Yvette Bester Coaching

I will be offline next week, and I wanted to leave you with this reminder:

Just because you have not done something does not mean you never will.
It just means you have not done it yet.

“Yet” gives us space.
Space to grow, to try again, to learn, to breathe.

If you are working on something that feels slow or frustrating, be gentle with yourself.
You are not behind — you are becoming.

See you soon.

Ever feel like your whole life is stuck in a traffic jam?

Here’s the truth I see again and again: It’s almost never everything that’s stuck.
It’s one lane that’s overloaded.

One responsibility you’ve outgrown.
One commitment you shouldn’t have said yes to.
One decision you keep postponing.
One pressure point that’s slowing everything else down.

When clients try to fix the whole system at once, they burn out.
When they clear one lane, everything starts moving again.

You don’t need a new plan.
You don’t need to “try harder”.
You just need to unclog the bottleneck.

What’s the one lane you need to clear this week?

If you want help spotting it, that’s exactly what I help people do.

Book your free 30-minute Clarity Call to learn more: https://calendly.com/ybester-mweb/one-on-one-discovery-meetings

Feeling Stuck in Your Career But Afraid of Making the Wrong Move?

Join me for a free lunchtime talk to help you identify the habits that stall your progress and give you the practical shifts needed to move forward with confidence.

If you are looking for new opportunities but aren't sure of your next step, this short talk and Q&A session is exactly what you need to break the cycle of overthinking.

Tickets are completely free, but registrations close strictly tomorrow, Tuesday 19th May at 12:30 PM (SAST), so please don't delay in securing your spot!

To get your ticket, go to: www.businesslinks.co.za/event-calendar and click on the event.

I will be guest speaker at the CoachGuide webinar on 27 May. CoachGuide is an absolute gamechanger in running a coaching practice.

Wonderful day at the COMENSA Africa Conference 2026

During a recent session, a client told me she could not move forward with a piece of work. Every task depended on another task, and she could not see where to start.

We talked it through slowly, and she laid everything out in her own words.

Once she could see all the pieces clearly, she started noticing what connected to what.

That is when things shifted. She realised some things did not matter as much as she thought, and one thing stood out as the obvious place to begin.

From there, the decision she had been avoiding made sense to her, and the action steps she had been putting off were easy for her to map out.

My role in sessions is simple: I listen, I ask questions that help people see their own thinking more clearly, and they take it from there. The client always owns the process, and I create the space for things to make sense.

If you look at your own work or life right now, where does the starting point feel unclear?

Sometimes you just cannot see the next step clearly. You can feel that something in your life has shifted: you have outgrown a season, a role, a way of being but you are not sure what comes after it.

It is a weird space to sit in, and most people do not talk about it.

Making changes, growing, and developing is less about speed and more about finding your footing again.

If you are in that space, I offer a 30‑minute discovery session to help you make sense of what is changing and what your next step could look like.

Book your free session at https://calendly.com/ybester-mweb/one-on-one-discovery-meetings

Over the past seven weeks of recovering from a total knee replacement, I’ve been learning a powerful truth about growth: it doesn’t move in a straight line.

I committed to daily physio and small, consistent goals. Some days I felt strong. Other days, a new challenge would drain me completely, and I’d have to return to the previous step, repeat it, and only then move forward again. It felt like one step forward, two steps back — until I realised something important.

Last week, I listened to high-altitude mountaineer Deshun Deysel Bester describe how climbers move up and down the mountain to acclimatise. From base camp to camp 1, then back down. Up to camp 1, then camp 2, then down again. This continues until they reach camp 4 and then they can summit. Not because they’re failing — but because the body needs time to adjust before it can rise higher.

That rhythm mirrors the rhythm of personal growth, healing, and transformation.

We stretch, we retreat, we integrate, and then we rise with more capacity than before.

So, if you’re navigating a season that feels “backwards,” remember: you may simply be acclimatising for your next summit.