Change what you can change
My friend Anna shared with me the following poem - which can also serve as a prayer - to help me cope with the cancer diagnosis. While it...
Living beyond limits
Just recently, I found the following inspiring TED-story of Amy Purdy. When she was 19, Amy lost both her legs below the knee. And now...
I have 2 birthdays :-)
I am lucky & fortunate to have 2 birthdays .... you wonder why? I was born on March 7th, so my 1st birthday is on 07.03. in 1970 And my...
Live without regrets
With my life's motto "live, love, laugh everyday" I believe that it’s important to live without regrets. A lifetime of making choices...
Chose your battles wisely
Are you sometimes catching yourself nagging, fighting and quarreling, wondering how to get out of the negative spiral? In the past months...
Invest your brain + heart
Recently when going into a meeting with a colleague, she asked if she should bring her laptop, and I answered, “Just bring your brain and...
Happiness Decision Tree
We only live once, and so we better be happy and love what we are doing. And if we are not happy with our lives, then let's not shy away...
Love what you do
In my life's motto "live, love, laugh everyday", to love does not only refer to the love between man and wife, parent and child, loving...
Make yourself a priority
To stay true to my life's motto "live, love, laugh everyday" means that I go through life with empathy, caring for others but at the same...
Rising to the occasion
My friend Sevil once told me about the Turkish saying, “We plan and the gods laugh at us.” That’s exactly how I feel sometimes because...