Life is in your hands

At this time in life and the strange time we're living in now, it's normal to feel all kinds of feelings. Some will feel frustrated and going stir crazy staying home all the time. Some are using this time to relax and do all the things they don't get to do when the "rat-race" is on. Like watching Netflix, spending quality time with their kids, cleaning out the garage and so on. Others are thriving in this time of opportunities and time given to do exactly what they never had time to do before. They are now creating their dream life from scratch. Whatever you decide to do in this day and age is up to you and whatever you decide is good. As long as you are at peace with your choice it doesn't matter what it is. You are the creator and the one and only who knows exactly what is best for you. I have had coaches that has told me that if I don't want to do this or that I'm just not committed to making the changes I want. What they don't realize is th...

Everything you think about everyday is what will be your life ... And here I am, on my way to a new apartment in the middle of the city. It will be smaller and more expensive but I will have freedom and  happy neighbors, and that is all that matters right now. For the last three years I've had screaming, paranoid crazy neighbors. And from the day I moved in here I've been looking for a way out. My first night in the apartment the son in the house was having a party, he was 17 years old and was home alone. The boys had a lot of music playing (LOUD) and they where throwing things on my living room window and looking at me from the outside. I had just moved in so I didn't have anything to cower the window with and I was feeling really uncomfortable. I let the landlords know what was going on and they made a call to the boy who started shouting and yelling before they left the house. After that the partying was going on every weekend because the parents left the house and...

I root for all of you who’s searching to find yourself. But you all need to stop looking out there! What you really are looking for is the true you! Your natural way of being! There’s no alternative you, there’s only the person you have become after all those years denying your true spirit. Your spirit is not the part that believes in God, Allah or the all mighty.  Your spirit is your belief in yourself, and as we grow and deny ourselves what we really are searching for (a good and happy life) we lose touch with our true spirit!  If you see yourself as a universe, and that you create what’s in it! All that goes on in your universe only happens to you no one else! If you are angry at someone and curse them you are only hurting yourself, they don’t notice! The one you’re angry at has no idea that you are spending all this energy being angry and they are walking around totally unaware of your feelings and actions! You can call them ignorant towards your unive...

The last 6 months have been packed with experiences and activities, from volunteering to traveling. In June it started with a Facebook group called "pick one plastic a day" and it has taken off. We were about 2000 members at the time and we grew into this massive group in just a few weeks. All of them exited about plastic reduction and garbage picking. I was surprised that so many people could get so involved about picking up other peoples trash, but there it was. What we do to save our planet. The summer was in general HOT in Norway this year, so I spent a lot of time cooling off and being lazy, but I still manage to go for a run every day by the river. It's a little cooler down there so it felt good to run with a little fresh breeze on my face.  I got to spend a lot of time with my family this summer, and I feel so blessed to have these memories to look back on. I've spent more time with my aunt who's now 90 years old, and my littlest niece who's ...

The nail polish on my toes has faded a long time ago, five weeks into a tree week vacation in Tobago. With no money and no shampoo, a Gypsy holiday not everyone can handle.  I surprised my boyfriend with a visit in Tobago. Fully knowing that he wasn’t prepared and that he would have to keep working and maintaining his business. I was just happy to be here I didn’t mind sleeping alone in the jungle in our new house that he built for us. But without a proper phone line I said it’s not possible for me to be there by my self. If an accident or emergency, by the time he found out and reach all the way up there it might just be too late. Another thing was that our water tank fell down and broke. There was a terrible rainstorm and I woke up from a loud crash thinking it was a tree that fell. When I woke up in the morning take my morning bath outside, I couldn't find the water tank ... It also took the toilet pipe with it in the fall.. hard to live without water, toilet and no phone l...

How do you get out of your own head and into a lighter, happier state of mind when you feel low and depressed?  From time to time people will find themselves in a low state of mind, there's a darkness around them that swallows all the light like the asphalt on a rainy night. How to get out of it is a skill that takes practice and dedication. It's so easy to just let the darkness swallow you and be passive feeling sorry for yourself, instead of forcing a happier thought into your head and actually taking responsibilities for how you're feeling. When you don't take responsibility for how you're feeling you can blame everyone and everything else. The whole world is to blame for how you are feeling and you are just a helpless victim.  Binge watching Netflix and bitching to everyone about your misery confirming to yourself that it's only getting worse and worse with time. Every time you talk about your misery in a non productive way, you add to your own misery a...

How do we grow as humans? What does it mean to grow? I believe that growth equals change, that in order for you to grow you have to make some changes. Not necessarily big changes but significant ones that you notice and can feel in your body. Like when you stop smoking, that's a change you feel for a long time. You are hunted by the nicotine monster for a long time after you've had your last cigarette. I have now been smoke-free for over a year, and just yesterday someone was passing me with a lit cigarette and I felt the need to ask for one. I didn't, because I'm supposed to be strong and a changed woman, but still that feeling of craving that cigarette sticks with me. And this is a change for the better, I am now healthier because I stopped smoking, so it's a good change. Change that you notice can also be if you change career or you get a divorce, that is also something you will feel for a long time and most of the time the things you feel the most and give...