Self-Improvement

  • Surviving a broken heart

    Surviving a broken heart

    “It felt like my heart had been torn out of my chest.”– Jennifer Lopez on Ben Affleck, in her memoir True Love “In the beginning, you tamp down the animosity for the kids’ sake. “I’m not going to deny that I went through the wringer. But I don’t think I doubted we’d end up here. That

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  • It’s All Under Control: A Journey of Letting Go and Hoping On

    We are driving on Transcanada Hwy just past Swift Current, Saskatchewan heading home to Winnipeg. Every driver is supposed to drive at 110 km per hour on this highway. I am  driving at 114 km/hr, just 4 km above the limit, not too bad. In front of us to the right is a line of

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  • Why we Should Embrace Hygge

    Why we Should Embrace Hygge

    Have you heard of “hygge” yet? It seems like every time I turn around, I see another book or an article about it! My innate curiosity lead me to doing some research about this Danish buzzword and what it really means. I ended up finding the concept of hygge so fascinating that I decided I

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  • Sisu – Developing courage in the Face of Adversity

    “When life gets tough, the tough get going.” This timeless proverb may be true for some but, for others, hardship can be too much to overcome. When the going gets tough, their life simply falls apart. What is it exactly that separates those who thrive regardless of adversity and those who don’t? Is it genetics, luck,

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  • The Cheetah Mentality in our lives

    Cheetah – the fastest land animal on the planet clocks speeds of 109 to 120 km/h (68 to 75 mph), covers up to 500 m (1,640 ft) in short bursts, and can accelerate from 0 to 96 km/h (0 to 60 mph) in three seconds. When cheetahs run at full speed, their stride is 6-7

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  • How to Live full Life With- Regrets

    l am a Registered Nurse by profession. To maintain my Nursing license I have to renew it every year before December 01 of each year. As part of renewal includes completion of jurisprudence test. With my hectic I didn’t complete this test on time. By the time I completed the test submission deadline was done.

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  • Beauty is all around you

    Beauty is all around you

    Recently I had an opportunity to visit Lake Louise Alberta, where I saw the magnificent work of God. The lake is curved between two, beautiful ice capped mountains. As my family and other tourists posed on the snow covered lake for photos, I thought a lot about what God sees when He looks down at

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  • Are you letting fear stand in your way?

    We all feel fear … don’t let anyone tell you they don’t. The truly successful have simply found a way to break through their fear. Nelson Mandela had it right when he said … “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he

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  • When failure  is our best gift

    All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time. – Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven I remember the morning I went to Kirimara High School (Kenya) to check for the results of  my Kenya Advanced Certificate of Education (KACE). I was excited as I took a public bus to

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  • Death doesn’t have the final word

    When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise— in God I trust and am not afraid. What can mere mortals do to me? — Psalm 56:3-4 (NIV) As I walk in my journey of life, I get to ask myself the question whether I am prepared to die

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