I love the idea of spreading positive stories of hope and inspiration.That’s why I started writing about blogging journeys.But today for the first day of, We are the world Blogfest ,I want to share with you a new story . A story about upliftment .
In the first post of this blog hop , I want to tell you about Ulrike and Janwaar castle.
Janwaar in Madhya Pradesh in India has India’s first skate park up. The woman behind it is the inspiring Ulrike Reinhard who has many feathers in her cap.
It’s designed as an open-ended the social experiment, where the people are not given money as aid .They are empowered.They are asked to learn something ,which in its turn is rewarded.Started with children ,this model is classic application of positive reinforcement ,acting as a motivator for learning
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.
We are the World Blog fest:Teach a man to Fish
Credit is not known (Chinese, Native American, Italian, Indian, or Biblical. Sometimes it is linked to Lao-Tzu, Maimonides, or Mao Zedong. I love the principle of removing poverty and promoting self-sufficiency. But is it ever easy or full proof? The 12th-century philosopher Maimonides wrote about eight degrees in the duty of charity. In 1826 an analysis of the eighth degree was published in a journal called “The Religious Intelligencer”. Boldface has been added to excerpts:
Lastly, the eighth and the most meritorious of all, is to anticipate charity by preventing poverty, namely, to assist the reduced brother, either by a considerable gift or loan of money, or by teaching him a trade, or by putting him in the way of business, so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding up his hand for charity. . .
What Ulrike is trying through Janwaar castle is to teach these little children about life; lessons. But not directly.She knows life for them is not easy and choice impossible.But by being an example Ulrike is teaching these children, the future of the world the truth about life and living.About learning and doing.About walking the talk.
So what should we do?What can we do?
It’s not easy trying anything new anywhere in the world and even less in India.But should that stop us ? The world belongs to each of us.It’s our duty to each try, in our own space, with whatever time and resources we have, to make this world a better place.I am trying through my blog and through my profession.By choosing to stay in India.Maybe I am making a difference?Maybe not.!But at least I am trying!Are you trying?
On Monday Mommy Moments we are reviewing Kitchen products this week.Your kitchen is the food central.It also needs a lot of upkeep.A well organised cheerful kitchen is a joy to cook in.
At #MondayMommyMoments we know a mom needs to cook.If not for anyone, but for the little one.That’s why we wanted to write about, what helps us most.Monday Mommy Moments is in its 13th week and we have got a wonderful response.We are planning fun surprises , quizzes, goodies and much more.
If you write regularly ,plus follow the rules you stand a chance to win amazon gift vouchers too!Plus goodies ,a chance to join our exclusive facebook group and opportunity to be beta testers for our upcoming courses.Our Supermom for February was Dipika Singh .She shares her joys with us through these tweets.It just made our day
Review your favourite kitchen product .It maybe your favourite appliance microwave, mixie, coffee maker .It maybe your favourite cook and serveware.It may also be your baking goodies.Have a favorite masal mix ?Share its review with us on #MondayMommyMoments this week.
#MondayMommyMoments 13 prompt
If you are doing A to Z we know how worried and hassled you may feel.Relax its supposed to be fun.Check out The A TO Z Challenge site.
Mommy are you doing A to Z CHALLENGE ?
If you plan to make it into an e-book fiction or nonfiction and self-publish please read this article Blog to Book.
This is supposed to be fun and not stressful
You have Sundays off.
Try to remember to write a few posts in advance
Definitely, read comment and share.Think about why you want to do A to Z challenge
Its definitely double trouble for Mommies .Do it only if you enjoy a challenge.Not if it will make you lose sleep.
#MondayMommyMoments supporting #AtoZ Challenge
If you are a mommy and doing AtoZ challenge we would love to help you.We know how difficult and crazy things can get, Just input your details in thisformand we will keep you in the loop about all other mommies who will be doing the challenge with you.
Our winner this week is Akshata Ram .Mommy , blogger , CA by profession and an enthusiastic learner at all times.Read her winning post here.
