Every morning after you woke up, had a shower and a kind-of breakfast you robotically move into public transportation and automatically put your headphones (or earphones) onto your head and listen to your favorite songs. Spotify, streamed local radio stations and the music stored on your phone are your friends.

Still half an hour to go, you read the news on your phones — headlines only, and maybe some skimming of the first few paragraphs — while great tunes cheer you up and prepare you for your work day or the day at the university. You work while you study on the side.

Occasionally you lift your head and have a look at what’s surrounding you. “Oh people!“, you think. „And actually pretty pretty ones as well“, you wonder milliseconds after. Read More

You have problems. You have issues. Me too. Everyone has. Some people don’t because they reject to deal with them. You can think what you want but not dealing with your problem will create a returning boomerang that slaps you into the face 10X the strength when you threw it in the first place. Ouch!

However, a problem is a problem for a reason. It represents a challenge that life wants you to overcome. A problem is not there to stay a problem because when it has become a long-lasting and chronic issue, it can turn into a disease, a sickness caused by inertia, inaction and procrastination.

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I don’t drink coffee, so I avoid the infusion of caffeine like a drug junkie, and so I know when I’m tired and not tired because my body, which consumed the drug dose of coffee, has fallen into a hole.

I’m proud of not drinking and not having to drink coffee. I’m proud that all the energy I’m having comes from within my sense of will power, lust for achievement, hustle, grind and playfulness. It comes from within myself and my willingness to eat well and do sports with the goal of staying generally fit in terms of my mental and physical condition. I’m proud that I’m choosing to live and work like that.

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