by Sunil Bali, 23-09-18

When he was asked to explain his theory of relativity in simple terms, Einstein replied, "Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity." Or, as someone else once philosophized, "The length of a minute depends on which side of the bathroom door you are."

Time tends to increase or decrease depending how conscious you are of it.

When you’re feeling stressed, time goes slowly, but when you’re in the moment, loving life with a lightness of being, then you seem to have all the time you need ….. you look at your watch and what seemed like magic moments and minutes, turn out to be happy hours and delightful days.

Lovers really do make a fool of time.

The ancient Greeks had two different words for time:

Chronos – this is calendar time. Seconds, minutes, hours and days

Kairos – this literally means, "when the time is right"

Most of us wear chronometers (watches). But what if we wore kairometers instead which tapped into our heart, our gut and our soul, so we took the right action at the right time. To eat only when we’re hungry, to rest whenever we’re tired, and to take the action that our intuition is nudging us to take.

Time is a bit like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy.

So make sure you do the light thing.

Hat tip: Alan Cohen

Humour

- I thought that training as an airport baggage handler would be fairly simple ….. but actually, there’s a lot to take on board.

- Great news for insomniacs. Only 3 sleeps until Xmas.

- My neighbour knocked on my front door at 3am in the morning. Luckily, I was still up playing drums.

Here’s a video of comedy genius Dave Allen in action, Dave Allen: would you Adam and Eve it (5 min video)

Live big & love deep.

Sunil

www.sunilbali.com

by Sunil Bali, 16-09-18

In his book, "Dying for a Paycheck," Stanford Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer says that the workplace is killing us, because the blinkered focus on profit above all else is leading to very high levels of psychological and physical ill health.

So the holiday season may be over, but please do take care of yourself, because if you died tomorrow the chances are that your job would be posted on line before your obituary.

As you get back into work mode may I suggest that you focus on being pretty……. pretty kind, pretty creative, and pretty strong, so that you’re low on stress and high on happiness.

Humour

- A cow stumbles in to a field of marijuana. The steaks have never been higher.

- Crushing cans of pop is soda pressing.

- Well to be Frank, I’d have to change my name.

- I was going to turn vegan, but realised that it would be a big missed steak.

- I had a job drilling holes for water ….. it was well boring.

- I took out a loan to pay for an exorcism. If I don’t pay it back, I’m going to get repossessed.

And finally, please do spare a thought for my mother-in-law who has been taken taken to hospital after a bee landed on her face. Luckily she wasn’t stung because I was too quick with the spade.

Live big & love deep.

Sunil

www.sunilbali.com

by Sunil Bali, 09-09-18

Coco Chanel lived a truly spectacular life. As well as creating one of the most iconic fashion brands in history, Chanel was an ardent advocate of gender equality and freedom of expression.

The forward-thinking designer – née Gabrielle (Coco was her nickname) – was raised in an orphanage where the nuns taught her how to sew, and started her career as a singer in Paris cafes before eventually turning to design.

Her personal life had its twists and turns as did her fashion label. During World War II Chanel was forced to close the business and only re-entered the world of fashion in 1954 when she was 71 years old, because she was bored by the fashion of the time.

Above all else, Chanel was irresistibly bold throughout her life.

Here are ten of her best quotes:

1. If you’re sad, add more lipstick and attack.
2. I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.
3. The most courageous act is to think for yourself.
4. Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.
5. A girl should be two things. Who and what she wants.
6. Keep your heels, head and standards high.
7. Beauty begins the moment you start to think for yourself.
8. How many cares one loses when one decides to be not something, but someone.
9. I don’t do fashion. I am fashion. The bags under my eyes are Chanel.
10. Be with someone who ruins your lipstick and not your mascara.

Humour

- Red sky at night, sheds on fire.
Red sky in the morning, sheds still on fire.

- A duck is waiting to cross a busy road.
A chicken walks up to him and says, "Don’t do it, man. You’ll never hear the end of it."

- Why did the cows return to the Marijuana field?
It was the pot calling the cattle back.

Live big & love deep.

Sunil

www.sunilbali.com