Why do we keep a gratitude journal at Steinkraft Zeolith?
In the hustle and bustle of everyday life, we have repeatedly noticed that we overlook the little joys as well as the big achievements. In 2024, we at Steinkraft Zeolith decided to take a slightly different path – the path of consistent, documented gratitude. Naturally inspired by our 2024 motto [OPTIMISM AS A DRIVING FORCE - THE BEST LIES AHEAD], which we set as our guiding principle for this year.
Gratitude is meant to be much more than just a word for us; rather, it is an attitude that guides and shapes us. It sharpens our focus on what matters and grounds us in a world that is constantly changing and challenging us.
Gratitude is an expression of joy and vitality
In this blog post, we would like to share with you what we are grateful for in 2024. This gratitude list is an expression of our joy and vitality. It helps us not only to experience the special moments, but also to preserve them, remember them, and bear witness to them. Every point on this list is a piece of our story, a moment that has shaped us and shown us how diverse and rich our lives and our work at Steinkraft Zeolith are.
We want to be transparent for our customers
Practicing gratitude also means opening up and being transparent for us. It is an invitation to you, our customers, to enter our world and see what moves and motivates us. And also what we do all week long. We firmly believe that through this exchange, a deeper understanding and stronger trust will be created. You not only get to know us better, but also the values and beliefs that drive us. ♡
Accompany us on this journey and discover with us what it means to be grateful in heart and spirit. And to work on it and to remind ourselves again and again how we can turn energy (do you know what the magic spell ABRAKADABRA is for? - yes exactly, it means: may the energy turn) change perspectives, look at something in a solution-oriented way and not dramatize. That we see ourselves as learners and eternal practitioners is obvious.
Let's go!
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We are very grateful ... always ... even though we have only been keeping this journal for half a year ...
June 2024
June slipped through our fingers ... What was going on in this early summer month?
- Received a new delivery of Active Microorganisms. Very fresh and wonderfully smelling.
- Our filling hall got a wonderful new lighting system. Illuminated with daylight.
- AND really great huge shelves that can house BigBags on the 1st floor, so to speak. These shelves - they are second hand - Marika and Andreas imagined. That means, the two of them absolutely wanted to have them. I am always a bit reserved about that; and yes, now I am also happy that they are there.
- We live and work next to a farm shop that has fresh bread 4 days a week. Baguette=divine. Rye bread=very tasty. Self-produced. And then it can happen that our courtyard smells like freshly baked bread. Depending on the wind. And that is wonderful. That makes us very grateful.
- WROTE a NEW blog post:
Horse Love: How Equestrian Sports Enrich Your Daughter's Life.
- Developed a resale concept for Denmark.
- Shareholder meeting in Hamburg: Strategy for Italy considered, ate well, experienced 2 rushes, drove past the place where I got married - yes, that was in the registry office in Hamburg behind the Edeka ;-)) and drove a bit nostalgically through the street in Eppendorf where we lived. While at the same time being super grateful that the parking situation here in Lower Austria is incomparably better. Thank you for this time there with fish and crab rolls and rhubarb spritzers.
- What AI can do ... It/he can write and score a song for us in a few seconds. Correctly, it is two AIs.
Our new earworm for a few days now! Wow! Definitely listen to it.
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May 2024
- It started wonderfully. One week in Crete further education on the topic of Creative Consciousness Development in the circle of dear friends and my chosen sisters from Tel Aviv. Discovered the own patterns of the mind and directed it to what we want more of. We can not be reminded often enough... Thank you for this beautiful week that I gave myself there.
- Exactly in this week EZRA - our dog - was bitten. By a visiting dog from a neighbor. This crazy creature ran out the door and shot at Ezra like a bullet and bit him 7 times.
7 medium to large wounds. Major effort from the zeolite powder. Licked. Put it back on with a good feeling. Painkillers. Lots of stroking and loving. Then the zeolite wound ointment on the healing spots. On the others again zeolite powder. Everything went well. Everything is healing. Thank you self-healing power. Thank you for the dear recovery wishes. So sweet: our young neighbors asked about Ezra every day and provided him with treats.
