Evening moments - thanks if you correct it Everything is silent and calm in the house, everyone is sleeping, only I'm awake. There is some orange peel in the kitchen table and the air is full of the smells of orange. I'm listening to the voice of the wind blows on the street and the ticking of the clock on the wall. I can't sleep, I'm full of energy. Perhaps because of the coffee, I drank at late evening in the office. I don't mind. I'm a night owl anyway. I like this evening calm atmosphere. Nobody disturbs me, I can freely immerse in my thoughts or meditate in the silence. I love these moments. This world is so fast and people always in hurry. These moments give balance to my mind.

Goals Top-level athletes, successful business people, and high achievers have a common treat: they all set goals. Many people are dreaming about success, happiness, more freedom and wealth. But only a few of them have the life they dreamed about. Goals can help you to achieve your dreams and reach your highest potential in your life. How and why goal setting can help me to to get a better life? Why is goal setting so important? Here are some reasons: It gives me focus. When I write down a goal, it helps me to concentrate and gives me priorities. I know what I want to achieve, and thus it's much easier to determine my small steps I have to do. Goal setting helps me to overcome procrastination. When I have to work on a task without a deadline, I tend to stare at the monitor for long hours, open Youtube or skimming the news instead of immersing the work. But if I have written goals with a specific due date, I must take the necessary steps in order to finish it until the deadline. And, because of well-detailed action-plan, I can track my progress along the way.

Learning a new habit: writing every day in my target language "Just grab a piece of paper or open an empty document on your computer and write a few hundred words every day!" When I encountered this idea I became stoked. It's a good possibility for killing two birds with one stone. If I take this challenge I can improve a lot in writing, learn and practice new vocabulary and build a new habit, that can help to organize my ideas better. But on the other hand, this task intimidates me. I have never done it before even in my native language. I think I never was good at writing, however, I've never tried it before. That's why it's a big challenge for me. It needs engagement, I have to leave my comfort zone and start something new, something difficult. But I think, writing never will be an easy and elegant process. Hemingway said: There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” Well, I decided I want to improve, I want to be a better English learner, so I'm going to write every day. It will be a difficult, but beautiful journey.

A hitchhiking story A couple of years ago we spent some days in the mountains of Georgia. If you have been in the Svaneti region, you probably know that public transportation is quite poor, only one or two buses operate per day. In fact, these are not buses, rather vans, so only nine people can travel with at the same time. Because of this, hitchhiking is one of the most common and efficient way of travel, even for locals. We went to Mestia by the morning bus and we've spent the whole day there. Unfortunately, we've missed the last bus towards Mazeri, where our accommodation was. It was evening, and it was becoming darker, so we had to find out a solution to get back to our guesthouse. We walked to the edge of the village and waited for someone to pick us up. Soon, a rusty, very old car stopped and picked us up. The driver didn't speak English, so we couldn't speak too much. There was a small, old car, it was dirty and in very bad condition and the driver was driving like crazy. There was a big hole in the floor of the car so we can look out to the road between our legs. We didn't feel secure at all. After a couple of miles, we stopped and two old men got in the car, so the car was full. There was no empty seat, nonetheless, the driver stopped again and picked up a woman with two children. Eight people in a small, 5-person car. We've driven this way for long kilometers. The two old men sat in the front passenger seat, behind them we crowded with the lady keeping her children in her lap. That was so surreal! After a long, one-hour driving, we finally arrived. Then turned out that our driver lived in Mestia, where he picked us up. So he just drove for an hour because he wanted to help us. This is what I call a real hospitality! :)