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Adrenalin-energy, a long-term risk for executives?

It’s 8pm, you take another expresso, your heart rate increases, you tense your shoulders and you are ready for a few more hours of work to finish that...

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How to manage your leadership auto-pilot?

“Perhaps you can change that font and color on that slide there”, I hear myself telling one of my team members. There I went again, trying to add some...

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In pain? Don’t make it bigger than it is

I am about to step into this freezing alpine lake in the mountains of East-Kyrgyzstan. A group of Russians are watching. I have no other choice then t...

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The delight of non-judgment

I sit in Zurich airport. It’s 10pm. My plane is delayed, my smartphone’s battery is dead, I finished my book and need to wait another 2 hours for my p...

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Give up the self-esteem game

Last week I had a tough day at work. Meetings didn’t flow. I wasn’t sharp with that coaching client and a submitted proposal wasn’t accepted by a comp...

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The most important thing in life….

“The most important thing in life is to remember the most important thing” Zen saying I recently spoke to a client who has been extremely successful p...

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Do you want to be happy?

Being happy…to what means? This is a question I got recently from a client. I guess he won the prize of being my most skeptical client I have ever exp...

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Mindfulness at 20 meters below sea level

“Relax, drop any tensions, enjoy and don’t get attached to any goal”….It sounds like a life coaching session, but actually it’s my freediving instruct...

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Can you mindfully miss a plane?

That was the question I asked myself as I ran full-speed to the check-in counter in Bangkok after having broken all speed limits through traffic in my...

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Comparison is meaningless?

No, this is not Photoshopped. This is me and my twin brother last year. So when I recently heard the sentence: Comparison is meaningless, the words so...

Take a deep mindful breath and realize you are alive….

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Forget other people’s checklists

You know this feeling: You get bombarded with blogs, articles, TED talks and videos that constantly tell you a variation of: Click here to learn the [...

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To thrive we need a strong back and soft front

Yesterday I saw this strong back of my wife and the soft front of my son. It reminded me again how important both of these qualities are in both coach...

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The costs of holding on….

Since I became a father, there is one thing I learned: I need to let go of how things were before. It’s remarkable how much of my personality still wo...

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Our fear of contentment

“Are you happy?” Recently, I asked my client this question on day 1 of our executive coaching retreat. He said: “yeah, I think I am quite happy.” I re...