Struggling to get motivated? Diane Southam shares some tips

In a recent interview, Daniel Radcliffe talked about his experience of living with dyspraxia, sometimes dismissively called 'clumsy child syndrome'.

The condition, which results from a complex neurological disorder, causes problems with coordination and simple tasks.  However, it is regularly misunderstood, and sufferers are often stigmatised as being lazy or clumsy.

Things are looking pretty gloomy financially.  But faced with great challenges it is both necessary and possible to generate hope, explains Daisaku Ikeda

Buddhism teaches that the same power that moves the universe exists within our lives. Each individual has immense potential, and a great change in the inner dimension of one individual’s life has the power to touch the lives of others and transform society.  When we change our inner determination, everything begins to move in a new direction. 

Hope, in this sense, is a decision.

Amazing! Mars has water, clouds and snow! Not quite the full skiing holiday you understand and I know Mars does look a bit bleak, writes Phil Becque. But this is great news for Mars lovers. Click on the image to see the glorious animation.

This sequence combines 32 images of clouds moving eastward across a Martian horizon. The Surface Stereo Imager on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander took this set of images on 18 Sept 2008, during early afternoon hours of the 113th Martian day of the mission.

Jason McElwain is autistic and didn't learn to talk until he was five. His big passion is  basketball and he served as manager and motivator for his High School team.

In 2006, aged seventeen, the team's Coach allowed him to suit up and join the game for the last four minutes. The result blew everyone's mind!

And now to Funny Stuff for a Socrates joke...

Business woman and mother Byron Katie spent ten suicidal years locked in her bedroom suffering from a severe self-loathing depression, until, one February morning in 1986, she experienced a life-changing realisation:

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts I suffered, but when I didn’t believe them I didn’t suffer, and this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared.

Katie’s waking up to reality led to her devising what she calls The Work. Unaligned to any religion or tradition her method of self-enquiry teaches people to challenge their suffering through empowering them to question their fixed, stagnant views on themselves, on others and on life.

For more examples of The Work in action visit Byron Katie's website.