simplicity of happiness

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. There have been times in my life that I even expected...

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 maybe in their 70th and they were fitter that me. This spring and summer I picked up some exercise an...

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 smarter to adjust your course...

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 a reaction and if we don’t listen to th...

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 writing: Colin Wright and his bl...

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 decreasing and went in 2018 is low a...

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 been done by numerous people before are are being done simultaneously. It is just special to me...

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. LINKS: kickstarter project: http://kck.st/2uelZbE https://simplicity-of-happiness.com...

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 someone externally. Make sure your dreams are your own and that they...

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 their dream on a sailing boat, but that they made...

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 here and now? This happens only in situations that ar...

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 who to be in relation to that. Therefor I decided to not go too much into det...

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 your emotions are going wild. Unfortunately I tested tha...

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...

Have you ever struggled with your mission? The why behind your Job, your project or your duty? Well, I see very often that people are getting confused with their original goals and the results that they are actually measuring. LINKS: https://patreon.com/flohjoe http://happylife.coach/adventure/ http://k-i-d-z.org Follow me on: http://instagram.com/flohjoe http://youtube.com/flohjoe http://fb.com/m...

Although unaware to most of us, we were given a shortcut to our unconscious mind. To our autonomic nervous system, which runs everything important to our life without our conscious mind even recognizing it. Our breath and our lungs are the only organ that we can consciously control. Since our breath directly influences our physiology, our state and our performance, you can do as well. Activate you...

Quality vs. quantity. What do you prefer? More of what you don’t like anyway or just enough of exactly the right thing? You might not be able to influence the quantity of your life as each day has just 24 hours for everyone, but you can massively influence the quality of your life. Quality is made in your head and it is only up to you what is going on in your head. LINKS: https://patreon.com/flohj...

Whatever you will put out in the world will come back sooner or later. And I am sure that the world won’t distinguish between good or evil, revenge or justice. You may describe this phenomena with the balance of energies or just the RAS, but I am going to explain that in the podcast. LINKS: https://patreon.com/flohjoe http://happylife.coach/adventure/ http://k-i-d-z.org Follow me on: Twitter: twit...

While figuring out how to prioritize tasks I had the idea that it might not be about now. Much more important might it be that one day we have no time to change but can only look back and then it will be about the person we have been. It is now that you take the steps towards that person you once have been. My goal is to inspire as many people as possible to live the life they love. And you can he...

During my last trip to Zanzibar it became so obvious, that all the people surrounding me where not heading towards a positiv future for themselves and their families. The uneducation seemed to have become an even bigger problem and leaving me no option to work with local people from the village. I thought that I could either complain or do something about it. I took the second option, founded KIDZ...

I wanted to buy a book. Or two? Well…Kindle plus paperback. Just to show off. What a nice picture of the world. What matters more? The inside or the outside? LINKS: http://happylife.coach/adventure/ Follow me on: Twitter: twitter.com/flohjoe1001 Instagram: instagram.com/flohjoe Youtube: youtube.com/flohjoe Facebook: fb.com/myhappylifecoach Leave me a message: simplicity-of-happiness.com/ask It is...

Guess what? There is no such thing as reality out there. And if there is nobody has ever seen it. Reality is always a question of perspective and focus. So if you ever doubt or dislike what you see, feel or experience out there it might be due to your perspective and focus. If you change that, you might even be one big step closer to a happy life. LINKS: http://happylife.coach/adventure/ Follow me...

Its getting cold outside. Winter, dark, sometimes rainy, hopefully snowy and why this should not affect my, or your mood at all. There is no bad weather, there is only bad clothing. Some for life. There is only bad attitude. You are the only one to decide about the attitude that you have. Own your thoughts. LINKS: http://happylife.coach/adventure/ Follow me on: Twitter: twitter.com/flohjoe1001 Ins...

Just back from Sahara, I am still recapturing what has happened this time and what kind of a wonderful journey it has been again. During many conversations and long evenings at the campfire it once again became so crystal clear that most of the unhappiness in peoples life comes from not knowing what they really want. It makes sense to go there first and find out what it is that you are thriving fo...

YOU ARE THE BOSS of your own thoughts. That’s right. If it wasn’t you, who is in charge, who is? This episodes is about how to manage your own thoughts and how happiness is a choice. LINKS: http://happylife.coach/adventure/ Follow me on: Twitter: twitter.com/flohjoe1001 Facebook: fb.com/myhappylifecoach Instagram: instagram.com/flohjoe Snapchat: bit.ly/SOHsnapchat Youtube: youtube.com/flohjoe Cont...