Saturday, December 31, 2011
Friday, May 20, 2011
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Serbia & Other things
Once more I'm on my own, travelling, and everytime I am I arrive to new knowledge. This time has been a mixture of weird, cool, abit harsh and also some stupid things. We started off the trip in Budapest as three friends, and as the week developed we didn't necessarily come of that good towards eachother. Me and my serbian friend got along well all the trip, but the girl that came with us certainly made the trip harder on us.
Negativity affects everybody, and at one point somebody was bound to explode, and for the first time in my life it was me. It has never felt that good to yell at anybody, even though it was a bad time to do so, telling someone they are childish when they are was necessary. I yelled at people twice this week, both time at girls that I know, and one time it ended up in a girl possibly hating me a lot, and the other it made her love me even more. Interesting experiences. I felt like I was a big brother yelling at bratty girls. The exact details of those experiences I've included because when people are unnecessarily negative or childish, it's better to tell them right away, instead of holding it in, like we did with the first girl, I did not do the same mistake with the second.
Being hard on people is never really a solution we want to take, but we always have to take our own well being into account first. How far will we let people drag us down before we yell stop?
On to more fantastic things, the Exit Festival (also known as the State of Exit) was THE best festival I've ever been to, so sexy, so cool, so many fantastic people, so much dancing and different stages, it really took off. We stayed at the exit camp with around 10 000 other people from around the world (mostly brits and dutch, but also surprisingly many australians). In the festival area, a huge old fortress called Petrovaradin Fortress, over the week about 150 000 people entered and made one hell of a time. Here I met some absolutely fantastic people, among them Petra, who I have now spent a few days with in Belgrade after my friends left back to Norway.
Petra is a crazy (and sometimes stupid) girl ;)
At any rate, today I'm on my own and I'm planning to go out and meet random people, looking for a place to stay the night, if not maybe I'll have another night at the park bench. Thankfully the hostel personnel at Hostel 360* are really great and let me come in for internet, and they have some lazybags I took the advantage of sleeping on. So I got my necessary sleep.
On to some other things, I will release some details on Lifestyle Academy in my blog for the first time.
Lifestyle Academy SA is a business under construction by me, Fredrik Schmidt and Tarek Jar. Our purpose is to coach people to better lifestyles in whichever form they require. At this moment we will primarily be teaching pickup and improvement of social life and social ability for our students, however potentially expanding into style, fitness, business, and life in general. A website is on its way and so is also an e-mail. The formal processes of getting things together are almost done and we're getting ready to launch. If you are in any way interested in anything we have to offer make contact with me on my e-mail: PhaNax@hotmail.com
Negativity affects everybody, and at one point somebody was bound to explode, and for the first time in my life it was me. It has never felt that good to yell at anybody, even though it was a bad time to do so, telling someone they are childish when they are was necessary. I yelled at people twice this week, both time at girls that I know, and one time it ended up in a girl possibly hating me a lot, and the other it made her love me even more. Interesting experiences. I felt like I was a big brother yelling at bratty girls. The exact details of those experiences I've included because when people are unnecessarily negative or childish, it's better to tell them right away, instead of holding it in, like we did with the first girl, I did not do the same mistake with the second.
Being hard on people is never really a solution we want to take, but we always have to take our own well being into account first. How far will we let people drag us down before we yell stop?
On to more fantastic things, the Exit Festival (also known as the State of Exit) was THE best festival I've ever been to, so sexy, so cool, so many fantastic people, so much dancing and different stages, it really took off. We stayed at the exit camp with around 10 000 other people from around the world (mostly brits and dutch, but also surprisingly many australians). In the festival area, a huge old fortress called Petrovaradin Fortress, over the week about 150 000 people entered and made one hell of a time. Here I met some absolutely fantastic people, among them Petra, who I have now spent a few days with in Belgrade after my friends left back to Norway.
