Change The World? Yes We Can!

Barack Obama has just made history by being elected as America’s first black President. There is euphoria in America and around the world from the feeling that anything is possible, that things can and will change, that humanity has progressed, and that we have possibly taken one more step towards the ideal society. From Thomas [...]

Use Your Energy Wisely

Yesterday was All Souls day, when we remember and pray for the souls of those who have passed away. As I thought about my father’s death last year, I recalled a phrase that a friend had sent me during that sad period: “Energy can neither be created nor destroyed.” This simple phrase brought me great [...]

10 Pockets of Time You Can Reclaim

Several people have asked me how I manage to read one book every week. I’m sure some of them think I don’t work! What I do is use every pocket of time I can find in the course of the day. These pockets of time can also be used to write short notes to people, [...]

Making Good Decisions

Are you the decisive or indecisive type? If you are decisive, do most of your decisions turn out well? Or are you overly decisive, jumping to conclusions and trying to influence the course of events instead of letting things unfold?

Making decisions is one of the few things that we cannot delegate or subcontract to others, however much we’d like to. When I was younger I often wished that someone would just tell me what to do. Now I know that our choices make us who we are, and decisions are not necessary evils but opportunities to define ourselves. Read more…

Start Small

There is a Chinese proverb which reminds us that “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” In our world of fast food, accelerated learning, and youthful millionaires, many people now expect instant success and want to become big the moment they start. Yet a quick look at the big successes around us point to small beginnings.

MacDonald’s was born of a hotdog stand whose owners had no ambition to expand. Google started as a research project on backlinks on the world wide web, which itself started when Tim Berners-Lee sought a solution to his problem of finding information on other databases. The international Red Cross began with one man rounding up some villagers to tend the wounded in war.

Whatever you’re hoping to achieve, start small now and keep taking a step every day. You cannot help progressing far in your journey if you keep doing this. Read more…

Schedule Your Priorities

You will never be able to do everything that you want to, because there is limited time available to all of us. Some things are going to be left undone, and that’s a given. What you can decide though, is what gets left undone.

With proper planning, the stuff that gets left undone will be the non-essentials. Your priorities will be taken care of because you have worked this into your schedule before anything else is allowed into it.

For most people, the best timeframe to schedule your priorities would be weekly. If you prefer a monthly timeframe, this is fine too, especially if you have monthly goals to achieve. The idea is to get past the trap of daily to-do lists that are based on external pressures rather than your inner purpose. Read more…

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