Just What is Your Life Purpose?
Facebook and other social networking groups are the buzz at the moment. But am I the only one who feels a bit overwhelmed and a little bored with such websites?! I much prefer the face to face interaction. but every now and then I get connected to someone...
Hope for Peace, Asha for Peace
Isn't it funny how the most casual of connections can lead to something major, and possibly life changing?! About 6 months ago, at a fashion event, I met someone called Asha (which literally means hope). Well, we became friends and today I am proud and honoured to...
Eternal Words of Wisdom from an Evening with the Dalai Lama
Ok - I didn't really spend an evening with the Dalai Lama in person. But I had the next best thing - a showing of a movie called "Dalai Lama Renaisssance", a documentary which is set to spread his inspirational message around the world next year, when it goes on...
10 Simple Tips to Have the Joy of Diwali all Year Round!
It is Diwali time and once again a time to celebrate Diwali with family and some friends. It is always a special time, though like at Christmas it can have its challenges too. "Diwali" means the festival of lights and it is a time of rejoicing. It is the holy Hindu...
Examine and Experience Life for Yourself
I have just received a stunningly beautiful thank-you card from some friends who recently came to mine for lunch. Isn't it just wonderful when people go out of their way to show their appreciation? There is a beautifully handwritten message inside the card - this is...
Save our Water – Whilst We still Can
Here's an inspirational story of a family making things happen for the world. My friend Suraj and his brother Sawan took the inspiration from their mother’s last moments and helped by their father built a water pump and borehole in a village in Kenya called Machakos. ...
Say NO to Gap Clothes made by Child Labour
Today’s Observer newspaper has reported how they have found child labour being used in a factory that supplies finished clothing items to clothes retailer Gap. Gap have immediately promised to look into this and have already taken the item in questions off their...
9 Tips to Create an Extra Hour Every Day
Today in the UK like in many other countries, the clocks went back one hour. So when I woke up early this morning naturally at 8am it was actually only 7am. This practice has been going on for a few years so as to “save” the daylight for farmers etc. So when I woke up...
Stop Pouring Money Down the Drain!
Something I feel passionately about is people and companies doing the "right" thing. Recently I have been hearing a lot about financial institutes and the underhand way in which more and more consumers are being drawn into spiralling debts. We all seem to be living...
You Can If You Think You Can!
Every now and then, I receive one of those chain emails which you are supposed to pass on etc. I normally ignore them but sometimes there is a lot of wisdom in these messages. Here is one that I received recently which is all about making things happen and how it is...