Category: Life Lessons

When Life Turns Grey

Sometimes a run of bad luck seems to swallow everything. Four practices help you find your way back to a better life....

The Candle That Feared Burning

A fine candle longs to be lit, then panics as it starts to melt away. A small fable about what we give and what it becomes....

The Frog Who Could Not Hear

Two frogs fall into a deep pit while the crowd above shouts that there is no hope. One listens. The other keeps jumping. A fable about the weight of words....

Choosing Well At The Crossroads

The choices we make minute by minute shape our lives and touch the lives of others. Five ways to choose more wisely, and with less fear....

Rules For A World-Class Life

You are already enough to be a world-class human being, without pretending to be anyone else. Four rules that people of real character live by....

Things You Never Need To Justify

Worry about what others think and you live as their prisoner. Many of life's choices are yours alone and owe nobody an explanation....

See The Roses, Not The Thorns

We judge people within a second of meeting them. Taking a few more seconds to look for the good changes how we see others, and ourselves....

Good Behaviour Still Matters

Being called well behaved is a compliment we rarely hear now. Good manners make life easier for you and everyone around you. Here is how to build them....

Stop Expecting These From Others

Most disappointment comes from expectations that others never agreed to meet. Change a few of them and you open up new experiences and ways of thinking....