You can drink water to hydrate, go for a walk to change scenery, do sports to sweat, take a shower, dive into your nearest lake or ocean, do this ice bucket challenge that used to be a thing (in the past).

Pay a visit to Alaska, Greenland or Russia in winter, dress up, get new clothes, do peeling for your skin, use these icy wake-up gels or creams that make you feel you were in Alaska, go on a retreat or on self-discovery.

Do it to refresh yourself, to feel reborn, rejuvenated. Simply make an effort to change things from time to time.

You need sports for your mind. You need mental challenges for your body. And vice versa.

The take-away from today: Drink enough, walk enough, keep your mind and body refresh so that your soul can shine and attract soul mates.

This was episode 11 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”.

The end of week 1 of the #weekdaykickoff has come. Let’s sum up and wrap up this week’s lessons.

Your stage, your world, your people

You learnt to picture your life as a stage in which you’re the actor playing the role you prefer. Starting is one thing, continuing the other one.

In this world you curate who enters and who becomes actually important and meaningful. In order to create excitement you go into the scary challenges, those will also make you feel alive, your real lived reality.

You’re independent

Also, I wrote you that you don’t need me, and I don’t need you – in terms being dependent from each other. You are a complete person but decide you want to read the #weekdaykickoff as a deliberate choice.

You don’t need to read it but you want to because it benefits your life, it enables you to become a better person. This is how every relation to a partner in business, love and friendship should work. Enable one another.

Go step by step

You’re interested in many things and want to accomplish a lot in your life. Still you move one foot at a time. Keep that in mind, and don’t stop. Always move forward because not moving means moving backwards.

What keeps you moving is your overall life goal and the mini goals that help you reach the big one. This is why it’s important to organize yourself: make a list, create tasks out of it, schedule and execute them.

Stop getting inspired before you want to get it done

In my creative projects I always encounter the same pattern: I start a project with a deep immersion focus. I’m all in for that project to guarantee to best goal-driven outcome. My senses are channeled to a tunnel with to goal to make the project a success. I finish the project and my senses open again.

I’m now again open for new sparks, new inspirations, new ideas. I’m filling my creative mojo / juice / magic liquid. This guarantees that I won’t burn out — sometimes very hard.

The take-away for the weekend: You create a world  where you are an independent player. Because of the goals you set, you know your general direction you generally know where to go. Since you don’t want to exhaust yourself on the way you take regular breaks and time-offs. When projects are over or milestone of long-term projects have been accomplished, you use the time for inspiration and refreshment. You combine this ideally with your break time or create separate retreat time.

This was episode 10 of the #weekdaykickoff. Every Monday-Friday morning. Colombian time.

While you can’t constantly be in “inspiration mode”, when you feel you need input because you just finished a task or you’re about to start one and want to get yourself into the right mindset. This mindset where you fully immerse yourself into the project and only live for this project.

Before your real hard work starts, you have your head up and senses open. You’re open for any input that serves your wish to be inspired. Full absorption, full observation, fully present in the world.

During the work, you have your head down, your senses are focussed, the center of attention is to achieve the goal of the project and you only see what is relevant for this project and its goals. You’re in the intentional tunnel mode. You could also call yourself drunk because what you’ll experience is a trip that lasts days, weeks or months.

The take-away from today: While there are gray areas when you need inspiration during a project phase, you want to achieve a mindset of full focus and immersion. Only this can guarantee that you reach the goals and build according to them. Don’t exhaust yourself doing it and get your regular breaks. Immersing yourself doesn’t mean to not eat, drink, do sports and disconnect from the world, family and good friends. It simply means to be present in the here and now in this hard work phase.

This was episode 9 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”.