Petra is a crazy (and sometimes stupid) girl ;)
At any rate, today I'm on my own and I'm planning to go out and meet random people, looking for a place to stay the night, if not maybe I'll have another night at the park bench. Thankfully the hostel personnel at Hostel 360* are really great and let me come in for internet, and they have some lazybags I took the advantage of sleeping on. So I got my necessary sleep.
On to some other things, I will release some details on Lifestyle Academy in my blog for the first time.
Lifestyle Academy
Lifestyle Academy SA is a business under construction by me, Fredrik Schmidt and Tarek Jar. Our purpose is to coach people to better lifestyles in whichever form they require. At this moment we will primarily be teaching pickup and improvement of social life and social ability for our students, however potentially expanding into style, fitness, business, and life in general. A website is on its way and so is also an e-mail. The formal processes of getting things together are almost done and we're getting ready to launch. If you are in any way interested in anything we have to offer make contact with me on my e-mail: PhaNax@hotmail.com
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Surprise & Difference
One of the major reasons that everybody should travel is to understand and learn difference, to overcome ethnocentricity and hatred one needs to leave behind what is familiar sometimes to see and understand something new.
Without these understandings that people, cultures and countries are different we may ultimately close down and become forces of hatred and disinterest in the lives of others and care so much about what we understand that we refuse to understand something new.
David DeAngelo, dating-coach guru, sais in one of his programs that every person should travel at least twice a year. It is one of his 77 Laws of Success. Travelling allows you to see new perspectives, and will even make you more secure about yourself and even new surroundings.
David DeAngelo's Website
Always put yourself in new environments and situations that you have not experienced, it is the only thing that will let you grow as a person, socially and individually.
Surprises.
I've travelled, more or less, Central America for four and a half months before I came to Mexico. Central America is ridden with extreme contrasts, poverty, gangs, violence, beauty, nature, volcanoes, jungles, plains, highlands, lowlands, beaches. Sticking out above it all is the seeming lack of organised infrastructure (at least counting for El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala) and large gaps between the rich and the poor. This also counts for southern mexico, especially Chiapas, which together with the mentioned Central American countries make up the political region of so-called "Mesoamerica". Mesoamerica is a beautiful region, which I love a lot, maybe except for the food, it is one of the places on Earth I feel most at home.
My surprise was when I left southern mexico and arrived in central Mexico. In the big cities here, like Xalapa, Veracruz or Guadalajara, Jalisco, things appear almost European. Poverty not as apparent, development gotten much farther, and you can actually walk around with cameras and so on without feeling immediate fear of being assaulted. The all imposing presence of policemen with shotguns or automatic weapons are not present here, as they are in the south, and I generally feel more like I am in Europe than I feel I am in Latin America.
It is a welcome surprise, after four and a half months without warm showers, only chicken buses and bad roads to come to a place that has all of these apparent luxuries. You learn to accept it all, but you also learn to appreciate the small things that make life and society feel more organised, even though both inorganized and well-organized places have their own charm.
It's going to be very good to come back home next week, I have a lot of stories, a lot of things to do, and I feel I am very different from the person who left norway five months ago, and I am sure others will notice that change in me as well.
All the best to all the travellers I've met, to all the people's houses I stayed in, all the people I shared dorms with, to those I spent four nights with in the jungle and watched sunsets from the tops of pyramids, to those I learned to dive with and to those I shared buses with, I am very thankful for all that I have learned from all the people I met on my travels, and I remember everyone of you, and I hope I carry some of the best from all of you with me, and that I have given you something new to bring with you.
I am the spark, the little stone rolling down the hill, the echo in the snowy mountains, the falling drop of water.
Peace&Success
Kristoffer
Without these understandings that people, cultures and countries are different we may ultimately close down and become forces of hatred and disinterest in the lives of others and care so much about what we understand that we refuse to understand something new.
