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Fears from the past hunting your present

November 9, 2018 adminEmotions

Fears of failure, mistrust, lack of confidence, of not being good enough, they all come hunting you when least expected, as soon as you have the courage to start something new. Reactive behaviors surfacing to[…]

Just another month… July, year 2018

August 16, 2018 adminWork Life Balance

July 2018 was special to me in so many ways. It was a unique experience of work and personal life balance, both of them at the highest heights 🙂 Thanks Bradley for encouraging me to[…]

Adventure Tanzania: Uhuru Peak, Mt. Kilimanjaro

August 10, 2018 adminLife

01.07.2018 Day 1 in Tanzania No cheese at breakfast, at all (there’s no cheese in that country). We left the hotel for a visit to a Masaai (shepherds) village. A little girl was fascinated with[…]

Let’s dive into the unknown: Tanzania!

June 28, 2018August 10, 2018 adminMountaneering

Life is short and, truth be told, you never know when it will end, or when it will challenge you in a way you’ll have to rethink, reinvent and replan everything you know. If you[…]

How (and when) to do a life audit

June 21, 2018 adminLife

There are times when you’re just doing so many things that you’re constantly busy and overwhelmed. On top of that, you feel that what you’re doing is not really something that matters. You’ve been drifting[…]

Robin Sharma’s “lead without a title” talk… or leadership philosophy

June 14, 2018 adminLeadership

Leadership was the keyword during the first talk of the day at Brandminds 2018 in Bucharest, with Robin Sharma’s “Lead without a title”. It was a good choice to start the conference, I believe, as[…]

Helen Fisher, on the neuroscience of falling in love and advertising

June 7, 2018June 7, 2018 adminLeadership

Helen Fisher, anthropologist, human behavior researcher, and self-help author, gave a really compelling speech during Brandminds, a conference I’ve attended recently. Her talk was based on the results of her studies made on the brains of[…]

Shed Simove & How to generate (out of the box) ideas

May 31, 2018May 31, 2018 adminLeadership

Continuing to share the things I was impressed about at Brandminds 2018 in Bucharest (after talking about Seth Godin and Daniel Goleman), I’ll do my best to give you at least a little glimpse into[…]

Emotions are contagious, by Daniel Goleman

May 17, 2018 adminLeadership

Emotions are contagious. So what about, through our interaction with everyone, everyday, we leave people feeling just a little bit happier that before we met them? This is how Daniel Goleman ended his speech at[…]

Personal hero: Seth Godin, on doing the work that matters

May 13, 2018May 13, 2018 adminLeadership

Each one of us has their own personal heroes, people they admire and look up to. For me, since University, such a person was Seth Godin. Some months back I heard he’s coming to Romania[…]

Can we live in a meaning-less world?

May 3, 2018 adminPsychology

We are in many ways surrounded by the idea that our life has a meaning and we should strive to find it for ourselves. But what if there’s actually no meaning attached to our life?[…]

The 4 weeks challenge

April 27, 2018April 27, 2018 adminHabits

I like challenging myself and the latest challenge was about writing, every working day, for a month. I wanted to build a bit on my discipline, creativity but also getting some more writing practice. Wasn’t[…]