Personal growth
HYROX wall balls: the squat depth I needed to improve
My HYROX training post admitted that our squats needed more depth. What the official wall-ball standard asks for, and how to review a repetition.
VALON ASANI / ENGLISH
Writing on love, lived values and Albanian life
Love well. Live your values. Carry our roots forward. Those are the three questions behind my writing, whether a piece begins with a relationship, a company or a moment between Kosovo and Switzerland.
Choose a subject below. The short video notes preserve the original moment; longer essays explore what it means and what we can do. These are personal experiences and opinions, with sources for factual claims.
Personal growth
You do not have to become your old self again
“I want to be myself again.” I understand that wish. But after everything you have lived through, why should your next chapter have to look exactly…
Business & technology
How to ask for useful feedback on your business idea
“What do you think of my business idea?” Give me something I can respond to. Who is it for? What problem does it solve? Where are…
Life between cultures
Which decade would you choose to experience?
I was born in 1988. When I asked which era people would like to experience, I chose the 1930s. Now I want the more interesting part…
Business & technology
Work like a lion: focus, effort and a real pause
What I mean by “work like a lion”: save your energy, direct your effort and make room to stop. A work metaphor, not a formula for…
Personal growth
Give the day structure while you are looking for work
When you are looking for work, a day can lose its shape. I would start by giving it one: time to apply, time to learn, time…
Personal growth
Breathwork: start by understanding the exercise
What are you actually being asked to do when a video says “breathwork”? A quiet breathing exercise and an intensive session are not interchangeable. I would…
Personal growth
You can seek support even when your parents do not understand
You wanted your parents to understand. They did not. That disappointment can hurt, but it does not have to decide whether you seek support. You can…
Relationships
Empathy can include an uncomfortable truth
“I understand that this hurts.” “You need to stop doing this.” I can mean both. Caring about someone does not require agreeing with the decision that…
Personal growth
Spirituality begins with how you treat people
Crystals, clothes, festivals. None of them tells me how you treat another person. For me, spirituality has to show up there, in the ordinary moments too.
Relationships
When someone blocks you, respect the boundary
“Did they love me? Will they come back?” You may not get those answers. But if someone has blocked you, one thing is clear: calling from…
Business & technology
Building my business alongside a full-time job: the 13-month transition
For 13 months, I had two working lives. My full-time job paid the bills. The hours left over went into my business. The transition began long…