Yes, you read that right. Today, I am going to give you a sneak “preview” of someone who is very well on the way to live his life effortlessly and be happy.

He does not take a magic pill every morning and runs around with a grin on his face the whole day. No.

He is also not perfect. He cries every once in a while.

But this is not what it is about. It is all about being happy.

Imagine the things you could do, if you would be happy more often. Simply happy with where you are at, without judging yourself. Simply happy when you wake up in the morning and you see that it is raining outside (like the lady on the right).

To achieve that, you need one single thing. [Read more…]

That question played a key role last week in Samsung’s promotional video for the Paralympics starting today in Sochi 2014.

Paralympics games which will start under even weirder circumstances than the Olympic Games, in my opinion, due to the “political situations”, but let’s leave that aside for this post.

I would like to quickly share with you that video to start off these exciting Games (I am about the hit the road for a long ride). These kind of Games, which are not so often talked about. I don’t know whether you follow them, maybe you do. I am not trying to convince you that you should.

I believe that this video reminds us of what humans are capable, despite whatever types of disabilities. What energy we have, what kind of motivation we can build up.

Simply amazing! [Read more…]

I don’t know about you, but I am one of those who has only started a few years ago to use YouTube as a reference tool and not only for entertainment.

How about you?

Isn’t there this word called “edutainment”? Well, I think nowadays, there is plenty of such kind available on YouTube. And there is really no reason why you should not take advantage of it to advance on your personal development path! [Read more…]

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

If you want to make a change in your private or business life, I encourage you to take one little step today: Have a look at a couple of the amazing talks I recommend below.

I first discovered the organization called TED, when I was participating in a communication training in London in 2007. The trainer introduced one particular speech to us for the simple presentation techniques the speaker used, but this is not the subject here.
I was amazed by the concept of sharing great speeches by great minds of a very short duration of between 2 to 18 minutes with the world.

Since then, I discovered other platforms which share similar conferences with interesting talks and I saw older, very powerful talks, some of which were even integrated in these platforms.

I watch these talks regularly to get new ideas and to boost my motivation, sometimes more often then others, but in principle, I watch them being on the go or on a lazy Sunday with a notepad in my lap full of notes.

Here it goes: [Read more…]