Archive of all the articles on the blog
Welcome to the AgileLeanLife blog archives. Here you can browse all the published articles by topic and headline. Under each topic, the articles are listed by date from the first to the latest one published (on top). Before going through all the articles, you are kindly invited to read more about the blog and me – the author.
If you are interested in mastering a certain topic that this blog covers, I suggest you check out the learning tracks. You can imagine tracks as going to a structured course that teaches you to master a certain topic step by step.
You’re still doing nothing else than reading blog posts one by one and doing different exercises along the way, but you’re doing it in a strict recommended order together with the context explaining why a certain article is important.
Nevertheless, if you want to go through all the published articles or just find the one right article that might help you with your current life situation, you are on the right page.
Below you will find more than 200 blog posts on different topics, all aimed to help you improve yourself, your life and your relationships. The purpose of every article is to inspire you or give you ideas on how to solve challenging life problems.
- Archives: List of all articles ordered by subject and date published (this page)
- Tracks: Recommended order of reading articles on a certain topic with context
Blog posts are divided into the following categories (in alphabetical order):
- Agile & Lean Life
- Book summaries
- Brainpower & Skills
- Career & Work
- Health & Biohacking
- Passion & Emotions
- Personal development
- Productivity & Goals
- Psychology
- Relationships
- Startup & Business
Browse articles by topic or headline and discover more.
Agile and lean life
The Agile & Lean Life category is a collection of all blog posts about applying advanced startup management and software development techniques in personal life to improve personal productivity and odds of success.
Why is that important? There is no harder challenge in business than to build a new disruptive high-tech startup. Building a new startup doesn’t only take courage, innovative ideas and attracting a lot of funding, but also a systematic scientific approach to finding the right product – the market fit.
Managing personal life and becoming successful is also not a piece of cake. Many techniques, approaches and lessons from the lean startup and agile development can be applied to personal life. They can help you achieve a completely new level of personal performance, productivity and success.
Sounds interesting? Before browsing the articles posted under this category, I suggest you read the main idea of how you can benefit from the transference of advanced business knowledge to personal life management.
Blog posts under this category are organized by date published. As a better alternative, you can check out the AgileLeanLife Productivity framework track, where blog posts are arranged in a more logical and systematic sequence, so you can acquire knowledge and concepts for applying lean and agile methodologies into your personal life in a more step-by-step way.
Besides that, the AgileLeanLife productivity track also offers a collection of other productivity tips and tricks, outside the scope of agile and lean life.
- PDCA cycle and continuous improvement
- The one change that matters and the one metric that matters
- Split testing – when you’re not sure how to decide between two options
- The 5 Whys technique – dig deep to find the root cause of any problem
- The execution mode – without execution skills everything is futile
- Learning is useless, validated learning is everything
- Rapid prototyping for designing a superior life strategy
- This is how to do experiments in your personal life (outside the bedroom)
- Business Model You – Book Summary – Reinvent your career
- Regular daily reflections will change the quality of your life forever
- You know nothing, so always put data before rhetoric
- Branching and forking – the ultimate way to stay agile in life
- Goal journey mapping – The superior strategy to achieve any goal
- Short life stories – clear goals with a powerful why
- Vision list prioritization or which goals to pursue first
- Don't worry about failure, because you only have to be right once
- Wrong assumptions are the mother of all fuckups
- Optimize your life for productivity and flexibility
- Anti-Kaizen
- Kaizen rules for teams
- The Kaizen rules you should follow for constant improvement
- Organize your life and yourself with to-do lists
- The happiness index and the happiness chart
- Markets always win
- Minimum Viable Experience
- Only life vision is not enough, you also need to start with why
- Pivots in personal life
- A short morning meeting with yourself
- Mind the process phases
- Process versus event
- Self-reflection, retrospective and journaling
- Apathy before finding your fit
- Considering and setting limits in life
- The best preventive cure for your mistakes
- Typical causes of waste in life that only drags you down
- The pirate AARRR way to your true love and perfect job
- Fears & traps when trying new things in life – the challenges of the search mode
- The Search Mode
- Interested is not committed
- Start with a life vision
- Zombie life
- The key principles of the Agile and Lean Life – Have it ALL Manifesto
- Personas – Know what you want
- Fit
- Kaizen – Growth mindset and continuous improvement
- Kanban – Visualize your workflow
Book summaries
I love to read, and I read a lot. My goal is to read around 50 – 55 books per year (or one book per week), especially on various psychology, personal development, business and IT topics.
