The intention of the 21-day abundance challenge is to:
– Attract ABUNDANCE, get out of the negativity of scare city
– Mindset for CHARITY, without the fear of losing something
– Create WIN/WIN situations, instead of making someone lose
– PLUS, receive a daily PRESENT for your completion!
The 21-day Abundance Challenge will start on Tuesday, March 12 at 12 a.m. UTC/GMT.
‘We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them’ by Albert Einstein
From time to time people experience a hard time to make or take a decision. Why? Whenever I got a hard time to take a decision, it is for some reason. Psychologists usually say: It is due to some kind of depression as the underlying cause. Then they want to treat the depression, which can take years. I am rather looking for a solution. Due to the fact, that all unanswered questions are called problems, my approach is: Follow your values to make or take a decision.
Imagine you see the urge to save somebody’s life. Because someone fell into the pool and can’t swim. You don’t need to think twice to take a decision. If you are a good swimmer, you will jump into the water as well. If not you might hold out for something that swims, e. g. a rescue ring or an inflatable rubber duck. Sitting down, being depressed about it, and having a cigarette, while you are thinking what to do, is no option. Your basic need for contribution is so strong, that it hardly feels like a decision at all.
Some people keep sitting for more than 10 minutes in a restaurant reading the menu. Not because it is such an exciting story. They are just not clear what they should eat. Not being clear about, shall I save some money and choose the cheapest. Or shall I spoil myself with the most delicious of food on the menu? Not even being clear if you prefer healthy food or junk food makes it almost impossible to decide. Also, no clarity about the value of money or health leads to this situation.
Clarify what your basic need, your values, your dreams are. And what your mission, and vision is.
Someone who is on a special diet, and got due to this a limited variety of food to choose from, has a much easier time to decide. There are some constraints guiding him through the menu. Just choosing what fits the best, and then maybe asking the waiter: “Is it free of gluten or lactose?” Done! It shows that he knows his values and that health is valued higher than (saving) money.
Do you have clarity about your targets, mission, vision, and dreams? If I am having trouble to decide, I know that I am having no clarity about some of my values. Let’s have a look into some examples:
Should I still add musicians to my Facebook contacts, or only female entrepreneurs? This means I am not focussed on one of my business Rooms4Music or Vitality4Happiness. Due to that, I understand, that serving both are pulling me in different directions. Just a strategic question. Which can be solved on a higher level.
Time to think about my mission and take a decision! It is an easy decision after thinking about this for a short time. My mission is: I am vitality for happiness. Some of my highest values are health, love, happiness – which is caused by growth – and contribution. Plus I love woman and entrepreneurship! My customers from Rooms4Music are musicians, mostly male, no entrepreneurs. Most of them play their music for pleasure and don’t want to grow with it. And finally, health is completely outside of their focus.
Shall I organize business retreats or just invest in some business and then mentor the entrepreneurs I am invested in? It makes me aware, that I am not clear on the strategy, how to grow the business.
I need to clarify the next higher level, my mission. My mission doesn’t help at this point. So let’s go one level further up. My vision is to see the hunger in the world disappear. And I want to contribute to it. The quicker I invest the more I can contribute. The business retreats might delay this process. So I should rather invest first, and then do the business retreats for those who I am already invested in. Helping them to run their business more efficiently, so that we jointly can contribute more. Thinking it that way, it becomes rather clear how I have to tune the strategy.
Do I want to stay in Bali or keep on traveling around the world? Here I can see, something is conflicting within my basic needs. So this can (only) be solved, by looking into my values.
I learned something new about my values in a mastermind group, in which all of the participants guessed the primary value of the others. Most of the guesses where pretty accurate. And the guesses where in accordance with what the other participants thought about themselves. With the exception of me! Everybody said, that my first value is freedom. Freedom didn’t even appear on my list! So I realized, that I am already living this value, that I don’t see it anymore as my value. And yes, I got aware that it is my most essential value. So please don’t ask me for an everlasting monogamous relationship! Being aware of that, it becomes easy to say bye bye to Bali. At least from time to time for a trip around the world.
