Many years ago, during a training, I came across a famous phrase by Walt(er Elias) Disney. Promising myself never to forget it again, I made it my own.

„Dream, Believe, Dare, Do.“

From then on, it was my companion on the way through life and led towards a new guiding principle: "We can be, do or have anything we can imagine. It is only a matter of the perspective we choose."

Back then, I was so curious and wanted to learn more about Walt Disney, that I read everything I could find about him. I watched his movies again, using a slightly different perspective. The essence of understanding I gained from that was that we as humans are only playing a game on this planet. The "being human" game.

And following an impulse, I created my own personal game, which I shared with friends, with clients, and also with my son.

If you can imagine it, you can be, do or have it.

That was the name of the game. And it had no dice, no penalty turns, and no adrenaline pumping "who's the winner" rules. The game was simple, and aside from the basic prerequisites, the only rule of the game was: Create your fantasy world and become the owner of this most beautiful of all worlds.

The prerequisites were those:

1: Reality is not what your eyes show your mind, but what your thoughts create for your eyes to see. You are not limited by logic, the past or the world around you. After all, the origin of all things is You. You came first. Magic, miracles and bliss are the consequences of understanding this. They are the inevitable byproducts of dreaming and acting despite what they appear to be. You want things to be different? Then imagine differently. You are not in the world around you, this world is in you.

2: You are, on the one hand, the center of your world and, at the same time, only a part in the world of others who are the center of their own world. This means that it is beneficial to pay attention to the fact that our own imagination multiplies through the strength of the collective. We can do this by creating the world that emerges within us in resonance with the world around us.

3: If you practice diligently, never miss a day, and enjoy yourself while practicing, you will be rewarded with the most beautiful of all worlds that has been waiting for you to discover it for a long while now.

The others were not really enthusiastic about the game. They asked, " Could we please make it a little more goal-oriented?" and "It would also be great if there were no such abstract prerequisites, but instead a few logical rules of the game. A dice, perhaps. Just creating a fantasy world like that is impossible. And the three prerequisites are not making any sense."

Therefore, I decided to rethink before playing the game for the first time with my son. We jumped into Create your fantasy world and become the owner of this most beautiful of all worlds just like this, without any further explanations. Assuming that children have the ability to create freely.

First we drew pictures, told fantasy stories or acted out these stories like a theater play. And then, little by little, we transported the play into the "real" world.

Consequently, the sentence "Imagine this is the most beautiful of all worlds," became the introductory question to every other challenging moment in our daily lives. Whether in an argument, or after the new leather soccer ball was vandalized by our dog, when the school report turned out poorly, or in a store when I said no for once, "Imagine this is the most beautiful of all worlds, how would this situation go on now?" In addition, to prevent us from boredom, we included each other's "most beautiful of all worlds" straight away.

My son, as well as I, became more attentive to himself and to others around him. He met challenges with more ease and reacted to certain moments with a new serenity. And he even felt that unpleasant moments were "okay" because, after all, he did not want to lose sight of the "most beautiful world" of others.

I told the others about my son's progress and this motivated them. Putting aside the prerequisites, they just as easily began to paint, to write, and to immerse themselves in fantastic adventures. Until, miraculously, they began to integrate the game, which had no rules, no direction, no plot, into their lives.

"It's so simple and yet so strange for me," they said from time to time, "to imagine, to dream, to embody everything I want ... and then it is really there. Now, now I understand the prerequisites. Because they are somehow included in the game, like a natural part of the game." Those were their realizations.

The DYFH Challenge

Back then, I also learned something that I had underestimated until then, namely the strength of our human brain and the power of learning

• through observation and empathy (mirror neurons) – my friends and clients participated in my son's stories,
• through repetition (neuroplasticity) – by constantly repeating the same beliefs and activities, they were able to increase synaptic connections in the brain and form new pathways of thinking and
• through joy (the effect of Serotonin) – there was no pressure and we had a lot of creative fun, and often we even laughed tears while playing.

These thoughts may have inspired me to create the DYFH Challenge. Because clearly, it was not the offering of the game alone that changed my world and the world of my peers. Above all others, the driver of success was prerequisite 3. It was the constant and diligent practice of everyone involved.

For this reason, I continue to motivate everyone around me to discover their personal homework and then practice it every day. With diligence. And with joy.

Do your f** homework.

Some of my friends still approached me years later. "Remember that cat I always wanted? There she is! I found her practically on my doorstep just yesterday." Or "Remember that spring when I lost my dad? I wanted to see him again, just to ask him if he was proud of me. So, I went to see my aunt last week. She had invited me because she had found this letter addressed to me in the last boxes she had taken from his apartment. I opened it and read in it, ... I am so proud of who you have become." And one of my friends met Mr. Right a while ago. He looked like the picture she had painted twenty years ago. She and I, we are speechless every time he walks into the room.

The question concerning the most beautiful of all world is one that I still ask up until today.