What is age? What is beauty? What is happiness? Where does our self-confidence come from?

My mentor, the amazing Sonia, once advised me to write about my struggles and to keep writing, even in my darkest moments. What I am sharing today, however, is more about joy than sorrow. It is about magic and synchronicities and a few of the magical experiences Sonia brought me.

Children have a lot to teach us, especially babies. They are bold and fearless. When they learn to walk, to talk and to use their hands to eat, draw or play, they never let failure stop them. They just keep trying until they succeed. They don't blame other people for their failure, they try harder and they learn from...

Inside all of us, there is a little child and that child remembers everything, including the most painful memories.

This is probably the biggest temptation of all, and the biggest mistake. Once you start working on yourself, once you feel "enlightened", you might start thinking others should follow the same path. Well, they shouldn't and you shouldn't try to make them. Why you want to change others and why you shouldn't.

So, you have learned everything there is to know about the theory, you have the right tools and you use them every day. If you are not as happy, serene and contented as you tought you would be, here are a few things you can do.

Being a perfectionist means that you not only work on yourself - and on everyone else, but also that you push it to the extreme, like everything tou do, in your eagerness to "do it right". Can you recognize yourself in one -or more - of these attitudes and habits? I certainly do.