Featured blogger is a chance to celebrate the mothers who blog despite their crazy schedules.Its a chance to give their creativity a much needed boost.The celebration of mommy superpowers that motherhood gives all women.Being a mommy makes us do the impossible.It makes us reach unmeasurable heights.It also lets us break those invisible glass ceilings which we know exist.Let’s create a more positive world together .The pen is mightier than the sword and the power of the internet can make your words powerful beyond measure.
Akshata shares her joy at multiple wins this week
RULES OF LINKY
Comment on this post and cohosts post
You can write a post on the prompt .Or link up your new post in the linky.
We share and visit each blogger who link up.
This is not just a blog hop.This is a journey.
That’s a total of at least 4 posts we want you to give some love .
Use #Mondaymommymoments or #MMM in your post and share in social media using the same hashtag.
By Joining the linky you are giving us permission to email and or tweet you a weekly reminder.
Did you know reading blogs makes your Alexa better?
We deeply believe in community spirit.Eagerly looking forward to visiting your blogs.
Prompts will be announced every Sunday at 20.00 hrs IST.Linky open till Saturday 23.55 hours.We always visit the blogs and promote them as much as possible.Its like your own blog promo .Whats not to love?
We share your entries on twitter and other social media platform generously. Who doesn’t like blog promotion?
Blog hops :How to get the most benefits
Link up now .Submit a post on the prompt or as many as you want.Just click the blue button below
When you say “thank you “the universe does give you more of the same .Life gives us all chances and choices ,what we do,with these chances and what we choose makes a lot of difference.
My joys have been a result of difficult choices.
Independence
Deciding to study in Delhi was difficult. I had never lived away from home.But that experience helped me learn what I was capable of .Including midnight madness.Coping with peer pressure and homesickness can be potent.
That choice helped me realize my strengths. The joy of being independent and learning how to choose friends wisely .
Being married
I love being married .The joys of married life make a lot of troubles disappear.My hubby is my best friend and my favourite sounding board for my 2pm ideas.It helps that he has oodles of patience and the kindest person I know.He once told me
“If you can’t say something nice it’s always better to keep quiet.”
So simple to avoid trouble and unpleasantness. So difficult to learn.
Being a mommy
My daughter is a darling .She makes me enjoy all things creative with her .Revisiting childhood with her makes life better.Motherhood is a joy and source of all my creativity.
Love of nature
I love gardening and the joy of staring at a bud or a freshly bloomed rose is ummatched. I just love spending time surrounded by nature.The medical college and hospital where we work had few trees and plants. But the authorities are taking care to give the grounds a green cover.It’s a pleasure seeing the saplings everywhere. Studies prove that hospital rooms with green views have patients recover more quickly .Mental health plays a large role in physical recovery.
I rarely vacation any place without nature around. At least the resort should have green cover .Concrete jungles make me bored after a few hours.I am thankful that God takes care of my love for nature at home and when I travel.
Once you take care to travel healthy ,your adventures will always leave you happy and rested. .
What can I say, I survived med school ,because I used to promise myself limitless library visits, after exams were over.Kolkata has an Eloor Library close to Ballygunge station.We are still members and I love visiting this place to pick up old favourites and find new loves.
I feel writing has been on my friend list, but lost in kumbh mela, reunited again magically .After class twelve ,medical school had enough going on for me to have no time for any recreational writing.
I started writing when I realized that information can help create awareness. It helps me spead preventive health care at zero cost to the people I want to help, without tearing my hair over it.Repeating the same thing over and over again made me want to have a place to store all this information. Someday hopefully , someone will be helped.
My happy time includes family books ,nature ,access to my blog and opportunity to travel.
Dream in life: Financial freedom to do all this for life.
Aim in life :To help women who travel with me find this road .
While I am writing the post I am lounging at the poolside in Goa .Yes I am travelling .The wifi here has an interesting charge of 100 rupees per hour .So I am thankful to Vodafone 3G.It’s not doing too badly and saving me money I can’t give to this hotel!
