Category: Personal Development

  • 20 Questions to Answer before 2025 ends

    20 Questions to Answer before 2025 ends

    My sister–colleague at work sent me this list, and I’m using it as a way to close out 2025. Question 1. If you could use only three words to describe 2025, which three would you choose? Reborn, Betrayal, Confident. Question 2. Standing at the end of the year and looking back, does this year feel…

  • The Midnight Library

    The Midnight Library

    A book about a mid-30-year-old girl — Nora — who wants to end her life, but then she is given a chance to experience the moment ‘in between’ life and death, in her library. Her current life filled with grief, peer pressure, regret, guilt, and depression — and somehow it all happens at once, like…

  • Arabelle, the Pirates’ Daughter

    Arabelle, the Pirates’ Daughter

    Actually, I found this book quite randomly among my other books — it was from my father’s bookshelf – I guess. He must have bought it at least 30 years ago, so I chose it as my reading for this week. And it turned out to be a very interesting book — even though I’m…

  • Manifest: 7 Steps to Living Your Best Life

    Manifest: 7 Steps to Living Your Best Life

    I’ve written a few posts about manifestation based on a book I recently read on the topic. The title itself is very appealing: “Manifest: 7 Steps to Living Your Best Life” by Roxie Nafousi. It provides a practical guide to understanding and practicing manifestation through Roxie’s 7-Step Guide to Manifesting: What’s important is that these…

  • Generative Leadership

    Generative Leadership

    When I was first in a leadership program, two managers asked me what kind of leader I wanted to become. I honestly don’t remember what I answered — but I’m sure it was unclear or something very general like “a good manager/leader.”But how good is “good”? At that time, I didn’t have a perfect role…

  • Empty Value – ‘Pretty, but Empty’

    Empty Value – ‘Pretty, but Empty’

    I don’t know when this definition came into my mind — “empty value.”A friend or a colleague once said it, and somehow it stayed with me. Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about being surrounded by people with “empty value” and the scariest question for me is: am I one of them today, or could…

  • A Long Walk to Water – Goal 6: Clean Water & Sanitation

    A Long Walk to Water – Goal 6: Clean Water & Sanitation

    Tuesday morning, during my usual reading routine, I was reading The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared — hilarious and surprisingly heartwarming. That book led my thought to A Man Called Ove, and then one book led to another: The Sweet Orange Tree and A Long Walk to Water. I paused for…