I want you to have an easier time, to make or take a decision in the future. To get there, I am asking you to understand and practice the mechanism behind this. Here comes my thinking time for you. Analyze this question:
“Which of my products should I do the most intensive marketing for?”
Then come back to this page and answer the following questions:
Please write your thoughts and recommendations in the comments below. You can show your expertise. And if you thought all the way through it, that you can write down the answer in a few sentences, you have learned the most. Plus you are earning a backlink to your webpage, which even increases your web page ranking on google. Btw. here you can learn more about SEO.
You arrive at the finish line as a different person than the one who started. Getting runners high during the race is like a meditation, which even supports mental growth. The training is turning the body into a fat burning machine which gives me physical growth.
The challenge of each run is an adventure: Am I able to finish? Which gives me a challenge and some uncertainty.
To do something most people never do is very attractive to me because it fulfills the need to be outstanding and significant.
If I can run for several hours, I also can make love for a loooonnng time. Yes, I experienced that it even makes me a better lover: I can contribute better to my partner’s satisfaction.
The endurance I got from the training helps me in reaching out for higher targets, which gives me the certainty of being able to reach anything I want.
I enjoy the rhythm of the steps and it is a wonderful pace to experience nature or urban regions. The additional oxygen clears my mind and lets me think better. It makes my body stronger and more attractive and I do love myself, everybody else, the world and the universe better for experiencing that.
Writing this, I just realized, that it fulfills all six human needs. Actually, anything that fulfills more than three human needs is addictive. Probably the real reason to do it, again and again, is:
How Vitality4Happiness satisfies your six human needs (according to Tony Robbins):
In part 1 of this post I described, that I expected on the 4th day I will make it. But when I got to sleep for my 4 a.m. sleep, I slept all the way through to 9 a.m.
It worked almost all night, after sticking to my schedule during the day, but I had a long sleep between 4 and 8 am. It was the first time since I started the experiment, that I had a very productive day. I felt relatively fit during my awake phases, which was hardly ever the case in the first 4 days of this experiment.
Due to the fact, that I slept in the past usually about 8-10 hours a day, sleeping 4 times a day for 30 Minutes and once for 4 hours is already a big step, which gives me 2 to 4 additional hours per day, or 1.000 hours a year. This is more than half the time people with a 9 to 5 job on a 5-day working week spend at work!
I am still not used to it, but I want to make it a habit, so I want to go on. I have to do it still consciously and it needs a lot of discipline to lay down on time and get up according to the schedule, even if I still feel tired after my nap.
If it is physically implemented as a habit, what is approximately after 21 days the case, it should become automatic and easy. But if you count each awake phase as a day, you are already at the 4th day done, but it does not feel like that.
After trying different things how to fall asleep quickly, I found that the 1-4-2 deep breath exercise worked the best.
I used the deep breathing exercise in combination with tightening my pelvic floor while imagining the kundalini energy flows up along the backbone into the crown chakra. During deep breathing in, I relaxed my pelvic floor and I tightened it while holding the breath and breathing out. This is a kind of Progressive Muscle Relaxation technique.
Deep breathing exercises help to fall asleep and wake up quickly
Additionally, I kept using a progressive breathing method, by reducing the breathing frequency with each breath. So I extended the number of heartbeats for each breathing phase:
I guess you got the pattern?!
Mostly within 5 to 8 deep breaths, I am falling asleep, during the phase in which I hold the breath, waking up again from the respiratory reflex. As soon as that happens, I just continued breathing normally and subconsciously. Then it is only a matter of a second until I am falling asleep. You can use this, of course, also if not on the 2-4 hour sleeping plan, but anytime you got problems to fall asleep.
Doing so I managed to sleep on the ferry, while waiting for public transport, after sunset at the beach bar, and on the sunbed at the pool.
I changed the approach to two alarms per sleeping phase and just used one to go to sleep. Too often it was not possible to sleep right away, which always required to readjust the wake-up time. So for the wake-up time, I used a timer, which I set to 30 minutes as soon as I started my sleeping phase, which turned out to be much more flexible.
