A few days ago, I came across an old journal I had almost forgotten about. As I flipped through its pages, I found the plans I had written when I wanted to start my travel business @Chykeann Consults. There were rough ideas, names of people to call, things to set up, budgets, things I needed […]
During winter, my children usually packed a small water bottle in their school bag. It was more than enough. Some days, they would come home with water still left in it. But during summer, the same bottle would no longer be enough because of intense heat. They would come home thirsty every day because the […]
Dear Parents, Elders, and Custodians of Wisdom, Everything you know today…the lessons you’ve learned, the values you’ve lived by, the mistakes that shaped you, the victories you earned, and the wisdom gathered over decades, is far too valuable to leave only in your memory. What happens to that knowledge when you’re no longer here? Will […]
Are you living the life you choose or the life you settled for? If that made you pause, this is for you. You take the available job instead of the one you actually wanted. You stay in situations that stopped making you happy a long time ago because you feel you have no choice. You […]
We have a small vessel by the window where we planted spring onions. Every day, we watched over it, watered it, and carefully removed the weeds that appeared around it. As time passed, we noticed something important, whenever we neglected the weeding for too long, the growth of the spring onions suffered. The weeds competed […]
One evening, when I was six years old, I was playing in the room, jumping from one bed to another. My mother warned me to stop, or I would break my arm. Confident that nothing would happen, I ignored her and kept going. Minutes later, I missed a jump, landed badly, broke my arm, and […]
Honor what was placed within you. Not just materially.But spiritually.Creatively.Energetically. We spend so much of our lives looking for the next thing, more money, more opportunities, more clarity, more confirmation that we’re on the right path. But sometimes the important thing is to pause and notice what is already here. Your ideas.Your intuition.Your warmth.Your perspective. […]