Personal growth
Jerry Long: finding meaning without denying hardship
Why I shared Jerry Long’s story, what the Viktor Frankl Institute documents, and why choosing a response is not the same as controlling every circumstance.
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
Use Gamification to get through Life-Challenges
In uncertain times we need certainity. In insane times we need sanity. Whenever I get asked how I go through life in those insane…
Relationships
Love is the goal to aspire
Love and meaning are the centre of this personal reflection. I imagine what might remain if the familiar parts of life disappeared, then ask…
Personal growth
Don’t
Personal boundaries in business begin with the people and commitments I choose. This list asks what deserves my time, what I respect and what…
Personal growth
Just in case you needed to be reminded
You are enough. This short reminder pairs that thought with qualities I want to practise: strength, kindness, courage and humility. Being yourself does not…
Personal growth
My 200-lemon experiment: why I stand by it, and what to know before you try it
My 2021 experiment with the juice of 200 lemons in 12 days: why I stand by it, what I no longer claim, and what to know…
Personal growth
What I saw when I could see clear
A free loving friend. To be free, to love and to be a great friend. That’s the meaning of my inner circle. My friends.…
Life between cultures
What chapter are you writing today?
Writing your life story happens in ordinary days as well as memorable events. I use the image of a book to ask what chapter…
Personal growth
Try me!
This post is to remind me and you, that we just have to “keep going”. Our hardest times often lead us to our greatest…
Personal growth
Own your life: start with the promise you can keep
My original reflection on ownership, made concrete: choose a responsibility, define what you will do and follow through on your word.
Personal growth
The point when it’s just the same
Sometimes you fight so much for something or someone, that you reach a point when anything and everything becomes ‘the same’. The same in…
Personal growth
Clean up and focus
Clean up and focus: begin with what is around you, then look at what takes your time. This list moves from a desk and…