Last year, in the midst of the middle age crisis, I promised myself that 2013 will be all about happiness. This btw sounds like a log line for Jude Apatow’s next movie 🙂  I have spent last 5 years in the high profile, high paced, intense corporate job which made me realise several things once I paused for a maternity leave: a) I hate matrix organisations, b) my life is spent on blackberry, in meaningless meetings and on tasks which make no difference in the broader scheme of things, c) I am unhealthy, stressed, unhappy and I miss writing.

So I quit. And I want to focus on happiness this year, not higher income or promotion or any other artificial goals. I want to be healthy, happy, fulfilled, I want to invest into myself and relationships with people who are close and precious to me.

Two months later, and I can report that I have moved from fast paced, always on London to a picturesque fishing village of Volendam in the Netherlands. I have started my first script based on my sci fi novel. I plan to find a job that makes a difference. And I am starting this blog. So far, so good.

In the last two months I’ve had a crash course on how to become a landlord and move to Europe. I plan to share high level learnings here because it took me a while to get all this info together. I will share my experience of getting to know the Dutch and their way of living. In fact, my next post will be on shopping in the Netherlands. In between, I will share some of the tips and tricks that make me happy.

And with that, let’s go…