As I'm writing this, I'm in a sun lit room, in a wonderful cafe (I know, the dream of writing your own blog posts on a quiet morning in a cafe :) ) and the song playing in the background is "Morcheeba - Enjoy the ride". Might as well. This year has been full of bumps and ...
What you hate is what inspires change
I'm going through some confusing, yet change-prone times. It seems to come around every few years, a restlessness and need to re-define my life. Normally it includes hating what I've worked hard to earn, and a feeling that unless I do some big change around here, I'm not - ever! - going to be really ...
4 steps to regaining balance
I don't know about you, but this early spring has been extremely hectic for me. I've moved to a new house two months ago, and much of my thinking and dreaming revolved around French style furniture and budget lists that were overspent. On top of that, I've recently traversed the best and most consuming period ...
Mapping experience
Telling stories is so passe. Mapping is the new way to give back experience. Two insights. 1. Mapping experience is perhaps, the best and easiest way to give back knowledge. Mapping here is used as "translate into a common language" - like step by step algorythms, or "do this - get that" type of schemes. ...
Story Telling
Companies and buyers don't want to hear a pitch. They want to hear a story. And most often, the most credible story is your own. I've felt really compelled to read and reapply stories that start with "I was where you are now. And then I did x, y, and z, and managed to sell x much, ...
Careers – and passions – are dangerous
"If you work diligently eight hours per day, you might get yourself promoted and become a manager, to work twelve hours per day." (Robert Frost, quoted in "The Four Hour Work Week") This post is inspired by the idea of looking for the perfect career, and also by most everything that Ash writes at the middlefingerproject.org ...
Goal Setting – Magic Fairy exercise
This is a response to an exercise launched by Dragos Roua on his blog, yesterday. Don't worry, it's more than a "tag", so keep reading. Dragos pointed out that in the bedouin and magic fairy story, unless you really know what you want, you'll end up transformed in a toilet. Quite similar to Johnny Bravo saying ...
Idea of the week – The Last Lecture
I'm putting a whole book as Idea of the Week here, because the book is absolutely overwhelming. I heard about Randy Pausch's "Last Lecture" a few months ago. His story is simple: Randy Pausch was a professor at Carnegie Mellon who delivered a sum of his life's learnings in an hour's speech and a book called "The ...
Go for the personal record, not the medal
Looking at the Vancouver winter olympics, I can't stop thinking about the milliseconds that separate the champion from the second place. Is it really such a big difference? You might argue that the real winner is the one who sees the tangible result, the gold medal. I will contradict you. The real winner is the one who breaks ...
Your hardships are your lessons
Let me share two stories with you: One of the persons most dear to me in the world has serious issues. She believes that she means nothing as long as she can't have the man she loves. Who left her about half a year ago. She is paralysed by suffering and cannot move her life an ...
