allows us to really
take control of our thoughts I love the
expression we must take control of self
otherwise self will control us so as a
starter I thought about what I wanted
people to say about me at the end of my
life what I wanted to be able to say
about my life to find my purpose start
with the end in mind and that vision
served is a gravitational pull towards
excellence and servant leadership
I also surrounded myself with people who
found my flame who believed in me who
supported me who applauded me and who
picked me up and kicked me up the
backside when I was having a pity party
and then finally the power of Germany
writing every day my thoughts my fears
my hopes my aspirations my visions what
I was wanting to create because I know
that I am the creator of my own reality
and that every single reality that we
create starts with a thought so why was
it important to journal well I loved the
saying that the strongest thoughts
is weaker than the weakest ink and that
power of journaling every day gives us
height sites and it gives us strength to
move forward towards what really we seek
to create so it’s been a journey of
immeasurable difficulties punctuated
with moments of incredible joy one of
the breaking of the barriers of beliefs
that I used to tell myself and I still
do out of this situation only good will
come and sometimes a gift is very badly
wrapped album excuse me it’s not very
appealing and it’s it doesn’t really
give us we don’t really want to open it
but sometimes when we we do unwrap that
that thing that’s in front of us we find
that done to me that it is a gift so
when we work towards breaking through
the barriers of fear stuff limiting
beliefs with vision and perseverance we
can then truly become the Magnificent
luminous and powerful human beings that
we are meant to be we can be the change
in the world that we want to see and as
we do that we reveal our own potential
to ourselves our mission and our why so
that we can have a life of joy purpose
and contribution [Applause]
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