simplicity of happiness

The other week when we visited Ruaha Nationapark everything went wrong one day. Our car was about to fall apart. Wouldn’t start, battery down, break broken… then we fixed it and lost a wheel in the middle of the park. Also had to fix it and drove home knowing that we could lose again at any time… In the end we had a remarkable trip to be remembered for the rest of our lifes. It always depends on y...

On our way back from an adventurous game drive in Ruaha national park, we first met a whole family of African elephants. Later, outside the park shortly before the village that we are camping in, a lion crossed our street. About 100m meter in front he appeared from the woods on the right, stepped on the road, stopped, looked at us and disappeared in the woods on the left. This picture made think a...

Nowadays I often hear say that we don’t really live in a democracy because there is no real choice. I very clearly want to disagree. Just the other day we had to American guests at the lodge and they were pointing out thing that are not going right in America. With a lot of their concern if not most they were right. But I absolutely did not agree with the consequence they drew from their frustrati...

Technology can make your life easier but often it doesn’t make it happier. Happy comes from doing the right thing. So learn to do something right. Get a hobby or a job or a mission were you produce something with your own hand and it will be one step towards your happy life. LINKS: Contact me: bit.ly/askfloh Follow me on: bit.ly/SOH-twitter bit.ly/SOHfacebook bit.ly/SOHinstagram bit.ly/SOHsnapchat...

Do you think it is a blessing or a curse that our life is dominated by electronics. How do you use it, or does it use you? Think about the episode of yesterday. Today you can chose so much. You can also choose to which degree you will use technology. I think what helps most is when you arrange your life without technological gadget and make yourself clear that you don’t need them, maybe once a wee...

Have you ever looked for the save solution? Often safe means to be and to stay in control ut there is only one thing certain about control. Control is never safe. It’s never certain. Control is just an illusion. Giving up control can give you freedom! LINKS: Contact me: bit.ly/askfloh Follow me on: bit.ly/SOH-twitter bit.ly/SOHfacebook bit.ly/SOHinstagram bit.ly/SOHsnapchat It is the simplicity of...

150 years ago it was on you to decide to decide on which side of history you were standing. You were born a slave or a master and there was almost no way to change that. Fortunately that changed and most people in modern society are able to chose were and how they work. Today often I hear people that they are treated or feel like slaves… They think, they don’t have a choice in jobs, in private or...

Often we learn to be realistic. We analyze status quo and try to figure out what we can do with what we already have. Sometimes and I think most of the times companies and entrepreneurs act the same. The invent a product or have an idea, produce and then find somebody to sell it, instead of thinking about the consumers needs first. I learned in marketing to start with the needs of the customer ins...

Clear language can make a huge difference. In your communication with others as well as in the communication with yourself. The way you talk, you direct your mind and the way you think. Your behavior will follow your thinking and you will talk accordingly. If you talk clearly other people will know what they can expect. You might risk a direct no but you can react immediately and prevent misunders...

Driving through the most incredible landscape I realized once again that we need to be careful to preserve the world that was given to us. It is not ours, we just borrowed it from our kids and grandkids. We should take care about it. LINKS: Contact me: bit.ly/askfloh Follow me on: bit.ly/SOH-twitter bit.ly/SOHfacebook bit.ly/SOHinstagram bit.ly/SOHsnapchat It is the simplicity of happiness that ma...

Thinking is a way of directing your unconscious mind. Be careful what and how you think. There are words that direct you mind in one or in another direction. The word try is one of them. Be careful when and if at at all you use it. Better you do it, than to try it. LINKS: Contact me: bit.ly/askfloh Follow me on: bit.ly/SOH-twitter bit.ly/SOHfacebook bit.ly/SOHinstagram bit.ly/SOHsnapchat It is the...

So many rules are hard to follow. Sometimes it’s almost impossible. For example the rule to not cross a red light. Even at 3am and completely alone. Wouldn’t it be so nice to change those rules into principles. More like a: You have no priority when cars are coming… We could also apply more principles instead of rules to our own life. Principles offer a variety of possibilities instead a simple ye...

I so much wanted to be a millionaire when I was young. Now that I am, I had to to find out, that I forget to specify the currency. Since then i keep asking myself what the currency means anyway. It is just an agreement build on trust that a million here is more worse than over there. And still, a number can always be taken away from you. What does it make sense to invest in after all? Maybe time?...

