No one’s coming

There’s no lifeboat. You’re not going to get picked. You have to pick yourself. You have to rescue yourself. You have to do it yourself. It’s not easy to realize that it’s ultimately you, who needs to get on your feet and do the scary and brave things if you …

Falling behind

Creating a pile of work is a trap. When we tell ourselves ‘not now, I’m busy with something else’, we actually mean ‘I am afraid that if I only do/ship this small piece of work, it’s not enough’. Well, newsflash, it’s never enough if you keep striving for perfect. Instead, …

Snooze

Snooze says: ‘not yet’. It doesn’t say: it’s not for me. Neither does it say: it’s not important. Snooze says: ‘ not yet’. Snoozing has an endless potential. But it has one pitfall. When snoozing becomes an activity, ‘not yet’ becomes ‘ not now’. ‘Not yet’ is an opportunity. ‘Not …

Ideas over hierarchy

Steve Jobs’s vision on creating an organization that changes the status quo is to let ideas always win over hierarchy. Create an organization where ideas win. Such a simple message, and who would disagree? Why would hierarchy win over ideas, ever? But is the status quo that we live in …

Leaping

Doing something you have never done is hard. And the thing is, what you’re about to do; no one ever has done it. Because no one has walked your unique path. So it’s all up to you. On the other side of a leap is always the reward; joy… pride… …