A way of life
Part 6e of my Magic Test of Seven My review of the book: The Happiness Quest from Lana Pelrose I believe this book is a fantastic read for anyone; whether you suffer from depression, know someone who does or are just interested in putting yourself in someone else's shoes. Lana writes very honest, More +
Part 6d of my Magic Test of Seven My learning's from the book: Toen ik je zag - Mijn leven met Antonie written by Isa Hoes. (When I saw you - My life with Antonie) I would like to start off with a few facts as per Wikipedia: Suicide resulted in 842,000 deaths in 2013 up from 712,000 deaths in 1990. More +
Part 6c from my Magic Test of Seven Learning's from the book: Vom Unsinn des Sinns oder Vom Sinns des Unsinns from Paul Watzlawick As the book is in German, and my blog in English, I won't quote any the phrases this time around. I'll just try my best shot at telling the stories that Paul shared in his More +
Part 6b of my Magic Test of Seven My learning's from the book: "Everything that remains" from The Minimalists Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus I'll start off again with a few sentences, sentence fragments and dialogues, which made me "ear" the book. Actually, I made a lot of dog ears . . . More +
Part 6a of my Magic Test of Seven So what did I learn from the marvelous book from John-Paul Flintoff titled: "How to change the world"? Let me start off with a few sentences from the book that very much resonated with me: "The Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy was one of the first to observe that history More +
Part 6 of my Magic Test of Seven I consider the power of reading tremendously. Books can make you travel to places that may only exist in your imagination. Making your world - however limited or difficult it may be - infinite. Beyond that, books are great teachers. In 2013, Dr. Alice Sullivan and Matt More +
Part five of the Magic Test of Seven. I've read a lot about the pro's and cons of setting goals. I can see both sides of the story. For me the truth is - as so often - somewhere in the middle. The balancing act of life. If I don't plan at all, it is easy to procrastinate. Yet ever so often procrastinating More +
The past few days I've spent in my mobile home again. My husband calls it our "Wellblechhütte". Our "corrugated iron hut". I just love being there. Life has a different pace. We sleep a little longer. It's often been told that the sea air makes people sleepy. I read on Google: "Sea air is charged with More +
Part 4 of my magic test of seven. One way to find out what you love to do is by letting your mind drift and see where it heads to. Life is a journey. Many things happen to us, and we just have to deal with it. At the same time though we have two legs. We are in charge of either standing still and letting More +
Part three of my magic test of seven Have you ever asked yourself who you want to be? Who am I and Who do I want to be are two very intriguing questions. I think the first question you need to ask others, but the second question you need to answer for yourself. This is who I would like to More +