I kept feeling better during the wake time, and the time to get back to power got a bit shorter. To wake up I tried a Bikram yoga deep breathing exercise called “breath of fire”.
If available jumping in the pool, going for a run and get up to speed with a coffee also helps. Due to the variety of the methods and that it got better in general, I cannot say which method works the best. So just “listen to your breath”, as the yogis used to say.
I thought it’s my first day, sticking to the schedule, but then a new challenge appeared. I will keep you posted how I fucked it up …
Further, I will record a video about this breathing pattern and provide you with an mp3-audio file download so that you can also utilize it, even if you are not online.
Due to my bad Indonesian skills, I got a Happy Haircut. But at least I manage some Greetings in Indonesian.
After learning these greeting in Indonesian, you’d be ready for your take of to Bali!
Hi good morning,
As you can see, yesterday I had the worst hairdresser experience ever. Actually, the happy haircut was created due to a communication problem. So I definitely need to learn some more Bahasa Indonesia to avoid another happy haircut like that. Actually, I already picked up a little bit.
If it is in the morning you say: “Salamat pagi”
Or if it is in the evening it is: “Salamat malam”
If it is time to eat, it is: “Salamat macan”
And if it is a girl coming the other way, I keep saying: “Salamat sayang”
Which actually means “darling”. It’s no propper Indonesian, I know that. But it creates always a smile in the other persons face.
And then, another very essential one: If it is an Australian bloke you say: “Salamat Bintang”
So that means cheers mate.
Learn some more greetings in Indonesian, with even better pronunciation than mine:
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This is the Balinese New Year. And it is very different than in the western world. Because Bali goes 24 hours offline. Most cultures celebrate New Years with fireworks and a lot of party, alcohol, and a lot of noise. Nyepi, as the Balinese Hindu Day of Silence, is called, is intended to meditate, and getting quiet inside.
I am really looking forward to this quiet and peaceful Silent Day in Bali. And I will enjoy my
Bali authorities confirm internet services will be suspended for Nyepi
Sex is no option.
Source: www.actualized.org Thank you Leo, I couldn’t explain it any better!
No, it is not the same. But sex is the strongest component of love. And the desire for sex is the strongest driver for love. It is probably the best if both come together. Both participants, as well as sex and love. Actually, one person cannot satisfy all the needs of another one. That’s why we work with teams and do not love exclusively one person. For some reason, sex gets called “making love”, pretty wise words.
To consider sex as something bad is nothing than religious brainfuck. Each and every one of us, and any creature on the planet is a result of sex. So, what can be bad about Sex? Everyone is a part of the universe and some people interpret the universe as one infinite creature. Sex is sourly needed to rebuild and maintain the whole universal creature.
The strongest driver any being got, is sexual attraction. Sex sells! Why? Because our desire for sex is embedded so deeply in our reptile brain, that we cannot ignore the feelings it creates. And it is the greatest source of energy, tantric– or kundalini-energy. Show me an unmotivated person, and I show you someone, who hasn’t had good sex for a long time. And he or she has probably times of depression, because of not feeling loved. The fear of not feeling loved is the strongest fear we can experience. Because already as a baby we rely on it to survive, so not feeling loved includes the fear of death.
Because monogamy is against (human) nature. There are no animals, that are living in monogamy, and the human being is nothing like another species of animal. There have been good reasons to invent the idea of monogamy. In times, when sexual deceases where spreading around the world, and killing the majority of the population, it was a smart idea to recommend everybody to stay monogamous. But nowadays, where the diseases can be treated medically and condoms are available to prevent them, there is no reason anymore for this rule. We only keep this rule, because we are used to it.
