Dear friend!

I wish you are with your loved ones as we are ending this year and looking forward to a good start in 2019. I also hope you may look back on a wonderful year privately as well as professionally. I was blessed this year to have found a new house and base in The Netherlands and not just the bricks of the house itself. I am grateful for the beautiful moments and experiences that came across my path. I have met great joy, but also sadness and worries. I guess it all falls back to love as life teaches us and it also motivates us to be there for each other. Professionally I had a very good year being able to solve complex and risky situations for my clients and now recently getting together the conditions and structure for a landmark opportunity for both a current owner and new investor. Here my main lessons are: be intrinsically convinced, start out and put efforts in it, take risks, be patient and have stamina, stay your ground and stay connected. It then seems that I may be grateful to have been able to build up a fantastic international network , which I consider a unique position as a fully independent advisor, yet connected in so many ways. You are part of my network and I highly appreciate our relation; thank you for being there!  This year the photo is a metaphor for my thoughts when going back and forward from the mountains in Switzerland to the sea in The Netherlands: “walking down your path you will find a blue open space and endless horizon, take that moment to enjoy and reflect upon life, look forward to possibilities and joy and be grateful for the memories of your journey.”  I wish you beautiful journeys next year! I hope our paths join.

Michael Pullens