Inspirational

Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package. Keanu Reeves When people hear our story about how we sold it all to move across the world searching for happiness, many called it our "midlife crisis". I decided to write about how I feel about their knee jerk...

What is a quest? 'A long or arduous search for something.' It happens to be the most prominent theme of the book The Hobbit written by J.R.R. Tolkien; the transformation of the Hobbit named Bilbo Baggins. He starts off a shy creature living in the shire, small and meek, with a...

  Happy New Year! It is that time of year again! RESOLUTION time. I know, for most people they don't work, but for me it keeps me on track. I started writing this post from our home in Budapest, Hungary, having spent the holidays in our Elizabethtown 19th century apartment enjoying the festivities of the Christmas markets and visiting family and...

Wow, how time flies. August 2nd was the three year anniversary of our family leaving Canada to pursue happiness in the intoxicating dream continent of Europe. I know, people still think we are a little crazy. I assure you, however, if we are crazy, we are very happy in this state of mind. Moving away from family and friends is not for the faint...

  "Be happy in this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam  After reading books like; The Secret, The Happiness Project, Eat Pray Love, Deepak Chopra The Book of Secrets, The Power of Now, The Alchemist, Dr. Phil's Life Strategies; I started a happy thought journal on Oprah's suggestion, exercised each day, slept 8 hour per night, and ate right....

Just a note to our readers... this is not the usual post about travelling or moving to a foreign country, but a very personal account what travelling throughout Europe and moving allowed me to accomplish on a personal level.  I believe we all have the ability to determine our futures through the power of thought, the law of attraction...

Some teachers taught the curriculum today. Other teachers taught students today. And there's a big difference. I didn't go to school to become a teacher. Nope! I was scouted out in high school for a business management training program to work in a large retail grocery chain in British Columbia, CANADA where I grew up. A union job that paid...

IF A CHILD CAN’T LEARN THE WAY WE TEACH, MAYBE WE SHOULD TEACH THE WAY THEY LEARN. MICHAEL J. FOX Our family has been hosting French kids in our home for four year now between private lessons with the kids in our village and as a Linguistic Sejour. We have had nearly 200 students through our home in that time. We...

New Years Resolutions 2014- Strive for Perfection! 'I pledge to take my fitness, gardening, writing, teaching, cooking, singing, volunteer work and photography to a whole new level.' #1 Strive for Perfection What is perfection other than an unobtainable idea, yet we all strive for it. The idea if we work hard enough at something we will eventually be the best at it....

How do people deal with their emotions when someone close to them is dying? Some of us hide at home, drink too much, over eat, go to therapy, call friends, run away or as many different people there are in the world, are as many different solutions we can come up with when dealing with death and illness. After a...