http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog Make Things Happen in your life and in your company Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:58:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There is a man celebrating his 90th birthday today in a village 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. South ... http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2008/07/18/lessons-in-life-and-leadership-from-a-90-year-old/ 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 ... http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2008/07/11/celebrate-your-life-with-dance-and-love-every-day/ 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 ... http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2008/06/29/time-for-friends-and-friends-friends-picnic-2008/ 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 ... http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2008/05/10/mother%e2%80%99s-day-%e2%80%93-a-time-to-celebrate-and-honour-your-mother-whilst-you-still-can/ 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 being ... http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2008/04/29/how-to-be-really-cool-to-be-kind/ 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 her leaflets which says all ... http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2008/04/27/all-you-need-is-a-potato/ I have been away from the world of blogging for a few days and am back now with renewed vigour and more ideas. One of the things I have done over the last few weeks is to spend a lot of time on my own and in silence. I have always ... http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2008/04/20/make-things-happen-with-some-silence/ 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 ... http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2008/04/08/time-to-de-clutter-your-life-and-make-space-for-more-fun/ It is a beautifully sunny April day here in London and it seems that spring is finally here. The evenings are longer with more light, partly due to our clocks going forward last Sunday. We of course "lost" an hour on Sunday as British summer time began. Five months ago when ... http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2008/04/01/7-tips-to-stop-losing-an-hour-of-your-time-every-day/ Food is one of my favourite topics. And what better time than spring time to try out new recipes and new experiences?! As I write this from my home office in London, it is a typical British spring day - beautifully rainy, blustery and cold! Regardless of that, spring is certainly in ... http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2008/03/18/food-glorious-food-for-spring-time/