We’ve all heard it before: ‘Just jump in at the deep end!’ Yes, you can – no matter how cold the water is. But there’s more to it than that.
Icy test of courage
Antarctica – What I learnt from an 11-year-old girl
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What drives me.
Keynote by ex-Navy Seal Commander Mark Divine
Progress Inspiration Summit: My personal highlight
Last week Thursday I moderated the first Progress Inspiration Summit. My personal highlight was the keynote by Mark Divine – former investment banker and Navy Seal Commander, black belt holder in several martial arts, yoga instructor, government consultant, university professor, book author, entrepreneur (SEALFIT & Unbeatable Mind).
In the historic domed hall at the Landungsbrücken
Lecture ‘Departure into the unknown’ at the Rotary Club Blankenese, Hamburg
Yesterday I held my lecture ‘Departure into the unknown’ at the Rotary Club Blankenese, Hamburg. My heart leapt as I looked from the west dome of the harbour club onto the jetty of the Landungsbrücken.
No risk, no safety
How true safety is created
Maybe you have experienced this too. Whenever you have to overcome yourself to do something unpleasant… and then actually do it… and then realise that yes, you are still alive – ok, maybe with a few scrapes or with a few laughs because you failed – then you have learned something and moved on a bit.
Avoid avoidance
Learn how to use this hidden superpower
You have it. You hate it. You try to avoid it at all costs. It’s fear. Wait a moment, please. Don’t just click away. You might think: ‘Oh no, not now, not with me.’ That’s totally ok – that’s just your well-programmed reaction. But you do not learn anything. You just nurture your fear – instead of dissolving it – and becoming a better person. Allow me a few minutes to explain along 3 points: How can you use fear as an almost inexhaustible source of power.
Of means goals and life goals
Can you make a living from it?
“Can you make a living from it?”
I get this question more often when it comes to my travels and publications (like this one).
“I don’t want to live without it.”
… I then answer.
Black Friday gift
My best investment advice for life
Here’s nothing less than my best investment advice for life. No scam, click bait, I mean it. It’s not shares, funds, real estate, valuables, crypto, NFTs etc.
It’s experiences.
Food for thought
Adventure is the salt in your life-soup
Adventure is like salt in the soup of life. It adds flavour.
Metaverse
Panelist at the TRILUX Roundtable on Human Performance
To be there when history is being made. Today I had this opportunity as a panelist at the first hybrid roundtable of the lighting industry in the Metaverse and simultaneously in the Volkswagen Arena in Wolfsburg.
Interview with volcanologist
“At some point La Réunion will disappear”
During my trip to La Réunion, I spoke with Philippe Kowalski, the deputy director of the volcano observatory at Piton de la Fournaise.
“Fear is not an enemy. Fear is a mentor.”
Talk at Leaders Network in Hamburg
Intense conversations, appreciative exchange, stimulating ideas – these were the hallmarks of the evening at Leaders Network, which I kicked off with my keynote address ‘Into the Unknown’.
Luzzone Dam, Switzerland
Climbing the highest artificial route in the world
Today, I climbed on the highest artificial climbing wall in the world: Luzzone Dam, Switzerland: 165 meters.