To get the most out of my favorite books or books that genuinely changed my life, I prepare book summaries, mind maps and sometimes even flashcards or other learning aids. That enables me to refresh knowledge chunks in regular intervals, which is one of the best learning practices.
I am happy to share all the materials with you, in hopes that they will positively influence your life too. Book summaries are not that short, but they are prepared in a very structured and detailed way, so you can really get a grasp on what the books are all about.
The book summaries serve two main purposes – to understand what a book is all about and encourage you to read it, and as a way to refresh your knowledge once you’ve read the book.
- Healing your emotional self – if you don’t like your body, you don’t love yourself
- The Gifts of Imperfection – Conquer shame and embrace who you are
- On becoming a person – How the right kind of relationships can facilitate personal growth
- Toxic Parents – Parents who do unloving things in the name of love – Book summary
- Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment – Book Summary
- Mindset – The new psychology of success – Book summary
- Switch – How to change things when change is hard – Book Summary
- No More Mr. Nice Guy – Why women don’t like nice guys – Book Summary
- The first 90 days are crucial to success at any new job – Book summary
- How to Thrive as The Highly Sensitive Person – Book Summary
- Models: Attract Women Through Honesty – Book Summary
- Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving – Book Summary
- Business Model You – Book Summary – Reinvent your career
- Dishonesty – the truth about lies summary
Brainpower & skills
The Brainpower & Skills category consists of all the articles teaching you how to become more resourceful and competent. You are the investment with the highest potential yield in your life you will ever find, and that means you must regularly invest in yourself and your skills. The more you invest in yourself, the more rewards you can enjoy.
There is a simple reason why. With inner resources (knowledge, skills etc.), you can always create more outer resources (money, status etc.). And even if you lose your (outer) assets, you can always rebuild them with enough competences and knowledge.
If you believe in yourself, you will invest in yourself and then make sure that your investment pays off with proper market transactions.
There are two important ways to develop your inner resources. (1) The first way is to get the most out of your brain. That includes learning how to study properly, developing creative and analytical skills, and taking good care of your brain.
(2) The second way is to develop competences that are in short supply on the market and in high demand. You have to become dedicated to lifelong learning, constantly developing new skills, acquiring new knowledge, and improving yourself by finding new ways how to do things better. Blog posts under this category will teach you all that.
The creative society worships talented people, and blog posts below will teach you how to join the talented ones.
- Reading challenge – The best way to fall and stay in love with reading
- Tips for improving your English speaking skills and pronunciation
- Top 10 ways to learn or improve any skill fast
- Different types of intelligence and why your IQ is not fixed
- How to generate great ideas that everybody will envy you
- How to improve your analytical skills to make smarter life decisions
- How to become more creative – the secrets nobody told you about
- The best foods for your brain – to improve memory and focus
- A short practical guide to creating professional and beautiful mind maps
- Flashcards – the best tool to speed up learning and make it more fun
- Optimizing your working memory is more important than your IQ
- Become smarter with these seven tips, tricks and fun exercises
- How to study, learn & master things faster than people with the highest IQ
- Learning is useless, validated learning is everything
- Life is just a dream – not really, but the idea can be useful
- How long you should practice when you’re learning something new
- Attention span – the ultimate advantage today
- Curiosity is the number one trait of awesome people
- How to upgrade your mindset – the advanced tools and hacks
- Upgrade your mindset to the superhuman version
- On sale: The best bargain you will ever get anywhere
- Only optimal thinking leads to achieving maximum results
- How to read more every day, a lot more
- Blinkist Review – Read one book a day
- Why you should read every day
- Personal Infostructure
- Problem-solving mindset
- Do not judge – observe, notice and learn
- Innovate your way out
- Push yourself
- Focus
- The only way to really improve your English skills
- The most effective way to learn new things
Career and work
The career & Work category is all about the following quote said by Freud: Love and work, work and love, that’s all there is. You spend more than 1/3 of your life at work.
