As I was reading How to Be Brilliant, one idea captured there really struck me – that is, positive thinking is important, but to be successful in all areas of your life you need positive action. Positive action is an action that gets you closer to your goal. Not all actions are positive actions. For…
Author: Annette
Easy spring salad with shrimps
Time: 20 minutes Ingredients: Pack of large shrimps Lemon juice Cabbage Cherry tomatoes (1 pack/200 grams) English cucumber 2 Avocados Salt Pepper Light dressing (garlic Caesar in my case) Cilantro or parsley (optional) Instructions Boil water for shrimps, add salt and put shrimps there until they are soft Remove shrimps and place them on a…
How to set a mood when entertaining
What makes a special occasion different from a regular dinner/brunch? Aside from the fact that it is actually special, there are many props being used to set up the mood. For example, while getting together as a family on the 25th of December does feel like Christmas, there are also other things that come to…
How to make better decisions
How many good relationships could be saved, how many bad relationships could be avoided, how many mistakes could be prevented if we did only one thing, and one thing only – if we communicated instead of assuming things. Every bad decision that was made was made because we assumed certain things to be true without…
When we are lost and when we are found
I don’t know a person who wouldn’t experience both highs and lows in their life. There are times when we wake up excited about what a new day will bring, there are times when we wake up preoccupied with things we need to cross off to-do list, and there are times when we don’t want…
How to Start a New Life – 10 Steps Stolen from Strategic Planning
When I started working in the strategy branch, being interested in self-development and leadership, I was surprised to learn how similar the steps are between strategic planning in government and steps one may take to improve his/her life. Many books on self-improvement captured strategies that sounded very similar to the ones I applied at work….
8 Creative Ways for Beating Anxiety or Building Your Resilience
Fear causes anxiety. Fear of unknown, fear of change, fear of negative outcome, fear of upcoming test of your relationships (e.g. serious conversation) or fear of a test that evaluates your skills or performance. There are so many sources of stress in life. There were many times in life when I thought I wouldn’t make…
Spring Clean Your Life
Since I was a kid, my mom would always get excited by spring cleaning. She wasn’t a stay-at-home mom. She had a job, but she really liked some housewife-type tasks. She found joy and inspiration in them. They made her feel better. Just like Monica from “Friends”, she would appreciate and find joy in little…
5 things I learned in Paris
I was dreaming about going to Paris since I was 9. At 15, my good friend went to Paris and sent me a card with an Eiffel Tower that I kept for a while, dreaming that one day I will go there too. At 24, we were planning to go to Paris for our honeymoon…
Self-Development 101: Stop lying to yourself
You’ve seen and you’ve met people like that. You see that that there is something wrong with their lives. No, cross that. You see exactly what’s wrong with their lives, and how they can fix it, and you are surprised that they didn’t do it already. However, when you start talking more to these people,…
Rise and Lead: Personal and Professional Development 