Do what you Love

Do what you love to be happy and be successful

How many people do sit day in and day out at work, and do not like their job, they are internally terminated and yet every day the same. Why do they sit there and worse still remain there?

The solution is not simple, a variety of factors that leads up there, such as parents, lack of jobs, status expectations. They will stay there because the job is so safe because there is fear of unemployment, etc. The ease and apparent safety paralyzes them to get into action.

Now, how to come out of such a permanent situation, is there a better one?

1 If you love what you do, you are in your work happier and more successful. Because you blossom in your work experience and everything "flows" like a river. For more detail see below printed article "Happiness is doable."

2. If you can't give up your job immediately, cause of financial or for other reasons, then try to build your new career in parallel, until you can be successful there, then you can leave the old job.

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"Title: Happiness is achievable

Header: who believe in theirselves and plan the right strategy, achieve their goals and dreams. Such successes are accelerating the ego

Text: swimming, fishing, hang around and flirt with girls fell out during the holidays. The 16-year-old Richard Branson spent the sunny days in the cellar, where he was working on a magazine. "Student" was the paper that should be celebrated, despite its short life span, because of the interviews with Mick Jagger and John Lennon.

"Everything I do in life I want to make well and never half-hearted," wrote the youngster at Easter in 1967 to his parents.In his letter, he called for understanding for his possession and stated that he unfortunately had no time to help in the garden or studying too.

The tolerance of his parents has paid off: Today British Branson is 52 years old and one of the most dazzling and richest entrepreneurs in the world. And he has still not enough: "My hobbies are great goals, perhaps even those that seem unattainable."

Vision and courage also founded the modern global corporation Microsoft. "Let's raise a thing in the barn," agreed Bill Gates and Paul Allen 1975. The computer geeks barricaded themselves in a converted garage and tinkered with the office of a software. "We no longer knew whether it was day or night. Often I fall asleep easily on the desk or on the floor. There were days when I ate nothing and nobody saw, "recalls Gates - now 47 and idol of a generation.

As a youth, German Gerd Engel dreamed of three things: He wanted to see the world, wanted to be captain and write books. He has achieved his goals, the adventurer, extreme sailor and author long ago, but plans forge the 69-year-old still: "I'll build a new ship and would like to sail the Yangtze in China and the Bering Strait," "plans angel, returning a few days ago from of a nine-month trip to the Kerguelen in the southern Indian Ocean.

Dreams, visions, goals, and the unshakable belief that one can do anything in life - that gift distinguishes men like Branson, Gates and Engel. They are regarded as exceptional phenomena, because only a few people trust themselves to dream of great things about. "Many are satisfied with the almost fatal result, which seems to have made life for them," criticized the Munich-based social psychologist Dieter Frey. Such passivity does not increase the self-confidence - "because anyone who brings no success, dares soon nothing more." The result: energy spins zero, and the feeling of happiness withered like a dried primrose.

Why do some consistently achieve their dreams while others fail, if they want to complete a course of study, build their own business or just take off only five pounds? "More or less pronounced character traits such as strength of will, tenacity, ambition, persistence explain the differences in the effectiveness of their own actions only partially," said Falko Rheinberg, a professor of psychology at the University of Potsdam. The man, his thirst for success and his talent for happiness seem so complex and complicated as the ecosystem of the oceans.

Scientists approach the mystery in multiple ways. Thus, brain researchers have discovered that the maturation of the frontal cortex plays a crucial role in how consistently a person pursues his goals. Sitting in the frontal area the ability to formulate goals, plan, organize, and finally implement white, Manfred Spitzer, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Ulm. Anyone who wants to pursue his plans with resistance, needs a trained brain.

As the latest research findings from psychology show, man must recognize his true driving forces and tendencies and bring them into conformity with his values. "Only those who achieve in both categories the best possible match, is achieving his targets, fulfillment and happiness," has researched the psychologist Falko Rheinberg.

The happiness of the individual also affects the Fortune of a society - and vice versa, since humans and the environment affect each other. "In Germany, mediocrity reigns", criticized the Munich-based social psychologist Dieter Frey. Instead of visions of politicians discussing pragmatic expedients, rather than far-sighted strategies, they presented committees, working groups and the x-th agenda. "This country lacks personalities to develop the vision and break the cycle of lethargy," Frey says.

Has prescribed Germany, the former economic miracle, the nihilistic view of Franz Vranitzky? If you have visions, you need a doctor, declared the former Austrian chancellor.

Vision and the desire to shape the future, it seems the "old Europe" has forgotten how to. America, however, has begun to re-order the world as it wishes to. The superpower presents itself in this task, as has been described by the Russian writer Fyodor Dostojewki: Every nation that wants to conquer the future and should therefore be the best and only necessary in the universe feel. From this conceit special forces, a strengthening power, even a rush.

