Ideas, Inspiration, Leadership

The Secrets to Living Longer, Happier and Healthier

Premise: In the past couple of days, I have come across two women, two doctors who have in their own ways shared the importance and impact that our thoughts have on our body. First, Meet Dr. Gladys McGarey. She is 103 years old and considered the mother of Holistic Medicine. In this captivating and powerful interview, she shares the secrets to a longer, healthier, happier life. – LOVE & LIFE, together. At 103, she confesses to have a 10 year plan and also that she found her true voice when she was 93. Inspiring to say the least. And she has just […]

Inspiration, Leadership

How To Make this Year Your Best Year Ever

Premise: I was invite to deliver a workshop on how to set up your year to be “Your Best Year Ever” recently and here is what I had shared with them in terms of how to think about or approach this task. I believe in order for any year to be our best year ever, it needs to be balanced and see success and growth in all areas of our lives. And I think the key areas that we need to consider are as below: If we have a year where we are able to balance our health and wealth […]

Leadership

How to Mentor More People Without Getting Burned Out

Premise: One of the things that all leaders, sorry, all good leaders, get asked, is to mentor someone. The better the leader, the more such request that we tend to get. However, the time that we have for mentoring is fairly limited. While the mentee’s benefit a lot from the mentoring, there are reasons to believe that mentoring also benefited me as much as a mentors. So, it is in our best interest to mentor as many people as we can, given our limited time, and do so in such a way that we don’t burn ourselves out. Here are […]

Creativity, Innovation

Story of the Creation of the Humble Mouse as Narrated by Steve Jobs and Its Lesson in Leading Innovation

Earlier today, I stumbled upon a video of Steve Jobs talking about the creation of the humble mouse and why he had to go to David Kelly Designs (which later on became IDEO) to get it done. You can watch the video here. In the video, he shares that content is more important than process, when it comes to innovation and creativity. The question is what does he mean by content? He is not talking about the content that we refer to. He is talking about the sum of character, knowledge and the curiosity of the people as their content. […]