Gabriele Steindl: Professional Kitesurfer & Freelance Writer - Action, Lifestyle & Travels
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Dec 17
MERRY X-MAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR!
This time of the year is for most of us pretty mad (although it should be the complete opposite!), I suppose that’s how the Western world rolls. The good news is, however, that in all the craziness everyone has the power to do things differently. In between all the family commitments, shopping, eating and celebrating 😉 I hope you find some time this Christmas to just chill out and take time to reflect on the past year. As the year ends, it’s a great opportunity to look back at everything you have achieved, experienced and discovered and the lessons you have learnt along the way. It’s also a great time to plot where you want to go in the future.
I can only encourage you to set time aside some “me time” and really look and feel inside. Ask yourself “were my goals met”, “am I happy”, “what is it that I really want to do and experience in this life”. Too often our lives are so busy that we lose the connection to our heart and dreams.
But life is too short not to dream and to live dreams !! …or to live an unhappy, unfulfilled life.
Dream – Believe – Commit — BECOME !
My year has been pretty awesome. Of course, there are always ups & downs, that’s only natural and also fundamental to personal development and growth. But overall, I now know myself once again a little better and have lived a few more of my dreams 🙂 My travels this year have taken me to Japan, Laos, my birthplace Austria, the deepest Outback of Western Australia, South America… to name some of my personal highlights of 2017.
I live and breathe for exploring the world and all the adventures that are out there to be lived!
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
With this quote from Neale Donald Walsch, I love you and leave you but not before wishing you from all my heart a
VERY MERRY X-MAS and a GREAT RIDE INTO THE NEW YEAR !!!
Carpe diem guys, I always love to hear from you,
Gabi x
P.S. The photo – thanks to Ian Trafford – is me in my beloved camper van on my solo-adventure of 14.000kms in New Zealand, I pretty pretty much circled the whole of the South island and the North island, an absolute once-in-a-lifetime experience!