Since this is my first post of 2017, I’d like to wish you a Happy New Year!

Now I’d like to suggest that you do something. I know you’d like me to post here on my blog more often. And that’s one of the things I’d like to do this year. But there is one place you can go where I post a lot these days: my Facebook page.

I’m not kidding. You’re missing out on a lot of good stuff if you aren’t following my page. As you know, the main subject of my website is how to make one’s life better. The things I talk about, the photos I publish, the videos I make, are by and large geared toward that purpose. My Facebook page deals with the same subject, except I can post a whole lot of stuff there that doesn’t necessarily belong on a website, like a quick video or a link to an article, or a photo that I didn’t take, or an inspirational quote, etc. So go to my Facebook page and follow me if you’re interested in this kind of stuff.

I bet you’ll also be interested in the photo albums I’ve posted there. For me, they’re sources of inspiration when it comes to making my life better and I hope they inspire you as well. Here’s the list, feel free to browse through them:

• Advice and Inspiration
• Alcoves, Nooks and Crannies
• Art
• A Step Back in Time
• Balconies and Terraces
• Bathrooms
• Bedrooms
• Boats and Ships
• Bodybuilding
• Cars
• Cascades
• Castles
• Caves
• Cities and Towns
• Closets and Storage Space
• Cosmos
• Countryside
• Courtyards and Patios
• Deserts
• Dining Rooms
• Doors and Gates
• Facades and Exteriors
• Forests
• Furniture
• Gardens
• Hallways and Foyers
• Health
• Holidays
• Home Goods
• Interesting People
• Kitchens
• Lakes and Rivers
• Libraries
• Living Rooms and Day Rooms
• Mens’ Clothing
• Mountains
• Offices
• Planes and Helicopters
• Pools, Saunas and Jacuzzis
• Seaside
• Shoes
• Staircases
• Sun Rooms and Green Houses
• Tea, Coffee and More
• Timeline Photos
• Trains and Trams
• Watches
• Windows

I believe some of you will have a couple of concerns as you start going through the photos, so let me address them here:

1. Most of the photos aren’t my own. I wanted to post them anyway, because they are truly inspirational, whether they are scenes from nature or photographs of beautiful things. Where I knew the photographer, I gladly gave credit. Where I didn’t, I didn’t. If you do, let me know and I’ll quickly add a caption giving credit where it’s due. Also notice I said most of them aren’t my own. That means that interspersed between all those photographs you’ll find mine as well, and I didn’t credit myself either.
2. It might seem like I’m overly concerned with things, with possessions. It’s not that. It’s about drawing inspiration from beauty and looking to re-create beauty of that sort in my own life. All of us have this innate need for beauty in our surroundings, for quality in the things we use, and yet most of you (I excluded myself from that group long ago, sorry) are content with the average or the sub-par. Sure, you’ll bring up money as an excuse but just like with anything in life, there’s no excuse for anything you really want to accomplish. I myself would rather go buy a top-notch coat from the thrift store than pay double or triple that price for an average coat at the store. Money isn’t a concern. You can always find a way to make your life more beautiful, more interesting, more worth living.

Anyway, the point of this long-overdue post is not to berrate you but to inspire you. If you want to be inspired and to learn good things, you need to folllow my Facebook page. And this website, naturally.

Thanks!