Who Are You? 3 Steps to Identify Yourself
This is a philosophical question and the answer to it is the hardest of all. In fact, it is so difficult that one of…
Sustainable Busienss Growth
Illustration by Fatma AlHashemi (@F_Fotography) On a recent trip to Lake Placid Lodge, situated in Lake Placid, New York, a two time Winter Olympics…
Interview with Sara Falaknaz and SWAD Highlights
Picture Taken by @HaifNotHaifa On May 24th, the stopwatches in Abu Dhabi began racing to the 54-hours finish line. Why 54 hours? That’s the…
How Abuse During Childhood Impacts Adulthood
Illustration by Dubai Abulhoul (@DubaiAbulhoul) Words can hurt more than sticks and stones. Criticism, degradation, negative comments, labeling and calling children with insulting names…
Worlds Colliding, Drawing the Line Between Work and Personal Life
Let me begin by stating that I am a very private person. My thought process with this article began when a colleague was discussing…
About Emotional Baggage
How many of you have been hurt? How many of you have felt pain? How many of you have lost someone you love to…
Here We Start – Issue #26
Our 26th Issue is a freshly short issue touching on issues essential to all of us, including courage, optimism, graduation, maternity leave, performance appraisals,…
The Power of Trying, Lessons Learned from Terry Fox
The first time I had read about Terry Fox was only a few months ago when I received an email with a request to participate in the Terry Fox marathon in Abu Dhabi.
Being an Employee and a Mother: Maternity Leave and At-Work Child Care Centers
We as women want it all and why shouldn’t we? We have been empowered and with all the right tools at hand and brain, our main goals are focused on “what can I do to make a difference to my world, my society, my people, and my country?”
Between Optimism & Pessimism
Too many times I’ve heard of the ‘set your expectations low, so your pleasures are magnified’ argument. This is my response, comparing pessimism and optimism in the larger sense.