Category: Playing Rules
Players only - Rule 65: Start where you are. No need to postpone.
Do it now!Where there is a will, there is always a way.Where there is no will, there are only excuses. Start where you are. Use what you have. W...
Players only - Rule 64: Begin with yourself. Your mind is the key. Your heart an infinite place.
Rebooting back to happiness! Did you know that our “normal” unhindered state is purely and simply: Happiness? Please forgive me if I am...
Players only - Rule 63: Learn to master the “floppy side” of everything.
The overpowering (and exceedingly annoying!) urge to be always on “top of the game” So why are we wasting so much precious time and effort obses...
Rule 62: Stop obsessing over other people’s expectations - Which we are either overestimating, or very bad at guessing at anyway!
Others either don’t notice, don’t care, or it does not matter When it comes to other people's expectations (real or imagined), and how they comp...
Players only - Rule 61: Anything can be as “easy” or “difficult” as you make it - And the biggest irony of it all is: In the end, it will hardly make a difference.
The Elasticity of Time One of my favorite persons in the world - and (by far) the best manager I was ever lucky to have, (in fact, the one and o...
Players only - Rule 60: Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible - The Dalai Lama.
The power of kindness Being “kind” might seem counterintuitive in a chapter dedicated to successfully facing “challenges”. After all, in our ind...
Players only - Rule 59: Turn fear into excitement. Embrace your own adventure. Because it is not just the mountain you conquer - But yourself.
There is a flipped side to everything.Take your stance, and you can turn your world upside down. There is an alluring way to words, but truth be...
Players only - Rule 58: Ask, and you shall be given
Passive entitlement vs. engaging action. Do something, speak up! Well, I see as this might be confused with irritating arrogance, or worst self-...
Players only - Rule 57: Empty your “spam”. Free your energy flow. Be defined by what lifts you up, not what drags you down
Some “necessary evils” are not that necessary after all. How to make yourself scarce around negative people. Now that we have set the record str...
Players only - Rule 56: You don’t need to play the “victim”. A negative experience can be a wake-up call. Take that up
It is not raining on you. It is just raining I heard that years ago and its truthful irony impressed me. It is tempting to fall in the cliché of...
Players only - Rule 55: Stop pretending. And start dealing with it. Even if it means you need to dig some dirt from time to time
Happy go lucky. Right? I only need to tip the words “negative thinking” to immediately ascertain how demonized that is. Broadly and beyond doubt...
Players only - Rule 54: See it through. “No” does not need to be the final answer. Trust the World, not words
How my dream that “one day I shall take a sabbatical” finally became “the day I took a (sort of) sabbatical” (Part II) The big announcement. Or ...
Players only - Rule 53: Stop calling it a Dream. And start calling it a Plan
How my dream that “one day I shall take a sabbatical” finally became “the day I took a (sort of) sabbatical” (Part I) Make time your daydreams i...
Players only - Rule 52: Start with the end in mind – Or just start and embrace your open-end
When your dream comes knocking at your door - and you are still in your pajamas Right now, the question - who do I wish to be - is particularly ...
Players only - Rule 51: Why struggle to try to find yourself, when you can create yourself instead?
Since we just established that “losing” the beaten track might be a blessing in disguise, let’s take this one step further: Why struggle t...
Players only - Rule 50: Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail
Are you a follower, or a leader? It is tempting to tag along the beaten path. A paved road is easier to follow. Indeed, it is made for it, armed...
Players only - Rule 45: Meditate. Allow yourself to disconnect from the world to reconnect with yourself
Ego says: once everything falls into place, I will find peace.Spirit says: find peace, and everything falls into place. A while ago one of my yo...
Players only - Rule 43: Start with Yourself. Peace comes from within.
Pleasing everybody is impossible. What pleases you? Do you also sometimes feel like you are living somebody else's life? On the surface...
Players only - Rule 42: It is not happy people who are grateful. It is grateful people who are happy.
Turn your happiness inside out. Carrying on in the same spirit of “disruptive innovation”, as in the business of creating new values that displa...
Players only - Rule 41: Uncovering the three “C” of Happiness 1) Contradictions 2) Chaos. And 3) Compromise
The previous Rule was about what happiness is. Now let’s tackle what happiness is not. And let’s start by shamelessly exposing the naked truth abou...
Rule 36: You do not need to look far: discover the beauty just in front of you
Buckle up! Here I am at home. Like most of the folks these days. My adventure plot is “on freeze” for the moment. And it might be a while until ...
Rule 35: Do not count the days. Make the days count!
Escape plan on “hold”… I have been waiting forever to finalize my “escape plan”… But there seemed to be always something coming in between, call...
Rule 34: Happiness is overrated! Life does not have to be “pink” – A rainbow is beautiful because of all its colors (Part 2/2)
(Follow-up from Part 1/2) Inside Out: Cheering our whole inner emotional team! 4. Disgust Ok, that we could do without…Or could we? The...
Rule 34: Happiness is overrated! Life does not have to be “pink” - A rainbow is beautiful because of all its colors (Part 1/2)
(Follow-up in Part 2/2) A tale of two sisters... Like the sun and the moon My sister and I could not have been more different… Most people do...
Rule 3: Do it because (!) you are scared: Take a leap towards the magic - cut through your fears
I remember once standing in front of a beautiful lake in the middle of a forest in France. It was the beginning of summer, so the weather was warm,...
Rule 2: Start by asking yourself "why not?" - Be the daring one
We often move through life, as if going through an algorithm. We expect a certain result as follow-up to any given input. And we try to define our ...
Rule 1: Rise to become the person you wish to have at your side
Have you ever felt like you missed out on something you didn’t do because you were unsure or scared of how things might end? Perhaps it is a wi...
