I Want to Live
When I was 16, I auditioned for a musical play and was chosen to represent my country in the performance that was going to be…
Friends, the Family We Choose for Ourselves
“Friends are the family we choose for ourselves”. If this is the case how come some of them stay and some of them go? How…
Fake Identities on the Web
A LinkedIn contact pointed out to me that I had accepted an invitation from someone with a fake LinkedIn profile. I investigated the matter further…
9 Tips to Survive a Tough Time in Your Life
Illustration by Fatma AlHashemi (@F_Fotography) Have you ever felt like you were being carried by a wave so strong that you kept hitting the rocks?…
About Authenticity: Being True to Yourself
Everyone I meet struggles to varying degrees with authenticity. Living their truth or telling it like it is. People believe there are universal truths they should adhere to and in the fear of looking stupid, being judged or measured, they forget about their own truth!
The Power of Perseverance
Someone once said “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.” Today I’m inviting you to look…
2012: The End of the World As We Know It
By Rawan Albina (@RawanAlbina) Everybody has been talking about 2012 for a few years now. They even made a movie out of it so that…
15 Tips for Creating a New Year’s Resolution That You Will Stick With
By Rawan Albina (@RawanAlbina) According to a special story that Time magazine published on New Year’s resolutions at the beginning of 2011, here are the…
Finding Your Sanctuary
By Rawan Albina (@RawanAlbina) Red roof tops, blue skies with the occasional fluffy white clouds swimming across, the beautiful scent of jasmine and gardenias from…
Waiting for the Unkown
By Rawan Albina (@RawanAlbina) I read “Waiting for Godot” at university and I must admit that I found it to be the most boring piece…
Are Young Women Lacking Gumption?
By Rawan Albina (@RawanAlbina) Gumption has got to be my new favourite word! I was watching the movie “The Holiday” again yesterday. I watched it…
A Witness of Time- Generation X
By Rawan Albina (@RawanAlbina) Generation X is a term coined by Douglas Coupland to define the generation of people born between the year 1965 and…
What Is A Deep Conversations
By Rawan Albina (@RawanAlbina) As a personal development coach I meet a lot of people. What strikes me the most is that 80% of them…
Steps to Stick to Your New Year’s Resolutions
By Rawan Albina (@RawanAlbina) It is that time of the year again where a chapter is closing and another one is about to start. It…
Why Any Adult Needs To Be a Child For a Day
By Rawan Albina ( @RawanAlbina) I look at my son and I am amazed by the way he views the world and interacts with it….
What if? The Regretful Question
By Rawan Albina ( @RawanAlbina) “There should be no regrets only lessons learned”. Now stop for a minute and think about this sentence. What is…
Is Laziness a Good Thing?
By Rawan Albina ( @RawanAlbina) Are you a starter or a completer? Do you find that you often get excited about new ideas and new…