David DeAngelo, dating-coach guru, sais in one of his programs that every person should travel at least twice a year. It is one of his 77 Laws of Success. Travelling allows you to see new perspectives, and will even make you more secure about yourself and even new surroundings.
David DeAngelo's Website
Always put yourself in new environments and situations that you have not experienced, it is the only thing that will let you grow as a person, socially and individually.
Surprises.
I've travelled, more or less, Central America for four and a half months before I came to Mexico. Central America is ridden with extreme contrasts, poverty, gangs, violence, beauty, nature, volcanoes, jungles, plains, highlands, lowlands, beaches. Sticking out above it all is the seeming lack of organised infrastructure (at least counting for El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala) and large gaps between the rich and the poor. This also counts for southern mexico, especially Chiapas, which together with the mentioned Central American countries make up the political region of so-called "Mesoamerica". Mesoamerica is a beautiful region, which I love a lot, maybe except for the food, it is one of the places on Earth I feel most at home.
My surprise was when I left southern mexico and arrived in central Mexico. In the big cities here, like Xalapa, Veracruz or Guadalajara, Jalisco, things appear almost European. Poverty not as apparent, development gotten much farther, and you can actually walk around with cameras and so on without feeling immediate fear of being assaulted. The all imposing presence of policemen with shotguns or automatic weapons are not present here, as they are in the south, and I generally feel more like I am in Europe than I feel I am in Latin America.
It is a welcome surprise, after four and a half months without warm showers, only chicken buses and bad roads to come to a place that has all of these apparent luxuries. You learn to accept it all, but you also learn to appreciate the small things that make life and society feel more organised, even though both inorganized and well-organized places have their own charm.
It's going to be very good to come back home next week, I have a lot of stories, a lot of things to do, and I feel I am very different from the person who left norway five months ago, and I am sure others will notice that change in me as well.
All the best to all the travellers I've met, to all the people's houses I stayed in, all the people I shared dorms with, to those I spent four nights with in the jungle and watched sunsets from the tops of pyramids, to those I learned to dive with and to those I shared buses with, I am very thankful for all that I have learned from all the people I met on my travels, and I remember everyone of you, and I hope I carry some of the best from all of you with me, and that I have given you something new to bring with you.
I am the spark, the little stone rolling down the hill, the echo in the snowy mountains, the falling drop of water.
Peace&Success
Kristoffer
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Acceptance, El Mirador and Life
I haven't written in a while.
I am very thankful for the interest that a lot of people have put into me keeping up with my blog, I have been doing loads of things since the last time I updated.
My girlfriend came to visit me for about two weeks and we had an amazing time together traversing some of my favourite places in Nicaragua as well as some new ones I hadn't seen myself, it was a great time, and my girlfriend can't really hold her booze as well as I can B-)
I told you guys I would explain my status-message : "The key to acceptance: Accept your Reality". It is much deeper than the initial understanding. To first understand what I mean by the entire sentence, you must understand what it means to accept.
Accepting is something we humans have a lot of problems with. Instead of accepting that something happened, or that something is the way it is, we have a tendency to regret, or dislike that fact. We more often look upon our past and the things that we did with regret, instead of accepting the fact that they did indeed happen. Once you accept, you don't necessarily come to terms with it, but you understand it, and you learn something new, and you allow yourself to move on. Thus, acceptance, is in fact a way of moving on. If you do not accept, you cannot move on. Accept that things have happened, that you think the way you do, that things are the way they are, and then, move on. It is only the first step, but it gives you what you need to move on.
Acceptance then, and also, accepting your reality to achieve happiness, is a way of moving on from your regrets, and entering a way of life where you are able to understand your sentiments about the world around you, and thus accepting them, being able to work on them, and essentialy, move on to something better if that is what you desire.
El Mirador.
For four months I planned a jungle trip in Guatemala, it was one of the few things I knew I wanted to do on my five month journey to central america. I looked for a decent jungle trip and I found the perfect one. El Mirador.
