{ PREMIER ISSUE 2018 } KHARISMA MAGAZINE
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Well said! I love those words.
Natalie: Awesome. Actually, geez! Was that me? I feel like that was Liz Dickinson, who was it?
Kharisma: It was you!
Natalie: Oh, wow! I should read my book again. Yeah, definitely! I think people get really caught up in work – life balance, and just trying to be this super human being, and has everything together, and that’ s quite honestly not the case, like I never have work – life balance, I actually adore doing the work that I work on, and then I go out and I blitz it and I play hard and I play my sports and I spend time with friends, but I wouldn’ t say it’ s particularly balanced, and when I’ m focused on projects like my book launch, that’ s my focus.
I’ ll go out running with a dog that I’ m dog sitting or go and play my favorite sport, but people get really hung up on thinking that they have to do it all and do it perfectly, and then on top of that, when things aren’ t going well, they tend to quit early, and as you and I know, that’ s probably the best time for you to stick with it, because that’ s pretty much when you are on the verge of a break-through.
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I often find that, in the past when I’ ve been keen on, or close to giving up on something, I’ ve just pushed through that, and then I’ ve come out the other side with great results. And had I given up earlier, it just wouldn’ t have worked out, and you’ ll know when something is just you fighting an up – hill battle and it’ s really not a good idea to go on, or when you’ re just feeling fearful or a little stressed out and you’ ve been really pushing hard and you’ re not quite there yet but that’ s the time to not just give up because that’ s the kind of thing that’ s going to come through for you.
Kharisma: Absolutely! Now to date, Natalie’ s adventures, claims to fame, so far: Natalie has crossed the Myanmar border illegally by mistake and got chased out by locals with rifles, she tried to joke around with a security guard in a Sydney airport, saying,“ I have explosives on my chest, do not get any ideas”, she said; She cycled 6500km, which is about 4000 miles from Nairobi, Kenya to Cape Town, South Africa in 2012, raising $ 12, 500 for charity.
She has also won a gold medal in the Ultimate Frizbee in the 2007 World Beach Championships in Brazil and played at championship level on 4 different continents since 2006. Natalie has also broken a gold record for dragon boating