It is mother’s day on Sunday in the USA and also many other countries around the world, thought here in the UK we normally have it in March.

A year ago, I wrote about how it was time to celebrate and honour your mother’s love, but without the commercial hype.

A year later and how my life and my outlook have changed! Now my focus is on celebrating and honouring your mother whilst you still can.

My father suddenly passed away last December and my mother is now the pivotal figure in our lives. The last five months since our great loss have been a haze and it is only now that I am able to get moving again with my life.

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Over the last few months since the passing away of my father, I have had support and encouragement from a lot of people. Sometimes this support has come from people I had least expected it from or from people I hardly knew.

One such person is a young banker who my father got to know over the last year and who helped with sorting out some banking matters. A few months ago my father even connected me with the banker and gifted him a copy of my book.

I shall hereon refer to this guy simply as the banker, but he knows who I am talking about

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One of the keys for success in our lives is to improve the relationships with all the people in our life.

I have previously written about improving all your relationships but a few weeks ago, I learnt and began to apply this one simple trick which will improve all your relationships quite quickly. This is nothing new by the way, and I am sure I read somewhere a while ago about appreciation circles.

The idea of my “appreciation circle” is to get everyone to say something positive of someone, present or not present, dead or alive.

During the grieving period for my late father in December, one afternoon we were all sitting around in the lounge in a circle and I suggested we go around the room with each person sharing what they remembered about my father and what he meant to them.

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This is the final article in my series for Valentines Day.

I have already discussed just what is love and also shared my tips for finding the “special one” and also how to make an existing relationship even better - especially check out the last one about how to make your relationship even better with some key lessons from lions

Which leaves the final scenario of how to live and enjoy your life as a single person. Somehow I feel that a lot of single people may feel lacking in something when they are single.

I have known friends to jump from one relationship to another, whereas others have remained single for years. Quite often I have assured friends and coaching clients that it is indeed okay to be single!

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It is Valentine’s Day today, in case you had not noticed.

What with all this media hype and commercial overkill, you must have been living in a cocoon for a few days not to have noticed that it is the time of the year where a lot of normally sane people go out and spend a fortune on flowers etc for their loved ones.

I am all for celebrating love- and everyday too and not just on 14th February. It is just the commercialisation of the day that doesn’t sit well with me. It also plays on people’s insecurities around being single and pressurises couples to go out and do something.

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Continuing my theme for Valentine week, I am amazed at the pressure put on people to go out and do something for Valentine’s Day.

There are currently so many single people out there and I know many who feel this pressure to be with someone.

Are you single? Do you want to find the “special one”?

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It is Valentine week, and as usual in the Western world we are bombarded with all sorts of commercial pressure to go out and spend a fortune to show the true merit of our love for someone.

I am guessing that this is now also the case in the rest of the world, as the developing world clamours to catch up with the “enlightened” ways of the West

I find it amusing to see so many people rushing around to prove their true love for that “special” person in their life.

To me, love has been commercialised to the extent that we have forgotten just what love means anymore.

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During the last few weeks of grieving for my late father, we have received so much kindness and love from many friends and family.

It truly is amazing just what compassion and kindness people are capable of showing at such times.

A friend sent me the following verse from Kahlil Gibran which perfectly sums up just what friendship means at any time in our life:-

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So how was thanks giving day for you?

Being in such close proximity of family and friends did anyone have a fallout or argument at anytime?!

The third article in my series of 4 articles on thanks giving is all about improving our relationships with each other and to review how we all get on with each other.

I believe that if we improve the one to one relations with all the people around us, ultimately relationships on a global level will also improve.

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