A blessing or a curse?

I don't know how you are but I LOVE technology. I enjoy figuring out how things work. I love the challenge of setting up a new device. I love that I can live my life the way I want and still feel connected to my family, friends, ex-students and colleagues from all over the world. I love that I can run my business while having a relaxing time at a cafe or on the beach. I love that I can travel and don't miss out on things if I choose to stay connected. I love that I can see all my messages coming in but don't need to answer them because I can decide right away what is urgent and what is important. It saves me time and worry.

However, I am not one of those people, who make long and loud conversations in public places ruining other people's meals or conversations. Neither I am one who need to check my Facebook page all the time. However, I love seeing what's happening if I have the time. I have a life. I run businesses and have a few very close and dear friends.

I have never been a big sleeper. Even as a teenager, I loved reading late into the night until my parents came in my room to make me turn off the light and told me to go to sleep. I operate really well on 4-6 hours sleep and wake refreshed and ready for action. Of course, it was not always like this. I remember times when I was lecturing and performing that I need that good 5-10 minutes nap in the car or in the chair in the office around 2-3pm to recharge my batteries to continue with the second half of the day.

Now, having an IPad and an IPhone on top of my MacBookPro, the concerning new habit is that I rest my IPad next to my bad. i do that because I use it as my alarm. I really like the very soft, gentle SCIFI sound as my wake up sound if I need an alarm. I like to go to bed and read on my IPad, watch a program I missed on IView, check my messages, pin a picture to my Pinterest board or get back to my friends who sent me an email through Facebook.

If I can't sleep, I don't toss and turn or spend agonizing hours in bed at night but I grab my IPad and check Facebook and see what my friends on the other part of world are up to. When I get sleepy, I just go back to sleep. The first thing I do when I wake up and before get out of bed is check my messages and share a few pictures on my business pages. Work is almost done before I get out of bed!

So for me technology is a blessing. It makes my life easier and my business dealings simple and fast. Without it no way, I could be in daily contact with my overseas friends, ex-students and with my only family member, my brother.

Many times I look around and I wonder...how did people survive in the past without mobile phones, smart phones and IPads?

It is like everything. Can be used for good or bad. Be smart and make these devices serve you. Don't be a slave to them!

One more advice. People that are in your presence enjoy priority. Always.

Brits are only male?

So Andy Murray was the first Brit to win in 70 years. Brits are only male?

(Sarah Virginia Wade, OBE (born 10 July 1945) is a British former tennis player. She won three Grand Slam singles championships (incl Aus 1972) and four Grand Slam doubles championships, and is the only British woman in history to have won titles at all four Grand Slam tournaments. She was ranked as high as No. 2 in the world in singles, and No. 1 in the world in doubles. She won the women's singles championship at Wimbledon on 1 July 1977, in that tournament's centenary year, and was the last British tennis player to have won a Grand Slam singles tournament until Andy Murray won the US Open in 2012. Wikipedia)

Wimbledon: Fred Perry's low-key win remembered as Andy Murray breaks Britain's drought.

The Rainbow in our lives

This week I have been on holiday at Lorne and Apollo Bay. The weather is wintery but beautiful. Honestly, I did not do much during the last days just connected to nature, enjoyed the sun, the cold, the wind, the crashing waves, the rainbows, saw a whale with a calf, enjoyed the beautiful, ever-changing colours of the sky and the ocean that I can never get enough of. I slept more than I normally do and now feel terribly relaxed. I had time to reflect while looking at the ocean searching the waters for whales. Admired the sunset and with disbelief I look at the rainbow that appears every day above the ocean since my arrival. I have never seen full-arch rainbows so intense in their colours shimmering above the ocean. I feel truly blessed that I have the opportunity to recharge my batteries like this.
I work hard. I always worked hard in my life. It makes me happy. It gives me a sense of achievement. I enjoy and love what I do. Otherwise I don't do it. But I work smarter than I used to. I made sure that I have many streams of income instead of having a well-paying dream job which I had for decades. I have totally restructured my life in the last 8 years. On this journey of change I have figured out a few things. I also see how much further I can go down on this path. The deeper I go, the more I see what can be done and how much smarter I can work to make money. Not to earn money. To make money. There is a HUGE difference between those two.
Lots of us carry negative ideas above money and how money behaves. Money is a means of exchange. It has its own energy. To me prosperity begins with feeling good about yourself. It is the freedom to do what you want to do, when you want to do it. It is never an amount of money; it is a state of mind. Prosperity or lack of it is an outer expression of the ideas in your head.
Be kind to yourself in your thoughts and in your actions. Believe that you deserve all the good things that the world has to offer in this life.
 "I deserve the best, and I accept the best, now."

Flavon Max Wins European Prizes again!

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Legy Boldog! Mosolyogj! Egy kivalo rovidfilm, hogy felviditsa a napodat! Nezd meg es oszd meg! :)
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Becoming an author...

Started up as a musician. Performing musician and a teacher of thousands of students. Sometimes I wonder if all the people I have ever taught and ever conducted or sang with would all come together...
Just the other day a few ex-students of mine were tagging the names on a photo of our children's choir called Gradus that had more than 120 singers in it and I used to conduct, perform and tour with back in Hungary. Those 'kids' are now adults, with families and children of their own holding serious jobs. Facebook notifies friends about their birthdays and I can't believe that those kids are now 40...Unbelievable. It was nice to read some of the comments that those times, singing in the choir and performing, were their nicest memories they have. I feel the same. Gradus was a very special choir in my professional life as well. We were close. Musically and personally.
Not only their lives have changed but mine as well. It is fabulous to have the opportunity to test ourselves in other territory as well. Writing a book and publishing something sounded so unachievable as a child. Only exceptional people write books and get published. My Dad, who was an engineer used to write poems and Sci-Fi novels. I thought that was fabulous and very exciting! Now I regret I don't have Dad's manuscript books.  I could get to know him. However, strangely, I am following his footsteps. A few years ago I started to think about putting my stories on paper. If nothing else, my biography, the highlight of my music career and my travels. Although I have started it, it is harder than I thought...The closer it is in time, the harder it is to write about it.  Fortunately, there are many things that interest me and I want to write about. That allowed me to get started, learn self-publishing and experience how things work once one has a few books out.
Honestly, it blows my mind that someone wants to read what I write. When I look at my stats and see that from week one the books are selling and just six month after publishing the first book, I have regular sales and downloads that are gradually increasing. It motivates me to keep writing and get better at it. It is much more exciting than I have ever thought it would be, to become a songwriter and an 'author'!
Please check out my author's page and if you like music, my albums!

Good Memories Jar

We all have tough days... for those days I highly recommend this great idea! Whenever something good happens, write it down on a piece of paper and collect them in a nice jar. At the end of year or on difficult days re-read those notes! It will make you smile! It helps you preserve your health and avoid serious illness. 

In Hungarian:
KÉSZÍTS EMLÉKÜVEGET
Ha sikerül megőrizni lelki egészségünket, azzal elkerülhetjük a komoly betegségek kialakulását. Íme egy remek ötlet, ami kreatív, nem kerül sokba és az év valamennyi napján mosolyra derít! ♥