This week has been impossible. My biggest help at the hospital had to take leave suddenly because of a family emergency. Last year’s batch of interns had their convocation yesterday,which unfortunately I missed and the next batch is starting today.We missed both the events because we desperately needed a break.Rai’s new session starts next week and I get crabby and my feet tingles every 2 months.I like doing little or nothing on holidays .The sheer bliss of no worries can be the biggest therapy.
Summers at the hospital are beyond crazy .Queues stretch wherever you look.The poor people who throng the hospital ,have a tough time and so do the doctors .Writing on the prescription pad ,medicine slip ,investigation slips get progressively challenging as the mercury rises .When there are 77 doctors per lakh patients in India how can doctors maintain any uniformity in the service they offer.
A doctor in Mumbai had referred a patient to a different hospital for a neurosurgery consultation .He was so badly beaten up that he lost an eye.I have faced threats of bodily harm by people claiming to be family members ,because they believed only males can be surgeons.I still have nightmares .
Do I lament the ignorance of these people or pray for my own self ?
Can anyone honestly be above human error? While I am going to write my thankfulness post with a worried heart, I wonder how far things will get worse before things can get better
Prompt this week
5 small joys that you are Thankful for
Our winner this week is Manisha of zarahatkeblog.wordpress.com.
Manisha of zarahatkeblog.wordpress.comThankful Thursdays winner Manisha :Congratulations
RULES OF THE LINKY
Write on the prompt and Link Up.
You can link up any woman’s day related post in this linky.You can also link up other posts .
Just comment on this post and my co-hosts post and any two of the posts in the link up. I deeply believe in community spirit.Eagerly looking forward to visiting your blogs.
Blog hops :How to get the most benefits
Follow @misra_amrita @twinklingtina ,@Deepagandhi1 @Mayuri Prompts will be announced every Wed 20:00 hrs IST.
Write the post and Link Up with Amrita , Tina,Deepa or Mayuri .
By Joining the linky you are giving us permission to email and or tweet you a weekly reminder.
We share your entries on twitter and other social media platform generously.Who doesn’t like blog promotion?
Read, comment, share on host and co-hosts posts and at least two more posts linked in the party .
Pro Tip – Networking and commenting is good for your blog’s health and ranks
Comment rules: 2 sentence at least 15 words and should be relevant to the main post.
Use #ThankfulThursdays in your post and share in social media using the same hashtag.
Every week we will have one featured blogger who is the best reflection of this community spirit.
A, few days back someone kindly offered me a barter.
He offered to give me an upgraded blog.You just need to.write five 1000 word posts per month for me.The contract will be for 1 year.I will be getting a lot of contacts who will have paid work too which obviously he will send my way (for a commission).
Wow sounds like an angel screams my heart.
Eeks that’s work with no pay for which he will have a legal contract and you will be giving access to your blog’s database. (He will need that if you want to revamp your blog! )
My hubby who helps me with all sensible and practical decisions, of running this little venture looked aghast.
You already have a system in place for working with brands independently and through platforms like Blogmint.Why did you even talk to him?
Oh, he got my attention by saying he will pretty up my blog!
A to Z April challenge #MMM and A TO Z
Lessons I learnt being a mom blogger
If something sounds too good to be true,its probably not true.
If it can’t be explained simply it’s probably because I can’t get it clearly myself or haven’t spent enough time on it.Blogging helped me be more creative with my explanation of medical jargon.
People will try to sell you stuff all the time.Just like in a mela. But you know that right?People want to earn money ,take care of their family etc.But you buy deciding on whether it would help you,whether you can afford it.Until you get some guidance, it takes a little time.But you can do it.Either time or money something you have to spend, something!
Blogging is a unique platform .It’s your own publishing world.What you send out into the virtual world will hopefully be there for your great grandchildren to read.So make it count.Digital immortality.
