F**K IT MILES, GIVE ME SOME PRIVACY

One of the things I've learned in the last few years is to express gratitude more. Even on a most unproductive, lazy day you can find things to feel gratitude towards to. The best thing about gratitude is that you can be grateful for just about anything.  When you try it for a while, you'll realize that gratitude will increase the overall feeling of happiness. Once you appreciate the little - and big - things you are or that you have, you'll start to feel more satisfied with your life. Gratitude will help you stay in the present moment, and let's face it, the present moment is all that you will ever have, so you might as well concentrate and enjoy it! Gratitude doesn't stop on yourself, because once you consciously teach yourself to be grateful, you'll find it only natural to help others find more things to be grateful for, too.  Three precious things I'll always be the most grateful for. I thought it was going to be hard to write a list ...

Let’s see, New Year’s resolutions. I have given this quite a lot of thought and this is the first year I’ll try to make some resolutions, but I’m having hard time picking just one, so here goes:  I’ll better my Dutch . I have already signed up for a conversation based learning course. Yesterday I talked to my taxi driver, an Afghan man who has been living in the Netherlands for 20 years and he thought I was Dutch. So my level doesn’t fully suck, but I also know some Dutch people who think I butcher the language to this date, so I gotta become so awesome that I can tell them to suck it. Last month I read about a guy whose New Year’s resolution for 2015 was to exercise a certain amount of hours during the year (I believe it was 150 hours) and since I started off last August quite nicely with adding regular exercise to my life, but somewhere in November when me or one of the kids were constantly ill, I stopped trying so hard, I decided it’s about time to get back on track. I sti...