Do We Have to Be Right and Wrong, Or Can We Just Be?

If I may share a story of a recent personal experience where I was the purveyor of opinion and judgement, hurt a friend and damaged a relationship in the process. My friend and I are of very differing political opinions and yet for the time we have known each other, we would listen to each other and not agree,...
Read More

Being What You Want To Be!

It’s interesting how life works in it’s coincidence, in its spirit and shared energy and in how paths cross at a moment in time to somehow enable clarity and engagement in your life. This is a short story about my personal challenge and of two wonderful artists, Mark Scerri and Dana McKeon. Over a year back, I decided to...
Read More

What Does Empathy Look and Feel Like?

In the 3 minute YouTube video at the end of this text, Brene Brown describes simply and visually what is the difference between Empathy and Sympathy. My take is that Empathy is about being with another person or persons in a way where you engage to their feelings, where you are authentic in that engagement and above all where...
Read More

Choosing Between Joy and Misery

Tonight I was just finishing up some prep work for a client when the terrible news was posted online that a 15 year old Irish girl had been found dead in a deep ravine in the jungle nearby Kuala Lumpur. Nora Quorin went missing 9 days ago from a resort hut which was a part of a trip of...
Read More