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5-Minute Leadership Wisdom #3: If you're a perfectionist - this is for you 5 minute wisdom enough perfectionism personal leadership video May 20, 2020

We all know someone who says he or she is a perfectionist. Here's what's behind and 2 crucial things to know about it. 

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Claudia's Insights (#2) Surrender acceptance change personal leadership surrender Jan 26, 2020

Insight #2: Surrender (to what life presents you with)

Surrender – not a word anyone really likes, right? The connotation is rather negative. It smells and tastes like giving up. Losing. Not being in power and control anymore.

The thing is: life can be wonderful. And really shitty.

And throw thin...

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Claudia's Insights: Whatever Someone Does “to” Me, Has Nothing to Do With Me and All to Do With The Other Person. change emotions insight personal leadership relationships Jan 23, 2020

Insight no 1:

Whatever someone does “to” me, has nothing to do with me and all to do with the other person.

 “He never said thank you – he’s ignoring me….I’m not really important”. We’ve all been there. Someone treats us horrible, outside of our set of values or understanding. We start interpretin...

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3 Strategies To Free Up Time (AND Reduce Stress) courage perfectionism personal leadership productivity stress management Sep 16, 2019

Too much to do (or so it seems) and too little time. A common disease which attacks me as well from time to time. Suddenly things seem to pile up and before we can blink, the day is over.

And the pressure increases.

And voila: we feel stressed, thoughts start racing in our head, we're urgently loo...

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3 Things That Happen When We're Stressed - and 3 Surprisingly Easy and Effective Measures of Dealing With Acute Stress health personal leadership stress stressmanagement Sep 07, 2019

87 % of all people in Central Europe are stressed - regularly. From a bit of stress to burnout symptoms. Stress creates havoc in our life. In our bodies. And for relationships. Time to deal with it - let's start with some measures for acute stress.

We all have learned to deal with stress - some mor...

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10 Strategies to Achieve MORE FASTER (part 2) energy meetings motivation personal leadership project management recovery strategy wasting time Jul 28, 2019

Welcome back! This is part two of how to achieve more, faster in the second half of 2019. In case you missed the first 5 strategies – here you can access them.

As a short recap, the first 5 tips were there to guide you in to levelling-up in your role, to create your battle-board, to attack the

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10 Strategies to Achieve MORE FASTER (part 1) future motivation personal leadership personaldevelopment planning productivity progress strategy visualization Jul 01, 2019

Are you rolling your eyes inwardly (another annoying person telling me how to do more!) and still getting drawn into the topic? “Wow, I know that there is so much to do that I have not done and I clearly did not achieve everything I really wanted” and “this headline really triggered me…and not in a ...

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Are you a personal leader? Find out with these questions. communication courage energy growth heartset leadership mindset personal leadership productivity relationship resilience vision May 13, 2019

Quite honestly: 5 years ago I did not have a clue what Personal Leadership was. As I simply did not give it a thought. The definition that is.

Instinctively though I realized that there is something wrong with the way of how we learn to lead.

When I had just passed my mid-twenties and I worked for...

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Why disagreements and arguments are (one of) the best things that happen in my life - and it can do the same for you communication courage fear grateful growth personal leadership vulnerability May 05, 2019

No, I’m not suddenly mad. And no, I don’t enjoy suffering either. I simply realized that the adversities in my life were the most useful, even if not enjoyable moments. And often those difficult situations happen between people: Disagreements and arguments.

My reaction to them tells me an awful lot...

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How to own your career career confidence courage future work personal leadership vision Apr 14, 2019

Last week I attended a panel discussion with high ranking people from politics, academia and economy in Geneva. Including an ambassador for the UN who’s also an Executive Director in the Secretariat of the High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation (I had no idea such a position existed) and the Direct...

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The thing to do that immediately boosts your happiness happiness personal leadership perspective relationship Mar 24, 2019

Today was a glorious day here in Geneva: sunny, spring-like temperatures and fresh green all around me. I’m a total sucker for this new life sprouting out of the soil, trees and bushes and so I took a number of photos.

Gosh, it’s SO easy nowadays….when I was a kid there were still these films that ...

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Do you care (too much) about other people’s opinions? Then read this. authenticity being yourself confidence courage personal leadership vulnerability Mar 17, 2019

A couple of years ago, I started pondering about changing my career. Because I simply realized that I was far more interested in people than IT, which had been “my” business for a good 30 years.

I hatched a plan rather quickly. It would still take me more than a year to finally come out telling the...

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