Work should present an opportunity for you to create value, express yourself, contribute to the society, love what you do and do different things that you are good at (talented for). But at the same time, work should also enable you to earn enough money for a decent living.
But unfortunately, many people get caught in lousy jobs they hate, going to work only for money. By accumulating debt, not investing enough in themselves, and lacking the courage to expose themselves to better opportunities, they get stuck in a rat race that makes their lives more miserable every day.
It’s a form of contemporary slavery that nobody deserves. You weren’t born to work in order to pay your bills and then die.
The Career & Work category is dedicated to blog posts that will teach you how to build a successful career based on your talents and things you love to do in life, while making enough money to escape the rat race and living from paycheck to paycheck.
Blog posts below are ordered by date published. Enjoy reading the articles and may they inspire you to improve your Career & Work life.
- The key lessons on how to become a great leader of any organization
- The first 90 days are crucial to success at any new job – Book summary
- Business Model You – Book Summary – Reinvent your career
- Finding the balance between doing and being for all the workaholic
- Why I want you to join the most powerful people in the world
- How to find a mentor who will accelerate your success
- Markets always win
- Your competence level
- The big difference between smart work and hard work
- T-shaped skills in every area of your life
Health & Biohacking
We all agree how important health is. And at the same time, we all often neglect our health until we crash or become very ill. Only then do we start to really value health. But when it comes to health, prevention is a way better life strategy than cure. Luckily it doesn’t take a lot to take good care of your health.
There are three fundamentals of taking care of your health – (1) regular exercise, (2) healthy diet and (3) moderate lifestyle. It doesn’t take much effort to exercise a few times per week, and you feel excellent after it. Remember, you are always only one workout away from the god mode.
And a healthy diet in combination with regular exercise brings you high energy levels, good digestion, glowing skin and loss of excessive fat. You can finally be proud of yourself when you look in the mirror.
We all assume that it takes a great sacrifice to take good care of your health, but that isn’t true. All you have to do are small daily investments that accumulate into a healthy body, mind and soul in the long term. I was obese, absolutely hated exercise and sports, Wiener Schnitzel with French fries was my favorite food, and I puffed like a shunting engine when I had to walk up 20 stairs.
My health was in a terrible condition, even though I hated to admit that. So a few years ago, I decided to take better care of my health. Today, broccoli is my favorite food, my favorite sport is hiking, and I went from obese to a normal BMI. I read many books about health, tested many different diets and sports and under this category, I share everything I learn.
Besides that, we live in amazing times with all the technology giving you the feedback on what’s happening to your body when you make lifestyle changes. It’s called biohacking or biofeedback. Biofeedback is a big part of quantifying self and better understanding how certain actions affect your health as an individual.
Your body is unique, and the first step towards better health is understanding yourself and your body. Solid health metrics that measure your improvements can be a great source of motivation and understanding what works best for your body so you can progress in the fastest way.
That’s what this category is all about – a healthy lifestyle based on measuring different data that can help you make smart decisions about which sports to take, which food to eat based on what pattern, how to sleep well and, in the end, how to maximize your energy levels.
