Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Dreams may spark success, but hard work sustains achievements. For most, dreams are the guiding light that keeps them moving forward.
Janos Gregus knows about visions and determination because, despite having been through a horrific civil war, he never lost sight of a worthwhile purpose in life. In the 1990s, Yugoslavia was engulfed in a series of civil wars and conflicts, forcing thousands of people to flee in search of safety. Among them was Janos Gregus, a young man who would eventually rebuild his life and find success as a financial professional in Canada.
Gregus immigrated to Canada in 1994 with a plan to wait and see if the battles and atrocities stopped and return if and when peace was achieved. He gave the struggles a decade to resolve, but by then, he was happily married in Kitchener, Ontario, with children and roots in his adopted homeland. Now a successful financial professional in Canada, Gregus works in real estate lending.
But he has his hands firmly on an idyllic project in Mexico, for which he and his partners are in the middle of soliciting investment. Janos was inspired to contribute to the Yucatan Peninsula while scouting out a location for retirement. In 2021, he decided to buy land in the beautiful city of Valladolid in the middle of the jungle but couldn’t figure out what to do with the land.
“I thought about creating something in a treehouse resort,” Gregus says. “Then I met an a.