Zitat des Tages von Mireille Guiliano:
Being and working in America, it's very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way. France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it's slow-moving and it's not always good.
Quality of life is very important in France. I have many friends who turned down promotions and more money because it would affect their quality of life as a couple or a mother.
Taking care of your mental and physical health is just as important as any career move or responsibility.
When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.
I love my kitchen. For Manhattan, I have a rather decent-size kitchen, and it has an opening that gives out to the dining room, which has a window with a view of the city and in the distance the Statue of Liberty.
Just as established products and brands need updating to stay alive and vibrant, you periodically need to refresh or reinvent yourself.
I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.
In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.
Women are smarter by basic instinct and by what we have to do to multitask at home and at work. My mother did that 50 years ago, but it wasn't called multitasking or stress back then. She had a job, two kids and the meals to make with no cook or maid. My father would come home every day and expect lunch. He was a nice guy, but he was clueless!
Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present.
The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and experience, but we are afraid we aren't good enough because we have such high expectations.
We only have one body, and you have to show respect for it.
Since the pleasure of most foods is in the first few bites, eat one thing on your plate at a time, at least at the start of the meal when you can concentrate and enjoy the full flavors.
Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.
Of course there are fat French women. There are fat people everywhere.
If you believe you can shed pounds quickly by force of will and deprivation, you will in all likelihood not only regain the ones you lost, but add a few more besides.