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Inspiration   Creativity   Wonder Deliberately exercising your eyes is one of those simple things that very few people do, but which can help immeasurably to maintain great vision. Here are ten such exercises which will take you no more than ten minutes to do. Give them a try — we can’t emphasise how useful they are! 1.  Blink for two minutes.  This exercise helps to regulate blood circulation inside your eyes. 2.  Rotate your head in a circular motion while staring ahead.  First from right to left, then up to down. This increases the blood circulation in your eyes. 3.  Look to your right, then slowly move you gaze left.  Then do the same thing in the opposite direction. 4.  Close your eyes and relax.  Darkness is believed to help strengthen the photoreceptor cells in your eyes, which...

Nick Vujicic was born with a rare disorder: he has no arms and no legs. Yet has tried hard, and learnt to be happy despite everything. And he made it. Today, Nick spends a lot of his time sharing his courage with others. We selected a few powerful quotations on self-belief from Nick’s book,  Life Without Limits . They can help literally anyone find courage, give them hope, and fill their hearts with self-confidence to achieve their dreams. If you need a friend, become someone else’s. If you don’t have hope, give hope to others. If no one opens, knock on several doors at once. We all can find something bad or imperfect in each other. But I prefer to look for grains of gold. Act in a such a way as to guarantee that your own actions inspire and empower you. We shouldn’t wait for happiness to simply ...

April 24, 2014  By  Rabia Chaudry   At 21 I married a man five years older than me.  The second time around, at 31, I married a man five years younger than me.* Eight years into our marriage, it still sends little shock waves through people when I mention this. There are sometimes oooohs and aaahhhs, eyes get bigger and rounder, and I can almost see folks wanting to high five me and slap my husband on the back for biting the bullet and marrying an older, divorced, single mom.  I have, no joke, been asked at least a dozen times how I managed to pull this off. But a decade ago when he proposed to me, I didn’t bounce off the walls. I advised him to speak to his elders and family, which he did. I was mature enough to know that marrying into a South Asian family meant actually marrying the family, and without their blessings there would likely be no blessing in the marriage.  So he dutifully approached his parents, armed with the story of  Khadi...