I give you one good advice: Do your things while you’re not satisfied, while you’re still searching, while you’re still finding, while you’re still on the hunt.

You need to in explorer mode. Let me be more drastic here: You need to be in ultimate survival mode. You want to beat yourself because you want to put yourself out of the game. You are your biggest opponent, the worst enemy you fear the most. Read More

You’re among the 3 billion people who work employed. Unless you work for a cool, modern company who allows working from home or anywhere, you have some kind of boss who tells you what things he wants to get you done and where you’re supposed to do them.

The office is structured according to what the company you work for thinks is best (cheap). Who you sit next to or opposite of is directed by your superiors. You’re like the hamster in the wheel. You can control how slow and fast you run. With regard to the size, material and surrounding of your wheel you have no say. Read More

I’m writing online content, some on commission, some without. I’m co-creating a startup called ON BOARD and I’m helping people clean their households in Berlin, Germany’s capital city.

As much as I liked to clean according to everyone’s desires, I would fail. It’s either the chemistry with the client that is not a fit or it’s the requirements that don’t match with either my skills, my idea of clean or the time to accomplish this level of clean.

Whatever the factors are, a seemingly easy thing as cleaning a household reveals rather complex issues. If the client simply doesn’t like you as the cleaning professional, the client will double-double-check your work and decry it. It’s just how people are.

If they like you and you had a good interaction with each other, a corner that is less of what they see as clean is considered ok. Even if you break things (glass!), they will consider it ok because they liked you and they saw your effort. Read More