Lessons for living: Vision and dreams

Lessons for living: Vision and dreams

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable” – Seneca Vision is the ability to think about or plan the future with imagination and wisdom. Visions come as ideas or images. The ability to en-vision is the ability to see possibilities in...
Lessons for living: Trust

Lessons for living: Trust

Trust is a belief in the reliability, strength or ability of someone or something. We can trust in a principle like truth. We can find trust in a cause, an idea, a community or life itself. Hope is a type of trust because we are depending on, and putting our...
Lessons for living: Courage

Lessons for living: Courage

Courage can be understood as the ability to do something that frightens you. We might also think of courage as the capacity to be strong in the face of pain or grief. Courage is not the absence of fear, but is dependent on the presence of fear. Without the presence of...
Lessons for living: Empowerment

Lessons for living: Empowerment

Power is the capacity to do something or to act in a particular way. It is the ability to produce an effect. We can think of power being used in two ways. There is ‘power over’, where power is used to control and dominate others. Or there is ‘power with’ where power...