Diary of a pure positive mind Happiness is a matter of focus Happiness is all about focus. Last week a smart colleague of mine inervened when I talked about my happiness, stating: “You only think you are happy, because you don´t realize when you are not”. From her perspective my positive focus seems to be…
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…
Diary of a pure positive mind An orgnism full of miracles When you are able to keep your thoughts positive, you develop one thing: a positive expectation for everybody and everything. What an amazing breed we human beings are! I am really looking forward to seeing us, humankind, explode once a lot of peple get…
Making it work Foster your dreams Your dreams have a very special function. We tend to forget that. I want to show you when you should remember. there is one question people always get irritated about. Sometimes you get the advice: It is important to do whatever you want to do and not listen to…
Diary of a pure positive mind Don´t read this – if you are not eager to get really happy Please pay attention now, because this is really important. Please, don´t read this if you are not eager to get real and stable happiness. Don´t read this post! Don´t read other posts on Tutorial to life,…
Diary of a pure positive mind Enjoying instability – or why Donald is a Dagobert It was quite a hard time I went through, because I was having a very persistent flu and because of all the issues I am having with my break-up. I still had my positive expectations and a very deep trust…
Diary of a pure positive mind Straight Flush – the latest findings in research tell us: be positive! The latest findings in neuropsychological reasearch are like a straight flush in poker and I will explain why. Although these words might be read calm and quiet and there are no fanfares or fireworks in the background,…
Diary of a pure positive mind Looking forward to the future I am really looking forward to the future. Sometimes I can hardly beleive how happy I am. It feels like there are so many doors opening for me at the moment. It feels like the space within me is getting bigger and bigger and…
Other strategies to stay positive Visualizing A very well discussed strategy is visualizing. As I mentioned in the post about classical conditioning, success trainers use this to aim goals and stay motivated. The more esoteric end of the spectrum even says, that whatever we achieve in life is a vision first and the universe can´t…
Diary of a pure positive mind Feeling good makes you better! There are many rumors (and studies) about negative outcomes of positive affect. Even when I studied psychology in Würzburg, they were telling us, positive affect leads to a heuristic and less systematic thinking. As if negative affect makes you a more analytical thinker. Now…