Too many mornings, I chose email over mediation, I chose twitter time over introspection time. Too many nights, I collapsed into deep sleep without taking a moment to quiet the mind and reflect on the day. Too many days in 2010, I chose impulsively rather than consciously. The heart longed to make meditation a ritual, [...]
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The incredible response to my last post has seriously thrown off my focus and made it nearly impossible to move on. I have written and re-written several drafts of fresh new posts – highlights from travels to Switzerland and Berlin, visits to authentic tea shops and seeing the breath-taking 3000-year old Nefertiti bust – only [...]
In my life, I have wished for a million things, I have dreamt a thousand dreams; I have pursued hundreds of passions and goals and yet, never for a serious minute in all of my fantastic 30 plus years have I wished to have a child. That’s me. I must be strange. I must be [...]
Ironic as it may sound, after the post on micro vacations, I report live from quite the opposite – the heart of an extended vacation. Sitting here in beautiful Bali after week long visits to Toronto and Singapore, I find it nearly impossible to focus on writing this next blog post. Before embarking on this [...]
Micro vacations are one answer to experiencing the world on limited time and money! We spent US Labor Day holiday in Switzerland. Before that, we spent President’s Day in London and in Thanksgiving, we will take off for a getaway to the historic city of Berlin and in the summer, we plan to take one [...]
How many careers do you plan on having in your life? How many passions can you turn into a profession in one lifetime? Are we really bound to one single profession from our first chosen path to the rest of our days? The Sense of Urgency I used to think that the rest of my [...]
My first reaction is not my best one when confronted with unforeseen circumstances – even at my own doing – but to my delight, my second reaction seems to be improving dramatically over time! On a beautiful Saturday morning in August, my first reaction when I promptly locked myself out of my house was paranoia. [...]
Learning is exhilarating. Learning is rewarding. Learning is the best path to discovering who we are. We do not realize this until much later in life and often when we are conveniently out of school and have placed ourselves inconveniently in a rat race for survival but thanks to Google and technology, we can learn [...]
“We can do anything but we can’t do everything.” I used to believe I can do everything! By everything I mean my growing list of passions and aspirations from which responsibilities and commitments are naturally born. By doing I mean doing well, extremely well. It is either a job well done or a job not [...]
March 20th 2010 – The first day of spring and the Iranian new year more commonly known as Nowrūz (spelled at least half a dozen different ways in its tangled translation to modern English). The dawn of a new day, new season, and new beginnings. In a traditional Persian style, one of my cousins married [...]
The Experience: It used to be I said I was going to do something and I would do it. It was as factual, as simple and as expected as the rising of the sun and the passage of time. There were no obstacles strong enough to keep me from reaching my goals. There was a [...]
This Thanksgiving was with family and friends. Last Thanksgiving, Hawaii. But I will never forget that in 2007, after a trying year with career and other challenges, we decided in a moment’s notice to pack up and go to Hong Kong for Thanksgiving. Traveling there from East Coast of United States is not exactly a [...]
A life with purpose will beckon all of us at some point to answer these questions. Are we doing something worthwhile with life? Is our work meaningful? Are we wasting it away at a keyboard or in an office or in the air on business travel? Is this what we imagined ourselves to be doing [...]
True leadership is recognized universally, regardless of bipartisanship, differences in style and strategy and desired outcome. True leadership is recognized by everyone, and we would be hard pressed to find anyone that would not recognize it in Colin Powell. Oren Harari does a thorough job portraying that character in his book, ”Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell“. Harari [...]
What makes one idea stick and another fade? What seeming intangibles do people with successful ideas grasp and implement better than rest of us? In a world where technology, work and media move at a maddening pace, no one wants to be left behind. And it is a struggle to get anyone’s attention – not [...]
“We All Fall Down” was a slow start until I started to come up to speed on the British health care system, the associated deep-rooted problems and the bottlenecks in the general hospital system. I did not know the one single factor in keeping hospitals from serving the next patient is shortage of beds. As [...]
