Monday, May 27, 2013

Choose to follow your dreams

You are the only one who really knows what you want from life and if you're on the right road for you. You are the only one who can fulfill your dreams and receive the joys and happiness that come from reaching those aspirations and goals.

Don't expect others to be responsible for your happiness and your success. You must take control and be in charge of your destiny and day-to-day situations. Take advice (most of the time it's free) and listen to what others have to say and what concerns they have; it's important to have different points of view. But always validate those words of wisdom with your own set of standards and make sure that the advice has meaning to your sense of reality.

You must understand yourself enough to know what you want in life and what desires you believe are worthwhile for your future. You need to depend upon yourself and your talents. Appreciate others for their personal skills and abilities, but always continue to focus on your own strengths and energies. Life is much too short to spend it worrying about someone else's accomplishments or expecting someone else to be responsible for making your life better.

If you have dreams, then you have a purpose. You have something to believe in and work towards obtaining. Dedicate yourself to yourself. Promise yourself a life filled with love, and then whatever roads you travel will be the roads you want them to be.

Choose Life's Adevnture

If you've always wanted to travel but don't because you are worried about your job, money, or obligations then you limit your life experience and forgo your dreams. By opening you heart and perceiving the universe as positive energy being drawn towards you, you'll have clarity to make those dreams come true. Thoughts create change. Change your thoughts, your responses to the world around you and the world around you will change.  The positive energy you harness will create the path you want to be on, create the reality you want.

What we do every day is our life...is our reality.  Our reality doesn't have to be a cubical, or cash register.  Our reality is what we create by thinking differently and following the path we want to be on. If thoughts create our reality then it is actions that define that reality.  Take action to make your life what you want it to be. Take action to consciously chose a life full of love, laughter and happiness.  Why settle for anything less?
If everything happens for a reason and I believe it does, then it is our interpretation of what happens that defines that experience.  We can have a tragedy or hardship in our life and our path is determined by    our response. If we see ourselves the helpless victim of our circumstances, our life experience  will that of a victim with no control of our path. If we see the tragedies and challenges as opportunities to overcome and find personal growth and peace in life we will be in control of the path we follow,  Our life is a sum total of each experience we have. Our response to these experiences determine our attitude and outlook on life. We can chose our path, follow our true north, embrace a life of love, laughter, and happiness by responding to our human experiences in this way. Putting love, laughter, and happiness out to the universe and we will attract the same pulling positive energy towards us.

Open your heart and let the world in.  You will feel the pain and suffering but you can chose a path that surrounds you in love, laughter, and happiness.

Venice Italy

Venice is a magical city.  It looks to be right out of a Pirates of the Caribbean movie set, with boats lining the  canals, and the every building brightly colored and reflecting red, yellows, and blues against the water.  As the sun sets the lighted lanterns strung up along the cafes and restaurants add to that ambiance.

After a day of watching the Regatta boat racing, shopping at the outdoor markets, and strolling through St. Marks square delightfully dancing in the square to the live violin and piano music which serenades you as you stroll by, we decided to contribute to the over all splendor of the moment...it was after my husbands birthday...so we decided to create our own paradise within this already serene and magical destination..

We found a little pizzeria and four slices of incredible pizza and a lovely bottle of champagne and we had a picnic, canal side.  We at our pizza and drank a local sparking wine while sitting on the canal bank...this caught the attention people passing by laughing and smiling as they walked by. A local artist looked up from her sketch pad and offered to take a photos for us. Venice was magical in so many way.

Florence Italy

Today saw michaelangrlos gelid David in all it's glory larger than life spectacular and awe inspired truly brought art history class to life. Amazing a single piece of art can be so outstanding it stops you in your tracks and causes tears of pure joy to swell in your eyes. This is true art  at it raw core...an experience that will forever change me

Vienna Austria

Vienna a city I grew up hearing stories about... Today we saw the palace and viewed the city from the trolley which we took in the wrong direction... Twice, but all good took tons of pics and found the cocktails:)

The city is a landscape of  palaces, opera houses and museums all in classic architecture that show influences of Victorian, Greek, Roman and the Viennese Hungarian empire.  Every corner you turn you find yourself taken back in time with ornamental carvings and statues framing the window arches, doors and even columns.  Built as early as the 14th century these buildings are maintained in their original glory.  Additionally there are multiple classic Gothic churches with spears that are scattered across the city giving the landscape a unique flare as all the influences meld together along side the newer buildings creating a spectacular and elegant flare.

The food is exceptional with a variety of potato and pasta dishes with snitchel (breaded cutlets) along with fresh salads, fruit and vegetables giving you a hardy varied menu to tempt your senses, Pastries including hot fritters, strudel and danish with cheese, strawberry, and marzipan make for a desert or accompany a coffee Vienna style with whipped cream.  Also the only country fried eggs were on the menu.

Handsome cabs with old style carriages line the streets along the museum district where prince Albert's palace and the parliament buildings are all close by.  Inside is an old school horse stables with the court yard of what could be a palace in itself has horse stables to house the many horses that pull carriages through the streets.

It's an artistic city with public sculptures and fountains in the parks and squares.  Some from the 14th to 16th centuries others modern art.  And just as the buildings old and new meld to provide a dramatic and elegant landscape the art work so prevalent throughout the city gives you a unique sense of this historical city.

Connected with and underground subway and above ground trolleys make the city very accessible.  The University of Vienna is in the center of the city yet somehow on and near campus you feel very much like you are in a college town with large open areas, parks, and green trees.

Sunday, May 26, 2013


Bring your best possibilities to life!!  You are right where you should be at this moment. Then there is what is next.... Whether your life up to this point has been easy or whether it has been difficult, you are here just the same....Your destiny does not care about your past. There are plenty of reasons why you are here at this time. What matters are your reasons to move forward. Your triumphs of the past are now just pleasant memories... and your past failures are behind you. 
In this moment you are completely free. The only thing holding you back is your belief that something is holding you back...Believe you are fearless and nothing can stop you!
Today is your opportunity to fully taste that freedom and to get beyond the limits you've imposed on yourself. Reach inside and find your strength, you love, your laughter and joy!  
You life is here for the taking! Take it!!!


Be here now, in this moment...
For this is the only moment we have...this now! This is this one space of time, a time like no other...a moment to listen to your heart, and trust your inner wisdom. Think of all the wonderful things you have to be thankful for and know in this time...you chose greatness, success, and abundance in your life.
In this moment your choice is magnified by your focus on the positive and this will open your heart and the Universe will vibrate with your positive energy.
In this moment, you chose to have an abundance of love, laughter and happiness in life...look around....you can't miss it!