4 Lessons from Change Makers

Forrest Gump is one of my favorite movies. I highly recommend watching this movie if you haven’t. It is about a man from a small town in Alabama, who has a low IQ. Nobody expects him to do great things. But with encouragement from his mother, it gives him the motivation to accomplish many things. I knew when I came

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BUCKET LIST: Lessons learnt from Skydiving

Like all children, I had strong faith in my infinite ability to achieve anything; in fact I still do. I was 12 when I found out about skydiving and automatically I knew I had to do it. I knew this was as close as I’d get to be Peter Pan. A couple of years later, I had my first chance

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BUCKET LIST: GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING INDIAN WEDDINGS

When I was younger my mother never stopped speaking about how she loved India. In our house, we loved the food, the fabrics, the color, the movies, the ora. My father followed her one day, curious about her fascination but it ended in the complete opposite, he hated it. I always wanted to go and see how I felt. What

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Finding a new Home

I have been lucky with all my the flats I have lived in. It never took more than one to visit to know this was the one that would I would become my home. Maybe I am just easy going that I have never complain much about what I get. But for me all I wanted was a queen size

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Do friendships have an expiration date?

When I was a kid, and heard this expression “Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver, the other is gold.” I took it seriously and although it was hard for me to let someone really get to know me, once they did, I thought they would be there till we were old. And as a result I’m

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LIFE HAS A PATH OF ITS OWN

The plan when I started my masters was to move back to Cairo and to launch my coaching practice and offer adventure cycling trips. But as my masters started so did the Egyptian revolution and that plan sort of got distorted. As the path of the country was uncertain so was my future. I found myself having the opportunity to

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SAYING GOODBYE DOESNT GET ANY EASIER

Transitions are always difficult. This past month has flown by. From final projects, family visiting, traveling and now packing up. One year flown by and all that remains are things that need to be thrown away. Memories will always remain. I want to dedicate this post to two of the people I have come to love and cherish. With all

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HOW TO RECAP AN AWESOME YEAR : 2011

Another year has come and gone. 2011 has been a fabulous year, where I have been able to connect with some old friends and make new ones. I have been truly blessed to have such great people in my life. I then moved to Madrid for my masters at IE Business School. I arrived. I looked outside. The tree in

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Traveling Mindset

Recently my friend Susan shared with me a book which was basically a collaboration of powerful stories. It provoked to think about all the amazing people I have an opportunity to meet and how never to underestimate how much people go through. From my parents, family members, friends and absolute stranger, no matter the scale of the problem we have

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HOW TO COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS

We can not change the past, the present and the future however is in our hands. When I was growing up my mother drilled into us a story of being grateful. We were in the car on the way to school when my little brother wasn’t looking at the cars around and complaining because he wanted us to have a

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