The Key To Success?

I always have to smile a bit, when I hear people say that "desire" and "passion" are all you need to be successful. I doubt that, because I have seen too many people being successful without showing any passion or desire for what they are doing. Instead, what they all had in common is: Persistence. Maybe passion and desire are driving forces behind it, however what really clears the way to achieve something are your continuous actions and behaviour towards it. Over and over again, because the things that seem attractive to us usually don't come easy (and according to Psychologists this is actually among the main reasons WHY they seem attractive to us).

Therefore we all have to keep in mind, that having romantic feelings or dreaming about something alone is not enough - we have to DO something to get closer.

We all know how Nike breaks this down to: "Just do it" and I believe in the end it's really as simple as that:

When in doubt, consider...

The Pursuit Of Happiness

Many people nowadays seem to struggle with being happy and satisfied with themselves and their lifes. While this may have several different reasons, I would like to point out one main mistake, that in my opinion most people who aren't happy make in their approach on life: Especially in extremely industrialized and economically rich countries, society seems to suggest that striving for wealth is the only way to achieve satisfaction in life. What they don't understand is, that the people dictating those dogmas have fundamental interest in you earning more money for consuming more of their products in order to make them richer, rather than providing you a promising idea of how to be happy. So if money can't buy happiness, what makes people satisfied with life?

It's Love. While enforced Materialism (above the range of poverty) has been shown to be inversely correlated with Life-Satisfaction, to achieve Happiness, putting Love first seems to be the smartest idea.

Look forward to see your family, instead of drooling over your new I-Phone.

Merry Christmas



1. Diener, E. and S. Oishi: 2000, ‘Money and happiness: Income and subjective wellbeing
across nations’, in E. Diener and E.M. Suh (eds.), Subjective Well-being
across Cultures (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA).

Yesterday ...

Lao-tse "Tao-Tê-King"

Einige sehr einfache Sätze Lao-tses, die in seiner typischen Art komplexe Wahrheiten mit beeindruckender Leichtigkeit treffen:

Buch 1, Kapitel 33, Vers 77:

"Wer die Menschen kennt, der ist klug;
Wer sich selber kennt, ist erleuchtet.
Wer andere Menschen besiegt, hat Gewalt;
Wer sich selbst besiegt, der ist stark.

Wer Genügen kennt, der ist reich;
Wer vorgeht mit Gewalt, der hat Willen.
Wer seinen Platz nicht verliert, der dauert;
Wer stirbt, ohne zu vergehen, lebt immerdar."

Hier sollen allgemeine Gedanken zum Körper, aber auch Gesellschaftlichen und Philosophischen ihren Platz finden.