Taking charge!

“The Day is always his who works with serenity and great aims.”  RALPH WALDO EMERSON Taking charge of our lives is not the same as being in control but it does mean we can if it is in our gift to do so, take steps to change our situation. The flip side is...

The Power to choose

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” Viktor E. Frankl. We often find ourselves complaining about our situation when most of the times if we care to observe we realise we are better off than so many. We have the...

Working through change and crisis…

“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.”. – Martin Luther King, Jr.When we are in the midst of a crisis be it work related or in our personal lives we are faced with a stark choice. We either see the crisis as a challenge as an...

The power of praise…

The power of praise… moving from me to we. I was walking this morning with my German Shepherd dog and an idea came into my head which I would like to share with you.  All the literature I have read on dog training talks about positive praise and reinforcement. I...
Lightness and light….

Lightness and light….

I love the English language and am constantly fascinated by the power of words. Sometimes if we ignore the spelling but just focus on the sound i.e. listen to the word itself we might even notice and hear something more.  For example, the word roots suggests the roots...