How humans learn from hamsters

Heidenheimer Impulse At the Lokschuppen, Michael Vaas showed how to recognize and achieve personal and professional goals.

At the lecture series "Heidenheimer Impulse," optimization expert Michael Vaas was a guest on Thursday evening. "Take your life into your own hands, if you don't, no one else will. Or worse, others will do it!" With these words, Vaas addressed his audience at the Lokschuppen. He noted that in the digital age, we are all incredibly active, even hyperactive. We run and run and go faster and faster, driven not least by our ubiquitous smartphones. But does reaching for our phones about 80 times a day actually help us advance towards our life goals? Or are we rather running aimlessly and sometimes on the verge of complete exhaustion, chasing after things that bring us little or no benefit? Vaas' image of the hamster in the wheel vividly illustrates this aimless and exhausting chase. "Only," as his experience shows, "the hamster gets out before it is catapulted out of the wheel. But what do we do?" Vaas knows the answer from thousands of conversations he has had in his 27 years as a coach, and it is as simple as it is frightening: Many of us do not know our life goals - and instead of making progress, we laboriously and senselessly go around in circles.

The Garbage in Your Own Life

Taking conscious time to clarify your goals for the next five, ten, or twenty years and focusing on their fulfillment is the basic requirement for being successful and happy in both professional and personal life: "Make your goals a must!" The courage to implement them and a strategy to sustainably anchor them through habit and to free yourself from time- and energy-consuming "garbage" logically belong to this. Therefore, his recommendation is to "Say stop and live consciously," ranging from establishing fixed availability and communication times to breathing exercises and even abstaining from certain TV programs. Being open to new things and changes, without getting involved in every "nonsense," changing perspectives, being mindful and vigilant to recognize opportunities - everyone must find their personal tools to bring or maintain fundamental goals in balance. And when? Now, here, and today, Vaas urges: "Nothing is as precious as your lifetime!" Find more information about our Top 100 Trainer Michael Vaas HERE