(Spoiler alert: Take Ownership) It can be effortless to blame someone or something else in an unfortunate situation. Like, that stupid driver! Idiot of a colleague! Clumsy spouse! In the past, my default response when something went wrong would be to automatically blame anything but myself. …

Love the comparison, great mirror!

And why measuring is essential If you ever tried, you’ll know. Change is tremendously hard. The deluding characteristic of change is that it’s like running down an endless hill. It’s effortless at the start; you just move with the flow and the air around you. Surrounded by positive affirmations, because…

Don’t you love it to have a simple sentence or mantra that is an easy reminder of what is essential for you? “Don’t go too fast but make it last” is one of them for me. Just because it sounds smooth? I‘d be happy if that was the case! In…

2020 could have been the perfect year for implementing new habits in your life because let’s face it, most of you didn’t need to set your alarm clock insanely early to run out of bed and hop into traffic while pushing a biscuit in your mouth while saying “goodbye” to…

I once had a four-hundred-day Duolingo streak while learning Spanish, and then it broke. Poof, gone. Did I feel bad afterwards? Yes. Did I feel as if I failed? Absolutely. As a result, I also didn’t return to learning any language for a while. — The gamification of the streak in tools like Duolingo and other habit-trackers like Coach.me are great to keep you going. You’ll feel the dopamine rush of adding yet another day to your streak. Because especially after a little while, when you’ve built a large streak. …

I really couldn’t get up in the morning but when I started to use a 100-day challenge with short experiments, it suddenly became much easier for me to jump out of bed every day at the same time. It gave me a rush of excitement to work on myself and…

It’s almost three years since I failed my New Years’ resolutions again (and again) after going steady for more than three months at that time. …