Twenty minutes from Solymar and it feels like we are on a beach holiday. Along the Danube River in Budapest there are little beaches and restaurants from Spring – Autumn for tourists and locals alike. You can find families eating ice cream, groups of students canoeing up and down the river, and cyclists making their…
Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people’s criticisms; carry out your plan. – Paul J. Meyer The hardest part about moving to a new country, starting a new life and perhaps a new business is learning a…
“Any serious shift to more sustainable society has to include gender equality.” Helen Clark Women still earn 80% of their male counterpart’s salaries. Equality in the workplace has made progress but it is far from a level playing field. What do women bring to the table that men don’t? Perhaps women have a greater understanding of…
GRATITUDE CAN TRANSFORM COMMON DAYS INTO THANKSGIVINGS, TURN ROUTINE JOBS INTO JOYS, AND CHANGE ORDINARY OPPORTUNITIES INTO BLESSINGS. WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD Every family has their stories. They get passed down from generation to generation like old charms we glide our hands over until they feel smooth. They comfort us. They give us hope. Some make…
“SOME TRANSFORM THE SUN INTO A YELLOW SPOT, OTHERS TRANSFORM THE YELLOW SPOT INTO THE SUN.” PABLO PICASSO When I was a child my grandparents had an oversized oil painting over their fireplace mantle. A large ornate wooden frame, heavy for its size, bordered it. The canvas wasn’t stretched completely tight;…
Be thankful for what you have; you will end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. Oprah Winfrey Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends and family in Canada! Sending you piles of hugs and kisses! I miss having the big turkey dinner, making the rounds…
When you own your own breath no one can steal your peace. Author Unknown When I lived in Kits between lives, I took up yoga. It was there that I learned to master the full Yogic breath. You start to inhale slowly as much as you can, hold for a moment, and then inhale a wee bit…
The beautiful spring came: and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. Harriet Ann Jacobs Slowly the elephant of a house is getting done! At nearly 300 square meters, it sounded like a good idea at the time! But we have space for lots of visitors and it is…
Lucky me, I get to meet some of the most innovative, fascinating people in the world, who choose to live their lives in southern France. They come from all walks of life, from many different countries, but somehow they manage to find their ingenuity to start business, an…
Happiness, gladness or joy is a mental or emotional state of well-being defined by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. A variety of biological, psychological, religious and philosophical approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources. My life is dedicated to find my personal sources of happiness. To know…