sep 8th, 2010

It seems almost impossible to believe that I created them within two and a half years!

I hope by now you understand how important I consider Personal Development and having the best possible Attitude you can. I’ve often been asked the question, especially during coaching sessions or from the audience during a speech or seminar: “What is it that drives you so much towards Attitude and Personal Development?”

There are many reasons, but one I value most is the happiness and joyfulness that I feel when someone lifts themself to new and higher levels that seemed to be impossible when they started. Another is participating in the process of helping a person to reach their dream in life.

Without wanting to be too negative I consider our world today as mostly egotistic, greedy and ruthless. Too many of us only think what´s best for them and the profit they can make. Instead of thinking; “What shall I do to get as much as possible out of the situation I am in right now?”, just consider if instead you were to think; “What is the most optimal thing I can give to this situation?”

 I can promise you that if you consistently think and act in this way, you will soon discover that you get a much better outcome than you expected at the beginning! If you consider this reasoning to be flawed – even crazy – then my simple question is; “Have you tested it?”

Never reject anything before you’ve tested it!

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Sep 6th, 2010

I believe that many of you are aware of the great ‘refugee problem’ between the USA and Mexico which involves many Mexicans trying to cross the border to get into the USA.

Some days ago I read in our local newspaper about this matter, and it seems that smuggling people illegally into the USA from Mexico has become a whole industry. It’s not only smuggling them either – they also kidnap many of them and demand money from their relatives who already live in the USA. This kind of greed and cruelty so often terribly affects many of us!

Below is a quote from one of the people kidnapped:

“When the kidnappers took us into the house they said: “Welcome to hell – in here we will cut of your throat!” They killed five of us in front of our eyes. I was forced to call my family in the USA and ask them to send the ransom being asked. One of our group managed to escape and went to the police. They brought him back to the kidnappers who cut off one hand to teach him a lesson so he didn’t try anything like this again. I heard the policeman say to the kidnappers – if you have any more trouble just call us! When the guards saw a woman they wanted they just raped her, on the floor in front of all of us. When one of the group said that he didn´t have any relatives in the USA, they threw him out into the garden where there were big dogs that hadn’t eaten for many days! Then we who were left got food!”

Unfortunately this is the truth!

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Sep 4th, 2010

Now that the vacation period is more or less finished in most of the countries in Europe and America, many people go into a depression. Of course it’s nice to have a vacation but please don’t forget that working is the normal situation for the majority of us.

From my experience I see it like this; it’s not a disaster to start working again. Just think how many people don’t have jobs but it’s their greatest wish to have one. See the positive in having something of value to do that gives your life meaning.

If your work doesn’t give you any value and you feel bored and find it agony to go to, then CHANGE your work, profession or employer. Why waste such a big part of your waking time doing something that gives you absolutely no value and joy?

Wake up! Ensure that for the rest of your professional life you’re doing something that IS fulfilling and rewarding.

Do you know that it’s NEVER too late to change your work, your profession or your employer? It’s only how you think that matters and if you think with a positive attitude it will be much easier for you. NOW is the right time to act! If not now then when else will it be?

Now many of you might wonder how you can create a better attitude. My tip is to go back and read all my previous texts (up to now there are around. 300 of them.) Many of them contain help in starting this process.

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Sep 2th, 2010

I’ve often wondered why we don’t greet each other, I mean, what the exact reason is. People we meet – maybe while out walking, on the staircase, at the shop or whatever – my over-riding feeling is that when you meet a person – eye to eye – even if the person looks away, greet them.

Greeting everybody you meet is one of the most natural things there is, at least it should have been. Of course there are situations when it’s practically impossible; an example is that when I’m walking around the city this situation makes it hard if not impossible, to greet everybody.

In my view of the world we are all co-operators in life; we’re put here to co-operate so as to make life as good as possible for all of us. Consider this. We’re all people in a community that’s called ‘the world’ or if you prefer it ‘your community’. How can we all be happy? We need to co-operate and to make the best of where we are.

So greet everyone you meet as they are your fellow partners in life. Even if you don’t agree with this, at least try it because I can assure you that you will feel great!

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Aug 31th, 2010

Unfortunately I’m forced to go back to the issue of swine flu vaccinations; most of you have probably put it to the back of your mind (which should have been the best place for it!)

If you read my texts on a regular basis you’ll know that a year ago I wrote about how wrong I thought it was to inject not-very-well-tested material into your body. With a good attitude, why should we get “protected” against something that isn’t any worse than most of the previous strains of flu? Who is behind it and what is the hidden agenda? Can it be the poor drug industry that has a problem making enough money – or is it somebody that wants to get inside us at any cost?

A few days ago it emerged that there have been several people – mainly children – who have developed a very unusual disease. It’s a neurological disease that makes your muscles extremely relaxed and you can suddenly fall asleep. They’ve now discovered that it seems to be caused by the flu vaccine (are you surprised? I’m not!). In my view this is probably only the top of the iceberg; we don’t know how many problems the vaccine has caused because we haven’t got all the information – and we probably will never ever get it. Now think how much this vaccination has cost and what we could have used it for.

