Making it work

  • A gentle nudge

    I’ve come to realize the importance of a reminder in implementing the ‘carrot vs. donut’ -strategy. Despite my previous experience with this upward spiral approach, I haven’t been utilizing it effectively. It’s crucial to focus on the ratio. The ratio needs to be tipping. At the moment I’m really at a funny point of my…

  • Challenge in 2024

    Making it work In 2024, I’m setting a challenge for myself: to kickstart the upward spiral every day. I plan to employ techniques previously mentioned on this site and seek additional strategies to achieve this. The concept of an upward spiral is familiar to me; I’ve experienced it multiple times. For instance, almost nine years…

  • Unchanged effort

    Making it work Unchanged effort Today I realized that focusing on good things will always be the same. You can only do it now, but you have to, if you want to suceed. It is allways the same thing: it remains unchanged effort. Of course there are situations full of chaos or pain, where the…

  • Doubting the doubt

    Making it work Doubting the doubt I am getting back into A-mode quite frequently now. But the problem I was struggeling with, seems to be different than I thought. I assumed, that it is the percentage of negative thought, (the trevor-index) that makes you slip into A-mode, when kept very, very small. The last weeks…

  • A-mode

    Making it work A-mode I want to invent another term: Appreciation-mode, or A-mode. Once you trained your thinking into positive, you strengthened you positive connections in your network, there is something like assuredness or stability that is hard to explain. It feels like trust and farsightedness. When it occured to me the first times, it…

  • Getting back in

    Making it work Getting back in As I told you: there´s that tipping point, where you get more and more positive and it´s all about the trevor-index. However, the last month I have been out of that mode. Sometimes for hours, sometimes for up to two days I´d say. I broke up with my husband,…