Category: education
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Ambient reading: new technology, new style of reading, new litterature.
Reading will never be the same. With new access to our new mobile devices, our reading experience may be different with what it used to be. With audio books, and eboooks, we consume more and more words, faster and faster. We also have an opportunity to bring our own personalised experience to our own reading.…
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Do something. Blame no one. Make no excuses.
I was visiting my son Axel this week-end in Tallahassee, FL., when I saw a poster tapped on his wall with these slogans: Do something. Blame no one. Make no excuses. First, I made a selfie and asked him about the poster which exhibits a photo of the new coach Willie Taggart known in the…
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The guilt complex
We have within us, between our ears, a simple thing called conscience which teaches us there’s a right and wrong approach to life. We know when we act contrary to our conscience we feel guilty, and this feeling impacts negatively our thoughts. This behavior bestows upon us what author David Schwartz called the guilt complex…
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The long run and the short runs
“It’s easy to look at the long run and lull yourself into skipping a day now and then. But, the long run is made up of short runs,” this is what I read from a blog posted by bestselling author and blogger Set Godin. The following are some questions Set Godin asked in his post that…
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Tell your stories to connect and dicover: no shame, no blame!
I attended City Speaks, a storytelling event, last night in Pompano Beach, Florida, which reminds me, back in the days in my homeland Haiti, when my dad used to gather us together, just to tell us stories. Sometimes, they were folktales of Bouki and Malis, the villain and the smart; and other times it was just…
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Tiger Woods is back to the top. How his ladder climbing out of a slump can help you climb your own ladder?
I don’t play Golf. I even don’t understand the game in its entirety. If I had to explain it, I would say- and correct me if I am wrong- this is a game played by affluent people who have time, money, and prestige on large pristine green grass open-air courses where they discuss business, politics…
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Build confidence, destroy fear, and live the life you want. No regrets!
The following notes are from The Magic of Thinking Big, an outstanding self-development book, published by Dr. David Schwartz. Fear is real. Fear is psychological. It’s success enemy No 1. Fear stops people from capitalizing on opportunity; fear wears down physical vitality; fear actually makes people sick, causes organic difficulties, shortens life; fear closes your mouth…
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My understanding of Christian Spirituality based on the reading of “Guiding principles for a Christian Spirituality” by Michael Downey.
I understand Spirituality as a human quest to discover where we, human beings, are from, where we are going, our connection with each other, and in a large extent, our relationship with a Higher Power greater than ourselves. Therefore, Christian Spirituality is the global experience through time and space of this quest for meaning to…
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Managing yourself with graciousness, empathy, and gratitude to avoid negativity of the power paradox.
“How to rise to the top without losing the virtues that get you there,” here is an interesting question based on a research by Datcher Kelter, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center. I am amazed to share this content with you. Professor Kelter…
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Hell: ‘Whatever you fear most…’ an oustanding Edwidge Danticat’s folk story!
I am reading Edwige Danticat. Her recent memoir “Brother, I’m dying” is amazing. She tells her family story in poignant way. She combines her story with the story of her dad, her uncle, her countries, her travels, her neighborhood, her grandmas.to free herself, and to free us as well to tell our own story, and to…
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