El Mirador is essentially the largest ever constructed mayan city, both in area, amount and density of buildings, as well as in the size of their structures.
Going there was part of a test for myself. I wanted to know that I could do something that seems offworldly difficult for many other people, and also I wanted to explore something that is unlike anything I've ever seen before. We walked for two days to get to the site, and then we walked on top of the second largest complex ((El Tigre)) (which if you've been to Tikal completely crushes Temple 1+2+north acropolis+the central plaza in size and area).
On the third day, our day of relaxation we also walked for about three hours, exploring the site at different times of day. The most impressive thing we did was to go to a pyramid called La Danta. La Danta is the world's largest ever Pyramid built by the mayans. With its 79 meters it is among the most impressive structures of the old world, and the view from its top, as well as its sunset is completely magnificent. That night we slept on top of the monkey complex, the third largest, due to guards not allowing us to sleep on La Danta. It was great, under open sky, with fear of both scorpions and tarantulas we made it through one night on some blankets and fully dressed with shoes on and everything. The nights were really cold in the jungle.
On the fourth day we got up close to howler monkeys, and with Sebastian's binoculars we got to see a little howler monkey baby, really amazing, sitting on top of a slightly uncovered pyramid as we watched the sun set.
On the fourth day, arriving back in Flores, after a lot of walking, first thing we did was to hop directly into the lake for the freshest bath I've ever had. Imagine being dirty for five days straight, and then washing it all of in a bath and later a shower. It felt beautiful, such a wake-up call. All in all, four months of planning kicked off and gave me some of the best time of my life, with some of the most fantastic people in the world, thank you for aiding in creating the experience of a lifetime.
Life.
The last few weeks have taught me a lot of new things about what I feel life is. A lot of us walk through life hardly feeling alive, doing what we need to get through the days, then at the end of the weekend we stuff ourselves with some light or hard partying.
As far as I've gotten to understand, to truly feel alive you must overexhert yourself at least a little bit, and go beyond what you are afraid of. Pushing your comfort zones out, doing new things, trying to build a more active life.
In two weeks I learned to dive and went on a five day jungle trip, pushed myself far beyond what I knew I could do, and found out there are many things I enjoy much more than a lazy daily life, shunning things that are hard.
Truly we should always do what we think is fun, and maybe even overexhert ourselves a little bit in the process of finding out what exactly that is. I've hiked volcanoes, seen monkeys, scorpions, cleanershrimps and angelfish in a very short period of time.
My life will certainly see big changes in the coming months, once I return home I will start a business with two great people! We're already registered and more news on this will come soon. In short it what info I will relieve for you right now is coaching and events. Name and purpouses will arrive once I return home.
Finally.
Now, sitting in San Cristobal de las Casas, in 15 degrees celsius, finally feeling the cold winds and dry air again, I feel like I'm back home already. I'm in a little colonial town, all dressed up to go out into a slightly chilly night, enjoying the little things (rule nr. 32).
All the best to everyone back home, and thanks for being you.
Peace&Success
Kristoffer
I am very thankful for the interest that a lot of people have put into me keeping up with my blog, I have been doing loads of things since the last time I updated.
My girlfriend came to visit me for about two weeks and we had an amazing time together traversing some of my favourite places in Nicaragua as well as some new ones I hadn't seen myself, it was a great time, and my girlfriend can't really hold her booze as well as I can B-)
I told you guys I would explain my status-message : "The key to acceptance: Accept your Reality". It is much deeper than the initial understanding. To first understand what I mean by the entire sentence, you must understand what it means to accept.
Accepting is something we humans have a lot of problems with. Instead of accepting that something happened, or that something is the way it is, we have a tendency to regret, or dislike that fact. We more often look upon our past and the things that we did with regret, instead of accepting the fact that they did indeed happen. Once you accept, you don't necessarily come to terms with it, but you understand it, and you learn something new, and you allow yourself to move on. Thus, acceptance, is in fact a way of moving on. If you do not accept, you cannot move on. Accept that things have happened, that you think the way you do, that things are the way they are, and then, move on. It is only the first step, but it gives you what you need to move on.
