What makes people engage with other people? What makes people move, lead, inspire, encourage, influence, touch, relate, attract to a cause, warm up, spark a fire in, approach, connect to, adore, shake up, transform, teach, awake, love other people? I was quietly munching on this question in my mind, observing the world around me, when…
Tools for Success
I like to experiment. I like to improve things. That's why I always try new things, new approaches and new tools to solve the existing problems.
Here I share my learnings so you don't have to suffer to find the answers.
Creating My Empowerment Ritual
Now that I have defined my two goals and I dropped the search for a BIG life purpose out of the way, I am ready to pick the tools I want to work with. Here are the first two: Life Coaching which I previously wrote about and my Empowerment Ritual. As one of the first…
How Life Coaching Helps You Achieve Your Goals
I am going through my third cycle of life coaching and I got inspired to share my experiences. What is Life Coaching? Life coaching is the process of helping people identify and achieve personal goals through developing skills and attitudes that lead to self-empowerment. – Wikipedia Common Misconceptions Life coaching is therapy Yes, there are many…
2018 Reads – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
A friend inspired me to take a closer look at what I read. After reading a book, he writes a short summary of the main learnings, ideas and favorite quotes from the book. He sets a calendar reminder to review the summary after a month. He reviews his initial summary once he had the chance…
Salary Negotiation: 6 Real-Life Tips How to Get What You Want
A few weeks back I attended an event organized by the BERlean IN circle in Berlin around the topic of salary negotiation. From salary negotiation and payrises to dealing with and overcoming pay gaps – money plays a big (and sometimes difficult) role in our work life. How open should we be about our salaries? This…
On Expanding Your Consciousness and The Mentors in Life
The world is vast, limitless and abundant. It is, it really is. But we see only what’s around us, our little social bubble. For some of us, it’s bigger, for some – it stays forever a little, cosy bubble. Unexpected events often throw us out of our comfort zone. Isn’t going out of your mother’s…
5 Mindful Shopping Tips Will Save You a Lot of Money
Confessions of a Minimalist Somewhere in-between the 100 Things challenge and decluttering my garderobe I became the opposite of a shopaholic. I get way more pleasure from freeing myself of stuff than shopping. Malls became too overwhelming and I am rarely tempted to make purchases. Online shopping, on the contrary, is still something that I can hardly…
A Simple Agile Practice Will Help You Get Closer to Your Dream Life
The path to your dream life is complex and unpredictable. It’s very much like software development. How do I know?! I come from a software development background. I have been applying agile methodologies to get projects done for more than 6 years now. That’s how I started using some of the agile practices in my personal life. We do not learn from…
Why Not Ask Money on a Date?
Let me share a perspective. I see Money as a friend. The more care and respect you treat them with, the more they will stick around. If you don’t appreciate Money or completely ignore them, they will run away from you. Money of itself is not dirty. It’s the concepts around Money that might put you off or make you feel…
Get to Know Your Creative Process and Create Big Magic
Reaching financial independence early in life is still uncommon. In the best case, it’s seen as mega ambitious or plain crazy. You will have to find creative ways to get there. Most surely you will have to do something you have never done before – start a side hustle or a business, create a product or a…