What do you do when you want to change the world but have only your time to offer? Below are some opportunities to better a life, even if it is just yours. Centers for Street children There are children with few means of survival, and a bleak existence. There are two types of street children: “children of the street” are homeless and on their own while “children on the
Happy New Year 2016! It’s time to say goodbye to the year 2015 that was filled with many moments of happiness and sorrows in each one of our lives. With quite a lot of enthusiasm, hopes and resolutions, people all around the world are now set to welcome a fresh, new year. From family get together to parties, the new year day will be filled with celebrations in every nook and corner of the
This is a guest post by Haider Ahmed As humans, we can never be safe from facing failures and rejections in life. It is inevitable. But most of the time, people just stay quiet and give up after their failures. They consider it as an end, instead of a beginning. They forget that cement gets mixed in water but eventually ends up as concrete on which water can float but
Pakistan has no dearth of strong female role models yet most of them remain unknown or underrated. These women can teach us a lot about perseverance, spirit and entrepreneurship and each one is an inspiration in her own right and field. Below is a list of some of those unrecognized Pakistani-bred or born women that dared to go above and beyond to make their mark in the world. Namira Salim
Every day news channels help us a lot to unveil the corruption of a leader, organization, stakeholder and each and every case. We know the destination of projects, aid and our tax. I think news channels know all about leaders but they explore it when time has been gone; so they better know how to keep and convey information. I am not going to talk about any leader and his
Verbally attacking a person you disagree with will only upset them. It is better to ground your actions from a positive place than it is to lash out. Picking yourself apart will only make yourself feel miserable. It is better to define what success means to you than it is to compare yourself to other person’s standards. If you’d like to be more positive and self-confident, please consider these five
If you can see, hear, smell, taste and have tactile sense, then you have a lot to be thankful for. If you have all of your limbs working properly, you have a lot to be grateful for. If you can clothe yourself, eat healthily and live under a roof of your own house, you have a lot to be gratified with. If you have had an opportunity of getting an
Henry David Thoreau wrote that ‘most men live lives of quiet desperation,’ and I’m sure we all know what this feels like. Life can sometimes seem like a treadmill – running to get nowhere. I have no idea what the purpose of all life is, but I do believe that each of us has an individual purpose, something which we are called to do and which, when we are doing
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. ~Lao Tzu When you think of ‘leadership,’ what comes to mind is probably managers working in companies, politicians or other people with a high public profile. There are many roles where leadership is overtly part of the job, but the qualities of leadership are needed
Below are 66 must-read life lessons from Aristole: Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. A friend to all is a friend to