Reflecting on 2023: A Year of YES! 2023 has been my 'year of YES,' filled with unexpected adventures and exciting opportunities. Now, as I stand on the brink of 2024,...
Posts - Petra Laranjo
2024. I’m coming back stronger.
Nov 22, 2023 | Personal Growth, Professional Development
Unlock lasting change in 2024 with expert coaching. Break free from the past loop, accelerate personal growth, and design a life aligned with your desires. Dive into actionable strategies, insights from visionaries, and personalized coaching for a transformative journey. Elevate success with tailored guidance. Embrace change, embrace success.
Self-Sabotage: Ten Ways You May Be Dishonouring Your Success and Happiness
Nov 15, 2023 | Personal Growth, Professional Development
Where are you sabotaging your happiness, your success, and ability to create a live a life that you love and fulfills you?
Want to make this festive season meaningful?
Dec 3, 2020 | Impact-Marketing
It's time to heal, to recover and to live a meaningful life this December. Thank you for a beautiful year! For sharing your journey with me and allowing me to support...
What’s the WORD that defines you and your future?
Nov 19, 2020 | Personal Growth, Professional Development
What’s your word – the word that defines you and guides your thoughts, actions, and impact?
I interviewed Pepe Marais in my book and share some of his insights here.
If you haven’t met Pepe, follow him, get his book and learn how he went from broke to growing the most successful independently owned advertising agency in Africa, Joe Public United with his business partner.
What eight years of marriage has taught me
Nov 5, 2020 | Personal Growth, Professional Development
What belief have you held onto that keeps holding you back? The only way that you’ll (actually) be able to succeed in reaching your goals is to identify and, most importantly, release those limiting beliefs.
Does coaching work? And is it for me?
Oct 28, 2020 | Personal Growth, Professional Development
Perhaps the best way to answer this is by asking yourself these two questions: 1. Do I want to level up in my life - personally or professionally? 2. Am I ready to put...
Insights from Mrs South Africa and more
Oct 22, 2020 | Personal Growth
How you see yourself (beliefs, mindset, self-worth) defines how you show up and the quality of your life. Please don’t stay in a place that minimizes you, your voice, your opinions, your worth. It’s going to take courage. It may be painful but nothing is as painful as staying stuck in a place that disempowers you.
How you show up internally = How you show up externally
Oct 15, 2020 | Personal Growth, Professional Development
To quote from an excerpt from my book, 'Living On Purpose', "According to a series of experiments by Princeton psychologists Janine Willis and Alexander Todorov, it...
When you give up on your dreams, you give up on you. You deserve so much better.
Oct 8, 2020 | Personal Growth, Professional Development
"Until you start believing in yourself, you aren’t going to live a fulfilled and happy life." So here we are ... 69 days away from the official close of business for...
Highly-driven ambitious people procrastinate too.
Sep 24, 2020 | Professional Development
How many times have you told yourself that you’re going to do x,y and z but, maybe months or even years later, you’re yet to do x,y or even z? Perhaps you're fiercely...
Courage. You are braver than you think.
Sep 17, 2020 | Personal Growth
All you need to do is get out of your own way. If you'd told me, years ago, that I would be celebrating success as a personal development and Leadership coach and would...
Your invitation is in the (e)mail
Sep 11, 2020 | Personal Growth
NEWS!!! Living On Purpose turns FIVE! PLUS you'll find a special invitation half-way down this mail. (PS> I've never done this before but we'll figure it out...
Your sphere of influence is larger than you think.
Aug 27, 2020 | Professional Development
With everything that's going on in the world, I wanted to check in with you. How are you doing? "For many years I focused so much taking care of others, supporting...
Randburg Sun Article – 2020, August 21
Aug 21, 2020 | Impact-Marketing
Randburg Sun article, 2020, 21 August – Sundowner author, motivational speaker, and founder of the JustOneThing365 non-profit organisation (Petra Laranjo) is seeking to raise R27 000 (by donating 10% of the proceeds from the sale of her book, ‘Living On Purpose.’) for the Sandton SPCA in an effort to support their work for animals in need in Alexandra.














