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Why social media can be more real than the real world

Social media has been taking a real battering all over the world during the past year. From Iran, Egypt, Bahrain and even places like London questioning whether social media should be allowed to maintains it’s place in our lives has shocked many people to their core. When Iran closed Twitter and facebook there was uproar around the world as it showed a so called oppressive state in action. Equally, when Hosni Mubarak did the same in Egypt, every corner of the globe condemned

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The hardest thing to face is yourself

Life is full of obstacles and difficulties. This is a fact of life that we all accept as part of growing up. But there is nothing in life we will face that can have as a destructive, demoralizing and negative influence on our lives than ourselves. We are the toughest critic, the sternest of judges and the one person who can decide in life whether we accept or ignore the negative forces around us. The easiest trick in the book is to blame someone else for the tough times we fa

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Wake up your inner child, it’s time to wake up!

Remember when you were a child and everything seemed so simple? It was a time when anything was possible, a time when you were asked what you wanted to be, what you want to do and what you would like to experience. You were told try this and experience that. You were told that you should never say you don’t like something until you at least try it once. But then suddenly we are told you cannot do this or that, you have to be realistic and accept where you are or what you are

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A step in the right direction

Sometimes life can be intimidating. We can stand on the edge of opportunity and procrastinate about the possibilities knowing that one step forward could achieve every dream we ever desired, yet we also think of failure, and that is what holds us back. In times like this you must be brave, you must believe in yourself and you must never, never be afraid to fail. Because even if you fail you will learn something about yourself, you will learn something about your reactions in

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You can’t win every battle, Sometimes you learn when you don’t

We all like to succeed, we all like to win at anything we do and no one likes defeat. The irony of this though is that we often learn more when we lose or fail, than when we win. I personally have failed in having my business, more than once! But each time I learned more about myself than all the successes I have had in my life. I feel fortunate that each failure didn’t cost me everything, although the last one came very close. But that experience was possibly the tipping poi

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Actions really do speak louder than words

We say we are advanced and civilized, but our actions often speak otherwise. We say we are humane and caring, yet we witness cruelty and heartache on almost a daily basis. We say we want to be better at what we do in our lives, yet sometimes we do nothing to change our reality, other than talking about it a little more. If we are to change anything in our world it is great to talk about how we can help. Yet nothing ever changed from talking, only the action that followed it m

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Anger will only hold you back

Anger, fear or any other negative emotion will literally blind you from seeing the positives in your world. Today, on the road from Dubai to Abu Dhabi, I had a man driving very dangerously around me eventually pulling along side my car and shouting at me to move. Now there were a long row of cars in front of me and, I believed a space too small, to move in beside me. But this gentleman seemed to force his way in so maybe I was wrong, although the man who was forced to move ou

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Light the path for others and one day they will do the same for you

Can you beat the odds when they are stacked against you? Can you defeat the demons that you create? Can you be positive in the face of a negative sea that continues to sweep over you wave after wave? These are the circumstances we face in our daily life, these are the chains that hang around you dragging you deeper into despair. But you hold the keys to release the chains, you hold the answers to the puzzles of your mind, you hold the balance in your mind between moving forwa

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Fuel the spark of dreams that lie within you

A change is as good as a rest, they say. Getting stuck in a rut can really destroy your moral and spirit as it takes away any sort of natural decision making, and therefore creative thinking. I do not believe that only artists, designers and people with creative occupations are the only creative ones. We are all creative by nature as it is part of what has helped us evolve over the years. It is this creative spirit that has forged new inventions, created new industries, creat

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We are what we believe

In recent years we have heard much about visualization and the law of attraction. Whether you believe it or not, there has to be something in the statement, ‘we are what we believe.’ If there is something that you feel you missed early on in life, did not understand certain things or feel that you are just not destined to achieve anything, then simply the truth is, you will not. We see throughout history the people who have succeeded in life. We glorify their achievements as

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The more you know the less you know

I KNOW THAT I AM INTELLIGENT BECAUSE I KNOW THAT I KNOW NOTHING. This is a quote by Socrates. Who am I to argue with such a beautiful insight. The need and desire to continually learn is something I am very passionate about. Maybe, I realize now, that I didn’t study as hard as I should have at school, maybe chose the wrong subjects and maybe, just maybe, I gave up on a dream of becoming a vet too soon. Yes, I did actually want to be a vet! One of the biggest problems I face t

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What are you waiting for?

In this life we can often sit and hope that things work out the way we want. We watch movies and documentaries, which show people who took hold of their destiny and tried to achieve something in their life. Yes it is true that you might not reach your goals, at least the fist time. If everything in life came easy we wouldn’t appreciate anything we achieved. If you dream of doing something, no matter what it is, start putting in action things that will help you achieve those g

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Two careers, one love.

There are times recently that you are far away. Life has taken our paths into different directions. Success and ambition drives us both forward, achieving goals that seem to appear on our separate paths but always knowing that we are thinking about each other. As there is no success worth reaching and no ambition worth achieving unless we reach there together. 12 years ago you barged your way into my heart, loudly, as only you could do, whilst still radiating beauty and poise

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Two careers, one love.

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A parents challenge

I would walk through hell to find you. I would march against the world to protect you. I would sacrifice myself, to give you one more day of sunshine. And, I would throw caution to the wind, if it meant bringing beauty within your world. If an obstacle appeared on your horizon, I would break it down or carry you over. Even for only one second of joy and happiness. I would never let another take away your sunshine. And I would bring the rain when you needed refreshing.

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A parents challenge

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Let your potential burn bright

Our world being full of humans is like the universe being full of stars. Not every star glows as brightly as the other, yet each is so full of potential that they illuminate the space around them. Whatever orbits these stars will be affected by the gravity of personality. Some stars though have a cloud of haze and fog that surounds their beauty. A self made cloak that shields them from prying eyes. Outside influences try and remove the clouds yet the dust settles around the s

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Let your potential burn bright

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Procrastination, why do you haunt me?

Sometimes we put off the things that add more stress to our lives, when in reality what we made such a huge deal about is really, nothing at all. The anxiety that can build up within a person over a meeting, deadline or something you have to do, which is very different from something you want to do, can really be damaging to your health. Maybe it is just me then because I tend to over analyze and examine every single little thing ensuring that whatever it is that I am have to

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Procrastination, why do you haunt me?