“Our chief want in life is someone who will make us do what we can.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

So often you may find yourself surrounded by people who constantly challenge your perspective of reality, and it appears they’re stopping you doing what you want or what you enjoy. Question is, are they purposefully trying to making life harder for you, are they doing it out of their own self interests, or are they somehow offering you the challenges that help you grow?

Go and seek out those very people who are challenging you in some way, and discover what their real intentions are – let me know what you discover!

“Freedom from desire leads to inward peace.”
– Lao-Tzu, 16th Century BCE

“We do not need to be able to hold a physical object be it, clothing, a photo or a gift to be able to recall how someone touched us or shaped our lives.”
– Heena Modi, Editor & Joint Secretary of the National Council of Vanik Associations

One mother was telling her son to remember his dad as he had passed away and the son did not seem to think of him at all. He replied, “Why? What has he left me for me to remember him?” His mother replied, “We cannot value everything in terms of money! He left you didn’t he?”

What qualities do you recognise within you that have been passed on by someone who inspired you?

“Keep someone else’s daughter happy and yours will be.”
– Hiri Kothary

Do you find or have you ever thought that when our daughter’s get married; we classify them as no longer part of ‘our’ family as she is now part of her husband’s family? BUT is she really, truly accepted by them or does she end up being and feeling like she’s in ‘no man’s land?’

Does the daughter in your family know you care? Have you recognised what she has brought into your life, and have you acknowledged it? Who can she turn to if she’s in need?

“The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”
- John Keats

“All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.”
- Marcel Proust

“Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.”
- Marcus T. Cicero

“Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.”
- Jim Rohn

“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”
- Andrew Jackson

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
- Jimmy Dean