How do you choose whether to leave a marriage or not? Whether or not to have a child? How do you decide to quit your job and go back to school? How do you decide whether the freedom of entrepreneurship is worth the risk of the uncertainty?
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Why I Decided to Change My Life and Build a Portfolio Career
For this post I recorded a video where I am sharing my story behind life start-up. I am sharing why I decided to completely change my life and build a portfolio career.
3 Things to Do to Make the Most of COVID-19 Isolation
Were you asked to work from home or feel socially isolated during COVID-19 outbreak? Here are 3 things to make the most of your alone time.
Keep calm and use these turbulent times to reflect on your life purpose
In the time of mass hysteria, social isolation and uncertainty, it is easy to lose emotional balance. But you don’t have to. Instead, you can use this time as an opportunity to look inwards.
Is portfolio career the answer to realising your full potential?
How growing life expectancy will completely change our lives Realising creative potential is paramount to overall life satisfaction. Most of us struggle to pursue all our passions and feel limited by the 9-5 jobs that eats up most of the productive hours. In addition, with life longevity growing every year, those in 20s and 30sContinue reading “Is portfolio career the answer to realising your full potential?”
On falling in love with cities
Falling in love with a city is just like the beginning of a romantic relationship. You can’t get enough of it, wanting to know everything about it. You want to experience all the new and exciting things and have butterflies in your stomach. This is how I fell in love with Seoul.
Feel the fear and do it anyway
A brave person is not the one that is not afraid. A brave person is the one that is afraid but does it anyway. my mom Let’s talk about fear. Fear is a word often associated with obviously scary things. Like the fear of death, losing a loved one or the fear of snakes orContinue reading “Feel the fear and do it anyway”
10 days of silence & the art of living
When was the last time you caught yourself thinking that you seemingly have it all: family, career, decent health, friends, yet something is just off, and you are not happy? You are not alone. According to Buddha’s teaching, human suffering is universal. It is an innate characteristic of existence. Everybody goes through hard times, regardlessContinue reading “10 days of silence & the art of living”
Irish weather and 4 noble truths
I love Irish weather. ‘What?’ – you’ll say. Yes, that’s right. For those of you who have no idea what the weather in Ireland is like – it changes a lot. Throughout the day. Some refer to it as being ‘bipolar’, some say it resembles the mood of a pregnant woman and some say, ‘thereContinue reading “Irish weather and 4 noble truths”
City is a message
In his article Cities and Ambition Paul Graham describes how each city has its own message. He very accurately describes the concept that I have lived for years yet struggled to put in words. The key notion is that each city (at least each remarkable city) has its own message. New York screams – makeContinue reading “City is a message”
Life experiment: hypotheses
In my previous post I’ve explained why I want to run an experiment on my life. I’ve divided my life in 3 main buckets: what do I want to have, what do I want to do and who do I want to be. In the business world, the first step of planning an experiment isContinue reading “Life experiment: hypotheses”
Life experiment: life buckets & the why
“If you quit & leave everything behind now, you still have a chance to live a happy life.” Unknown In my previous post, Introduction to life experiment, I made a parallel between my experiment and what businesses do when they innovate. They run experiments to test whether something is worth investing in. I have aContinue reading “Life experiment: life buckets & the why”
Life Startup Club 