In the last months, I have thought a lot about people.About how they speak, how they show their mood, and how I can build trust with them — at work and at home. I am a salesperson, a husband, a father, and also a teammate in my football club. In all these roles, I try…
On some mornings, the world already feels “global” before I even start work. In Southern Germany, where I live, I wake up to zero degrees and a thin layer of snow. My English teacher, sitting in South Africa, tells me it is summer there, but raining. I scrape ice from my car. She drives through…
For Alexander, most weekends feel too short. There is always something to do: a family birthday, changing his mother’s car tires, or helping his brother renovate an old house that seems to have a new problem every week. On paper, these are just normal days. But inside them, there is a quiet story about how…
Monday, late morning. Alexander dials in from Bavaria in Germany; the Mayor sits in a small Alsatian village, Cleebourg, with the November light trying its best through cloud. The question arrives as simply as coffee poured into a familiar mug: Are you an optimist or a pessimist about the future?“I’m an optimist,” Alexander says. He…
It’s early morning in Germany, and Alexander sits in his tidy home office — coffee cup within reach, laptop glowing with the faint light of unfinished work. The topic of today’s conversation is everyday life skills — those small, invisible habits that make the world run smoothly: cooking, cleaning, planning, or simply remembering to breathe…
They connected across a grey European afternoon: Frank at his desk in Cleebourg, rain freckling the window; Alexander back from two weeks away, an inbox swelling like a tide. What unfolded was a warm, intelligent debrief of a family cruise that somehow became more than an itinerary—equal parts travelogue, expectations audit, and a gentle lesson…