A marriage is nothing but a financial contract. It does not protect love, not even sympathy. Hollywood makes us believe that romantic love needs a marriage, but hardly anything is further away from the truth than that. A relationship is a game between harmony and tension. Most people enjoy the time at the start of a relationship, the first flirt, conversation, touch, kiss, another date, first sex, playfully trying out what is possible. As soon as they try to conserve this, by getting engaged or married the playfulness gets lost. Having a secure relationship means boredom and kills the relationship in the long run. Now another flirt becomes interesting, maybe more …
Of cause it is only an opinion. But everything we think that we know is only an opinion. There is not objective truth. Anything we see, hear, feel, smell and taste go through the filter of our frontal leap. Everybody got a different filter, which determines what is essential for us. Out of 2,700,000 junks of information, our senses are receiving every second, our frontal leap deletes anything our brain cannot process.
The processing speed of our brain is 74 junks of information per second. Imagine 10 people are watching and experiencing the same soccer game. And each of their frontal leaps deletes 2,699,926 junks of information. For everybody something different is essential. So everyone got his own unique filter. How much will have the remaining 74 junks in common? They got as much in common as the lottery numbers from last week, with the numbers of this week! Based on this selection our brain builds a picture of what is happening around us. I am more than surprised that by the end of a soccer game most of the visitors can agree on the same team that won.
Being jealous is not inborn, but only a sign of low self-confidence. Not love nor sex can improve or fix that problem. Only working on your self-confidence can solve it. And there are methods available, to improve your self-confidence. And some of them are so easy to execute, that you will have a hard time to believe that it will work, for example writing a daily success journal. But it workes, it just needs some time and does not show instant results. But in the long run, it makes you so much more confident about yourself.
For those of you, who want to sing along, go for it (source Google):
“No” is a dirty word,
Never gonna say it first,
“No” is just a thought that never crosses my mind.
Maybe in the parking lot,
Better bring your friend along,
Better all together than just one at a time.Refrain:
S is for the simple need.
E is for the ecstasy.
X is just to mark the spot,
Cause that’s the one you really want.
(Yes) sex is always the answer, it’s never a question,
Cause the answer’s yes, oh the answer’s (yes)
Not just a suggestion, if you ask the question,
Then it’s always yes, yeah!I’m loving what you wanna wear,
I wonder what’s up under there?
Wonder if I’ll ever have it under my tongue?
I love to try to set you free,
I love you all over me.
Love to hear the sound you make the second you’re done.Refrain:
S is for the simple need.
E is for the ecstasy.
X is just to mark the spot,
Cause that’s the one you really want.
(Yes) sex is always the answer, it’s never a question,
Cause the answer’s yes, oh the answer’s (yes)
Not just a suggestion, if you ask the question,
Then it’s always yes, yeah!Yeah, yeah, yeah (4*)
Refrain:
S is for the simple need.
E is for the ecstasy.
X is just to mark the spot,
Cause that’s the one you really want.
(Yes) sex is always the answer, it’s never a question,
Cause the answer’s yes, oh the answer’s (yes)
Not just a suggestion, if you ask the question,
Then it’s always yes, yeah!sex is always the answer, it’s never a question,
Cause the answer’s yes, oh the answer’s (Yes).
Not just a suggestion, if you ask the question,
Then it’s always yes, yeah, (yes)
I parked my scooter in front of the bank. It was pretty crowded, not only in the parking area but also inside. The security person at the entrance told me, that they will not serve me anymore today. So I went back to my scooter. When parking out, I touched the next scooter. That one fell over and another one fell over as well. So I stopped to put the other scooters back up. The first one did not have damage. But from the second one, the mirror was broken. I didn’t know, that I am gonna turn my mistake into a success. But that’s how I met Tracy Wilkinson.
We exchanged phone numbers. And already one day later Tracy got the broken mirror fixed. She sent me a message with the invoice, how much I had to pay. Meanwhile, I left Bali for a trip to the Gili Islands. Probably Tracy thought, she will never gonna see me again … But about two weeks later I turned up at her office to fix the damage I created.
Tracy Wilkinson
I learned from her, that she runs a business called Western Influences. And I found out, that she is a multi-entrepreneur, running some other companies as well. We found that we got much in common, with our ideas about personal development and business. That’s why, we met several times for dinner, and we had a very enjoyable exchange of ideas and thoughts. She also joined my mastermind group and very soon she became one of the most active participants. For me, it was a big win to get to know her.
