by Taslim Jaffer | Nov 22, 2011 | Try-This Tuesday
Here’s the thing about New Year’s resolutions. I grew up a big New Year’s resolutions person and I managed to convert my husband fairly quickly after marriage. Over the Christmas holidays, my husband and I sit down armed with paper, pens and coloured markers (for...
by Taslim Jaffer | Nov 21, 2011 | Journalling
The evening of January 5, 2010 started off as a peaceful night. My daughter, then 2.5 years old, was asleep, my husband was out (I think at a Canucks game) and I was relaxing on the couch in a very pregnant state. Then I remembered something I was really, really...
by Taslim Jaffer | Nov 15, 2011 | Journalling, Try-This Tuesday
You’re reading this blog because you want to let your ME out, right? Well, where do you want to go? I know we’ve been talking about the ME that is metaphysical, as in your inner Self/Soul if you will, but the things that fuel your soul, drive your creativity and let...
by Taslim Jaffer | Nov 14, 2011 | Journalling
These days I am fuelled by a quote from author Diane Ackerman “I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” Read it and let it sit with you. This is the perfect visual for an...
by Taslim Jaffer | Nov 8, 2011 | Try-This Tuesday
Imagine a glass half full of murky water. Now imagine that you are pouring in fresh, clear water to fill the rest of the glass. Very quickly, the beautiful clean water you just poured in is now also filthy. Go back to the glass half full of murky water, dump it out...
by Taslim Jaffer | Nov 1, 2011 | Try-This Tuesday
Do you ever feel like most of your day could be run on auto-pilot? For many of us, significant portions of our day are fairly routine. We become stuck in our patterns – physically and mentally – when we do the same thing in the same way over and over again. Think...
