Wuhan coronavirus: do you need to worry? We now know more about the new coronovirus emerging out of Wuhan, China. As the virus spreads and cases are discovered in other countries, do people in the UK need to worry about the virus? What’s the risk in the UK? Although cases …….
Author: Aldona Grupas
Traditions
I remember Christmas meetings with family and my godparents, when I was a child. We then lived in Riga. Then there were Soviet times and you couldn’t have celebrated Christmas in public. We are Lithuanians and always belong to the Lithuanian community in which country we live. At …….
Believe In Your Ideas
Ideas and babies have a lot in common when they are new born; they require a lot of nourishment to survive. A new idea, regardless of its size, may not be able to withstand a beating when you first give it birth. The next time you set out to do something …….
For The Man That Hated Christmas
I would like to share a story which originally published in the December 14, 1982 issue of Woman’s Day magazine. It was the first place winner out of thousands of entries in the magazine’s “My Most Moving Holiday Tradition” contest in which readers were asked to share their …….
What Your Checkbook and Calendar Say About Your Values
I watched as Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the Houses of Parliament yesterday. And I remembered the article of ‘What Your Checkbook and Calendar Say About Your Values’ of Michael Josephson. I did my checklist about my values which I get last year. Have you done it? What …….
Better to Ask Than Assume
The late Bill Love used to tell the story of a psychiatrist, engineer, and doctor who got lost in the Canadian woods. Stumbling on a trapper’s cabin but getting no response at the door, they went inside for shelter and waited for his return. In the corner, on a crude …….
Unconventional Wisdom
Nearly 10 years ago, as a small business owner interested in growing my boutique investment bank in New York City, I never would have imagined that a personal development course would spark a passion to write books for children. When I enrolled in Bob Proctor’s online course, Thinking Into Results, my …….
The Power of Kindness
I’ve mentioned before that, despite my great admiration for people who are instinctively and consistently kind, kindness does not come naturally to me. Yet the older I get, the more I agree with Abraham Heschel, who said, “When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, …….