We made eye contact, briefly. She looked angry, exhausted but determined like nothing I've ever seen. I don't know her name, her age or any bits of her story. I don't even know whether she's still alive. In the last couple of months I have been on a mission to lose some of that corona weight I had put on in the last 2 years. Since I am...

The last 3 months have been incredibly busy at work. Despite the challenging core role, I was able to continue meeting new and returning coaching clients and overall spend more than 35h in coaching conversations. What struck me was how much we all seem to be dealing with similar challenges in work and life. Photo by Ashley Batz via uns...

During the last year of my life I've spent a lot of time reflecting, it seems such that Covid has strangely amplified the "Lows" of my life while also capping the "Highs" quite a bit. This lead me to seeking out more tools and tricks to stay in a positive growth mindset. Today I'd like to share two simple things that may bring you valu...

We're all doing it every day, some after breakfast, some directly after waking up. There are others who do it while driving, some kids do it on the bus to school. Mothers do it with their babies in their lap. You may even do it subconsciously - I am talking about listening to music. I am writing this after a late night watching music v...

When doom-scrolling through twitter the other day, I came across this strange diagram: (Tweet by Jay Van Bavel) I know it looks quite simple on the first look, but take a few minutes and actually consider a few of these streams. Look at the black ones on the left. One ended really early. Others made some significant jumps during some c...

My home-office is also my bedroom. I am sure this is true for many people these days. I am fortunate to have a large enough bedroom to fit a desk in one corner, right next to the large window providing me with nice daylight. Once in a while when pondering an idea or just needing a break from my screen, I catch myself staring outside. T...

We had this discussion at work the other day among a few of us who started work remotely during the pandemic. We had actually had not been to the office and not met any of our co-workers face-to-face. Someone posted the question of what was the most instrumental thing to effectively ramp up and feel like we had arrived at the company. ...

Growing up in eastern Germany in the 80s, I was not living in a society of abundance and extraordinary wealth. Life was safe, my parents were loving parents, I had my grandparents around, it was totally fine for 5 year old me to walk to kindergarten alone. We just didn’t have bananas readily available (among a few other things) One of ...

I've heard this topic come up a couple of times around the internet but also in my circle of friends - do you keep separate bank accounts? Hell yes! Personal finance is something not really taught at school where I come from and so a lot of the learnings were trial/error based. It's also a topic that is emotionally charged, many of us ...

It’s been a long day, in fact, it’s been a long week. I am spent... too many video Meetings, too much synchronous work, too little focus. Arghh 😵 But As I am sitting on the throne🚽, iPhone in hand, I can’t help but feel excited about the fact that I am able to type out an email on my phone, address it to world@hey.com and boom! I’ve ju...

A Blog without all the fuss. That's exactly what I've been after for years. The functionality should be so simple that all the tech really get's out of the way for 2 things: • writing • publishing If that's possible then the only limit to delivering interesting written content is the own creativity and repeated practice. It's also some...