Monkey of Hope

9 Steps Towards Greatness

Monkey of Hope — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:15:13 +0000

What key-features you need to find the greatness inside of you.

1. Stop thinking bad about yourself

You know yourself better than anybody else and may know all the power and weakness inside of you. It’s not good to fight against your weakness, it’s better to use your strength, which leads us to the next point.

2. Don’t force yourself.

We are often told, that it’s good to force yourself, to fight against your weakness. If you work hard, then you’ll accomplish what you want. That may happen, yes, but I’ll say, you never find your own greatness this way. The better way is to…

3. Find the key to self-motivation.

Yesterday I went running – no big distance. I just ran. My body felt like not wanting to run after a while and the air was hot and wet. I gave myself the freedom to stop running if I wanted. But I wanted to run, without forcing myself. I listened to my body and decided .. okay.. let’s try how far we good but not too far. I then ran 2 times longer than I first planned.
It’s all about the thinking. Why thinking negative? And I even didn’t forced myself to motivation. It’s a natural motivation which is not easy to find but if you find it, you’ll have fun and power to walk on the path to greatness in freedom.

4. Repeat moments of power

Moments of power are moments where there is no need of forcing yourself and the motivation comes naturally but not forced. You feel great by having that moment, like I feel great right now writing this article
If there is any possibility to repeat what gives you energy and leads you to greatness, do it. Never let routines ruin your Life, but create routines, that makes your Life better. So it’s not a question if the things that we constantly do are great, but its the answer to repeat great things and you will rock the planet. More on that in the future.

5. Be aware of the greatness in you.

You already have it. Think big about yourself Just do great things to develop even more greatness. Just do it. Start with the simple things. Don’t make a plan to be great one day in the future. Be great today. If you can’t find the greatness today, how will it reach you in the future? It won’t happen.

6. Share your greatness with other people.

Find out, who likes your kind of greatness and connect with those people. Some may not realise your greatness, but others will. You need supporters. Don’t fight for yourself against people, but rather help people, by motivating them.

7. Look for the greatness in the people you meet, in the nature and your surroundings.

That could be the first point on my list, cause to have an eye for greatness in others makes it more easy to realize the greatness in you. But, never think to big about the greatness of other people or to bad about it, don’t judge. Take it for motivation to find your own. Cause YOU have your own greatness.

8. Take the first step.

I think the way to greatness is not easy to find, but it’s worth to search for it. If you just realize, that you have greatness in you, than thats a good start. Wonderful.
That’s everything I wanted with this article, to make you aware of the greatness in you.

9. Smile.

Just smile at yourself in the mirror and realise that someone elses greatness created you the way you are.

I’m very interested in what you think about greatness.
Tell me your own thoughts on greatness if you like.

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Think Big about yourself

Monkey of Hope — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 01:48:41 +0000

or “Find your own greatness”

If you start thinking big about yourself, real magic happens.
People will recognise your greatness and the most important thing is: You will recognise your greatness yourself.

You have the ability for greatness.
You just have to find it.
Sometimes it’s even more simple.
The greatness is right there, reachable.
Right there, where your heart is.

So I think searching for this greatness, for this power in you is one of the most important things you can do to be happy.

There is greatness inside of me, I truely know that. It just wants to show itself to the world and to myself.

Think Big about yourself. Let the Greatness: the connection of your abilities, your expertise and your power for action just happen.

Take action.

Now.

There will be no future for that.

There is no time for later.

There is only this second to decide.

Be Great, Be Yourself and Be Happy

Think Big.

What meadow has to do with the beauty of writing

Monkey of Hope — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 17:28:56 +0000

Notice: I wrote this for myself while riding a train, but as i finished it i realized that I want to share this article with the world.
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Meadow is kind of a wonderful word. For me as a German-speaking person, I love it. It sounds romantic to me. I think it’s like this because I first really recognized it by reading “The Time-travelers Wife” which I never finished reading.

