The truth is that people will not always believe in your vision, and they may even doubt your dream. You may have a big dream, or a very brilliant vision which you may be excited about, but it does not

A friend has been sending me messages looking for advice on buying a house. I am not really the person for such advice, but I guess he wanted some perspective because he is up in the air as to whether

The quickest way to lose a customer is to give them one more option. A man walks into a perfume shop to buy some cologne. The salesperson shows him a bottle. He likes it. Then he asks to try another one.

Have you ever stopped for a while to think about who you are meant to be? A lot of people are literally living under someone else's shadows. Right from the choice of their career, maybe because their parents

That was a good wedding. I am tired from it though. What I liked about this particular wedding was while there were some speeches, there wasn't a lot of program. Instead, the focus was more on people spending

Some random reflections on life and contentment, on the morning of my 66th birthday...

El Momento Sublime del Domingo

This will be a weekly Sunday hangout between friends, where everyone else is also invited to join in on the conversations. A Sunday party for Hive users to interact and just talk crap about whatever happens

One of the things that limit the progress of people is the trap of perfectionism. That is, they want every single detail to be without flaw. What you have to understand is that, more often than not,

When you dislike something, you can approach it from many directions. Each has a different difficulty. "Screw it's I don't like it" is the easiest. "How can I spin this to my benefit"

I'm still losing the battle against myself. And the scary part is that I care less and less about it. The ego seems to be taking over, the superficial me, pushing the self aside. The mind knows it's a

The Importance of the Environment If we spend a day at the fish market—even if we aren’t working there, or even if we haven’t even touched the fish—we end up leaving with the smell of fish lingering on

For the second time in my life, today I will wear a bowtie. They call it a "mirri" in Finnish, which also means cat - I suppose because it is a bit like whiskers. I didn't own a bowtie because

If life knocks you down, it does not mean that you are knocked out, you have to bounce back and keep moving. I used to hear people say that "what does not kill an individual will be part of what will

Times have changed, and sometimes I think they’ve changed too much, and in many cases for the worse. I usually travel by bus; in fact, I’ve done so all my life, ever since I was a child. I very rarely

We Talk Friday (WTF) This is a semi-regular series that I will run on Fridays to hold discussions on a current topic from the week gone. The aim is to keep them light and conversational, though some might

Each day in there are a few news articles from the national broadcaster pushed out in English, with many really not so relevant to anything nor going in-depth, but can be interesting. Like today, there

Photo by NASA Hubble Space Telescope on Unsplash Been away for a few days. Seemed to have found myself down a black hole with the demons again. Didn't feel like doing much of anything. No socialization.

While we tend not to work in our own best interests, I was just wondering how many of us believe we work in the best interest of others. Are we do-gooders, or are we selfish? Do we go out of our way to

Life is full of false dichotomies and the more polarised we become as a society, the more that are thrown at us to force us to choose a side. You are either with us, or against us. Right? And I think that