Acceptance then, and also, accepting your reality to achieve happiness, is a way of moving on from your regrets, and entering a way of life where you are able to understand your sentiments about the world around you, and thus accepting them, being able to work on them, and essentialy, move on to something better if that is what you desire.
El Mirador.
For four months I planned a jungle trip in Guatemala, it was one of the few things I knew I wanted to do on my five month journey to central america. I looked for a decent jungle trip and I found the perfect one. El Mirador.
El Mirador is essentially the largest ever constructed mayan city, both in area, amount and density of buildings, as well as in the size of their structures.
Going there was part of a test for myself. I wanted to know that I could do something that seems offworldly difficult for many other people, and also I wanted to explore something that is unlike anything I've ever seen before. We walked for two days to get to the site, and then we walked on top of the second largest complex ((El Tigre)) (which if you've been to Tikal completely crushes Temple 1+2+north acropolis+the central plaza in size and area).
On the third day, our day of relaxation we also walked for about three hours, exploring the site at different times of day. The most impressive thing we did was to go to a pyramid called La Danta. La Danta is the world's largest ever Pyramid built by the mayans. With its 79 meters it is among the most impressive structures of the old world, and the view from its top, as well as its sunset is completely magnificent. That night we slept on top of the monkey complex, the third largest, due to guards not allowing us to sleep on La Danta. It was great, under open sky, with fear of both scorpions and tarantulas we made it through one night on some blankets and fully dressed with shoes on and everything. The nights were really cold in the jungle.
On the fourth day we got up close to howler monkeys, and with Sebastian's binoculars we got to see a little howler monkey baby, really amazing, sitting on top of a slightly uncovered pyramid as we watched the sun set.
On the fourth day, arriving back in Flores, after a lot of walking, first thing we did was to hop directly into the lake for the freshest bath I've ever had. Imagine being dirty for five days straight, and then washing it all of in a bath and later a shower. It felt beautiful, such a wake-up call. All in all, four months of planning kicked off and gave me some of the best time of my life, with some of the most fantastic people in the world, thank you for aiding in creating the experience of a lifetime.
Life.
The last few weeks have taught me a lot of new things about what I feel life is. A lot of us walk through life hardly feeling alive, doing what we need to get through the days, then at the end of the weekend we stuff ourselves with some light or hard partying.
As far as I've gotten to understand, to truly feel alive you must overexhert yourself at least a little bit, and go beyond what you are afraid of. Pushing your comfort zones out, doing new things, trying to build a more active life.
In two weeks I learned to dive and went on a five day jungle trip, pushed myself far beyond what I knew I could do, and found out there are many things I enjoy much more than a lazy daily life, shunning things that are hard.
Truly we should always do what we think is fun, and maybe even overexhert ourselves a little bit in the process of finding out what exactly that is. I've hiked volcanoes, seen monkeys, scorpions, cleanershrimps and angelfish in a very short period of time.
My life will certainly see big changes in the coming months, once I return home I will start a business with two great people! We're already registered and more news on this will come soon. In short it what info I will relieve for you right now is coaching and events. Name and purpouses will arrive once I return home.
Finally.
Now, sitting in San Cristobal de las Casas, in 15 degrees celsius, finally feeling the cold winds and dry air again, I feel like I'm back home already. I'm in a little colonial town, all dressed up to go out into a slightly chilly night, enjoying the little things (rule nr. 32).
All the best to everyone back home, and thanks for being you.
Peace&Success
Kristoffer
Saturday, March 27, 2010
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Sharing is Caring
Today I bought the Secret for Rayco. I figured that it would both improve his English, and also maybe inspire him in a positive way! For myself I bought a paperback version in spanish of Napoleon Hill's Think And Grow Rich!
