You Have to Start
The above photo reminds me of Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio running down those corridors as the Titanic was sinking. Every now and then, they would get to a place where… Read more »
Category Archives: Life Lessons
Polonius’s Advice to Laertes
This is a father’s advice to his son on how to conduct himself in the world … Don’t tell all you think, or put into action thoughts out of harmony… Read more »
Old Fashioned Values in the Modern World
A while back, I asked older readers of the Inspiration Blog what life lessons they would want to pass on to the younger generation if they could. Today, I am… Read more »
Some Things Don’t Change
A few days ago, when I watched the movie The Iron Lady in which Meryl Streep brilliantly portrayed Margaret Thatcher, I was reminded that defending her government’s position, by reminding… Read more »
Writing in the Sand
Yesterday, I told you about the time my car got stolen and how I came to discover a really powerful technique when I decided, as a consequence, to burn my… Read more »
Burning My Stuff
Quite a number of years back, my car was stolen from my front drive and, as a consequence, I dug out some old papers and burned them. Those papers were… Read more »
Don’t Judge Me By My Past
We are - all of us - travelers through time. But we can move in only one direction. So we cannot go back and change the past. We can only change… Read more »
What Have YOU Got to Say?
Today, as I was replying to the blog comments left overnight, one particular comment struck me. It was a very kind comment from a lady who is 80 years old… Read more »
On Taking Responsibility
Yesterday, I received an email from a young student who told me “I’m in a huge crisis. Nothing’s going right. It’s just that I have lost my confidence due to… Read more »
Depression and Collective Denial
It seems that many people are so hell-bent on keeping up the façade of happiness and maintaining the castle of lies their lives are built upon, that it’s like a… Read more »