There is one question I get posed more often these days: How can I or person xyz learn to better reflect?
What seems like a trivial question is actually rather difficult. Sure, we are familiar with our own thoughts and we all try to make sense of that mess that can inherit our heads. But to reflect in a way to actually derive insight, understanding and an idea how to adjust and change is not that common.
At some point I read that we humans are the means of the universe to think about itself. Questions like, “Who am I?” or “What is the meaning of life” are phrases we use to explain ourselves and the world around us. Millions of years of evolution have taught us that everything that makes us up (body and mind) has a specific purpose. I firmly believe that one of our main tasks in life is to understand ourselves and our way and thereby help all people and living beings.
We experience many different dialogues, discussion, and conversations in our lives. Some of them are nice, some of them are neutral, and some of them are not so nice. This is true for voices we hear in our external world but also in our internal word. However, our internal world is often negatively skewed. Many…
Hallo, hi, привет, hola, and salut, and welcome to day seven of the virtual self-development conference. If this is the first article you read in this series, I recommend to go back to the introduction and to day 1 where I kick off the conference and establish some ground rules. Today is the last day of…
Greetings and welcome to day six of the virtual self-development conference. If this is the first article you read in this series, I recommend to go back to the introduction and to day 1 where I kick off the conference and establish some ground rules. We are now “done” with the “I look into myself”…
Hello again, and welcome to day five of the virtual self-development conference. If this is the first article you read in this series, I recommend to go back to the introduction and to day 1 where I kick off the conference and establish some ground rules. Imagine a Venn diagram with three parts. We already…
Huhu and welcome to day four of the virtual self-development conference. If this is the first article you read in this series, I recommend to go back to the introduction and to day 1 where I kick off the conference and establish some ground rules. We are at half-time and we are taking up speed….
Hi there and welcome to day three of the virtual self-development conference. If this is the first article you read in this series, I recommend to go back to the introduction and to day 1 where I kick off the conference and establish some ground rules. I hope you enjoyed the exercise(s) from the last…
Hello hello and welcome to day two of the virtual self-development conference. If this is the first article you read in this series, I recommend to go back to the introduction and to day 1 where I kick off the conference and establish some ground rules. If you read the other articles and did the…
Yesterday, I announced the start of an experiment which will be a virtual self-development conference using this blog. To save some of your precious time, I will not repeat the reason and the agenda again, but link to it here. As the title suggests, the first day of the conference is about getting to know…
Hello hello, long time no nothing… I took a rather long break from writing this blog, but I feel that this was needed. I still kept writing, because I came up with a new project which is writing a book about strengths. I am still in the research phase, but I will write more about…
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