Category: Personal Development

  • Searching for Personal Fulfillment

    Searching for Personal Fulfillment

    Running a marathon perfectly exemplifies setting and reaching a personal goal. It demonstrates the satisfaction of accomplishing a goal regardless how big and difficult it is, and this is what makes us feel fulfilled. Personal fulfillment goes beyond achieving a specific or short-term goal. It’s the realization of our life’s goals, aspirations, dreams and visions—those…

  • Walking The Camino de Santiago: A Metaphor of Life and Adventure in Spain

    Walking The Camino de Santiago: A Metaphor of Life and Adventure in Spain

    Last month, I completed The Camino del Norte (Northern Way), one of the several routes of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage. It was in fact my second Camino after completing Camino Frances (French Way) a year ago. This time, I did it together with my wife and we covered a total of 345km across three…

  • Out Of The Comfort Zone

    In Paulo Coelho’s novel the Alchemist, Santiago is a shepherd who decides to pursue a recurring dream in search of a treasure that lays hidden in the pyramids of Egypt. The story of Santiago teaches us many lessons; resilience, perseverance, self-growth and purpose. This was only possible because he left the comfort of his routine…