- Calculating macronutrients: Your calorie, protein, carbs and fat targets (to lose weight or gain muscles)
- Not sure which diet to follow? Here is how to choose the perfect one
- All the major reasons why you should eat slowly
- Sugar is poison for your mind and body
- When it comes to losing fat, you can never out train a bad diet
- Super healthy foods you simply must eat every day
- Daily cold showers will make you healthy, attractive and sharp
- Tricks to eat less that will help you lose weight without any suffering
- Easily lose weight with intermittent fasting
- The best tricks and techniques for relieving stress fast
- Love your body, I guess
- Emotional eating can be the reason why you aren’t fit
- The outrageous price of being fat
- The power of green foods
- The core food supplements you should use
- How to get a good night’s sleep
- My experience with a smart scale
- Biofeedback
Money & Wealth
Money alone can rarely make you happy, but a lack of money can definitely make you miserable. Quality relationships, wealth and health are three core fundamentals of a quality and happy life.
If one of these areas collapses, it most often has great negative influence on other areas of life as well. An important part of setting a superior life strategy is proper management of your money, wealth and other resources.
When it comes to money, there are three important skills to master – (1) earning money, (2) keeping money and (3) growing your wealth.
The best way to earn money are passive and portfolio income, the best way to keep money is a frugal and minimalistic lifestyle while avoiding bad investments, and the best way to make profitable investments is to find opportunities with low risk and huge potential yield.
The Money & Wealth category is all about increasing your long-term net worth, by being a value producer, smart investor and frugal consumer.
Under this category, you will find all kinds of personal finance-related posts, from how to upgrade your general psychological money blueprint, to practical tips for increasing your earning potential and properly managing your assets.
The important fact is that money is like love: if you don’t pay attention to it, it goes somewhere else; and you don’t want that to happen.
- Wondering how to get rich? There are only 10 ways to a wealthy life
- Be more of a producer than a consumer
- Save space, time and money with Asset-light living
Passion & Emotions
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away. In other words, your life is either daring adventure full of exciting experiences, or nothing. What makes life so colorful and remarkable are emotions.
Events and experiences loaded with positive emotions are the ones that usually make our lives worthwhile – when we create, climb mountains, dive oceans or feel a deep connection with people, these are all moments that stay with us forever and that people love to remember in their final years of life.
We all want to be logical beings, but we are driven by emotions. Emotions are the ones that motivate us and help us persevere through tough challenges, emotions are the ones driving us across oceans to be united with our loved ones, emotions help us survive and avoid danger.
They lead us down the right path and help us understand, relate and connect with others. They can also make our lives very tough, but only if we don’t know how to properly manage them.
This is where emotional intelligence comes into play. A person with a high EQ has a great capacity to be aware of, control and express their emotions.
In addition to that, a high EQ means having good skills in interpersonal relationships when it comes to emotions – from being empathic, sympathetic and supportive, to being able to transform negative relationship energies into positive ones.
The Passion & Emotions category is devoted to blog posts that explain the importance of emotions in our lives and how to make sure that severe negative emotions aren’t hindering your life and potential, but are rather making it worthwhile.
This category is all about how to improve your emotional intelligence in terms of understanding your own feelings and relating to feelings of others, and how to live a passionate life.
- A simple trick to express negative emotions in a mature way
- Immediately stop wasting your life
- Emotional roller-coaster
- How does it feel to be an emotional midget
- What I have learned from my biggest failures in life
- You need to love yourself first before you can truly love others
- The best sex of your life
Personal development
You are here on this planet for four basic reasons – (1) to create value, (2) to enjoy life, (3) to connect with other people and to (4) learn and grow.
The “learn and grow” part of the mission you have in your life is the duty to become the best version of yourself and leave a positive legacy behind. And the way to become the best version of yourself is to commit to regular personal development and constant improvement.
Personal development is about getting to know yourself, examining your life and your past, understanding your strengths and weaknesses, and then building strong foundations for a happy and successful life in the future. Day by day, you improve different areas of life and your character, and over time that accumulates in great results and accomplishments.
The good news is that improving yourself is a rewarding and fun experience by itself. Well, personal development is far from an easy task, but when you learn to enjoy the path itself and accept your limits, personal development becomes one of the most divine experiences on the planet – because you positively influence your own life, the people around you and maybe even succeed in making a dent in the universe.