Today I stumbled upon it by researching all kinds of words that have to do with “edge”. So “the edge of the meadow” was what I loved.

Isn’t it nice to read a word that feels alive?

I wish I could write in a deeper language in english, cause I feel the edge. I want to go further, to express myself in a way thats only possible in German for me so far. But whats better to improve my style and everything than to write in english. Write a lot. And then let it be read by natives. And then they tell me. So I can learn and improve and write and improve and get better every time I put my fingers on the keyboard.

But despite the lack of a great english, I am still able to write down my thoughts and share them with the world. By writing in english and having fun doing it, I have the mental-power to write more and more. Thats important to me.

Sometimes I think about only to write in German, cause here I can improve my style of writing as well. It’s not just in the words, but by putting powerful meaningful words together and not only give me the feeling of a flow, but also the reader. To feel the flow by reading a message on the net is the only way to attract someone in a true way. This feeling of flow as far as I can say is possible by the combination of two factors.

First. The interesting thoughts that get transported to the reader, which may help improving once thoughts.

Second. The style of writing, how sentences and words are combined, which words where chosen. Like Poetry. Like the rhetoric of a speech.

The thoughts are the most powerful thing I have to give, cause my thoughts are independent of language. People who like my style of thinking will follow me. But the rhetoric is very important, too. And with my small amount of english rhetoric power I am still capable to write stuff that may be read by some people and influence thinking.

So how to improve one and two? By writing. Writing is the one most important thing to get better in everything. Writing creates crazy thoughts that need to get formed into some beautiful something.

The power of fresh Ideas

Monkey of Hope — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:51:09 +0000

Do you live your Life on this planet and wonder what might happen next?

Do you just go on with you Life and relax in thinking?

Do you do the same that everybody else is doing?

It feels like I invented myself several times. If I could meet myself in the past we would be two different people. Yes, very similar, but different.

There is change happening. Great change. The change is not coming by forcing it, but by exploring the great benefits of Life. By listening to your heart and by following your own path. And of course by fresh ideas. I read a lot stuff online, I think a lot about the people behind the blogs that I read and sometimes what they write is absolutely crazy. But that crazyness is also inside of me, maybe inside of you. Find out.

Participate. In. The. Net.

Yes, you may use Facebook and be there online all day klicking on “Like”-Buttons. But do you know what? Nothing is better than your own base in the net. It’s just your space, where you can unveil fresh mindblowing ideas.

I believe, there is a creator in everyone of us. Let him out. Write, make photos, videos or do whatever is creative. Don’t do it, because people may like it, but do it, because it’s your very own style. Find your style and rock on. Authenticity is more important that ever. No one wants to read some lame thing they are expecting, but mindblowing stuff which may turn readers away, but also creates some true fans.

Speaking of mindblowing crazy stuff go and check out @evbogues site Far beyond the Stars

Update:

Ev killed his site, he writes now on evbogue.com and letter.ly

Listen, People of the Internet

Monkey of Hope — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:54:52 +0000

This is me, monkeyofhope writing some article on my blog.

You may have missed me, you may have never heard of me, you may have kissed me or will do or never meet me. You may be dreaming of me or dreaming without me. But you are reading my stuff right now. I am here. Thats what I have to tell the world. It may be interesting to you or not. If so, keep reading. If not, just leave my blog. I don’t need readers, I just need a writer. That’ll be me

I read lots of stuff online. I read some books. I keep reading. I collaborate in Facebook, I have twitter, which I don’t post as often as I post on facebook. I speak German as my first language and English second. I keep thinking to get better in english, so i don’t write sometimes. Who stops me? It’s me. But hey, it’s also me who is writing here.

So hey, it’s me telling you some random stuff which comes out of my brain. Now what? I love it. It’s some creative type of feeling I have. Why not write all the time like now?

