simplicity of happiness

Have you ever been on Kilimanjaro? Let me invite you on a journey. As we were climbing the mountain in June it showed us all its magic. Highest single standing mountain on Earth, highest mountain in Africa, one of the largest volcanos on Earth, all climate zone, equator, East Africa... to name a few of the aspects. For us who climbed it, it brought us pain, laughter, exhaustion, happiness, success...

I have been on an amazing trip to Africa, Mount Meru, national parks, wildlife, Kilimanjaro with tons of emotions and a journey into our past. Once again it amazed me to see beautiful nature in national parks even larger than some countries. To see the complexity and harmony of nature which is left alone by the humans is a gift and reminds me on how important it is for us humans to step back and g...

Coaching has the potential to change everything - for you. Unlike consulting, coaching does not offer a new action plan or one new set of goals. At least does it have the potential to change much more. Good coaching touches you on the inside and is able to unveil your biggest dreams and greatest desires. It can shift your mindset, change your image of the world and therefor create a new reality fo...

Family first! You have to be there for your family! You can’t do that, think about your family! Do these sound familiar to you? Fortunately I haven’t heard them in my family, but I had been married into a family where this seemed the most important. At least as long as you didn‘d dig deeper, becaus then the destinction wasn‘t that clear anymore. There were on the one hand some members of the famil...

Moving your physical body from one place to the other is not traveling. Move your mind as well and be present. More than that, don’t only change places but visit places you haven‘t seen before. Do something new for body and mind and you truly travel. True travel will kick you out of your comfort zone and will help to widen your horizon. But leaving the comfort zone is scary, I believe to everyone....

Do you think that you can grow and thrive all on your own? Or does it help to look up to someone and may even have the chance to call that person and receive help? I believe that having a mentor is one of the major aspects to thrive and develop your personality. I experienced in my life over and over that being in contact with a person that look up to, helps me to clear my own path. just a couple...

How would it be, if you could take communication literally...? Wouldn‘t that make a lot of things easier? I had to things about communication and the reason and use of using words that represent exactly what you mean in order to prepare a company workshop and realized this would make a good topic for a podcast episode. Short version: Cut all the BS and say what you mean and mean what you say! Enjo...

Is my hair getting grey because time is passing or is time passing because my hair is turning grey. What is time anyway? How would you measure time if nothing was moving. Sun not going up and down, your heart not beating, water not flowing, the clock not ticking or changing digits. There wouldn’t be any chance that you can measure how time passed since you thought about the last time. Now picture...

I love luxury. That’s why I chose to live without it most of the time. Sounds strange, but makes sense when you think about it. What is luxury after all. Per definition it is something that you don’t have day in and day out. Something unsusual, something that feels special when you have it. The thing about us humans is, that we can get used to almost everything. As our frontal cortex (the part of...

Several reasons let to this podcast episode about the most basic and precious thing in our life: health. -a friend who thought he had a stroke - an accident of a 4 year old - a coachee of my age with a complicated cancer treatment - an avalanche and an organ transplant. Multiple reasons to think about life and how easy it might be lost. All other aspects and goals in life become secondary, compare...

As I had new ideas in the past, I kept adding them to my portfolio. While I had a rule with my material possessions: For each item that I added to my life, I needed to let go of two, I already owned. At the same time I kept adding ideas to my professional life. When I started to reconciliate websites and podcasts by the end of last year, I realized that I still had created way too many double stru...

I have been on the road again and among others I visited the Düsseldorf boatshow called boot. I had no specific idea about the boatshow before I went there, which left me completely open minded. Nevertheless I was surprised on how much plastic crap is available there. Not much about repair or DIY. Not really much about sailing either. Only very few smaller sailing boats at all and a lot of huge pl...

Did you have a new years resolution. Come on, not a tiny one? So how is that one going? Maybe not so good? Here I have an idea. In fact, its not my idea, I borrowed it from Mike Mandel. As so often simplifying will help your unconscious to have a clear direction what to aim for. So the resolution consists of one word only. Most likely that word is some kind of nominalization, a verb that you turn...

Who is the fool, the fool or the fool who follows the fool. I read plenty about people who complain about ignorant people at the top and there are for sure enough of them. To mention a few of them * Trump * Erdoga * Putin * Orban * Maduro * Bolzanero Especially with Bolzanero being sworn into office at the beginning of this month I read a couple of articles about the world being doomed by the powe...

Happy new year to you. Thank you for being a listener over the last year. As you might know, has it been a bit bumpy for me and I am sure that you are able to tell your own story about ups and downs. Always remember that your ups can be somebody elses downs and vice versa. Everything depends on the perspective. If you could change perspective things could look different and sometimes exactly that...

Last week I talked about accepting help and just after I recorded that, help was offered again and gave me the opportunity to finally move to the new harbor. This left me thinking about help and human interaction in general. We as human beings and as the human race can not really develop on our own. Some of us might need more contact and others less, but overall we all need contact and help and so...

I know everything so much better than everybody else... Sometimes it feels like that from my perspective and I know it is not true. It might result from the fact that I am the only one living inside my head. I am the only only who can see life from my perspective and I feel as others are missing something (well... maybe they are missing my perspective). In my life I combine these feeling with the...

I lost something, or at least somebody lost something that was mine which could lead to my first question. What does it mean to be mine or what would I need to do to call something mine. But that shall be the topic of another episode. All my German Podcast episodes have been deleted by accident and the Podcast provider does not have any backups. This made me think about win and loss in life and wh...

Real man are not fearful, right? I am not so sure about this. As fear is one the most natural feeling that was guaranteeing the survival of mankind for millenia, it is important to as well have fear, feel fear and even express fear. It is a sign to us to be careful and cautious about somthing. Way more important than the feeling itself is what you will do with it. As fear comes from deep inside, f...

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 Brain Prod...

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 to make so much sense...

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 that I wanted to train with them personally. Therefor th...

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 the opposite is true. The mor...

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 or the other and it is only in your min...

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 hear my voice because it is dif...