Powerful Lessons in Leadership and Life from a 95 Year Old Man
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....
Celebrate your Life with Dance and Love Every Day 🙂
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...
Time for Friends and Friend’s Friends Picnic 2008!
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...
Mother’s Day – A Time to Honour Your Mother Whilst You Still Can
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 whilst I still can. My...
How to be Really Cool to be Kind!
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...
Dance like a Potato 🙂
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...
Why Silence Is The Secret to Make Incredible Things Happen in Your Life
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...
Simplify your Life and have some FUN!
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...
7 Tips to Stop Losing an Hour of Your Time EVERY Day
It is a beautifully sunny morning here in London and it seems that spring is finally here! Though at the same time, it's still a bit cold, the evenings will now be longer with more light, partly due to our clocks going forward last Sunday. We of course "lost" an hour...
It’s Time to Finally Let Your Light Shine!
A while ago, I wrote about how it was time to let our light shine - the famous inspirational words, often incorrectly attributed to Mr Nelson Mandela at his inuauguration. The words are actually from Marianne Williamson from her book "A Return to Love". Well, a friend...