For heaven’s sake, I smashed the mirror of her scooter! So my mistake turned into a success. Nowadays I think each time when I enter the bank: let’s smash a scooter and make more friends. Because I learned from her, that
Read her amazing story:
Dear Tracy,
What a wonderful story! Time to celebrate your health and your courage, to get through all of this. In our conversations I always felt, the big optimism and gratefulness, you are carrying in your heart. So I guess that’s what made it become so strong again!
I am so happy for you and glad that I got to know you!
Thank you
Klaus
I keep reminding you of thinking time, and you probably think: “I read that already a few times.” Why am I bothering you with the same issue again and again? I Think About You And Me.
See, it is good that I keep reminding you. You have not build a habit yet, which is usually the case after 3-4 weeks of daily repetition. Probably you are not there, yet. But it is not a long way that requires discipline (= self-love) to get there. My reminders shall help you through this first month. Then the habit will make you do it automatically by yourself on 6 out of 7 days. On the 7th day, you still need a kick in your ass, as a reminder. Or you just take the deserved break from it. How about reading your answers on the seventh day, and ticking those answers, which you already implemented in your life? And celebrate your success!
Who asks better questions get better answers! So when I Think About You And Me, I want to encourage you to spend some thinking time on better or modified questions.
For example, you might modify the question:
like this:
Just reading this, you can already feel the power of the different perspective! So go and change your questions to whatever serves you best.
Thinking time is not about a perfect process, even if I keep describing the process mostly. It is about effectiveness. Effectiveness is measured by results.
So the question when I Think About You And Me is:
Most people tend to do things perfectly. I know what I am talking about, I am German! Perfectionism is a stereotype of Germans (Japanese and Singaporeans, as well ;-). Which is a wonderful thing in developing great products, but it is a burden in terms of effectiveness!
Once again: Thinking time is about producing results, with the actions you take based on it:
Doing your thinking time efficient would mean, you get it done in the shortest time thinkable: zero time. Nothing would be worse than that!
Which of my ideas, actions, efforts, habits, … are showing NO results towards my dreams and targets? And as a consequence: Get rid of those tasks. Thinking about this for one hour, to finding only one thing, which keeps you busy for 30 minutes a day, and which creates no progress. This would be wonderful. Even if you lose half an hour on the first day, it will save you 3.5 hours a week. If you subtract the invested hour of thinking time, you still gained 2.5 hours. This is a return on investment of 250% already within the first week. Oh, women, I would love to have a savings account like that! Did you get no ideas, how to save 30 minutes a day?
BTW: I Think About You: Personal development is, to have a better communication with yourself. And your thinking-time is communication with yourself!
At this point, I want to honor and express my gratitude to everybody, who already answered my questions of the survey about
If you have not done so yet, go and serve me with something to think about: And
There is a 93% chance, that YOU have NOT done so, yet. How do I know? I count the number of answers I already got, and I counted how many people I asked to answer the questions. Answering them shows your commitment. To be honest: If you are not committed, you might at least think, if you belong in this group. So show your commitment, or you want to leave the
Thank you for your commitment!
Where is the largest prison in the world located?Between the ears!
Yes, this prison is located in your and my head, the brain. Not laws, ordinances and rules hold us back, but only what we believe. Everything we think to know, we actually only believe. Let’s take a controversial example:
What do you know about Donald Trump?
Please answer honestly this question, before you scroll down and continue to read.
Did you think it through? Did you find out everything you think to know about him? If not, keep on think for a while before you scroll down and read on.
Now look at this, as the German publisher has translated the title of this book:
Based on such translations, we believe to know something about Donald Trump. Ironically, the newspaper Bild had enough guts to translate the title with “Groß denken, Hintern treten!” And to be honest, I usually trust (belief) them the least. As you can see, believing means not knowing.
If you want to see it from another perspective, watch Leo’s video Mankind Is The Bullshitting Animal. It will inspire you to think about:
How am I full of shit …
By the end, you can
