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Continue reading →: When the Sky Fell: Part 1 – The Silent Years
There are seasons in life when you smile for the world but feel empty inside. For me, that season lasted almost three years – after diagnosis. I didn’t know its name then. Now I know it was depression. A mind at war Those first years were a nightmare. My mind…
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Continue reading →: Mission Possible: When Care Becomes Connection
Day One: Communication for Care We began with a simple menti question: “What’s one word that describes how you feel today?” The screen filled with words like happy, loved, energetic, cared, and connected.It was a snapshot of the human heartbeat within the hospital: people working hard, showing up, and still…
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Continue reading →: Smile and Let Smile – 19 Years of WordsFriends, What began in a small corner of the internet in 2006 has become a journey of nearly two decades. Smile and Let Smile started with urgency: a voice for protecting children in the Maldives. Over time, it grew into more than 1,000 posts across two WordPress homes, reflecting on…
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Continue reading →: Through the Cracks of Fear
Assalaam Alaikum. Sometimes, the most beautiful light enters our lives through the cracks of fear, pain, and uncertainty. We often imagine strength as standing tall and unshaken. Yet real strength is born in the quiet moments when we tremble, surrender, and still take the next step. Over the years, I’ve…
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Continue reading →: When Words Fade
As I near my 60th birthday, in sha Allah, I’ve been thinking about what time teaches us that books never could. One of those quiet lessons is this: never trust what people say to you completely. Not because they are dishonest: but because they are human. We speak from the…
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Continue reading →: Dancing with More: Toward a Life of Presence
This afternoon, I took a few quiet minutes to listen to Michael E. Long’s Taming the Molecule of More. It spoke to me in a world where we are constantly urged to seek more: through endless notifications and dopamine-driven environments. Long’s reminder is clear: dopamine is not happiness. It is…
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Continue reading →: Empathy as a Survival Skill: Insights from Mimi Nicklin
Impact Journeys: Special Episode with Mimi Nicklin – Empathy Advocate What a joy it was to sit down with Mimi on Impact Journeys. From the English countryside to Dubai, from Sri Lanka to the Maldives, her path has been shaped by one clear purpose: empathy. In this conversation we unpacked…
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Continue reading →: A call to hold the Anti-Corruption Commission accountable
Corruption is not only about stolen money. It is about stolen trust. Former Prosecutor General Hussain Shameem, in a recent blog post, sounded the alarm on distorted corruption case. On the surface, it looked like progress: a conviction, a sentence. But as Shameem argues, beneath the surface lies delay, bias,…
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Continue reading →: Corruption: The Theft of Trust
Corruption is often described in numbers. Millions siphoned off here, billions lost there. But the deeper cost is harder to measure: the erosion of dignity, the weakening of trust, the dimming of hope. When Justice Is for Sale When judges are compromised, justice becomes theatre. Citizens no longer believe in…
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Continue reading →: Chief Guest Highlights Constitutional Rights at Book Launch
Speaking at the launch of a new legal reference book by former Justice Husnu Suood, the Chief Guest Uz. Ahmed Muiz underscored the importance of protecting and promoting the fundamental rights guaranteed under the Constitution of Maldives. He noted that safeguarding fundamental rights and freedoms remains one of the most…
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Continue reading →: Discover Who You Are: Then Use It for Others
In The New Happy, one of the most striking lessons is this: discover who you really are, then use it to help other people. So simple. Yet so profound. We often chase happiness as if it were a prize to win, a destination waiting at the end of a long…
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Continue reading →: Leadership in the Age of Balance
Our parents worked long hours, often with little sleep, and carried the pride of sacrifice on their shoulders. Family and friends would wait while duty was fulfilled. For them work was everything. That was the way of the time, and it built the foundation on which we stand. Today’s youth…
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Continue reading →: The Blessing We Carry Forward
What a blessing it is to be born into Islam. For more than fourteen centuries, our people have carried this gift, passing it with love and sacrifice to the next generation. Today, that responsibility rests with us. Islam stands on two inseparable foundations: the Qur’an and the Sunnah. One without…
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Continue reading →: Let’s Embrace Nature’s Calm
There are days when our hearts feel heavy. Tension builds up: from deadlines, decisions, or unspoken worries. Yet, step outside, and a single flower can shift everything. Nature has this quiet power. Sometimes it disrupts: a sudden gust of wind, a bird darting across your path, a wave splashing higher…
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Continue reading →: Finding Time for Tomorrow
We often say, “tomorrow will be better.” But tomorrow does not arrive by accident. It arrives shaped by how we prepare today. So how do we honour tomorrow before it arrives? By investing in it. Not all our time, but a wise share of it. I believe we need to…
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Continue reading →: LiftCulture: where happiness fuels success, and uplifts people and performance
Every workplace has a pulse. Sometimes it beats fast with pressure, deadlines, and anxiety. Other times, it feels slow, drained, and heavy. But what if the rhythm of our workplaces could lift us, energize us, and deliver performance? That is the heart of #LiftCulture. Energy: The Sunshine We Bring Like…
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Continue reading →: When Leaders Speak in Codes
It is one thing when a colleague avoids confrontation. But when a leader chooses the path of indirect hostility: sarcasm instead of sincerity, silence instead of clarity, coded words instead of truth; the damage runs deeper. Passive-aggressive leadership is not new. Scholars note it thrives in autocratic cultures where people…
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Continue reading →: Breaking the Silence
A word. A gesture. A comment. Sometimes that is all it takes to destroy a person. I read this line today, and it opened the floodgates of memory. Pain that no one saw. Abuse that left no scars on the skin, but carved deep into the soul. Many of us…
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