You’re hungry because your stomach feels empty. You’re hungry because you didn’t eat well. And you’re hungry because your actions made you forget that hunger is even an option. That’s when you reached your state of flow in which you overcome problems that challenge you and are aligned with your skill level, meaning you are able to solve the problems though it’s not easy.

The real reason why you’re hungry is because you need to be hungry. A full stomach doesn’t like to study (“Ein voller Bauch studiert nicht gern.”) is what a German saying goes like. This is true for your personal and business success as well.

Guess what?

I’m hearing voices out of my stomach right now. I should be eating and get some food. I will. Eventually. But for now I’m finishing this piece because it’s part of my success story. Success that has already come. In my head. Reality is usually slower than what I envision. I’m sure you can relate. Nothing comes fast. You always need to be patient, and work hard. Success and wealth will follow.

So, I’m hungry right now. Literally and figuratively. As I said, I will eat to have healthy nutrition. I won’t eat to become comfortable. That’s the “hungry” mode I’m referring to in this text. When you’re hungry you need to get food. When your business is starving you need to feed it. When your project is getting weak, you need to give it energy. Healthy food, healthy input, clever investment with a good a return. That gives it back the power. So much that it will continue running well. Not too much so it doesn’t become saturated, fat or immobile.

The take-away from today: Establish the balance in which you eat healthy and stay hungry for more. Hunger is a lack of something, it’s something you have less of. This less will drive you more, drive you to go for more. In short: Less is more. In this specific context. Don’t starve and die. Be hungry having less to live and achieve more.

This was episode 37 of the #weekdaykickoff 🌊. Every Monday-Friday morning. Colombian time. Until episode 5 I also audio-recorded on Anchor, you can find me there as “Alexander Kluge”.

Doing something for yourself is fine, important and sane. It’s crucial to have me-time, where you awake 0therwise sleeping curiosity and playfulness you once enjoyed as a child. It is wonderful to rejoice the celebration of one’s behavior, a behavior that is 100% compatible to how you want to behave.

Dancing in front of the mirror listening to your favorite song and showing your tongue and making other grimaces. No problem. Drawing trees from your balcony because the view is simply fantastic. Go for fit. Walking naked around your apartment because nobody sees you. Totally fine. Losing time on the playground while you maybe enjoy the space more than your child. Voilà.

Stop. Playtime is over. You artistic solo expression had its time. Now you think how to apply your skills to serve the world and make you happy at the same time. Playful and artistic elements explicitly allowed.

From today on “How can I serve the world best?” is the first question to ask yourself after you wake up – every day. It guarantees that what you do is according to how you can be best used – not misused but being a servant, putting yourself into a full and pure service position.

The last question before you go to bed is “How did I serve the world best today?“. It guarantees that you are happy with the day because you made progress yourself, helped other people and enjoyed it.

If you don’t enjoy it, don’t know how to serve people or don’t make progress, join a journey of self-discovery. I’ll be accompanying you together with excellent other fellow travelers in a supportive community, helping each other grow as high and much as you want. You set yourself the limit and decide who has a say in your growth.

How did you serve the world best?

Don’t forget to ask, and start tonight. Thanks Benny Franklin!

The take-away from today: There’s a good reason that mantras exist. They’re easy to remember and repeat. As much as going to the toilet does reciting them become a part of your everyday life. How to serve the world best today is the only question you need to ask, the foundation out of which all your actions are based. Yes, there will be days when you’re caught in bureaucracy, but it takes just a little change in perspective to also see these interactions as service opportunities. Try it, and be playful and creative about it. It’s more fun. Really.

This was episode 36 of the #weekdaykickoff 🌊. Every Monday-Friday morning. Colombian time. Until episode 5 I also audio-recorded on Anchor, you can find me there as “Alexander Kluge”.

Friday is to sum up the week. This is what you learnt following my #weekdaykickoff 🌊 series, always with the goal to get your mind kicked into a direction where you think, roll and do!

You have all the time

It’s impossible that you don’t have time because we all have the same. People telling you they don’t have time literally means they don’t take time for you. Not because they want to offend you or don’t like you (although it’s possible). You’re just not a priority in their goal-oriented action plan. Hard to hear, I know, and encouraging to experience it yourself because you can apply this goal direction yourself.

You’re not anti-social.

You’re simply choosing who you want to meet and talk to. People who build you up, you want more of them. People who suck your energy and life blood, you want to get rid of. Your life changes. Your priority change. Your goals change. Your social environment does. It can be long-term friends. It can be family members. If they do harm to you in terms of being an obstacle for your success and/or don’t understand your path, gently make them aware that they don’t have a place in your life. Sorry.

So many hours per week

Instead of saying “I have no time”, reconsider how many hours there are per week: 168. You’re an employee working 40 hours a week (Monday-Friday) and spend per day let’s say 2 hours commuting to your workplace unless you work remotely. That’s 50 hours.

You sleep 8 hours, eat 2 hours and socialize 2 hours per day (Monday-Sunday). That’s another 84 hours.

In total: 134 hours. Unless you plan to spend 11 insane years as I suggested, you have 168 minus 134 equals 34 hours.

34 hours that you can spend how you want. Think about it. You have a day and a half to spend on things you also care about in your life. Every week – given there are no distractions and you’re not overly lazy. What would you do in 34 hours?

Also, who are you?

Knowing your strengths and goals makes it easy to know which way to go. Some people admire other people who have this clear path and vision of their own self in the future that they wonder how that comes.

It’s not a miracle. Those people have a laser-sharp vision of their future and where they want to go. This goal-driven thinking informs their actions, almost automatically. What looks easy to the outsider is pure clarity and awareness of one’s one super power. You have at least one. Successful people play out this power so well because sometimes that’s the only thing they got, but they orchestrate it so impressively that their lack of other skills doesn’t matter, because they don’t emphasize on it. And why would you stress on your weaknesses? For self-destruction? Maybe. For success? No way.

Gain clarity to win

I said it before. When you see your path clearly ahead of you (also taking detours, distractions and that kind of thing into the equation) you have clarity. Your path is the way you move along. The end of the path is your goal, or many goals. They don’t mark the end. An end of a path is just the beginning of another path. It always will be. A goal reached is a goal of the past, and doesn’t matter anymore for your present and future self. That’s the nature of goals.

For example: My goal is to play 5 minutes on the pitch for Borussia Dortmund as the first non-professional soccer player. The way to make sure I reach that goal? I’m going to buy the club. It’s current value €740 M. It’s insane, you might think. I consider it the best motivation to play for my favorite football club I’ve been a fan of since the early 1990s. Thats about 25 years!

The take-away for the weekend: Time doesn’t matter. It’s just a constraining condition that helps you calculate things. Outcome of the time matters more, and the quality you gain and give in that time. Both personally and professionally. You have enough time per week to gain clarity and ultimately win because by moving forward thinking as the winner (having the winner mindset because there’s no other way), you will become successful. Win. And you will win. Always. And if you loose. Start winning again. And win.

This was episode 35 of the #weekdaykickoff 🌊. Every Monday-Friday morning. Colombian time. Until episode 5 I also audio-recorded on Anchor, you can find me there as “Alexander Kluge”.