I fell in love with this sentence. (The title.) No matter what happens in life, you know how to react. You have this inner trust that whatever may come, you’ll be able to answer well. I remember not long ago, I got furious at my laptop for refusing my orders and being snail-slow. I got angry, cursed, […]
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If I could go back in time and give one piece of advice to my younger self, it would be this: Read.A.Lot. Reserve 2-3 hours of your day just for reading. Read (auto-)biographies of great men. Read books. Read magazines. Read scientific papers. Read online articles. Read on your smartphone. Read whenever you’ve got some spare time […]
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Unless you’re some enlightened human being, it’s fair to say that you are trying to achieve certain goals in your future. Maybe you’re trying to get a promotion at your job or you’re looking to get a better job altogether. Maybe you’d like to start your own business. Maybe you want to lose weight or gain […]
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Great people, it seems, have a clear vision for their future. John F. Kennedy famously dreamed of putting a man on the moon. Eleanor Roosevelt had a vision of a world of equal opportunity for women and minorities. Nelson Mandela had a vision for the eradication of racism and for the establishment of a constitutional democracy […]
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Let’s admit it. You, and I, we will never reach personal perfection.No matter how hard we try, we won’t be perfect. Even if we keep trying and trying and getting better and better, we won’t be perfect. But we can try, can’t we? That’s at least what I try day-in, day-out – being the best ever possible version […]
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Let’s be real: Productivity is a constant struggle.Some days are great. Some are a complete waste of time. If you’re anything like me and you’ve got fairly big aspirations, dreams, and plans for your future, you can’t help but ask yourself:“What makes me so productive on certain days and completely unproductive on others?”
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“What gets measured gets improved.” This is a quote from Robin Sharma. Or Peter Drucker. Who knows? The internet doesn’t. Anyway, this quote lays out a simple truth we can use to easily boost our productivity. What we measure, we improve. I like to call it the what-gets-measured-gets-improved-effect. Best of all, this improvement happens automatically, solely because […]
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Quick question: Can you name 3 things that didn’t go so well today? 1) ________________ 2) ________________ 3) ________________ Got it? Easy, huh? Now name 3 things that did go well today. 1) ________________ 2) ________________ 3) ________________ For most of us, naming things that went well is much harder. There’s a reason for that. And it’s actually a huge problem because it saps your motivation […]
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Lately I read Mark Manson’s book The Subtle Art of not Giving a Fuck. Great read!One thing that really inspired me was his Feedback Loop from Hell. I know, badass name. So today you’ll learn why you actually should give a fuck about this. It’s quite interesting. *Caution, there’s a lot of swearing in this post.“There’s […]
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Lately, I came across the article You’ve got to be unapologetically you on Chris Guillebeau’s blog. The article is actually mainly a video from the opening speech by Jonathan Fields at the WDS 2016 (World Domination Summit). Luckily, I gave it a shot. I enjoyed the speech so much that I decided to write about […]
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