Do you believe that the best way to deal with procrastination is to “get tough” with yourself and “just do it?” Many people take this approach. What is behind it is the sense that procrastination is essentially a character flaw, a weakness, and that the only way to deal with it is to muscle past [...]

Where did we miss? – By Joseph Ghabi
Talking with friends, people I meet on a regular basis, I realized that many of us make a bigger a deal of meditation than it actually is. For some people, meditation is somewhat of a discipline, and for others it’s the discipline about meditation that makes them run [...]

The very first thing to question is how important is this in the overall scheme of life? Compared to all of the things that have happened, are happening, and could happen in my life – how bad is this? Is it something that will impact the rest of my life? Is it temporary? Although the [...]

Do you Love yourself?
This has to be the goal. This has to be that which is the most important thing in your life. If you achieve nothing in this life apart from learning to Love yourself, you will have achieved everything.
That’s all well and good and sounds wonderfully inspiring but that word ‘Love’ causes us [...]

Fantasy/Controversy or My Reality: a collection of poetic writing that comes from the heart. Written by a mother as her own escape from her chore filled day, the anthology is very riveting and it makes you contemplate.
After expressing my own thoughts I was able to relax and get clarity and appreciate my life in this [...]

I have come to the conclusion that there are far too many people living lives of drudgery. Whenever I speak I meet nice people who have simply given up on life. Not that they want to end it. They just find life such a heavy burden. They tell me sad stories of their pain and [...]

One of the realities of being an artist is that we take risks with our art and often fail in the process. Sometimes things go wrong with the techniques we are using and sometimes we bring failure on ourselves. We imagine making a beautiful piece that will only take a few minutes, which we begin [...]

Sustained myths about Creativity and Innovation lead to confusion, bad practice and bad decision making. Some of them include:
1. Creativity requires Creative Types
While some theorists assert that there are creativity traits such as tolerance for ambiguity and intolerance to conformity, these assertions are countered by the fact that traits are hard to identify and are [...]

One day a small girl heard her father talking to her mother:
“Darling, I have to go out to dinner tonight with my clients. I don’t really like to but I feel obliged.”
The small girl asked her father, “What is obliged?”
The father answered, “Well, it means that you have an obligation. It is when you don’t [...]

Re-Tell a Tale
An online survey was done to determine the most popular fairy tales of all time. You’re familiar with all the winners. They’re some of your and my favorites. But let’s show some creativity shall we? How about a few twists in the plots to make the story less predictable? How about a unique [...]