Since the last months we start actual conversations with our little nearly-two year old girl. An important parenting lesson for me personally is that I can rethink everything to improve communication quality. “nohoo, you can’t pull anything out of the dishwasher baby, I am putting stuff in!” Turns into “Yay, …
For 2 weeks now, my phone sleeps in the kitchen. I have read two books instead of none. I have used 3,5 hours less Instagram per week than the 2 weeks before. I woke up, not checking my phone but looking at the wonderful woman next to me and perking …
It is until this day that I was never nót e-mailed back when I replied to a daily blog in my e-mailbox. It was always – no exception – within 24 hours, and mostly within 2-4 hours. I would say that if you create a daily blog and someone replies …
In a conversation with a friend I discovered that you can profile yourself with the people servicing you. If you are serviced by a marketing agency, that’s different from being serviced by a growth hacking agency. Although they might do exactly the same. It feels different. If that’s the case, …
Today I have had to said goodbye to a customer. A disappointed customer with a good fit with our company, that we failed to service in the way that made us kept them. I have done my best last 2 weeks to get our team to service the customer and …
I’m learning video, taping and mic’ing myself. Now that I understand the first bit by having recorded every day for over 2 months, I start to think about how to proceed. I really appreciate the process of learning video. But now I understand it, I do need a purpose. I …
The best way to show off your work is showing off your work together. Let your network know who you are, what you do and why. And then: hop on other people’s busses and create work together. Then let them share your co-created work to their network. It’s not your …
Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life. -Jerzy Gregorek
Consider that the iPhone was invented as iPod that you can call with. “The best iPod ever”. Only after 32 minutes in Steve’s first iPhone-Keynote speech he mentioned apps. Instagram used to be an app to share inspirational images. And now it’s the place you compulsively return to when you …
Yesterday I have shared fruit snacks with my whole office. It cost me 10 minutes to peel apples, wash the grapes and peel the mandarines. The happiness and gratitude that I created with my colleagues for this random act of kindness surprised me. It only cost me 10 minutes. What …