Personal growth
You vs. them
Protecting your attention means noticing the competition for your time. I use a deliberately stark contrast below: what you want for yourself and what…
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
Path to become You
Answer the three big questions in your life:– Where do you want to live?– With whom do you want to live?– What do you…
Personal growth
Easy Level Up
This daily habits challenge gathers ten practices to try over thirty days. Use the list to choose what you want to practise and notice…
Personal growth
Believe
Believe in yourself enough to try again. The words below are a personal encouragement for moments of doubt: a reminder to keep your own…
Personal growth
Why are we so disciplined with our bad habits?
Unlearning bad habits can be a useful starting point before adding another ambition. I notice how reliably I can repeat an unwanted behaviour, then…
Personal growth
Lessons from the Alchemist
I take these life lessons from The Alchemist into the way I think about work and life. 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 – You are capable, at any…
Business & technology
Focus to work with Long-Term people
Long-term collaboration is about the people as well as the work. I want to build with people who can stay committed beyond an immediate…
Personal growth
Consistency is the key to success in life
Consistency in work and life shows in what we keep doing after the first burst of motivation. I value a practice I can return…
Personal growth
How to be free?
Personal freedom and responsibility belong together in this reflection. I want to take my own thoughts and choices seriously, while giving other people less…
Business & technology
Six entrepreneurship lessons from my early businesses
At 19 I started pooq with friends. More than ten ventures followed in four years. Six lessons from my 2016 account of those early businesses.