Starting today the Sunshine girl has declared every Friday is “Decluttering Day”! I can testify first hand on the joys of decluttering - just yesterday I cleaned out my shoe closest, threw out some which were unusable, gave away some which were usable but which I’m not using and in the process, made a lot [...]
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“The journey is as important as the destination”
I have a friend who’s so keen “to make a mark” and to “leave an impression” on the world, that sometimes I think he misses out on so many beautiful things that are around him.
John Hope Franklin says “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths [...]
“Every time something good happens to you, make something good happen to someone else”
Just think, what is the way we usually react when something bad happens to us? “In a negative way”, would be the most common & truthful answer, regardless of the degree of the negative reaction.
What I subscribe to is the opposite of [...]
“When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out.” - St John Chrysostom
Further to your time of retrospective evaluation and introspection, ask yourself, what am I looking at getting in the New Year?
And to get that, what must I do differently?
Sometimes resolutions are as simple - [...]
“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we are not really living.” ~ Gail Sheehy
The Sunshine Girl has lots of friends who’ll not be in her life (at least in the same degree as before) this coming year 2008. Some of them are leaving the country. Some of them have left [...]
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God” (Matthew 5:9)
One of the things I try to do regularly is make peace with everyone I can. Being rather outspoken (and often sillier than I wish), I often say and do things which are either wrong or sometimes interpreted wrongly.
Either way, whenever I’ve [...]
“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for, Perfection is God’s Business” ~ Warren Buffet
There was a one hour interview on CNBC with Warren Buffet, then the second richest man who has donated $31 billion to charity. Here are some very interesting aspects of his life:
1. He bought his [...]
“If you feel like you’re struggling on your own, why not reach for help?”
What is happening right now that you are struggling with on your own? What is that problem that you think no one else will understand? That no one else will be able to help with? That you want no one else to [...]
“The Sunshine of your Smile might chase the clouds from someone’s life today”
I’ve been called “Smiley” most of my life - more recently “The Sunshine Girl” - the reason? Because I smile. I smile a lot. I smile at my family. I smile at my friends. I even smile at strangers on the road.
Really [...]
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one”
Fundamental facts one should know about worry, from Dale Carnegie’s bestseller, ‘How to Stop Worrying and Start Living’,
1. If you want to avoid worry, do what Sir William Osler did: Live in “day-tight compartments.” Don’t stew about the [...]
