Life
Lola’s thought for the day – Embracing uncertainty leads to new possibilities!
How do you feel when you don’t know something? Do you welcome uncertainty, or do you feel that you need to be – or at least act as if you are – certain, sure and have it all together? How comfortable are you with not knowing?
As humans, we rate knowledge highly and we often hold [...]
Lola’s thought for the day – what are you saying about your life today?
There are two components to life: what happens, and what you say about that. What happens is just what happens. What you choose to say about what happens has the most impact on the quality of your life. And your word in the matter of your life is *always* your choice. What are you saying [...]
Lola’s Thought For The Day
When you die, what will you leave behind? You’re creating your legacy right now…Make it count!
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The presence of each and every one of us on this earth makes a difference. YOU make a difference. Not only do you impact the quality of your own life, you impact the quality of the lives of others, and [...]
Sign the Charter for Compassion
How about committing to compassion in 2010? It’s not a quality that we talk about very often - and perhaps in our modern world, it’s not one that is much lauded. But I strongly believe that compassion for self and others would make a profound impact on our world. We’d be able to forgive our [...]
Creating your future and why resolutions don’t work
The start of a new year is always an exciting time. Mostly, we look back at the year before and go over, reflect on and ponder what we did and didn’t do. More often that not, we decide we’d like more of what worked, and less of what didn’t. We then go to work on [...]
How to eliminate inequality in the world + create empowerment, dignity and equity for all
Wow, it’s December already. I haven’t blogged for a couple of months. I’ve been writing away, but just not blogging. All of that is changing, however, and I’m going to be blogging at least 3 or 4 times a week.
This year has been a great year so far, and as I’ve written about previously, I’ve [...]
Gentrification: Where Race Meets Class
Over at Model Minority’s blog, there is an excellent posting – entitled “Gentrification Has Nothing to do with white hipsters”.
Model Minority raises an excellent point, and one I’ve been thinking about ever since I moved to Harlem where there are many mixed feelings about the gentrification of the area and where a battle is raging [...]
Hip Hop & Life
For years there has been an ongoing debate about how much of an impact hip hop music has on the lives of today’s young people. It has been blamed for a myriad of problems that affect black kids. The misogyny, violence and promiscuity (amongst other things) depicted in popular music videos have been said to [...]
Live Earth… A Load of Hot Air!
The Live Earth concerts kick off today…9 concerts around the world, on 7 continents, in 24 hours. Live Earth is apparently going to raise awareness of climate change.
Excuse me for being a bit cynical, but the idea of flying hundreds of pop stars around the world, in gas-guzzling jets, to play in huge power-sucking, carbon-emitting [...]
No Smoking Allowed!
Why are people fighting against the smoking ban?
Why are they fighting for the right to kill themselves – and others?
Why can they not see that a smoking ban is ultimately for their own good?
How did we ever become so brainwashed that so many millions believe – despite what they know – that inhaling thousands of cancer-causing chemicals [...]