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Essays about the Simplicity Of Happiness and living the life you love!

back to the roots

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I am sitting a my Computer, checking mails, process bookings for the Lodge, record Podcasts and am planning my milestones for 2017. Then one question hits me: Do I really want to keep writing stories on my blog? Yes! Good, but what exactly? I wasn’t sure. Since I shifted my focus on recording and broadcasting my German and my English podcast on a regular basis I missed out to write any articles. The main reason… Read More »back to the roots

I believe!

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I so much like these guys and am really looking forward for my hypnosis training with them in November. They sum up a lot of my believes:

one family?

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Imagine somebody could tell you where you´re actually from. A journey around the world and it all sums up to be you. This is a commercial, but well, what would happen, if you´d find out all, the people you hate most are actually your ancestors? End the end, we are one family. Amazing:

crappy on the outside?

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Hi there, I am back in Berlin for some days. I spent the last month in my Zanzibar home after having spent all winter in a skiing resort in the Swiss mountains. Custom officers keep asking me about my crappy passport but I always tell them, that although it might not look new on the outside, it has so many stories to tell in the inside. Just like I want my life to be. Not shiny… Read More »crappy on the outside?

minimalism documentary

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These guys are a great inspiration to me concerning minimalism and focus. Now they made a documentary about what matters most and what doesn’t. Here’s a preview:

wanna play?

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Don’t we all have our issues that let us believe there is something we can’t do?

what makes up an adventurer?

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What it means to be human. A man who is never comfortable with the situation he is in talks about becoming the adventurer of the year by National Geographic. Cory Richards, a Highschool dropout who believes that the richness comes with struggle:

creating routines

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I wrote a blog article about creating routines in Zanzibar earlier this year. I wrote about my struggles finding my way back home while I was living in Stone Town for a month. Although I tried my best to take the same routes every single day, I got lost as soon as my mind was absent for a minute. Now I visited Stone Town again: First thing to do after I got there was to… Read More »creating routines

an english podcast

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Just for you, my English readers I thought about creating an English podcast since I launched the German SOH podcast earlier this year. Now everything is ready and set and new show will be about the indiviual pursuit of happiness. In contrary to the German podcast the pursuit of happiness: POH, will be much longer and contain very personal stories. Since I am often travelling the world I am recording stories and opinions about life, happiness and individual roads… Read More »an english podcast

stuff statistic

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One of the most inspiring people blogging about simplicity and minimalism is Joshua Becker from Arizona. He recently published some statistics for the US that might be interesting for European readers as well since we have the same tendency. I am posting an excerpt of Joshuas list that was originally posted here. There are 300,000 items in the average American home (LA Times). The average size of the American home has nearly tripled in size… Read More »stuff statistic

what our brain does when it does nothing at all

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I am so happy to present yet another wonderful post by Lisa. Without knowing she wrote about the reason why my sailing and Sahara seminars have such an impact: Sometimes it happens, someone asks me:“What are you thinking about right now?“ Suddenly I am torn from my thoughts which were just wandering on their own. In order to come to a suitable answer I try to structure the chaos in my head and bring my… Read More »what our brain does when it does nothing at all

BUD principle

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I love to own things. In my past I always wanted to own everything that somehow seemed interesting to me. I sometimes still have the tendency to do that. Most of the times I nowadays realize that it is not important to me to own stuff, but to actually use stuff. So more and more often, before buying I ask myself the following question: Do I have any other possibility to use what I am… Read More »BUD principle

feel free to use my content

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Inspired by one of the most popular writers on the topic of simplicity, Leo Babauta I decided to keep it like him concerning copyright. Whatever I write, I write it because I want it to be read. All the words I am using are not my own anyway. I didn’t make them up, they are your words as well. Somewhere I’ve heart them before. I just put them into another compilation. So go ahead and… Read More »feel free to use my content

over

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without words:  

maintain routines

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During the last few weeks I caught a few bad colds (caused by… well, let’s call them modified baby germs). I saw routines and habits I hoped to have learned vanish. For example the the habit of daily writing of blogposts disappeared. Normally I try to discover my habits to challenge and change them. I think that routines, habits and beliefs limit my freedom and my decision making. On the other hand routines help to… Read More »maintain routines

more than honey

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Honey and bees are such a nice metaphor. Bees dedicate their whole life to the best for the community. Bees in the summer collect nectar for honey, so their successors in the wintertime won’t starve. Only if every part of the bee community fulfills its own mission the hive can survive and thrive. As it is such a fragile system the bees live in and it is similar in the world where they find their… Read More »more than honey

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