Ever since I discovered Dr. Daniel Amen I have been applying two of his secrets to happiness to my daily schedule. One of them is: As soon as I wake up I tell myself: „It’s going to be a wonderful day.“

Now this isn’t very easy for me. For as long as I can remember I haven been waking up to bad thoughts and feelings. I still wake up and my heart starts to race. I don’t know why this is. There is this really bad feeling coming over me. Just as if I would say: „Not another shitty day.“ But this happens before I even know what day it is. So how would I know. Regardless of the feeling I am now telling myself „It’s going to be a wonderful day.“ And even though sometimes this feels like I am fooling myself I do it. And I make myself believe it.

And to be honest. The past days since I started this practice have been rather good. Some days even were what I would consider wonderful. OF course this is very subjective but hey, if I tell myself it’s going to be a wonderful day and then feel like it has been a wonderful day – sounds like a pretty easy deal to me.

I’m a strong believer in the mind and that our thoughts create our reality. For many years I have been telling myself negative stories about myself. That I am not achieving anything, that I am rather stupid and boring and not up for much in life. This was exactly what my life felt like then. Fortunately I stumbled across Marisa Peer and her work online and decided to do the RTT training she is offering. This has opened a whole new world for me and change my life for the better. I still have days where I feel like I am stupid, not achieving as much as others and being less valuable. But the difference now is that I catch these thoughts and stop them right there. I do not believe them anymore. And the majority of the day I tell myself different stories about myself. This way I can see what I am accomplishing and what a good person I am.

Now if I can change the thoughts about myself I might as well change the days I am living and experiencing. So easy and simple.

I’ll tell you about the second secret I have been applying tomorrow. Right now I will just relax and enjoy the evening of yet another wonderful day.