Ambition doesn’t disappear when something feels heavy. Often, it’s a sign that the environment no longer fits. In this post, I share why slowing down, sleeping well, and changing context can restore clarity faster than pushing harder.
I’m an emotional person. My emotional center is always on. That means I don’t get to opt out of feelings. It also means something else that took me years to respect. The people around me don’t just feel their emotions. They amplify mine. When I’m grounded,
Back in 2003, I was a student at the University of Mathematics and Informatics. Most days ended the same way. Notes spread across my desk. Differential equations blurring together. A bottle of Fanta open. Me pushing long past focus. Not because it helped. Because stopping felt unsafe. I didn’t
You’re doing what should work. You’re showing up. You’re consistent. You’re experienced enough to know how to push when needed. On paper, everything is aligned. And yet, there are moments when the energy drops for no obvious reason. Not burnout. Not failure. Just a subtle heaviness
Last weekend at Atma Fest, I spoke with dozens of people. Short readings. Soft voices. Stories shared as if they were secrets leaking through the cracks of a well-built life. By the end of the day, one pattern stood in the light like an actor caught unexpectedly at center stage.
There I was: sitting in my office after a coaching call that had gone… well. Money was coming in. Client was happy. Everything should have felt like progress. Instead, I felt like I had just crossed a line. Not a real one. An internal one. A line I wasn’t
There’s a place inside you that knows exactly when to move. Not when your calendar says so. Not when your mind has “figured it all out.” But when something hits — a conversation, a story, a post, a moment. You feel it in your body. A full YES. A “Hell
And no! This wasn’t some “masculine energy” bonding exercise. It was a full-blown test of my deepest fear: * conflict with other men. Here's how it started: I was on stage. The trainer said nothing. Just left me there. Seconds later, five men from his team charged toward
Eight hours a day in an open-space office, headphones on, soaking in motivational podcasts as if they were oxygen. He smiled during breaks. Brought his healthy salad. Made light jokes so no one would worry. But his eyes… his eyes looked like a screen gone blank. Like the light inside
Case in point: Dunedin Airport in New Zealand now limits hug time to 3 minutes. A big sign literally says: “Max hug time: 3 minutes.” It’s a real thing. Why? To prevent emotional “traffic” in the drop-off zone. Translation: * Keep your feelings short. * Make your goodbyes efficient. * Don’t
I didn’t. Not in the way people like to hear it. I didn’t meditate the pain away. I didn’t visualize my future self on a yacht on lake Zug. I didn’t “just stay positive.” You know a lot about this piece of advice. I got through
Look, let’s cut the polite crap. If you're in a meeting, on a date, with your team, with your partner, and your phone is visible? You're the problem. That glowing little rectangle is broadcasting a loud, silent message: “You’re not important enough.” Forget what
You try to concentrate. You push. You grind. But your mind keeps slipping. Not because you’re lazy. But because something around you has changed. I didn’t realize this until a simple bike ride home. We were seven riders. One rhythm. One direction. Then we split to go home.
Most people think moving countries makes you brave. But you found out, that it doesn’t. Yes, it makes you restless. It exposes how easy it is to reinvent yourself every time life gets uncomfortable. And it hides the real issue. You keep leaving because you have no idea where
Maybe. But only after when it starts crying at romance movies, laughing at bad jokes, and after swearing in trafic in three languages. Only after it burns out once or twice. Only after washing the car right before it rains. And checks the door three times before leaving the house.
That’s not mindset. That’s mechanics. And if you ignore it, you’ll keep mistaking pressure for purpose. In 1959, German Minister Gerhard Schröder wrote a letter that modern medicine buried. He’d watched “terminal” patients recover: * no surgery, * no chemo just biofermented foods and respect for the body’
This come from the fear of being a "Drama Queen". No, really! • You don’t apply for that position? You’re scared you’ll seem unqualified. • You don’t talk to her? You’re scared she’ll say no. • You don’t launch the business? You’re scared
Like the ones that help us understand how we’re wired. How we make sense of the world. And why some of us need to speak things out loud to actually process them. First—let me say this: I hear the frustration in posts like: “Not every activity needs to
That’s the message I received recently. And I get it. We live in a world where surviving feels like an achievement. Where having a stable job is seen as success — no questions asked. But what if the real risk isn’t losing your job... What if it’s losing
My father used to punish my mother with silence. He’d stop eating. Stop talking. Call it a “strike.” The result? Three stents in his heart. I did the same in my twenties. Didn’t eat. Didn’t speak. Just said, “I’m fine.” Result: gastritis. Years later, when my
You journal. You listen to podcasts about mindset. You color-code your calendar like it’s going to save your soul. You sage your apartment until the smoke alarm begs for mercy. And still—there it is. The “Why am I so exhausted?” spiral that hits between your second coffee and
I Got Lost. Twice. The first time was when I followed the “right path”: * university, * job, * promotions… and a diagnosis of MS. The second time was when I said, “Now I want a family and children.” But I had no idea what that really meant. I realized that “direction” isn’
My wife is the guardian of the sourdough in our home. She feeds it, folds it, times it perfectly. It’s alive — and she knows exactly how to care for it. When she leaves, she gives me instructions: “Fold it every 40 minutes. Four times.” Seems simple, right? Except… she
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