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Audrey Giorgi: “Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.”

Steve Jobs: “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

Howard Newton: “People forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it.”

Henry Bromel: “They say dreams are the windows of the soul–take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.”

A. A. Attanasio: “Silence is a text easy to misread.”

Obviously no one ever suffers from a clogged toilet (especially not after a ‘longer than usual visit’ bluhhh 🙂 ), but just in case your toilet does clog up one day do try the following method! LoL

Anonymous: “Don’t let yourself forget what it’s like to be sixteen.”

Oprah Winfrey: “Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.”

Madonna: “That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure.”

Og Mandino: “Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return.”

Robert Ingersoll: “Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.”

Erica Jong: “A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.”

W. Somerset Maugham: “A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.”

(applies to father too btw.)

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: “There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.”

Wayne Dyer: “Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.”

As I have played clarinet for many many years (still own one, though my play is a bit rusty 🙂 ), I am pretty familiar with the complexity of the instrument, Linsey Pollak’s creativity is making it an extremely simple instrument though, an eyeopener!

He defines creativity as the putting together of two previously unrelated things and creating something new. Well, watch what he does with a carrot and saxophone mouth piece…he got me stunned, amazing!!!

Malcolm Gladwell: “We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.”

Sheryl Crow: “It’s not having what you want…It’s wanting what you’ve got.”

Happy New Year y’all!

I wonder what opportunities I will encounter in 2015. For sure it is going to be another year of filled with exploring, learning, occasional lows and many highs, overall *experiencing* and getting to know myself and my role in this experiment called Earth and humanity!

For starters, this January 1st has been really slow so far (after an intense and loonnng night partying and dancing my ass off with friends at Metz NYE in Rotterdam 🙂 ), though I am pretty sure the rollercoaster ride will start soon enough so, let’s get started! 🙂

Oh, as I am no guy for New Years resolutions you will not find them here. 🙂 I believe more in New Day resolutions…in the end, January 1 is ‘just’ another new day, ah? (especially when you consider that half the world population (China and India) celebrate New Year on a different date!)

Today is that unique and special day in the year when one day makes a whole year difference; we turn the imaginary page of time tonight and after celebrating it we wake up in a brand New Year. By then, page 2014 of the ‘book of life and the world’ has been completely written, and we have stored all experiences of the past year in it.

The year of 2014 has been a year with many ‘firsts’; I established my own company, saw the Northern Light, made trips to London, Ibiza, Mallorca and Macedonia (though the last one was mainly work related), enjoyed a splendid summer in Norway, Misha turned three and the big little boy now experiences the next phase in kindergarten/pre-school (in the group of 3-6 year old)…it has all in all been a fantastic year, and as always, a continuous process of letting go of past and getting to know the present and future possibilities…highs and lows are all balanced in the end.

It is good to know that all the 2014 experiences are stored in a safe place; in my heart and my memory…I can look back, laugh, cry, read, learn, and all of that without any regrets!

Writing things down and then turning the page of time also means that things can be put to rest…it is a good moment to go on and look forwards towards everything that future offers, 2015 here I am, woohoo!!

Time…it is o-so relative…I wish everyone a splendid life in the Now, filling each moment with unconditional love, sharing it and passing it on…