There is no greater legacy than changing the world by changing yourself.
This category is a collection of blog posts dedicated to general personal development. The articles below are organized by date published. If you want to just skim the headlines of the articles to find the right one for yourself, go ahead.
But if you want to learn everything about personal development in a systematic step-by-step way, I suggest you go to the Personal development track, where personal development blog posts are grouped logically by different sub-topics of personal development.
- Creative avoidance – when you get creative at blocking your own progress
- How to become the best version of yourself
- Learn how to model successful people to accelerate your own success
- If you’re going through hell, keep going – here is how
- Immediately stop wasting your life
- Stupid decisions that can ruin your whole life in a second
- Life is just a dream – not really, but the idea can be useful
- Hour of power – take one hour daily to invest into your future
- The proven ways to stop taking things personally
- Your mind is like a garden that needs a good daily care
- If you are a perfectionist, learn to be satisfied with good enough
- Imagine Sisyphus happy
- The only solution on the table if you are feeling stuck
- Valley of Death – where your dreams go to die
- When you need to reprogram yourself and fix brain bugs
- Always have something to look forward to
- Design the perfect life you want
- The hard road becomes easy with time
- There are only two types of problems
- It never gets easier. You just get better.
- When everything collapses in life
- From proactive and reactive behavior to superproactivity
- A thin line between good and bad quality of life
- How to develop an abundance mindset
- Why you will never find happiness in life
- The power of creative visualization
- Monk Mode – The extreme sabbatical
- Regret Minimization Framework
- The Skyscraper Technique to skyrocket your success
- Living in the present moment
- Positive orientation towards your past
- Level up your game
- Your ideal day
- When your ego blocks your progress
- Expectations, standards and assumptions
- How people fuck up their lives
- Environment you operate in and ideal conditions for you
- Your life strategy
- Success brings success and failure brings failure, but…
- The ways of getting to know yourself
- What I wish I truly knew in my twenties
- Zombie life
- When asking people for advice
Productivity and goals
You have only two options in life. Either you follow your own goals, or you follow the goals of other people. If you don’t build and follow your own dream life, someone else will try to engage you or hire you to help build theirs.
There’s nothing wrong with helping other people achieve their dreams, but you absolutely want to make sure you also have your own goals and that you live your own dream life.
You want to wake up every day with determination and go to bed with deep satisfaction. You want to be maximally creative during the day and produce, deliver and capture as much value on the markets as possible.
You want to make sure you have many hobbies and personal goals that empower you and make your life worthwhile. It feels so good to be productive, to see the fruits of hard and smart work, and cross things off your vision list.
Blog posts under the Productivity & Goals category will help you make sure that you don’t only have a hunch of what your dream life could be, but to carefully define your dream life and build a superior life strategy and plan for how you will achieve all of your dreams.
Reading blog posts under this category will help you achieve a completely new level of personal performance – an elite productivity and goal achieving oriented daily life, while enjoying the path and hard work.
Many of the productivity and goal setting techniques described in the blog posts are inspired by lean startup and agile development approaches in business. If companies aren’t productive, they go out of business.
Superior innovation and organization are thus an important part of every successful company. So, there is no better way to learn how to be productive than from successful companies.
- The Milo of Croton story – Start small and never give up
- How to successfully deal with failure and turn it into a big win
- Short-term past is the best predictor of short-term future
- Walk your talk or what happens when you don’t follow your own advice
- A year in review – 50+ questions for annual reflection
- The success matrix – how inspiration and hard work improve your luck
- How to analyze the environment to make sure trends and people are working in your favor
- 5S – the best way to organize your workplace and even your home
- Everything you need to know about minimalism as the coolest lifestyle
- 30 Day Challenge – One of the best ways to develop new habits
- Timing is everything – here is how to hit the perfect timing
- Branching and forking – the ultimate way to stay agile in life
- Goal journey mapping – The superior strategy to achieve any goal
- Short life stories – clear goals with a powerful why
- Vision list prioritization or which goals to pursue first
- The only goal setting strategy that really works in the 21st century
- Stupid decisions that can ruin your whole life in a second
- A place to escape everyday life and reconnect with yourself
- Optimize your life for productivity and flexibility
- How to automate good decisions
- To thrive, build yourself a motivational environment
- The domino strategy
- The proactive way to taking breaks throughout the day
- God mode and the perfect human state
- Life without a car
- Life without a mobile phone
- Take full control over your schedule with timeboxing
- How to simplify your life to make room for the important things
- A day without a screen
- How to manipulate procrastination like a pro
- The morning kick-off routine
- Life metrics and how to define success in life
- A year without a schedule
- I sold my car to keep blogging
- Monk Mode – The extreme sabbatical
- I am burning bridges. Watch me play with fire.
