Welcome to 2018! I have decided that it is the year of magic. Why? Because it is time. It is time for magic! What does magic mean for you? Magic, for me, means extraordinary, great, unbelievable, beyond what I would have expected, beyond reason, enchanted, non-linear. How do we get there? How do we create magic, how do we let magic into our lives? 1. For one, we need to be willing to step outside Read more…
What do you think when things go well? Do you – in a figurative sense – pat yourself on the shoulder? Or do you tell yourself that you must have been lucky and probably don’t even deserve it? And what do you do when things don’t go so well? Do you pick up responsibility easily or go so far as to blaming yourself? Or do you try to find someone else responsible or even to Read more…
Exactly one year ago today I started this blog with my first blog post. My goal was to publish one post a week – which I did not quite manage, yet I am very happy and grateful for keeping at it. This means that it was also roughly a year ago that I decided to terminate my permanent position in a large German stock corporation and to dare another step into the unknown: I decided Read more…
Not long ago I visited a workshop on self-development which I found quite inspiring and the essentials of which keep resonating with me. At the core is the profound distinction between “outside in” and “inside out”. I am picking up on this now because, once aware of this distinction, I find it hard not to observe how our world is full of the belief that life is “outside in”. From how I understand it, “outside in” means that you Read more…
Ever more often I look around to find myself surprised that I am once more in a room, or space, in which the majority are women. I have come to enjoy the atmosphere very much, also and in particular if these women spaces have come about more or less randomly. Take pottery for instance: The club is open to everyone and yet the sessions are attended mostly by women. I have realised several times that Read more…
Originally, I had meant to write a blog on the subject of fear. Maybe it would even fit in quite well with what many people might feel today, since they heard the news of the unexpected election result in the USA. At least I feel quite fearful of what might come now. Something else occupies my mind even more though. Something that I have been noticing for a while and the culmination of which I Read more…
My home visit in Germany had started earlier than planned because my mother got ill. With that, we all came quite close to experiencing her death. I sensed how strong love can be in such moments. Whenever I came close to losing myself in my “organisation mode”, I realised that the most important thing I could do was taking time: spending time with my mother, being with her in that exact moment. I.e. not really Read more…
Do you know this inner voice that always tells you what you “have to” or “should” do? I have observed it with myself and with others around me, hearing such things as: “I have to/should exercise more”, “I have to/should eat healthier”, “I have to/should drink less alcohol”, “I have to/should do more for my family”, “I have to…, I should …, I have to …, I should …”. And sometimes it says “I should Read more…
Words, whether spoken or written, are a strange thing. They help us to communicate with each other, to understand each other, and they can bring about clarity. At the same time, they can make things more complicated, lead to misunderstandings, bring us in our mind and out of contact. After all, language is “only” a technology and is being applied differently by every person. „Not even two people could truly speak with each other, for such effect you needed Read more…