Why It’s Time for Personal Social Responsibility
Today is a big day for me, as it signals the fruition of a project that has taken me 18 months from initial concept to completion. My latest book "Personal Social Responsibility" is officially published today! After a number of false starts, revised editions and cover...
Yes, We Can!
The world this week is a better place than a week ago. There is suddenly a great sense of optimism and good will and it is of course all down to the historical election by the American people of Barrack Obama as their next President. Ever since Tuesday night, I have...
Why Compassion Begins at Home
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’s Time to Soar again:-)
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...
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...