- Formula for success cracked
- Themed days
- Organize your life and yourself with to-do lists
- The not-to-do list
- The superior guide to email management
- Every day is a new beginning
- Minimum Viable Experience
- Only life vision is not enough, you also need to start with why
- Minimalism and half-yearly major cleaning
- Margin and taking a step back
- Immediate implementation
- Manipulating your discipline with transaction costs
- 5Ts – Elements you should look for in your environment
- A short morning meeting with yourself
- Morning and evening habits and rituals
- Mind the process phases
- Process versus event
- Apathy before finding your fit
- Considering and setting limits in life
- Endgame and final outcome
- Different speeds in life
- Setting strong foundations
- First go after the low-hanging fruit
- The best preventive cure for your mistakes
- Typical causes of waste in life that only drags you down
- Do the opposite
- Fears & traps when trying new things in life – the challenges of the search mode
- The Search Mode
- Interested is not committed
- Start with a life vision
- The biggest impact
- You only get out what you put into it
- The key principles of the Agile and Lean Life – Have it ALL Manifesto
- Personas – Know what you want
- Organize yourself
- Eliminate distractions from your life
- The only time management guide you will ever need
- Fit
- Kaizen – Growth mindset and continuous improvement
- A no interruptions day – Best time management tip ever
- Kanban – Visualize your workflow
Psychology
Psychology is an academic discipline and social science that strives to understand unconscious and conscious behavior and mind of individuals and groups.
Psychologists explore different types of behavioral and mental processes, including perception, attention, cognition, emotion, intelligence and motivation. We also must not forget the examination of how personality and interpersonal relationships develop, as they are an important part of psychology.
On the practical individual level, psychology is all about making people’s life experience happier, more productive and fulfilling. It somehow includes more scientific, systematic and long‑term approaches of personal development to tackle bigger emotional challenges like depression, anxiety, isolation and procrastination.
Psychology (especially psychiatry) also deals with mental illnesses that are treated as serious medical conditions with a combination of medications, therapy and other techniques.
This category is a collection of psychology articles that discuss issues and solutions beyond the power of popular psychology and more superficial personal development tools; however, the articles don’t deal with issues that require medical attention (schizophrenia, chronic depression etc.), since I am not a doctor.
The articles present different types of psychological therapy (psychoanalysis, CBT, transactional analysis etc.), their tools and how they can be applied in personal life. If you are interested in psychology and different types of therapy, these category is the perfect choice for you.
