Purpose and Passion

Our Purpose What is the true purpose of our life, we wonder. Is it to achieve greatness or amass wealth? Is it to excel in some field or serve the masses? Is to live a life of pleasure and indulgence? For almost all of us, years or even decades of searching for our true purpose…

How to Manage Stress Levels During Quarantine

Are you feeling stressed right now? Worried about Covid-19, worrying about family members and friends that are key workers? Worrying for your elderly parents and relatives? Yes, me too. There has already been loss within my circles. I am sad for friends who are struggling, I miss seeing my mum, I miss seeing my friends…

From Pain to Peace & Healing – Rasheed’s 1 Minute Tips

    Rasheed Ogunlaru is an acclaimed life, business and corporate coach whose simple ‘become who you are’ approach has helped countless business owners connect with themselves, their businesses and their customers. His background spans over 20 years in coaching, training, media, PR and performance. Rasheed is the business coach partner to the British Library’s…

The Imminent Golden Age

The legendary fantasy of humanity emerging from slavery, disenfranchisement and great suffering over thousands of years, appears, to all intents and purposes, to be nearing its zenith, heralding a New Golden Age, when Humans will live together, with each other and with Planet Earth and all her life forms, in peace, harmony and for mutual…

Tossing and Turning

I have been going through hard times with the pain, with meds that had terrible side effects, with a disappointment at the inability of medical Marijuana to help and with it own side effects too. I moved from having the pain relieved somewhat but starting to have heart problems, unpleasant changes in the digestive system,…

Our True Purpose

We are all in search of the true purpose of our lives. A few do find it and if it is indeed their true purpose live a life of contentment thereafter. But many who find a purpose which they think is the real one subsequently discover that is not the case. Their contentment and peace…

Keeping an Open Heart with All We Meet…

‘The more I am able to understand the Spanish conversations around me, the more I realise that everyone is talking about very normal things…’ I said laughingly to Maricarmen … ‘This magical world that is revealing itself to me, is revealing quite normal…’ She laughed ‘Por supeusto… Of course – it would be wonderful if…

Victim? No Thank You!

Life is a beach and then you fry … Life always knows best, doesn’t it? How many times have you found yourself totally caught out when you thought you had it all planned and sorted out? Or worked for years towards a goal that you thought would make a huge change in your life just…

Who Needs a Subject?

I came off the bed where I did not sleep and sat down to do a drawing. The colors will come in the day, I thought. This is indeed what happened. I had a feeling about how I wanted the language of the painting to be. It was a pleasant feeling, like a feeling that…

Finding Peace

When we find ourselves agitated, we attempt to find peace somewhere or to make peace with our tormentors. But in the active and ever-changing world today, we lose our peace almost as soon as we manage to find it. And there is no dearth of our tormentors. This appears like a zero-sum game where whatever…