I'm in an inspiring mood right now, I feel rich and great! I love life and everything is fantastic!
You are the most important person in your own universe, all of you should know this at one level and act on it. Other people are important, but nobody are more important for yourself than you. Be selfish so that you can become generous!
Be the best person you can be, I try everyday to improve myself! :)
Constant evolution is my task!
Enjoy life
Peace&Success!
I'm in an inspiring mood right now, I feel rich and great! I love life and everything is fantastic!
You are the most important person in your own universe, all of you should know this at one level and act on it. Other people are important, but nobody are more important for yourself than you. Be selfish so that you can become generous!
Be the best person you can be, I try everyday to improve myself! :)
Constant evolution is my task!
Enjoy life
Peace&Success!
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Ambitions
I have, as some might know, four big goals in my life, and I'm going to lay out some of the work I want to do to reach those goals. If you at any point during my plans would like to sign on and help me in any way, write a comment at the end of my post, if you know anybody with similar ideals or ideas forward them and maybe we might get in touch to see what we might do.
My first and simplest goal is to become an Archaeologist. After having lived two times in Nicaragua I'ved decided I want to do this in a country with fullyear warmth, though as to which country I don't know yet. I want to work on ruins around the world, discovering lost and secret stories of mankind.
Due to the tremendous success I've had in changing my own life, and to my wish to help people become the best people they can be, I have decided that one of the things I want to do is lifecoaching, primarily lifestyle creation and also mindset coaching. This will include various things from business to dating to getting life back on track.
This summer me and two friends will work with coaching on multiple levels, mainly dating. My focus will still be lifestyle, because that is what I aim to achieve for myself and for others, always to have yourself surrounded by the things that you want and those things that you need to get what you want.
This is my biggest goal and the one I would like to work hardest for. I am looking for people who share this goal on some level, or who could potentially want to create or work in a business to start a certain colonialization of Mars&Luna, the nationstates and the large organizations they support are very slow at doing this highly necessary business and therefore I seek to at one point start a business or research centre focused only on the colonialization and terraforming of Mars and potentially Venus.
If you'd seriously like to join in on such a project comment here or talk to me on my facebook; Kristoffer Liland.
How I will achieve this is not currently a well laid plan, but it will certainly happen and most likely be part of a union of the things I will do with my life. I believe I have a tendency to create powerful ripple effects with everything I do. In the end the solution will come to me.
Archaeology
My first and simplest goal is to become an Archaeologist. After having lived two times in Nicaragua I'ved decided I want to do this in a country with fullyear warmth, though as to which country I don't know yet. I want to work on ruins around the world, discovering lost and secret stories of mankind.
Life-coaching
Due to the tremendous success I've had in changing my own life, and to my wish to help people become the best people they can be, I have decided that one of the things I want to do is lifecoaching, primarily lifestyle creation and also mindset coaching. This will include various things from business to dating to getting life back on track.
This summer me and two friends will work with coaching on multiple levels, mainly dating. My focus will still be lifestyle, because that is what I aim to achieve for myself and for others, always to have yourself surrounded by the things that you want and those things that you need to get what you want.
Colonize Mars
This is my biggest goal and the one I would like to work hardest for. I am looking for people who share this goal on some level, or who could potentially want to create or work in a business to start a certain colonialization of Mars&Luna, the nationstates and the large organizations they support are very slow at doing this highly necessary business and therefore I seek to at one point start a business or research centre focused only on the colonialization and terraforming of Mars and potentially Venus.
If you'd seriously like to join in on such a project comment here or talk to me on my facebook; Kristoffer Liland.
Change the World
How I will achieve this is not currently a well laid plan, but it will certainly happen and most likely be part of a union of the things I will do with my life. I believe I have a tendency to create powerful ripple effects with everything I do. In the end the solution will come to me.
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