- Yay! Our shipping warehouse was expanded with new shelves. Order, order, order brings joy. Through red shelves that match our labels from LIFEKRAFT Zeolite very well in color.
- And yes, our compost workshop. Correct: Composter-Workshop with Terrafelix. Here we did an experiment - the first vegan compost, hot fermented, for our bio-cyclical vegan agriculture. That means, without cow manure, horse manure and eggshells.
It was a great lecture in the morning about paramagnetism, water quality, extremely interesting. Do you know that when it is over, you could immediately start again at the front and hear everything again, because it is so inspiring; and it also takes a couple of times until you can think along.
Super explained. Even if you are not deeply rooted in the matter, Marcel brings it across so that you understand the connections and have a desire for more. Big recommendation!
- And then it was also MOTHER'S DAY. Mom wished for Piccata Milanese.
She got it. With the best Italian spaghetti.
AND: A REAL MOTHER'S DAY CAKE.
Thank you to the inventors of Pavlova. (I hope it is spelled like that)
Once a year.
- And yes, we ship our products to Denmark.
- Yes, we ship our products to Italy.
- Yes, we ship our products to Slovakia.
- To Switzerland anyway.
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April 2024
Our motto in the 4th month of the year 2024:
"Ask what is possible, not what is wrong."
Meg Wheatley
- We now know what WAGYU cattle are. To be completely honest, I confused them with Highland cattle - the ones with the long hair. And we know how their meat tastes, and know many (I wanted to write all, that is highly unlikely) so many advantages. BESIDES THE TASTE, many good fatty acids, low cholesterol, ... And why do we know them now? Because they use our products at the Wagyu farm. They were recommended to them - for which we say a very special THANK YOU and send many good thoughts to those who recommend them: May you always feel comfortable and good-humored!
- More and more people hear about our products at lectures and then they call us, if they can come by. For the farm-shop sale, so to speak. With us then, out of the ONLINE SHOP shipping center. 1. THANK YOU that you announce yourselves and call beforehand and 2. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU that you are so good-humored, laugh a lot and are super humorous. That you bring us good energy. With your appreciation, your application stories, your gratitude. It is a great honor for us to produce products for YOU.♡
- Well, we have learned something again. Until now we thought the Canary Islands belong to the EU and therefore have the VAT of the respective country. But no! Tenerife is treated almost like a third country for customs. With VAT exemption according to §§ soundso. Download form - thank you to Marika, you stick with it until we find it. And thank you dear customer - you paved the way for STEINKRAFT Zeolite to your beautiful islands. And all the best for your horse! So pay attention! Yes, we ship to the Canary Islands.
- "That is so sweet....I haven't had such great customer service in a long time - thank you." Original quote from Mrs. K.H.
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MARCH 2024
Our motto in the 3rd month of the year 2024:
"Happiness is an inside job."
Dalai Lama
- Right at the beginning of this month, we received a piece of good news that we are very grateful for:
Original quote from K.B.: "From earlier events in Sportgastein I knew exactly about the problems and the changes in the performance, regeneration and digestion of my dogs up there.
We live a good 1000m lower and since this time it was a world championship, which extended over two acclimatization and three race days, a solution had to be found to mitigate or ideally even prevent the performance drop due to the altitude and the poorer nutrient utilization.
In my search, I became aware of Dogkraft Zeolite Powder by Steinkraft. After the informative consultation, I decided to use "Dogkraft". I started mixing the powder into the food a few days before the competition and thus also had the certainty that the dogs tolerated it well and could process it.
On the five days over 1600m, the stool was dry and firm at every defecation and there were no signs that, as is otherwise usual, problems occurred through diarrhea, reducing performance. To be successful requires many puzzle pieces, Dogkraft was one of them and thus we could finish the sled dog world championship with a silver medal.
