Well its been a few weeks since Kezia and I returned home from Sant Agnello, Sorrento, Italy. So I thought I would share our holiday and publish some of our photos to take my mind off of the non-stop rain in the United Kingdom.

Sorrento - home of big fat juicy tomatoes, natural lemons and lush ice cream!

We stayed for one week at the “Hotel Pergola” in Sant Agnello - about a 15 minute walk outside of Sorrento itself.

There were three real highlights of the trip for me – the first was standing at the top of “Mount Vessuvio” which is the only live volcano in Mainland Europe, and apparently due to erupt at any time. erm.

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Intuitively, as you add more and more choices, the odds are that the best choice won’t be much better than when you had just a few choices. However, the cost of evaluating them has gone up. That’s the paradox of choice. Our culture puts a great value on choices, shown by the green line going up as choices go up, and that means more choices are more valuable, but eventually the cost of evaluating them all, shown by the red line, overtakes them, and more choices are just not worth the cost of evaluating them.

I love this manifesto. A friend at work emailed me the link and it makes a very inspiring read! We both agreed number 14 is spot on, however, I happen to like fields!

1. Allow events to change you. You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.

Read the rest here.