This is so funny! While working on this site, I was looking for some pictures of me defending my lecture to prove worthy of my Phd. It was the most scary thing I have ever done in my whole life. You have no idea.

They put you in a small room with NO WINDOWS, no way out. The whole wall is full of words and signatures of those who went before me. Really, I was so nervous, if there would have been a window, I would have found a way to get through it and get out of there...

Then this whole ceremony of professors and ringing bells. “All rise…..”…

I remember being so nervous I was trembling all over for the first few minutes. Then I managed to find my own calmness and trust and at the end I even had fun answering the questions that were meant to test my knowledge about the subject and the suggestions I made in my book. Time passed rather quickly, which surprised me…

Anyway. That was 5 years ago and now I was looking in this box for the pictures of that day. And I realized I never looked back. I never re-listened the tape they made that day. I never put the photo’s in an album. And to my surprise: I never read all the cards with amazing compliments and I never took out the gift certificates in there…

I forgot a really important part of life: to celebrate! I just went on: next job to get done. I had 2 little boys, was pregnant of the 3th, had my own private practice, was teaching at different universities. No time to celebrate.

But in that I forgot a real important law in the universe: be grateful & celebrate life. Cause in doing that, your gifts from the universe will be send out! My ant used to say “gratefulness is the doorway to Heaven”. Guess what I will be doing tomorrow: buy wonderful flowers with my gift certificates and celebrate my accomplishment from 5 years ago. It’s about time….