“37 new emails? I was only gone for 2 hours.” Sounds familiar? Personally, email is killing me. Every day, I feel like a modern Sisyphus. While he is trying to roll that huge rock up the hill I am trying to reach inbox zero. I think we will both keep on trying until eternity. The only […]
How to create one extra hour per day for doing what matters
Is there a thing in your life that you really want to spend more time on but you don’t? Like working on a business idea on the side, picking up that forgotten hobby of yours, working out, or spending more quality time with your family? Let me guess: the problem is that you just don’t […]
How to make unexpected progress by meeting new people
Recently, I held a presentation about bootstrapping and scaling our app business to six figures in less than 2 years. (Check out my article from last week about the two most important lessons learnt). This week, let me explain how I got to hold this presentation in the first place. It was definitely something I didn’t expect at the […]
Two key lessons from my recent presentation on entrepreneurship at the 4 Hour Work Week Meetup
*** UPDATE *** The video of the talk has finally been published! Check it out here! This week, I held a presentation at the Berlin ‘Four Hour Work Week’ meetup. Over 100 people came to listen about how my brother and I built and scaled our app business to profitability and a great income without […]
Crunchy strategies and tactics for implementing new habits in your life
Dear readers, last week I told you about habits and how they work. Did you take the time to think about your own habits? If not, why don’t you do it now? It only takes 10 minutes. (Go back HERE to refresh your memory if you need to) Do you want to replace a habit? […]
How to create new habits and get rid of the bad ones
Have you ever set a New Year’s resolution and failed? If you are like 90% of the people, you have. Isn’t it frustrating? New Year’s resolutions are all about building new habits, and new habits are hard. Habits are rituals and routines that we have often built up over many years, and all of a […]
How to get important things done today
Do you feel like you are not getting the important things done in your day? This needs to stop! Few feelings are better than those of getting something really important done and out of the way and moving closer to your goals. Few feelings are worse than those of time slipping through your hands while […]
How to boost your self-confidence and find your personal success habits
“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” T. S. Eliot Do you have big dreams? I hope you do! If you don’t, stop reading this text right now and start thinking about what your audacious goals and dreams are! Come back when you have them ready. […]
How to 10x your impact
I love to listen to podcasts. If you don’t listen to podcasts yet, try the podcasting app on your iPhone or the Stitcher app (which has a much more user friendly interface than the app by Apple). I usually listen to podcasts on my morning runs and during idle time, such as walking to work, […]
My one keystone habit in 2015 that enables all the others
The year is still fresh, and so are our goals, plans and resolutions. Most of us have probably heard that plain New Year’s resolutions don’t work, but still we often make them because there is something so refreshing about starting a new year and filling it with aspirations and dreams that have been dormant in […]