Category: share & care

If business journaling gets hard: celebrate!

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 […]

How ‘guidance’ and ‘freestyle’ flow together in Business Journaling

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: […]

Where to start and How to keep going

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 […]

Start Journaling today and risk ditching your limiting beliefs

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 […]

Why ranting is challenging

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 […]

Uncovering teams’ blind spots

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 […]

Why juggling improves my health

💡🧠 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 […]

3 things I learned at Agile Scale Camp 2020 Online

Nr. 1: On perfectionism Agile Scale Camp Online had an awesome and intense morning impulse session with Dave Snowden. I knew Dave’s session are always so rich for me, so making notes was set. I also tried to sketchnote, of course. Yet I found it hard to follow each and every detail – the session […]

Three breaths at work

At #AgileScaleCamp on last Friday I offered a session on your personal (little) gems when it comes to remote working. One of those gems was doing Three Breaths at work! The importance of check-ins Several people at #AgileScaleCamp pointed out the importance of a check-in in meetings. Of course I mean a check-in on invitation […]

Journaling practise struggles

Recently I’ve been struggling with my journaling routine, especially with the gratitude practise (which itself is a big contributor for a decent mental health). After noticing that, I leveraged two resources I already have: Having peers An established habit Both helped me to get through this practise struggles. Peers & community Firstly, this struggle showed […]