- We were asked if we would give a lecture for the farmers' association. About microorganisms. And what the difference between the AM+Plus is and the other microorganisms that exist. In front of 12 wonderful women. Humorous and creators of this earth. Thank you for these two so valuable hours. With every question you ask, we get better and we understand more and more what you need. You are practitioners with your own intuition and a lot of intuition. Our heroines. We thank you for these funny hours, for the lots of laughter, your attention and mindfulness and your striving for a good world.
"...you are a congenial couple and have a super aura."
Thank you for the lovely feedback and THANK YOU that you see us!
- THANK YOU for a few days on Mallorca! It was really windy and also cold. Every day with a hood - that means something. From New Year's Eve to early March, flown with our long-time friend. Thank you for that we can pull something through. For such a weekend there is no perfect time. You have to create it. Thank you for our free life, in which this can simply be made possible.
- Yesterday we had a wonderful party. What can I say - a huge party. Dad, our Senior-Chef celebrated his 80th birthday. Starting with us for lunch with the whole family. His wish was baked carp. So, the Christmas meal. So: where can we get organic carp? And then right away for many? Therefore our dear thank you to the organic fish in Mariazell. Although they are not open, it was too late to order via the online shop, they waited for us in their office until we picked up the fresh organic carp fillets. Therefore we are now doing full advertising for your Online Shop. Great organic fish and loving support. That was one thing. ♡
- Thank you Dad, thank you Papa. For so much. You laid the foundation for STEINKRAFT with your stories about healed calves, your experiences, your empirical studies practically and your talent to explain everything so that everyone understands. Your love for good soils and for milk with the right cell counts, udder health, hoof health overflowed onto us. It was a real holiday. With lots of music, the whole Blasmusik Aschbach was there and played his favorite marches up and down. And all this organized by his neighbors. The village neighbors. As a surprise, they all stood there after the carp with so many birthday cakes and a music band. (The big one came again as a surprise in the evening.) Can you feel this joy? And not only Dad was moved to tears ... ♡
- In this month, 3 dear customers wrote to us in the evening because they needed help in the online shop or wanted to ask something. In the evening ... well of course, these great women had put their children to bed, read the 5th good-night story, let the dog out again ... and then finally they have time for themselves. And these women are quite surprised when even we give a quick answer in the evening. Modern technology makes it possible. What can be answered easily on the mobile phone is also done at 11 p.m. For us clear that we are available! If then for our commitment comes an appreciative customer feedback, we are of course also very happy! THANK YOU that you appreciate this being as not a given. ✿
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FEBRUARY 2024
Our motto for this second month:
"The ability to observe without judging is the highest form of intelligence."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
- February started right away with a seminar at Weissensee. And we learned to love it very much. The lake. The frozen one. For that we are grateful! Ezra enjoyed it just as much as we did. Thank you that you have such a joy and do everything with us and are so uncomplicated.
Thank you Ezra, that you are in our life.
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Basalt, Basalt Basalt: Offers written in summer, are now redeemed. Soil in spring starts. As a reminder: The basalt rock flour has endlessly many trace elements. AND paramagnetic properties. Here in the blog read more about it >>>
These paramagnetic properties please us very much. Thank you Phil Callahan for your tireless work to research it and describe it so that we understand it.
At the weekend we were visiting an old garden. Actually we picked up BIO-cabbage there. Later with that.
R. in original quote: "We always have many flowers in spring. But since I started sprinkling basalt, they have tripled. And they come in places where they were not before."
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HORSEKRAFT Bedding is suitable for organic farming. Thank you, dear Mr. R., for using zeolite bedding throughout your farm after testing the product at your boarding stable. And since you run an organic farm, you now have, above all, the best, highest-quality fertilizer with plenty of bound ammonia for your fields. Homemade. Voilà!
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JANUARY 2024
- On January 1, we received an email from Finland. We are very pleased and grateful that our quality is seen, recognized, and inquired about in Finland. Thank you, Google, thank you, SEO, thank you, us. Thank you, dear customers, for wanting to do something good for your animals and not being deterred by the shipping costs.
