Life is a life-long lesson, and I have been paying attention.
These are lessons I’ve picked up about life, how to live (or not live) and how to treat others (including ourselves).
If you are single, you must be familiar with the feeling of boredom, and sometimes loneliness. Sometimes, you can experience both feelings at the same time. I have been single for about seven years, so trust me… I know! But I will be honest with you. I hardly do get bored or lonely. I almost never get bored and lonely at the same time. It hardly does happen to me because I always have something…
As the new year kicks off, I have some recommendations for you, as usual. So here are my 12 recommendations for the year 2017. Be mindful, of who you are, what you do and how you respond to life. Know yourself… It is one way of transforming your life. Be honest with yourself. Have some integrity for no one else but yourself. Ask yourself honest questions. Give yourself honest answers. Avoid these four people:…
These were my most favorite Bible verses in the year 2016… Enjoy! Job 2:10 NKJV But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips. Job 28:28 NKJV And to man He said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, And to depart from…
2016 was a good year. I do not know if it was better than the year 2015, but it was a good year. It was a good year because of lessons learned. I made a couple of important realizations this year, that should make 2017 a better year for me. And the experiences I went through, will go on to produce results in the future, if I play my cards right. The things I’m about to…
The year 2016 has come and gone. But I want you to expect a couple of write ups related to last year. I have a few more to write. Have you read the four lessons that I learned from my friends in 2015? If you have, then you should know that I pay attention to my interactions with friends. These “lessons from friends” were not taught to me directly. I picked these lessons from my friends…
The year 2016 has come and gone. There were many things that I hoped to do in that year. Some of them I did, and some others I did not. Some I completed to a level, and while I had almost no chance at others. So before I set my goals for 2017, let us take a look back at my goals for 2016, and review how well I did. Ready? First of all, let…
Keeping a gratitude log is not easy, and believe me when I say so. This is the second year I had to keep a gratitude log for an entire year. My first year-round gratitude log was in 2015. Before that, I wrote initially attempted to write three things I was grateful for some years ago. I ended up with 69 things I was grateful for. Now that 206 is over, I can finally share my daily gratitude log with…
The focus for the 51st week (December 18 – December 24) of the 52 Weeks of Gratitude Challenge was: 100 Things to be Thankful For Looking back at the year 2016, there are so many things to be thankful for, well over a hundred. If I should recollect all the bottles of red wine we drank, in celebration for one thing or the other, it should come close to a few dozens. Some of those bottles counted multiple…