More optimism! More Torque! More Dynamics! Seems almost modest in the Federal Republic of appeals, the entrepreneurs, former Chancellors or the President, at regular intervals to the people judge. The Germans heard good - and wait, rather than moving. "It is not so easy to develop momentum, if the whole country moans and has a negative mood," knows the Munich scientists Frey.

But it works.

Visions and dreams need courage and the right strategy - otherwise they evaporate too airy cloud formations. This is true in the large area of policy as well as in private.

The psychologist Frey recommends , the realization of dreams with "Start a sort of script". It should contain the following three chapters:

- Formulate - your sub-goals in content. Set a schedule when you want to achieve them.

- List all the necessary skills and prerequisites, and you meet them before you get started (financing, licensing, office space, etc.).

- Remember, what obstacles can cross your path.

"Most people forget to develop a worst-case scenario," warns Frey. Only those who play through the worst, intellectually, could avert a failure if it comes.

The mistake to ignore any setbacks hit the most celebrated entrepreneurs in the New Economy. Unprepared and still in a party, they raced along with their visions of the conquest of markets into the abyss. Their companies, which have been valued on the stock markets higher as some famous companies, sank into insignificance. Strategies to combat a crisis had been spoiled in their business plans by the successful young entrepreneurs.

The visions of the winners of the past are left to the small shareholders. One of the very few who clings to his ideas and his company, Intershop, is the Thuringian Stephan Schambach. The now 32-year-old struggled like a drowning man against the threat of Off.He invested his earned millions back into the company and now believes "emerge stronger from the crisis." This was a learning process, Schambach preached, "we must go through.

Does this drudgery, this wavering between hope, success and failure happy? Yes, insure psychologists, a man who fulfills his potential, experience happiness - even if he has to revise his targets, or perhaps even has to give up.

Gerd Engels dream to sail alone and nonstop around the world, wrecked 1600 miles from South America. The communication system, short wave, control, notebook, heaters were turned out, Engel had two teeth knocked out, and eventually even the mast of the ship was broken. The extremist stranded on the island of Ascension, where he repaired his catamara for weeks. "I've sealed the leak and welded to the mast," says the captain and pilot in retirement. "I brought my boat home alone." This performance is admired by many experts as well as if Engels managed circumnavigation. The Adventurer is shaking still when he thinks about it.

The journey is the goal, remembers a proverb to confirm the veracity of scientists with their own formula: The more people deal with their ideas, the more passionately they devote themselves to their tasks, the more effortless they achieve their goals. Every success in turn means to stimulant the ego. The confidence is growing - and with it the courage to try new, perhaps even bolder plans.

This sounds simple, but not everyone succeeds equally well. While the one obtained on each contract is happy, like a toddler who can blow out the candles on the birthday cake, the other torments himself with the joyless life. Results give no satisfaction - they will be checked off as completed load.

Every dream fulfilled increases happiness? Such a simple equation does not work. The reasons for ups and downs of emotions researches, the psychologist Falko Rheinberg in a project funded by the German Research Foundation project.

Rheinsberg distinguish between the affections of a man (basal motifs) and his values (motivational self-images). One drives him unconscious, ruling it "his" gut feeling ". The other defines his conviction, after which he makes decisions.

If there is a contradiction between the two categories humans struggle through the day. Nothing runs itself. This man seems doggedly and cramped. He constantly needs to remind himself to persevere. "

Happy is the one who, however, ist together with his tastes and values. Rheinberg described this agreement as a "motivational skill". This gift of lightness and the feeling of having everything under control.

These motivating high spirits are called in the jargon of psychologists "flow". The American scientist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has defined Flow as the feeling of happiness that can occur during an activity that is not stressing and one also does not get bored, which requirements are not too high and not too small.

A quarter of Germans know this buzz, satisfaction and sometimes bestowed even a little intoxicated. 41 percent experience it "from time to time", explored the Allensbach Institute between 1995 and 2002. Ten percent of respondents said they did not even know this feeling of flow..

"Our investigations are still too young, but it seems likely that these people put up goals that they deem valuable, and indeed desirable, but the formulates contradict their innermost feelings.

"Change what you can change," says the pragmatic advice of the psychologist. The first step to a happier life begins with a relentless self-diagnosis. Rheinsberg recommends to observe yourself from the outside like a strange insect. The only way you can explore what will truly fulfill you.

The following considerations should help in the analysis:

- Find out what you do always liking, even without a reward . What activities do you prefer to others?

- Where and when do you operate smoothly, and find no end?

- Did you have a very happy outcome, or did you feel no joy in spite of success?

- Paint out in detail what you have to do to achieve a goal and how you will feel about it.

Anyone who knows his tastes and needs, has only one problem: The world is not made in accordance with our wishes. Psychologist Rheinberg advises to build on unpleasant tasks to a strong will and put the job through with "expeditiously".

The British millionaire Richard Branson motivated himself in difficult cases with his own, unconventional way: "Move your ass, finally, you old bag." These encouraging he sais aloud to himself, Branson says. "And then you go."

"We have been lucky, but the most important was probably our original vision," says Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft. "