One of my favourite songs from the eighties is “The Greatest Love of All,” the mega hit by Whitney Houston. When I consider why I like this song so much, it’s the first line of the lyrics that just grabs me right away, “I believe the children are our future.” At about 35, most adultsContinue reading “Our Children, Our Future”
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Who Supports Your Dreams?
All of us have dreams and passions. Many of us are too scared to even take a step towards making our dreams a reality. And the road isn’t easy for the few brave souls who pursue their passions. There will be some who encourage you, some who pull you down, some who mock you andContinue reading “Who Supports Your Dreams?”
SMART Goals
Many people feel as if they’re adrift in the world. They work hard, but they don’t seem to get anywhere worthwhile. A key reason that they feel this way is that they haven’t spent enough time thinking about what they want from life, and haven’t set themselves formal goals. After all, would you set outContinue reading “SMART Goals”
Make yourself your TOP priority
I believe we should all be a bit more selfish. We should all prioritize our own needs. We should take care of ourselves before taking care of other people. In his book “12 Rules for Life”, Jordan Peterson has a full chapter about how most of us are actually better at taking care of other peopleContinue reading “Make yourself your TOP priority”
What Hard Times Teach Us
While difficult times can feel like a deep dark hole that we can’t escape and we often wonder “Why is this happening to me?”, there is a silver lining to tough times. It’s through difficult times in our life, that we are able to grow. It’s when we are tested that we are able toContinue reading “What Hard Times Teach Us”
How to Stop Running and Start Living
It’s difficult to pin down the moment you joined the rat race. It just sort of…happened. I remember when I just started working I didn’t have much money. I split the rent for your crappy apartment with roommates, got a second-hand old kinetic, and sustained myself on maggi noodles quite often. Yet, I, like mostContinue reading “How to Stop Running and Start Living”
Fill up your cup
You can’t pour from an empty cup. Do you intentionally fill up your cup? With careers, businesses, and families, we’re high-performing achievers that always try to give our best to everything – and this takes a lot out of us! Many of us understand that we need to fill our cup, but we don’t. SomeContinue reading “Fill up your cup”
Wabi-Sabi – The Beauty of Imperfection
Centuries back, in the height of the Japanese autumn, in one of Kyoto’s majestic gardens, a tea master asked his disciple to prepare for tea ceremony. The young man trimmed the hedges, raked the gravel, picked the dried leaves from the stones, cleared the moss path of twigs. The garden looked immaculate: not a bladeContinue reading “Wabi-Sabi – The Beauty of Imperfection”
When Things Don’t Go As Planned…
It is one of the hard things in life: accepting that life sometimes doesn’t go as planned. We manage to come up with the most beautiful things in our mind. We go along with timeless new encounters which seem to be developing into lifelong friendships, or hope that this new encounter might lead to theContinue reading “When Things Don’t Go As Planned…”
Time to Reflect
It’s the first day of February! And maybe now would be a good time to reflect on where you are with the resolutions you took at the start of the year. Breaking from our usual habits is difficult and often painful – requiring not just willpower and stamina but also the courage to take risks,Continue reading “Time to Reflect”
Kenrick Vaz 