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A consultant would say “it depends”. 😉 When it comes to choosing your first journal – no matter if it is “only” for private stuff, for business or your whole life – it really depends. It depends i.e. on your (pre)experience with written self-reflection practises, on the level of discipline you can/want to spend, on […]

On my Bullet Journaling journey I started a “podcast nuggets” custom collection during my 2nd Bullet Journal (BuJo) book. Now I am half-way through the 3rd BuJo book and – already for a while – I am thinking about making a blogpost for those podcast nuggets.  So here it is! I have three goals in […]

Caring for your new habit & developing your journaling practice You have been into business journaling for a while now. Do you feel stuck recently or you’re not really getting into the flow? But: you know the basics. You even have good reasons to journal:  You can help yourself to success, big time, by respecting and […]

Now that you have an idea Where and Why to start, let’s look into the main building blocks I took and adapted from Bullet Journaling (BuJo) for my guided-freestyle approach.  This will help you to get a better understanding of how things work together to your favour of getting more organised and to leverage the power of reflection. This piece covers: […]

Have you been speaking at remote conferences and regularly feel overwhelmed or drained afterwards? You want to deliver a great talk and deal with all the dialogues happening in the live chat at the same time? You can manage expectations about interactivity upfront or even ask the organisers for a remote moderation partner. Then you […]

Make success as easy as possible for you Now that you’ve chosen to try out my Bullet Journaling inspired guided-freestyle Business Journaling approach, you already have all the material you need in front of you: “How to actually get going?” might now be the next question on your mind. Common Whys for Journaling There are two main approaches […]

I have been an avid journaling person for years now. I use my journal for work and beyond. I keep calling this combination Business Journaling as for many folks it still seems unimaginable to use a journal (a paper diary!) in a work context.  It all started with pre-print journaling and for over 4 years I am into a […]

Recently I wrote about middle aged white seemingly successful “dudes” sharing and hyping only stuff from other dudes. Well, I didn’t just write about it. I did rant about it. In a private setting. It truly bugged me to see that all they have and know seem to be other DUDES. It bugged me to […]

[this is the English and update version of Agile Living – Eine Kurzgeschichte [DE] from 2019] We are in the year 2011. Constanze, in her early 30s and a computer scientist, hasalready been in her profession for several years. As a software developer, she hasalready seen several agile projects from the inside: Successful implementations withgreat […]

As y’all might have noticed: I made a small, little blog break. And it (somehow) evolved into a bigger, longer one with each month that passed by. Of course there are a lot of reasons. Reasons like: working, building my own business (mainly focussing on Leadership Coaching first), writing for other publications (e.g. How Journaling […]

This week I was joining “that informal morning coffee conversation” of a team I’m coaching – and we made some team coaching magic happen. The team made progress, “just” with basic professional skills like listening and visualization. It felt like a true remote-work achivement that made the Agile Coach in me very joyful. Some context […]

💡🧠 It took me ages to retry juggling. Meanwhile I enjoy the practise which is perfect also for breaks in remote-work times. Juggling is a perfect mindfulness practise for short off-screen breaks – it can strengthen your mental health & resiliency. Juggling & Mindfulness?! Did you know that juggling also an informal way to practise […]