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When I decided to press pause, on my writing, pushed clients and workshops to September, it seemed like a great idea: the weeks preceding were all push with no lever to pull back, I'd found myself out of breath, and quite literally lost for words. Check yo self before you wreck yo self. (I’m sure Ice Cube was referring to the importance of rest and inner work) With that decision, however, much angst about the consequences of such a pause surfaced…
Read MoreThe term entrepreneur originates from the French word "entreprendre", which translates as „undertake“. And that’s fitting, because entrepreneurship requires a lot of this undertaking: a greater than normal financial risk, the (often underestimated) emotional venture we sign up for, long to-do lists and even longer hours. The most uncomfortable of all, however is our fellow companion on the train of big life decisions: Uncertainty.
Read MoreOver the past week, we had a few days that had been unusually warm, for this time of the year, for winter. With comforting highs in the 60’s, wherever you’d go in the city, you’d find yourself surrounded by humans rejoicing with the outdoors, raising the universal question at the tail ends of winter: Is it spring yet?
It’s all too human: we want to be warm when it’s cold. We long for balmier conditions in the midst of a harsh winter, for the happiness a sunny day in spring provides. And it is precisely in this longing, that we come to feel alien from nature, from ourselves, from others.
