sleep tight

I am sure you have all heard about theories on how to manifest the things in life that you desire. Ask - and you will be given.

I was attending a webinar the other day about vision and mindset. Now I'm the visual type - listening to anything is pretty challenging for me and as per usual I kept drifting of - but I did take away this exercise:Write down your goals, formulated in the present tense as if already achieved, as specific as possible, and place the piece of paper underneath your pillow. Once I started, I kept thinking of more and more things I want. I'll probably end up sleeping on top of a book.... Not sure how comfortable that will be.

I shall keep you posted how it works out 💤

and it continues...

There has been more snow. But also some sunshine. The way life goes.

cookie time

For a couple of weeks now, I've been craving sushi but for once decided to empty my fridge instead of getting take away. So, I was very happy that C picked sushi for dinner on Monday. It was yummy and here's what the fortune cookies told us:

"Try & you might. Don't and you certainly won't."

Can't argue with that, can you?
Cs had to do with travelling which was so fitting for her, too.
The right cookie clearly went to the right person!

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forgiveness

I love Facebook.
I hardly use it. In the sense of updating my 'friends' on my life. But I've been 'meeting' some amazing people through it over the last months. An awesome tool to connect!

One of these people is Laura Long who also works as a coach. Last week, she introduced me to tapping (check out EFT). As per usual, I am not particularly interested how exactly it works, the fact that it does have an effect for me, is what matters.

What struck me in both sessions was, how - and this came from another participant actually - the term 'forgiving myself' caused quite a reaction in me. As well as 'punishing myself'. At first, I was completely taken aback, as I had no clue how I should interpret that. But then yesterday, I had a bit of a light bulb moment. Something to explore further for sure.

Like a virgin

Carl from the English speakers in Rosenheim group organizes a monthly pub quiz at the Irish pub. Now, I'm not really into them - I wasn't when I lived in the UK either. Primarily cause I like winning, and my general knowledge and other specialist knowledge is nothing to write home about...

Nevertheless, since I moved here almost two years ago (holy shit!!!), I've been meaning to go. And finally, last Sunday was THE day! Besides very slow and slightly confused service (Kilkenny is not cidre... and good to know that one of the pizza ovens is taped shut 😶), I had a really nice night!

With a slightly disappointing ending: the winning team scored 34 points. And we came second with 32. BUT (and this is why I secretly feel like a winner also!): we unfortunately corrected one of our answers to the wrong answer (Like a virgin was indeed released in 1984 and not 1986) AND somebody should have trusted my math skill and we would have gotten the marathon in miles question right. And as the bonus winning point: I guessed correctly that Elvis Presley passed away in the '70s.

Highlight: I remembered that Qantas gets mentioned as the safest airline in the film Rain Man. 

From the category: why on earth do I remember these random things???

And lastly, I shall stock up on cidre for those nights when insomnia hits - best way to get me to fall asleep!

revelation-ary

The other day, when driving around Rosenheim, I suddenly had the sensation of enjoying the driving. For anyone who wasn't aware: I generally avoid driving when possible. I am scared to have another accident. It seems that using various NLP techniques really has had an effect! Not that I ever doubted that, of course 😎

And to celebrate this little revelation, I decided to treat myself to some proper cake from the Dinzler café. 

As you can see my plan to cut out sugar or even reduce my sugar intake
is going incredibly well...

And yes, they were as massive as they look! And no, I did not eat them both in one go!
The one on the left is a sort of Sacher Torte and was most delicious: chocolate, nuts and jam. So YUMMY!!!

6th

6th NLP weekend.

And the interesting experience of having a head full of thoughts as well as being empty. Seemingly even at the same time. 

The latter (the empty head) being a luxury that I want to treat myself to more often. Cause let's face it: I have gathered enough evidence that overthinking hardly ever adds any value to the issue at hand...