On #Happiness...

On #Happiness...

It seems that so much has been said on the topic of happiness that whenever I see the headline containing this word, I more or less can predict what the content will be like.
Yet, in case of this TED talk, even though it was presented in 2009, I was not disappointed. Th speaker  Srikumar Rao offers an interesting idea - instead of focusing on the result, which is ingrained in all our mental formulas like "If I do this..., I'll get this and this...", he suggests that we should learn to enjoy the process, and learn to accept everything as it is.
Very inspiting and motivating talk!

http://www.ted.com/talks/srikumar_rao_plug_into_your_hard_wired_happiness

That awkward moment when you look at the blank page - and have absolutely no idea what to fill it with.
Beginning is never easy, and I've had so many in my life that it can form into a story of continuous obstacles that needed to be overcome.
Yet, today I want to start with a firm and well-defined-in-my-mind idea:
women have power, and the right to be respected and taken as equals to men in opportunities, career choices, household duties, and parenting!
You may ask why such a topic for the beginning of a blog - and I must say that I was inspired by the amazing example of Dame Stephanie Shirley, whose talk I watched on TED recently. http://www.ted.com/talks/dame_stephanie_shirley_why_do_ambitious_women_have_flat_heads.
Brilliant entrepreneur, generous donor to charity organizations concerned with autism, daring woman who started a software company back in the 1960s... Sounds impossible?
Besides, she made 70 employees  (all women) into multi-billionaires!
Now her company is worth 3 billion dollars.
As if this was not enough, the most shocking thing to me was that she is.. 81.
I'd never ever believe that!
THat's the power of TED - it brings something right up to our noses, makes us look inside, explore it, and after we did, we understand that the talk brought home something important to us, in this case, the idea that women are capable of significant achievements irrespective of what stereotypes are maintained in the society. It is in our power to overcome these stereotypes.

THank you, Dame Stephanie -or Steve ( as she used to sign her letters so that they would be read by male recipients)!