Here’s to drinking good coffee. I love coffee (we call coffee “buna” in Ethiopia). A traditional coffee ceremony reminds me of home. Culture. Family gathering. Connection. I love coffee so much that I do not prepare it like I clear the dinner dishes. I prepare coffee as a Japanese person performs a tea ceremony, with …
Category: Ïnspiring Stories
What 500 People Shared on Their Best Life Lessons From 2020
8 Takeaways… “What is your best life lesson in 2020?” I outsourced this question. I wanted to get the reader’s insight. I wanted to know what my blog readers have learned from this dark year. My email got swamped with responses from all over the world. My youngest subscriber is 21 years old from South …
Some Practical Advice on Finding Hope in Dark Times
Never underestimate the power of small pleasures that provide hope. For the first time in the planet’s history, every country bleeds by this COVID pandemic. The world feels dark. Our sun is hiding its face behind dark clouds, as if weeping its sorrows upon the land. The pandemic has laid us bare.The darkness feels like …
The Power Of Words – Inspirational Story
Hi there, Words can make one happy, Words can bend one’s mind; Words can make one grumpy, words can make one kind. Words can illuminate a man, Words can make one weep; Words can hurt so much, That a man cannot even sleep. Words can hide the truth, Words can strike the heart; Words can …
Start Letting The Little Things Go (Inspirational Story)
In a classroom full of students, a professor asks: If you had $86, 400.00 and someone stole $10.00 from you, would you throw away the $86, 390.00 you still have to try and get your $10.00 back? Or would you just let it go? They all said they would let it go. Then he told …
When Kindness is Forced, It Loses Its Luster(Inspirational Story)
The other day, I took a train to where I work. Inside the train I noticed a man clutching a Bible and shouting to all to listen to him. He was yelling: “You must listen to me, otherwise all of you are going to hell.” He raised his index finger and pointed it at every …
Inspirational Lesson from “The Lady with the Lamp” – Inspirational Story
She was one of those rare people. She noticed the little things. She knew that if there was a little problem, chances are there could be a big problem. Her life was not wasted. Because of her, modern nursing has changed for the better. She cared so much. She could not look the other way. …
Why ‘Being Grateful’ beats Every kind of punch from life! (Inspirational Story)
This week, my trainees who have been taking my class of emotional intelligence and I went out of the city to share personal stories. One of my oldest trainees from this class was the first who shared his story. In my guess, his age is around early 50’s. And he told us, that he has …
Take Time-out for Yourself Every Day! ( A Personal Story)
The other day I was extremely overwhelmed. Before the day started, I had packed my schedule for the entire day. But, in the middle of the day, I got overcome with work and I wanted to get out of there. My exhaustion made me feel like I was not giving my best. Have you ever …
Inspirational LESSON from one of the genius of the century!
Written by Banchi Over 150 years ago, his teachers said he was “too stupid to learn anything”. He was fired from his first two jobs for being “non-productive”. As an inventor, he made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. When a reporter asked him, “How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?” he …