Quinoa, The Soul Food of the Andes and a Superfood For You and Me
For lunch today, I have just had a wonderful Quinoa salad. As part of living healthy and getting the life you love, care has to be taken as to just what you put in your body. Quinoa, pronounced keen-wah, has been cultivated since before the time of the Incas, almost...
Zap your Phone, not a Child
In the UK, it has now been illegal to use your mobile handset whilst driving since December 2003, but I still see so many drivers every day not heeding the law. Last week, on a short journey of just a couple of miles, I must have passed at least half a dozen drivers...
Excel at Life and If Nothing Else, Adopt a Hamster!
This weekend, I am attending a superb seminar called "Buzz Marketing Masterclass". It is all about creating a worldwide buzz about your products and services with a zero marketing budget. I have already learnt some great zero budget strategies and tactics that are...
Welcome to the Joys of Single Life!
I have recently been writing for a magazine aimed at Asian women. The magazine is even called "Asian Woman". How about that for a targetted niche? The idea is that I run a Question and Answer page whereby their readers write in with a specific query about their life...
Laugh At Your Biggest Mistakes in Life – and See How Your Life Blossoms!
Have you ever failed at anything in your life? How did you feel about it afterwards? So often in life you might think you have failed. And yet in hindsight these failures prove to be gifts. As they say, there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. Also, no such...
When Someone Insults You, Simply Rise Up Above Them
The Gandhi play I watched earlier this week was called “Sammy! - A word that broke an Empire” since Sammy was the insult thrown at Indians in South Africa. This was around the time Gandhi was there in the later part of the 19th century. What South Africans did not...
Is It Time to Change Direction in Your Life?
So often in life you may find your struggling. No matter how hard you try you might feel like you are banging your head against a wall. And yet most of us just carry on trying the same thing again and again. However, perhaps it is now time to take heed and change your...
The Light the World needs Today
As the world dangerously moves to a catastrophic war against Iran, I am reminded of the play about Gandhi's life and his key messages about peace. At the end of the play, after Gandhi's assasination, India's prime minster, Jawaharlal Nehru went on the air and...
If No one Walks with You, Walk alone
On Sunday evening, I wrote about some key messages about peace from Gandhi after watching an inspirational play in London about his life. At the end of his life Gandhi felt he had failed as he could not avoid the partition of the Indian subcontinent into India and...
Lessons in Peace from Sammy, Masquerading as Gandhi
What would it be like to see Gandhi come alive right in front of your eyes? This evening, I was privileged to watch on stage the acclaimed production of Sammy! - A word that broke an Empire" - a superb tribute to the life of Gandhi. Sammy - derived from the Hindi word...