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simplicity of happiness · happy#160 – live forever Image you were forever alive. Imagine you’d have to live with all the consequences of your actions. For ever?Now let us bring that one step further. Imagine you were all the same. Whatever you would do to someone or something else you would do to yourself.Would that influence your actions? Momentarily I am reading the book: “An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the… Read More »happy#160 – live forever

simplicity of happiness · happy#159 – planning vs. intuition While planning is mostly done in our frontal cortex, the conscious mind, intuition or gutt feeling is more of an unconscious process.While for a large part of my life I was sure that the more knowledge I have, the better decisions I can take and therefor become a better person, this belief changed over the last years.I had to learn that although our conscious decisions seem… Read More »happy#159 – planning vs. intuition

simplicity of happiness · happy#158 – chris thompson I am so lucky and honored that I meet the people I do. While still living in the „Jungfrau Skiing Area“ in Lauterbrunnen in the winter of 2015/16 I decided one day to register for the online class of Mike Mandel & Chris Thompson and it blue my mind. The content was superb and the way that the two where presenting it resonated with me so well… Read More »happy#158 – chris thompson

simplicity of happiness · happy#157 – no room for religion? Even, if everything on earth can be explained through science.Imagine that one day mankind is able to create life themself. Once we find out how every details of the genes. What if we find out what makes matter start living, giving that initial impuls. Then there will be no room for religion and spirituality left. At least that is what one might guess, right?I think… Read More »happy#157 – no room for religion?

simplicity of happiness · happy#156 – gratitude Do you know the main reason for a growing or a shrinking mindset? Mainly it is a decision that you make. Are you thankful for what you have and do you appreciate everything that you’ll gain in life or are you fearful to loose what you have and are afraid for anything new?That is the interesting perspective. It often is the same cause that let’s you feel one… Read More »happy#156 – gratitude

simplicity of happiness · happy#155 – good or bad? Everything on Earth. No, everything in the Universe only exist in relation to its opposite. Nothing can exist without being what it is not.Does it feel strage to read that? What about this? The text you are reading appears probably in black and can only be seen because it is written or dispalyed on something that is not black. When you hear the podcast you can only… Read More »happy#155 – good or bad?

simplicity of happiness · happy#154 – don‘t own your children September 5th is a special day to me. It brought people to my life that made me who I am today and I want to dedicate this episode to them. Almost or temporarily losing these people it draw some conclusions that helped me ever since.Most important to me was the realization that the closer I was to certain people, the more I expected from them.… Read More »happy#154 – don‘t own your children

simplicity of happiness · happy#153 – age is just a number I don’t know how old you are, but I guess you are also getting older. Last winter I went on a couple of mountains with my split board and I was so unfit. I thought that I am just not a fit as I used to because I am getting older.But the truth is that there were people way older than me. They were… Read More »happy#153 – age is just a number

simplicity of happiness · happy#152 – straight to the top, or not? Chasing dreams and achieving goals is about knowing the straight way right? Without distraction and with a clear focus directly towards your personal summit?Well, knowing where you want to go is definitely a plus, but you might face obstacles or barriers that are impossible to overcome.There is no way to fight the wind when you’re on a sailing boat. It might be much… Read More »happy#152 – straight to the top, or not?

simplicity of happiness · happy#151 – no feedback, no development We can’t learn, when we receive no feedback. We will at least never find out if our progress is going in the desired direction.We will loose contact to the base. Therefor is it so important to act, to actually do something and get our work and actions out there. Then we will receive feedback upon which we can react. Everything is connected and action causes… Read More »happy#151 – no feedback, no development

simplicity of happiness · happy#150 – colin wright My journey to declutter started in 2012. I reached a point where I didn’t thrive for more. At least not for more possessions. I wanted to have more joy, more laughter and more contentment. I was looking for more meaning in my life. Through different blogs and writers I ended up with a person who had just taken a phenomenal decision and was traveling the world while… Read More »happy#150 – colin wright

simplicity of happiness · happy#149 – letting go Sometimes you need to let go in order to achieve something new. As odd as it seems, first look for something to give up… So often it is mainly the distraction, the lack of focus that gets in our way of achieving something.The day has 24 hours, that‘s it. The attention span lasts only so and so long. There are new studies that the average attention span keeps… Read More »happy#149 – letting go

simplicity of happiness · happy#148 – how to grow confidence I am faced every once in a while with the question wether I am not afraid to do some of the stuff that I am doing. And well… yes I am. Life is not about being afraid or not. It is much more about finding a way to do it nevertheless. Afterall, let’s face it. I don’t do anything special at all. It has all… Read More »happy#148 – how to grow confidence

simplicity of happiness · happy#147 – live the life you love, world tour Whatever happens to you is often out of your control. Your reaction to that in contrary is your own choice. I decided to turn the amount of freedom that I momentarily have into the chance to live a childhood dream.Since I don’t want to do that alone I am inviting you to join me on the adventure around the world. Take care… Read More »happy#147 – live the life you love, world tour

simplicity of happiness · happy#146 – chasing dreams I am going for my dreams for quite a while now and new dreams keep showing up in my life, making the old ones obsolete. It seems as if I can´t get tired of something new and that is just the way that I am motivated.How are you? What motivates you most and are you sure, that these are your own desires or are you trying to please… Read More »happy#146 – chasing dreams

simplicity of happiness · happy#145 – sailing uma I am so thrilled to be able to present you an inspiring young couple: Kika and Dan. They decided to not buy a couch and settle down after graduation, but instead invest all they had into an old sailing boat that still had to be renovated before they could even launch it into the water.What amazes me most about the two is not, that they are living… Read More »happy#145 – sailing uma

simplicity of happiness · happy#144 – dealing with fear Fear seems to be one of the most limiting factors in life. As true love can be the most motivating one and is able to move mountains or tear them down fear can build them up.The strange things about fear though is, that fear happens only in your head and mostly deals with the future. Can you even remember the last time that you were frightened… Read More »happy#144 – dealing with fear

simplicity of happiness · happy#143 – sometimes sh*t happens Last time I promised you a feedback about my time in Zanzibar and well… here we go. This has been a disturbing time for in May and I had my struggles to focus on the positive side of things.Yet, what does it do any good to not not see things positive. It is as it is and the only thing truly matters, is the question of… Read More »happy#143 – sometimes sh*t happens

simplicity of happiness · happy#142 – who you are, when you lose control It is easy to be the person you want to be when you are in control. When everything is going exactly the way it way planned, you might emotionally not be disturbed.What happens when everything goes wrong. When things are not going as planned, when you are frightened, when you are terrified. How much of your higher self can you maintain when… Read More »happy#142 – who you are, when you lose control

simplicity of happiness · happy#141 – discrimination In Zanzibar I often face an enourmous discrimination. This discrimination is not as I expected it to be. I thought that it might be against colored people but it wasn‘t at least not from white against black people.The main discrimination that I saw and experience on a daily matter is from man against women. Or against against different sexual orientation, although nobody dares to talk about that openly. This… Read More »happy#141 – discrimination