When life feels like a rough road and you neither know why you are on it nor if it will ever end you might discover a surprise once it does. The roughest road lead to the most remote and beautiful places. LINKS: Contact me: bit.ly/askfloh Meet me in: bit.ly/findfloh Follow me on: bit.ly/SOH-twitter bit.ly/SOHfacebook bit.ly/SOHinstagram bit.ly/SOHsnapchat It is the simplicity of happiness that mat...

If someone really surprises you with something that you really like that can make you happy, right? To be surprised it needs to be something that you don’t usually have and something that you don’t expect. Because I reduced so much over the last years and am happy with so little that I just had the situation of total surprise in the middle of nowhere in Southern Tanzania. LINKS: Contact me: bit.ly...

The bigger the risk is the bigger the change can be. Big change can lead to an immense improve of your situation. What are the risks that you fear to take? LINKS: Contact me: bit.ly/askfloh Meet me in: bit.ly/findfloh Follow me on: bit.ly/SOH-twitter bit.ly/SOHfacebook bit.ly/SOHinstagram bit.ly/SOHsnapchat It is the simplicity of happiness that matters most. When more is too much, it could mean i...

Dealing with people always comes down to trust. You trust somebody or you don’t. Even more important: do others trust you? Investing in your consistency and therefor reliability will lead to more people trusting you, which would be a very good investment in you future. LINKS: Contact me: bit.ly/askfloh Meet me in: bit.ly/findfloh Follow me on: bit.ly/SOH-twitter bit.ly/SOHfacebook bit.ly/SOHinstag...

Wouldn’t it be nice and easy to know the shortcuts in life? You can find tons of books out there that try to teach you how you can systematically learn and train the shortcuts to more success and/or happiness. Unfortunately that is just not working on a sustainable level. Especially with happiness you will have to get into the doing. Without action there is no body reaction. Without body reaction...

What would happen if you’d wake up tomorrow and live the life of somebody else? Would you regret decisions made in the past? Or would you examine the situation and try to take the right decision from on? Imagine you had the freedom to take just the situations that you think re right now and make life better? Guess what? That’s what you will do tomorrow! LINKS: Contact me: bit.ly/askfloh Meet me in...

Normally I am not sick very often. Now I was. Three times in a row and I was so thankful to have the possibility to rely on modern medicine although I mostly look for another solution. It showed me, that so many of the modern inventions actually are good and make our life easier one or another way. It only becomes difficult when we rely on them so much that we think we can’t go without. What are y...

What does freedom mean to you? Is it only your own freedom or do you also think about other peoples freedom. And what can you do to increase both? LINKS: Contact me: bit.ly/askfloh Meet me in: bit.ly/findfloh Follow me on: bit.ly/SOH-twitter bit.ly/SOHfacebook bit.ly/SOHinstagram bit.ly/SOHsnapchat It is the simplicity of happiness that matters most. When more is too much, it could mean it’s just...

All our feelings and emotions are reactions of our brain to our body. If you don’t take care of your body you won’t make it to a happy life. My advice, watch your body. Be ware of what you put in and train it as much as you can. LINKS: Contact me: bit.ly/askfloh Meet me in: bit.ly/findfloh Follow me on: bit.ly/SOH-twitter bit.ly/SOHfacebook bit.ly/SOHinstagram bit.ly/SOHsnapchat It is the simplici...

One of the most annoying things in busy peoples life is often the hundreds of email they receive everyday. One of the most successful strategies you can use to reduce the stress of a full inbox and even countless unread emails is INBOX ZERO. LINKS: simplicity-of-happiness.com/five Contact me: bit.ly/askfloh Meet me in: bit.ly/findfloh Follow me on: bit.ly/SOH-twitter bit.ly/SOHfacebook bit.ly/SOHi...

African time ;-) After posting episode 28 after 29 I went straight to 31 and today the missing 30. I’ll work on my counting: Distraction, procrastination, whatever you might call it. Staying focused seems to be one of the major issues nowadays. This doesn’t get better when you are a busy person. Although some might argue that they are good multitaskers that will most likely not be true. You might...

Whenever you try to convince anyone of one of your plans or if you try to speak about a problem you have or had it helps to follow some simple rules. LINKS: Contact me: bit.ly/askfloh Meet me in: bit.ly/findfloh Follow me on: bit.ly/SOH-twitter bit.ly/SOHfacebook bit.ly/SOHinstagram bit.ly/SOHsnapchat It is the simplicity of happiness that matters most. When more is too much, it could mean it’s ju...