I have written so often about compassion here on my blog. And here I am on a beautiful Friday morning in London writing about it again. To start with, do check out the wonderful and inspirational video above. I challenge you to be not inspired and wanting to go out...
It has been a long time since I posted on here. It is already October and it is amazing how quickly this year has been going by. My blog is my chosen home page and it has been painful for me every time I opened my web browser to see the same post from July staring...
There is a man celebrating his 95th birthday today in a hospital in South Africa. But it is not just any man. It is indeed Mr Nelson Mandela, the man who cleared his country and the world of apartheid and also united his country without the much feared bloodbath....
Life always offers us lessons and sometimes in the harshest way possible. As we grow older, we are all likely to lose our friends, parents, family members. The passing of our loved ones and indeed our own passing one day one of the only guarantees that we have in this...
I have been away from the world of blogging for what seems like a long time. And six weeks is indeed a long time for me as at one time I used to blog almost daily. I have simply taken some time out from the online world as much as possible and the break has done me a...
It’s Mother’s Day once again – and whilst here in the UK we celebrate it in March, in the USA and many other countries around the world, it’s usually celebrated in May every year. My focus nowadays is on celebrating and honouring my mother...
I have often written here about compassion and kindness on my blog. A while back I wrote about how to carry out random acts of kindness every day and how each act of kindness leads to another. Being kind to someone is always a win /win situation. The person you are...
Food is one of my favourite topics and recently I came across a great metaphor linking the humble potato with some ideas for life. My friend, Servane Mouazan, a social innovator who runs Social Leadership courses for women groups and other entrepreneurs gave me one of...
Ove the last few weeks, I have spent a lot of time on my own and in silence. I have always enjoyed my company and some friends used to think I was lonely. But there is a huge difference between being alone and choosing to spend time in solitude than being lonely! I...
It has already been a week since my last post – amazing how quickly the time is going! My days seem to be going so quickly since I continue to have as full a life as ever. As Einstein once supposedly explained about time and the theory of relativity – 2 hours chatting...