- We are delighted by the feedback: "Your company seems to us the most honest and very fair." Thank you for that; both are very important to us. And we don't take it for granted that someone would write such feedback in an email. Thank you for confirming in writing what is important to us. ✿
- Thank you to the Kunsthistorisches Museum. We enjoyed a private tour in honor of Marika's birthday and joyfully immersed ourselves in 10 paintings that were explained to us by Andrea and Manfred - our tour guides. Thank you both, you made it with so much mindfulness, precision, and passion that we actually considered getting an annual pass for the museum. Do you know Giuseppe Arcimboldo's Four Seasons? Or his Five Elements?
- Thank you to our customers in Switzerland, we now know what Zebu cattle are. Yes, they absolutely need good bedding to keep the stable dry and germ-free. Thank you for letting our thoughts on quality reach you. ✺
- We once decided to be found. That people would come to us, and for that I am truly grateful. Thank you for calling, when you have a lot of question marks about zeolite because every zeolite dealer tells you something different. Thank you again for wanting to know exactly. And for trusting your gut feeling. And exactly, zeolite in a paper bag is not properly packaged. And it's true, a ball mill cannot grind without abrasion and cannot activate the product. That is what the tribomechanical grinding process prevents. Thank you, Tihomir Lelas.
- Thank you, dear customers, who ask us such lovely questions, and thank you, dear Mrs. W., for the: "Stay just as you are". ♡
- Thank you for this lovely feedback from Mrs. M.: "Dear Marika, thank you from the BOTTOM of my HEART for the nice and human phone call, a very warm greeting from the 'South of Germany ';))." What is obvious to us is obviously not obvious to everyone. Thank you that the work we do with love is seen this way. ♡
- And when the next day another customer calls and calls us people of heart in the phone call and I thereby 'saved' her morning, I also immediately get elation and a joyful mood. Thank you, dear Mrs. G. ♡
- Today, beautiful pallets were created. HORSEKRAFT Bedding with Zeolite for Horses was freshly pulverized with organic lavender, bagged, stacked on pallets, and prepared for customers in Germany and Switzerland. We love sending beautiful pallets to our customers. Lovingly wrapped and optimally prepared for transport. THANK YOU to our employees in production. Thank you for carrying on the quality mindset in production and packaging and clearly not allowing mediocrity.
- Thank you, thank you, thank you that there are places like the REFUGIUM in Lunz am See. Very well fed. Very well watered. All this in a very beautiful setting. Our dog was treated as a full-fledged guest and we really felt loved. Thank you for creating an oasis of well-being there. And for your work, what you create every day, and for loving it.
- Yesterday we had a very long customer conversation. Thank you very much that there are people like you, dear Mrs. K., who want to know everything exactly. This allows us to continue to grow and put even more information on our website or write blogs. And thus contribute more and more to the education about natural zeolite. Thank you for your questions. They show us what moves you and they sharpen us. And that is good!
- Exactly at full moon, beautiful HORSEKRAFT Zeolite Pellets for Horses were produced. 4 mm diameter without binders and free from additives. Only zeolite and water. So zeolite pellets, fresh now!
We found out today that these pellets are gladly bought by dust allergy sufferers. We weren't really aware of it, but of course. Pellets don't create dust. Therefore no exposure. So once again: THANK YOU to production! You did a wonderful job.
- The EarlyBirds of the Black cumin with zeolite powder are here! We are happy that you look at it in time, that you have it when you need it! (That's how some advertising goes. Slogan memorized, product not.)
Small reminder: please start with this supplementary feed for horses in good time before the mosquitoes are here. So that there is already a depot in the horse's body and they smell like black cumin. Not perceptible to us humans - BUT these biting flies smell it and really don't like this smell.
So, what was going on at STEINKRAFT Zeolite in JANUARY:
- Many, many inquiries, many phone calls with questions about particle sizes, dosages. Many packages shipped. Our machine technology has great interest. Data sheets are translated into other languages - Finnish, as you already know. Labels reprinted and checked 100 times to see if everything is correct. From the EAN code, to the QR code, to the legal notices that must be on it. Freshly produced and filled.
Looking back, we give January a Buddhist wisdom:
"There is no big and difficult task that cannot be divided into small, easy tasks."
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