You’ll her from me.

what minimalism means to me

Monkey of Hope — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:45:40 +0000

I keep thinking a lot about minimalism and what it means to me.

Minimalism is some kind of simplicity. It means to reduce all unnessessary things in order to have space for the important.

Right now i am happy with everything i own or have and don’t want to have more stuff.

That means a lot to me. It makes the things i have so usefull, cause i also try to find out what i don’t need for the quality of my life.

I am on the path of minimalism and so far it makes me feel kind of rich. Yes, i don’t need a great car to make my life usefull. Right now i even don’t need any car.

Life is simpler if you have less stuff.

Minimalism is not focused on stuff but on everything in your life. But reducing stuff and think twice before bying something is an easy start into minimalism.

Think about what you don’t need and get rid of it.

Why having less can set you free

Monkey of Hope — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:27:03 +0000

We use to have lots of stuff. We want it, we buy it, we have it.
Generations before us did never have this amount of things like we own today.

And there is nothing wrong with having as much stuff as you want.

But…Do you think that the stuff you posess makes you happy? Or do you think it gives you security?
I also had a big wishlist in my head of “nice to have’s” And even if I never would buy it, it was still in my head.

I realised that wanting more of things you don’t have makes you wanting to have even more stuff if you get them.

On the contrary, to reduce your stuff and wanting less gives you the opportunity to proof to yourself that you don’t need all that stuff, that you don’t even want to buy more stuff, but instead give your friends and family and your actions you are truely passionate about more time and energy.

That leads to a Life where you don’t need that Big-Money-Job but instead work on a job that you truely love.

You will realise that the things you own are enough which makes you feel kind of rich, cause you have everything you need already.

Nice to read: The essay “Stuff” by Paul Graham

Step by Step

Monkey of Hope — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:55:01 +0000

If you walk.

On a path…

.. you have chosen.

Remember

that every

single

step

counts.

Do one step today!

How to stick to a schedule

Monkey of Hope — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:55:14 +0000

In order to post regularly, it’s necessary to stick to a schedule.

I try to keep it and post every Monday and Thursday.

My dream is to write every single day and then have enough to post on those two days. The best thing would be, to have several articles and then only post the best and maybe develop the others further.

Right now I’m writing this article with only 5 minutes to go. It’s more important for me to write regularly than not to write at all but only dream of writing perfect article.

So if you know whats important to you and to keep your blog alive, just do that. Everything else may develop later and I’m looking forward to have more time to write to bring my articles one level further.

But at this moment in time I’m just happy with what I created.

Update:

This goal has changed. I have no blogging-goal anymore but rather write as I feel to write. A plan should always be helpful, not hinder you.

The Art to enjoy Life

Monkey of Hope — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:19:39 +0000

“Life is not in the past, nor in the future, it’s in the presence.” – ar

Right now, I’m sitting at a table of a Cafe in fresh air. It’s a wonderful sunny day. I’m sitting here with my MacBook in the shadow, listening to music. I love to write, ’cause today i’ll post a new article to my blog, this one.

I love these moments. They remind me that Life is one wonderful thing. It’s important to celebrate them. I love to be right here, sitting at this very table writing.
Not all moments in my Life are like this lovely relaxing and productive moment. But I can create them. I call this the Art to enjoy Life.

Sometimes you get distracted by so many things in Life. And then you have no time or take no time for yourself. This time I’m having right now makes me feel like it’s my time. It’s not just relaxing but beeing creative and productive. To do something that is worth it -whatever it is- is the key part for having joy. I don’t find joy, sunbirthing for a week even if thouse sunny moments at a lake are just wonderful. I also don’t want to write for hours today. To find joy in this very moment is art. And realising that this moment gives you joy is important.

If I go to the movies, I’m also having joy, but it’s a joy of distraction. There is nothing wrong with it. But it is not replacable with the joy of this moment. I think one should integrate thouse moments in Life whereever possible.
They are the key to a creative mindset.