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more than honey

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Honey and bees are such a nice metaphor. Bees dedicate their whole life to the best for the community. Bees in the summer collect nectar for honey, so their successors in the wintertime won’t starve. Only if every part of the bee community fulfills its own mission the hive can survive and thrive. As it is such a fragile system the bees live in and it is similar in the world where they find their… Read More »more than honey

how you put giraffe in fridge – 3 steps

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I am on my way into the desert again. After the heaviest rainfall in southern Morocco that people can remember it seems as if the desert is not only green, but as if I will be able to go for swim. The situation will be something absolutely new and I am excited what I will learn out of this trip. Traveling by foot in Sahara is an act of meditation and focus on the easiness… Read More »how you put giraffe in fridge – 3 steps

the little things in life

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If you believe that the big things matter most go on a long journey with an old car. I believe that the little things define the quality of our life. When we bought our car to go live on the road and travel a lot, we thought a lot about what car to buy, but once on the road, other things became important to us. Looking back I have to admit that I had absolutely… Read More »the little things in life

minimalism documentary

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These guys are a great inspiration to me concerning minimalism and focus. Now they made a documentary about what matters most and what doesn’t. Here’s a preview:

wanna play?

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Don’t we all have our issues that let us believe there is something we can’t do?

five sentences policy

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The Problem E-mail takes too long to respond to, resulting in continuous inbox overflow for those who receive a lot of it. The Solution Treat all email responses like SMS text messages, using a set number of letters per response. Since it’s too hard to count letters, we count sentences instead. FIVE SENTENCES is a personal policy that all email responses regardless of recipient or subject will be five sentences or less. It’s that simple. *… Read More »five sentences policy