Übersichtsseite Part 1
Life’s balancing act: Self-esteem
Chapter 1 Life’s balancing act: Self-esteem When you apply for a job, your cover letter usually includes a request for a personal interview. This is because you are aware that your credentials and the facts and figures in your résumé only provide insight into part of who you really are. Business owners and their human resources staff...
The conveyor belt to a self-determined future: Asking questions
Chapter 2 The conveyor belt to a self-determined future: Asking questions The freedom to think Personal development uses the ability to ask questions. With questions, you can open up the future. Asking questions means wanting to know something specific about something. We have the freedom to think and are not controlled by instincts but instead are capable...
One thing you shouldn’t resign yourself to: Handicaps
Chapter 3 One thing you shouldn’t resign yourself to: Handicaps Imperfect – but with the chance that you can improve yourself Human beings are imperfect. They err and they make mistakes. They behave in ways that bother them but, despite all of their resolutions to the contrary, they keep on falling back into these ways. No...
If you don’t force yourself, you will be forced
Chapter 4 If you don’t force yourself, you will be forced In the jungle of influences We are all living in a web of human influences. Parents, partners, colleagues, bosses, neighbors, friends. Indirectly, they also include politicians, officials and journalists. Some influences we can escape, for instance, by breaking off all contact. However, no one...
The spark of determined action: Initiative
Chapter 6 The spark of determined action: Initiative Don’t dream about Never-Never Land! Nothing happens on its own. If you want to survive and have a prosperous life, you have to move, become active and take action. In the past, this happened within the social network of the family. These days, it happens in the...
Like the euphoria from running a marathon: Self-improvement
Chapter 7 Like the euphoria from running a marathon: Self-improvement Wishful thinking Being able to do absolutely anything without any effort. In any situation. Like Adonis, bright and handsome – this is how we would like to act on the stage of our life. Doing whatever we feel like doing spontaneously. And not having to fear that we...
The foundation of all capacity: Concentration and memory
Chapter 8 The foundation of all capacity: Concentration and memory In more and more professions, the ability to concentrate is becoming a decisive performance criterion. But in private life, too, the highest level of attention is increasingly necessary in order not to get lost in the complexity of life's environment. This is the only way...
Dialogue with yourself: Keeping a diary
Chapter 9 Dialogue with yourself: Keeping a diary From sheltered child to explorer and researcher We are all on a research expedition. At least, we all started off this way. As babies, we wanted to taste, feel, see, smell and hear everything around us. We were constantly exploring. And we wanted to know what would happen...