- Healing your emotional self – if you don’t like your body, you don’t love yourself
- The Gifts of Imperfection – Conquer shame and embrace who you are
- On becoming a person – How the right kind of relationships can facilitate personal growth
- Toxic Parents – Parents who do unloving things in the name of love – Book summary
- Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment – Book Summary
- Mindset – The new psychology of success – Book summary
- Understanding schemas – Mental structures that support deep negative beliefs
- Cognitive reframing – it’s not about what happens to you, but how you frame it
- Switch – How to change things when change is hard – Book Summary
- Emotional accounting – The formula for transforming negative thoughts into positive ones
- 20 not so obvious indicators of emotional pain and psychological suffering
- How you negative mind is labeling and mislabeling yourself and other people
- All-or-nothing thinking: It’s silly to expect you can have everything
- Fortunetelling, mind reading and jumping to conclusions
- How to become more assertive with a few simple exercises
- What is assertiveness and why you are not assertive enough
- How to Thrive as The Highly Sensitive Person – Book Summary
- Post-graduate depression – How getting a diploma got me depressed
- Emotional flashbacks – when your emotional response is out of proportion
- Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving – Book Summary
- Regular daily reflections will change the quality of your life forever
- The proven ways to stop taking things personally
- Your mind is like a garden that needs a good daily care
- Dishonesty – the truth about lies summary
- If you are a perfectionist, learn to be satisfied with good enough
- Curiosity is the number one trait of awesome people
- How to upgrade your mindset – the advanced tools and hacks
- Upgrade your mindset to the superhuman version
- Always have something to look forward to
- More than 100 signs of power
- Real-life examples of self-sabotage. At its best.
- Why change is so hard and what you can do about it
- Living in the present moment
- Positive orientation towards your past
- How not to raise a child
- A success guide for all introverts
- Haters gonna hate
- Tools to help you with self-reflection
- Self-reflection, retrospective and journaling
- Cognitive distortions and negative thinking
- A personal SWOT analysis
Relationships
We humans are social beings and healthy relationships are a very important part of a peaceful and happy life – private and business one. People are the ones who can make life on this planet heaven or hell for us.
Everybody wants to have loving relationships and trustworthy people around them, yet relationships are so hard to manage. Additionally, every relationship goes through a series of ups and downs, and faces relationship crises.
The good news is that if you are proactive in relationships, you can dramatically increase their quality, even with difficult people. Relationship management is a skill and once you learn it, you can enjoy a variety of different relationships that lead to feelings of love, belonging, co-creation and connectedness, without too much drama.
Quality relationships lead to happiness, and long‑term isolation leads to misery.
This category is a collection of relationship tips, hacks and advice. The articles discuss topics like setting boundaries and realistic expectations in relationships as well as practical advice on how to manage key business and personal relationships.
People in your life will either inspire you or drain you, and relationship posts on this blog and under this category will help you choose and build relationships wisely so they will become the greatest source of inspiration in your life.
Blog posts under this category are organized by date published. Under the Relationship track, you will find the articles organized in a more systematic way, so you can learn relationship management step by step.
- Relationship circles – The most important diagram of your life
- No More Mr. Nice Guy – Why women don’t like nice guys – Book Summary
- A simple trick to express negative emotions in a mature way
- All the possible theories why people fall in love with you
- Please don’t criticize people – instead understand, love or mentor them
- Models: Attract Women Through Honesty – Book Summary
- The best tools for successful conflict resolution in personal relationships
- How much relationship drama is just too much?
- The real secrets to outstanding communication
- Healthy relationships are what matters most in life
- The best relationship advice ever
- Relationships are like glass – but the glass is already broken
- How social pressure really looks like
- Extremely good or bad times are real relationships test
- How not to raise a child
- Multidimensional relationships – how to build the deepest bonds possible
- When asking people for advice
Startups & Business
For more than 10 years, I built businesses and helped high-tech startups grow globally. Building a new business is one of the most demanding career challenges and unfortunately, the majority of new companies go out of business in a few years.
I’ve seen thousands of companies fail, and only a handful succeed. Most of the successful startups followed the lean startup practice, by the way.
It takes quite some luck to build a globally successful business, but even more it takes a systematic approach to understanding the markets, and properly setting up and optimizing different business functions. In different stages of company’s growth, you must focus on different milestones, and being able to engage people with a different set of competences.
Building or running a business is half art, half science. This category is devoted to different tips, tricks, guides and general advice on how to successfully start a new business or manage an existing one, on both sides of the equation – art and science.
- The 5 biggest mistakes leaders make & How to avoid them
- The Skyscraper Technique to skyrocket your success
- What I have learned from my biggest failures in life
- How to get business ideas
Enjoy reading the articles.