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New year, new possibilities

New Year

New year and 365 new pages to fill in your life. You have a choice, a choice what to make out of every day this year. Make it a good one.

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ― Mae West

No matter what you promised that night not long ago, it all comes down to the small choices we do. Every little choice we do determines the future. Many choices are made without you even knowing it. Things we do every day become habits, and habits are hard to change. Especially the bad.

Owes, promises and goals are great. And they become even greater if you write them down and see them every day. But to keep yourself on track you need discipline and hard work. Nothing in life comes easy.

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

So, what are you going to do with the new year and all the possibilities it brings?

For me it is easy. I will just continue on my path and try to do it better every day. I have my passive income streams that slowly but surely builds my future wealth. I am always looking for new ones, but are much more restrictive than before, lessons learned :-)

“Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make” – Donald Trump

I know my weaknesses and strive to improve. Most important for me is sleep, health and relations that still needs to get better. But now I am a much stronger and happier person than I used to be, which helps a lot.

Remember that knowledge is not power. Execution is.

The keys as I see them is still diversification and balance. You need to diversify your investments so that you still stand tall even if one or two fails. This is important in your personal life as well. If I focus on the above three areas and one fails, perhaps because I get sick, the other two will still make me feel proud and make me strong enough to continue.

Balance is equally good to keep in mind since everything always goes either backwards or forward. What you eat you must consume, what you spend you must earn etc.

New Year

Take care now and let us together make this year the best ever…

Snowy greetings from a cold, but beautiful Sweden.

Regards /Peter

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Trick or treat?

Trick or treat? I just love it when children comes to my house on Halloween. Colorful and all dressed up as ghosts, skeletons and witches. And that is the feeling I wish to get from commercials as well. A feeling of uncertain “coziness” that surprises me and makes me want to be apart and share.

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But to be honest, I must say that we have seen a lot of improvement overall the last couple of years. It used to be the marketing budget that was the secret to success, and most customers falling for it was being tricked. It was a matter of quantity instead of quality. Then there were a lot of scandals and companies going under. The market suddenly changed more quickly when customers had easier to communicate with each other and also easier to dig for information. New companies with smarter and better solutions became the winners and the old companies had to change. We started to see big companies talking about transparency and loyalty, we started to see more innovation and flexibility.

And now both online and offline we have a much better climate where companies has to care about their reputation and responsibility. This changed the customer behavior even more and today you must have customers trust before you can sell anything. And this is why communication is so important. You must treat everyone with respect, make friends, and realize that everyone has different background and a different view of things.

Are you in for a Trick or treat?

What is your plan? Do you have a short plan and a long plan? Or do you just play along as it goes? My suggestion is both. You need to have some kind of plan or mission with what you do. This is needed for you to keep going even if times get tougher. Then you need something shorter just to get you going and to be able to take action. But it is just as important to play along and see where destiny brings you. My mission is to have fun, love life and to be able to quit my job within 5 years, even though I won´t.  And by building up passive income from multiple sources I am not depending on anything i particullar to really work as planned. I play along and focus on the things that work best for me at the moment. The best part is still that I learn and grow everyday, wich makes me smile and feel happy as a child again :-)

To your success

/Peter

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How to become happy and succesful?

Hello,

Have you thought about how to become happy and successful? I have, alot.

I have been striving to become happy and successful all my life, and I thought that happiness would come automatically with success. Recently I have discovered that the two doesn’t have anything to do with each other, and that happiness and success is connected very closely. Seem logical, right? I also found out that the reason for me seeking success was to get recognition and praise. We all want to feel appreciated and loved, no matter if we are kids or if we are adults. Earlier when I was studying to become a sports coach, I often practised my lessons learned on my colleagues at work. Worked just as good on them as on the kids I was coaching.

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What makes happiness and success connect is that they both depend on your own perception and definition of happiness and success. They also relate in influencing feelings of each other. When you feel succesfull, happines overwhelms you. And when feeling happy a sense of success creeps up and fills you.

But happiness doesn’t have anything to do with success because you can be happy without success, and you can be successful without being happy.

It is here that it starts to become interesting, since all my strive for success might not affect my happiness at all. What a failure it would be to become successful but unhappy. But what is most important here? To be happy? To be successful? Or both? Well that depends on how we define success and happiness.

What is success? Actually, no more than your own perception of the goals and expectations you have of your life.

What if we changed these goals and expectations to become a little bit more realistic? What if you had more goals and more milestones along the way that was easier to achieve? Would that not make you have more to celebrate, more to feel successful about?

What is happiness? Actually, no more than your own feeling of gratitude, satisfaction and love.

What if we could practice to become more thankful to what we have, to be more content to what we accomplish and to take responsibility for whatever happens to us.

And is it really the goal you are after? Or is it the journey getting there that will give you the most?

My suggestion is to start small with every decision you make and weight it on a scale of positive versus negative. Will this decision have a positive or negative effect on my life in the long run, as Jeff Olsen describes in his book “the slight edge”?

The slight edge

Then continue by viewing and realizing everything as it is, find your purpose and begin to determine outcomes for everything you do. It is hard to find your way if you don’t know where you are heading… More about this can be found by reading books and watching seminars by Tony Robbins.

And then as small successes starts to happen, try to visualize what you really want and get inspiration from the film or book “the secret“.

Start feeling how everything in life is about you, and how you can start spreading your message like rings on water. And by doing so helping others and creating both happiness and success for yourself.

Take care…