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simplicity – an approach of a maximalist

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I am a maximalist, that’s why I became a minimalist.What? How does that make sense?I think it does, although it took me more than 30 years to realize. As long as I can remember I could not get enough. It did not matter whether it was playing a game, a vacation I was on, a mountain I was hiking, stuff that I owned.I just couldn’t get enough. I wanted more and got frustrated easily when… Read More »simplicity – an approach of a maximalist

who’s in charge of your life?

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It is now about one year that I am not actively working for ESCP Europe anymore. Although that I am already living my life and worklife relatively self-determined for some years now, I can tell you that it is a huge difference when nobody expects anything from you anymore.Furthermore and quite important to me, did my son and his mother move so far away that I have absolutely no chance on seeing him on a… Read More »who’s in charge of your life?

back to the roots

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I am sitting a my Computer, checking mails, process bookings for the Lodge, record Podcasts and am planning my milestones for 2017. Then one question hits me: Do I really want to keep writing stories on my blog? Yes! Good, but what exactly? I wasn’t sure. Since I shifted my focus on recording and broadcasting my German and my English podcast on a regular basis I missed out to write any articles. The main reason… Read More »back to the roots

one family?

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Imagine somebody could tell you where you´re actually from. A journey around the world and it all sums up to be you. This is a commercial, but well, what would happen, if you´d find out all, the people you hate most are actually your ancestors? End the end, we are one family. Amazing:

wanna play?

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

what makes up an adventurer?

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What it means to be human. A man who is never comfortable with the situation he is in talks about becoming the adventurer of the year by National Geographic. Cory Richards, a Highschool dropout who believes that the richness comes with struggle:

creating routines

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I wrote a blog article about creating routines in Zanzibar earlier this year. I wrote about my struggles finding my way back home while I was living in Stone Town for a month. Although I tried my best to take the same routes every single day, I got lost as soon as my mind was absent for a minute. Now I visited Stone Town again: First thing to do after I got there was to… Read More »creating routines

what our brain does when it does nothing at all

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I am so happy to present yet another wonderful post by Lisa. Without knowing she wrote about the reason why my sailing and Sahara seminars have such an impact: Sometimes it happens, someone asks me:“What are you thinking about right now?“ Suddenly I am torn from my thoughts which were just wandering on their own. In order to come to a suitable answer I try to structure the chaos in my head and bring my… Read More »what our brain does when it does nothing at all

feel free to use my content

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Inspired by one of the most popular writers on the topic of simplicity, Leo Babauta I decided to keep it like him concerning copyright. Whatever I write, I write it because I want it to be read. All the words I am using are not my own anyway. I didn’t make them up, they are your words as well. Somewhere I’ve heart them before. I just put them into another compilation. So go ahead and… Read More »feel free to use my content

over

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without words:  

maintain routines

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During the last few weeks I caught a few bad colds (caused by… well, let’s call them modified baby germs). I saw routines and habits I hoped to have learned vanish. For example the the habit of daily writing of blogposts disappeared. Normally I try to discover my habits to challenge and change them. I think that routines, habits and beliefs limit my freedom and my decision making. On the other hand routines help to… Read More »maintain routines

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

wanna play?

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