You’re a human person. You intrinsically look for exchange, for soul mates, for different perspectives. Your curiosity is dominating you – at least it should because as adults we often tend to lose this child-like (not childish) curiosity the older we get. Actors are a good example of how you don’t lose the sense for play and fun activities. Should I now become an actor?

Yes and no. Imagine your life as a story, a plot. Now picture your world as a stage or film set. What would you be acting like? What would your role be? Would be the protagonist? The ally? The side-kick? Or even the enemy?

Guess what? You can be all that and way more.

Read that again. The limits on what you do and become only happens in your head, and, well some physical boundaries also exist if you thought of becoming an outer space astronaut or beyond. Think further, stretch your thought. What do you see? Now, go one step more, two steps, three. Are you still able to walk that thought? Then put into words, write it down and walk your talk.

Oh, that’s scary now. Right? Walking the talk actually means that you commit. Super scary. You will do the things you say. You are really doing it.

It became reality. You just gave birth to the strongest idea, concept or thought that rushed through your head like blood. You caught it and now it’s yours. Nourish it, treat it well, treat it with care, let it grow, and when it’s big enough to stand on its own feet, let it go. It’s sad, but you have to let it go. Train your bye-bye muscle. The more often you do it, the better you become.

Practice.

The take-away from today: By allowing a curated openness, an openness that you decide, you initiate exchange and let people enter your world. You allow them to enter. It’s a privilege. In this privileged world you are who you want. It’s scary to pursue your dreams but it’s fuck*** exciting as well. Make it reality.

Enjoy your Monday.

This was episode 6 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”.

It’s the end of the week 1 and already the end of the day. Best time to wrap up and see what you learnt this week.

If you start something, you continue it. If you have problems continuing your thing, pretend to be someone who is able to continue. This is a very good psychological trick that actors obviously use a lot. It can be someone close to you or the superstar you admire a lot. Just don’t forget that it’s still you who is acting, not that star of a probably fictitious reality.

You also learnt that you can test your social power, the impact you have on people by just observing their reactions when you act in a certain way. Equally, pay close attention to how other people impact you. Learn through observation. Read More

When you don’t like things in your life, things that piss you off, you have three options::

1. Keep complaining like a baby
2. Accept it like a man
3. Change it like a hero

In a business perspective you being an entrepreneur you have to face an occasionally even stronger reality where you need to adapt fast and make quick decisions. A short video by Gary Vaynerchuk expresses the adaptation to reality very direct and understandable.

You basically need to put yourself into, what I call, hunger mode. You want to be wanting more because you’re hungry for more, not satisfied with the status quo and totally not with how your life is.

Being comfortable, similar to the scene of the popular movie „Wall-E“ where people sit in their chair, receive food, become fat and immobile is one of the horror scenarios.

All that is only valid if you are hero, not the one who accepts, not the one who cries. You’re the one who changes. And change starts with being productive. One of the easiest ways to be productive is get your ass move out of the chair, every day.

The take-away from today: You decide how to deal with problems and challenges – personal and professional. At the end of the day, you want to ask yourself: Did I give everything today to achieve what I wanted or was I being too soft and unwilling? Be honest to yourself because if you’re not the cycle of lying to yourself will just continue.

Honesty starts with yourself. Have a good day.

This was episode 4 of the #weekdaykickoff. Every Monday-Friday morning. Colombian time.