I made my choice not to have it immediately everyone in Sweden was offered the injection, although I’m still happy that approximately 70% of the Swedish population got it -not once, but twice! My wife Tina also refused it and in telling you this, I should also say this was in spite of the fact that we’d booked a journey to India, on our own, without any travel agency involved.

Why was there such massive marketing and strong recommendations to get this crap injected into our bodies? Don’t forget that so many people in the western world have been injected and it can’t now be undone!  I wonder if there are people who are happy about this and why?

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Aug 29th, 2010

I’ve been thinking of this for a while now, and every time I do it seems to me to be clearer and clearer.

Nowadays, people in the western world are tending to adjust their way of living to many of the ways of the eastern world (mainly in Asia). Among other things it includes such things as mindfulness, religious beliefs, food, etc.

Now the paradox is that people in the eastern world are tending more and more to try to get what we have in the western world, including our way of living where money (and through that material things) fast food, status etc. are all important.  I read in a newspaper a while ago that China has passed the USA as the biggest energy consumer in the world. Obesity is an increasing problem in India, mainly in the fast-growing middle classes that now have values influenced by the west.

How will it look in thirty years? Will we have changed lifestyles with each other or will we have moved towards each other so much that there is much less difference in our lifestyles? I find this to be a good paradox. If we can learn from each other – even the not-so-good stuff – the world will be a better place to live in. We might be able to share both material things and mental health; in other words, we will have a more equal world.

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Aug 27th, 2010

If you really want to achieve something in life, who cares if it takes a long time if it’s something of great importance to you? If it is, you will do all in your power to succeed.

Most people give up through lack of confidence in their ability to both manage the process and to fulfill their objective. But you don’t need any guarantees of success as long as you find it worthwhile. Just doing it and living it has its own power for you.

If we were aware of how many of us have given up our dreams just before they were going to be fulfilled, it would probably have been a horrifying experience.

Never give up on your dreams – they’ve been given to you to be fulfilled by you, otherwise they wouldn’t have revealed themselves.

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Aug 25th, 2010

More often than not we tend to exercise our bodies more than we exercise our brains. Why is that? The only explanation I have is in fact two –fold; first, exercising the body is easier and more well known than exercising the brain and you can physically see the progress made. The other is that too many of us believe that it’s not as important to exercise the brain since we have the brain we were equipped with from birth and there’s no point in exercising it and trying to develop it!

To me this is nonsense. Of course it’s every bit as important to exercise your brain as to exercise your body, in order for you to develop as a human being. Yes I know that there are people who don’t want to develop as people and that’s okay by me, but then don’t forget that this means you cannot achieve anything more than ordinary

If you were locked in a room for two years without the possibility of walking, then after that period you were released, do you think you would be able to walk as you did before you were locked away? Of course not! It would be very difficult as your muscles would have deteriorated and would be close to useless. Likewise, if you were locked in a room without any contact at all with the world and human beings – I mean without any external influences at all – your brain would experience the same situation, that is, there would be a decrease in activity and its function would deteriorate.

My conclusion: it’s critically important to exercise your brain with external stimuli such as reading, listening to constructive things, meditating, engaging yourself in personal development etc. Whatever you do, exercise your brain as it needs it as much as your body if you are to live your life optimally.

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Aug 23th, 2010

I never cease to be surprised about peoples’ short term thinking and acting! For instance, in a government election if people are asked who they’re going to vote for and then get the follow-up question; “Why?” the answer will be close to one hundred percent: “Because it’s best for me!”

I believe very strongly that this is absolutely the worst way of thinking. If voting that way really will get the best for you (and like so much else this is a very egotistic way of thinking) then why not vote for what´s best for me too? If you vote for the best solution for the whole country, in the long term it will also be the best for you. Your situation right now may be quite different within a year or even a few months time. For example, today when voting you might be unemployed but in a few months you might acquire a great new job!

Stop voting in the short time for egotistic benefits which will never, ever, achieve anything for anyone – including for you. It’s the long term that really counts and getting benefits for many people.  Don’t you think it’s better to have a good life in the longer term than in the short term?

Egotistic, short term thinking is common for so much more than an election. Are you one of those people who doesn’t see any further than their nose?

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Aug 19th, 2010

Please think this through:

In China there’s a Bamboo that grows in an extraordinary way. The Bamboo needs to be very carefully nursed for its first five years; the ground needs to be fertilized and watered every other day – even if you can’t see any sign of life at all. If you’ve done all of this then in five years time you will start to see the Bamboo coming up through the ground, and within a few weeks it will grow to a height of approximately 4-5 meters!

I have a question: Has the Bamboo been growing for a few weeks or five years?

This is like life; often you struggle towards your goals without seeing any results, but when you’ve struggled for long enough, all of a sudden the goal reveals itself to you. Your endurance has been paid back to you. The answer to the question by the way is ‘five years’. If this wasn’t your answer I suggest you start wondering when in your life you’ve give up a dream because you didn’t have the endurance to wait for it. Remember that a dream is always standing in front of you and trying to get your attention.

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