I was at a work discussion when this question was asked. “How do you know if you have succeeded?” Indeed how do I know? How would I know if I have been successful as a wife, mother, daughter, sister, work? How would I know if I have succeeded as a person? That was something I [...]
Tags: success
Today is the first of school. Not just any typical first day of school. This is the day that my first born steps into secondary school and my third born steps into primary school. Many feelings go through me as I watch the boys wore their new uniforms proudly. Of course, the moment is sometimes lost [...]
Tags: change, metamorphosis
This is the season of Advent. It is the period before Christmas that I am supposed to be preparing for the coming of Christ. To be ready when He comes knocking at my door. I think I have a lot of work ahead of me! This is also the end of the calendar year 2011. [...]
Tags: advent, challenge, work life balance
Every morning, dear husband and I will take the train to work. Today was no different. When we got to the platform, there was more people waiting than normal. The train came in a couple of minutes and we chose not to board the train as the next train was only 3 minutes away. When [...]
Tags: decisions, mitch albom
I went to mass as I always do during lunchtime on Wednesday. It was the Feast Day of St Clare of Assisi. During the homily, the priest spoke about how she had taken to a life of poverty, abstinence from meat, speaking only when necessary. A life of simplicity and detachment. A life focus on [...]
Tags: detachment, simplicity
I have my gorgeous, lacy, blue hipster panty on today. Okay before you report me to the authorities, let me explain myself. Wearing that blue hipster makes me feel good about myself. Makes me feel like a confident, cool and sexy woman; that I could do anything I want. I know, sounds shallow and trivial [...]
Tags: attitude, clothes, life, self-image
Okay admit it. If you are not going to, I am. I am a perfectionist. There I said it. As a working mother, there simply was no room for anything else. No compromises. The sheets have to be creaseless; the management report free of spelling errors; meals must be nutritious; kids must be dressed nicely; husbands [...]
Tags: Martha, Nigella, Oprah, perfectionist, relax
When I first started work, I only had a pager. For those of you who remember, these are small gadgets that one could call with the phone number that you want the owner to call back on. Often, my dear husband (at that time my dear boyfriend) and I would send each other codes like [...]
Tags: changed, Family, laptop, life, mobile phone, technology
It is all about choices, isn’t it? Life is made up of choices that we all have to make. To marry or not, to marry this person or that, to have kids or not, to have 2 kids or 4, to work or stay home, to trust or not, to love or not – these [...]
As the year closes and the new year comes upon us, did 2009 meet your expectations? What expectations do you have of 2010? Did you get the promotion at work or the raise you expected? Did you close the deal you were hoping to close before the year end? Did you change your job? Did [...]
Tags: 2010, goals, great expectations, realistic, resolutions
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