Does blogging make real income in a non-sleazy manner?Yes . Is it easy? NO .Is anything in the world which gives you a good income, easy ?No.Doctors have a comfortable lifestyle.The levels of comfort vary with the hours we put in , the stress on our health , the time from our family.Plus we help people too That’s really the cherry on the cake.
That’s why blogging attracted me.You help. You constantly learn and with time you learn the secret.
Blogging as a career option has one major problem.Until you have something to sell and which helps make an income, your income is hardly stable. But there’s good news.If your blog has authority you will have brands willing to work with you.Now choose carefully.
#A TO Z THEME REVEAL: Mommy blogging with #MondayMommyMoments
If you blog just to share your thoughts ,that’s fine too.Just don’t judge others, because they have different goals.Until you have a goal you reach know where.That’s the truth.
Ultimately only things which help others and have value stand the test of time.
Find at least a few friends do who will tell the truth.Make a mastermind group.Share and grow together.
For mom bloggers who want to do it by themselves, it’s never easy.Plus it’s a blessing that I don’t have a credit card.
Saying that, for my theme I plan to demystify and tell the truth about the Genius Blogger’s toolkit and other Blogging tools/books/courses, health hacks and time management tips I use to stay sane.
How much it helps and what I learnt.Thats my April goal.Lots of reading ,learning and writiung.
A to Z theme reveal : Mommy Bloggers link up
I am linking up with Blogchatters A to Z theme reveal here
Writing this for #MondayMommyMoments
Monday Mommy Moments with Deepa and all of you is a wonderful journey.It’s like a Godsend.When I started blogging, one of my first posts was on mompreneurs who inspired.I shared my inspirations and all that I learnt.On the way, I learnt moms all over the world struggle.They struggle because they want to take care of baby, family and not lose their identity ,their sense of self!
“Do what you can, with what you have, wherever you are.” – by Theodore Roosevelt
Mom bloggers try to make a difference with what they have ,wherever they are , that’s called a challenge.All moms face this challenge.That’s why our message to the world, the brands we work with ,the stories we share resonate.
Prompt this week is your story as a mom blogger .What have you learned in your journey?What and who has helped you ?
Monday Mommy moments:Mom blogger
Today is the A to Z theme reveal.Are you doing it ?Like we always say if you cant write on the prompt., no worries.Just write .If you are doing A to Z we know how worried and hassled you may feel.Relax its supposed to be fun.
Mommy are you doing A to Z CHALLENGE?
5 things you should know about A to Z
The theme is not mandatory.But if you plan to fill up your blog content with in-depth information about a particular topic , this can help.If you have written a theme reveal post you can link up here on #MMM.
If you plan to make it into an e-book fiction or nonfiction and self-publish please read this article Blog to Book.
This is supposed to be fun and not stressful
You have Sundays off.
Try to remember to write a few posts in advance
Definitely, read comment and share.Think about why you want to do A to Z challenge.
Our winner this week is Richa Choudhury Read her winning post here.
Richa Choudhury. (Image credits) Featured mompreneurs for #MondayMommyMoments
Richa Choudhury blogs about her life and challenges as a mom and parenting.She is a java developer , fashion lover , other postexcellent cook a loving mom and a blogger.Read all about her at here
#MondayMommymoment
RULES OF LINKY
Comment on this post and cohosts post
You can write a post on the prompt .Or link up your new post in the linky.
We share and visit each blogger who link up.
This is not just a blog hop.This is a journey.
That’s a total of at least 4 posts we want you to give some love .
Use #Mondaymommymoments or #MMM in your post and share in social media using the same hashtag.
By Joining the linky you are giving us permission to email and or tweet you a weekly reminder.
Did you know reading blogs makes your Alexa better?
We deeply believe in community spirit.Eagerly looking forward to visiting your blogs.
Prompts will be announced every Sunday at 20.00 hrs IST.Linky open till Saturday 23.55 hours.We always visit the blogs and promote them as much as possible.Its like your own blog promo .Whats not to love?
We share your entries on twitter and other social media platform generously. Who doesn’t like blog promotion?
