There is hardly a task that is more beautiful, more challenging, more complex and altogether more difficult than being a mother. It is perhaps similar with being a father. Parenting is a ride on a razor's edge.
I say: a night flight! There is always something, and you always do something wrong.
At least, that's how it feels, especially in this day and age, when everything is already skidding around the bend a little more unbalanced than it usually is. Time and again, things get stuck, squeak and creak, and who knows what's really wrong. Everyone knows what is to blame, yes, and who is to blame anyway (spoiler alert: the others).
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And so now everyone is constantly pecking away in a heap, locked up in adverse conditions, and the problems pile up like the pizza boxes next to the rubbish bin. Family, close together, as the basic sound of everyday life, we can't do that any more.
Who is surprised?
We live in times and places where even those who are not well off are usually not as bad off as those who are well off elsewhere. And yet, when a child is announced in this country, not much time passes before the word "problem" is used for the first time.
Something is always difficult.
Gone are the days?
There are people who say that the end of multi-generational households has had quite an impact on our society. What is lacking today in terms of empathy, consideration, manners and such things, was mixed into the everyday soup back then and administered on the side. Accordingly, the next generation not only heard about it, but also experienced it and thus understood and internalised what "behaves ...". I only say: the old story Dudette ...
Allegedly, the good old days weren't quite as bad as many say, who don't even look up from their smartphones - from their world-connecting devices - while they jostle the pavement in serpentine lines with plugged ears and kick a few passers-by in the process.
Or maybe something is happening after all? Because a growing number of young people understand that parenting is a homework assignment that you rarely get an A on. They try anyway, because you never know ... Better: it's a worthwhile life task, and you know how necessary it is.
While the sparrows are chirping "Find your vocation!" from all rooftops of the Global Village, they are smartly discovering the obvious. They prefer to deal less with and in companies and say not, "My start-up is my baby," but, "My baby is my baby." Be a mother, be a father, but for real. Not defining yourself by your children, propeller on, and off you go. Not being the ultimate milf-male with the most likes at the playground.
They don't start the next awesome app company they would like to work in themselves, but are the parents they would have liked to have had themselves. That's something: something necessary! That's how a lot of things get much better. Dent in the Universe, for once not left behind by the unicorn horn ...
And what if both were possible?
Digital transformation doesn't just put people out of a job, not by a long shot. It also makes all kinds of new things possible and helps vocations come to life. A vocation does not always have to be a profession.
Vocation sometimes jumps out at us at times and places that no one knows how. Molecular biologist Matthias Hombauer, for example, was hit by it on his bicycle on his way to work. "Is he still crazy?" some people around him must have asked themselves when Matthias decided to quit molecular biology. He started a career as a rock star photographer without knowing how to take pictures. However, he quickly learned that and a lot of other things as well.
He became an internationally successful rock star photographer - Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Prodigy and the Rolling Stones have already stood in front of his camera - with a top photography course Internet entrepreneur, successful podcaster and above all: enthusiastic dad.
At this point, the next call came to him. Why he happily followed it, why he found a new daddycation, how he Dadpreneuer found a new daddycation, how he passes on this knowledge as a mentor on his new platform - that and much more is what I talked about with Matthias Hombauer in the current episode of my podcast.
Set up an online business at home as a dadpreneur and gain time and freedom for being a dad? - That's actually a prospect you could turn to, isn't it? You can take a look at it here and jump right in if you want.
Perspective can be given away.
Silvia gave me a great idea the other day (thank you, Silvia!). PowerHour with me, she wanted to give a friend such a powerful coaching session for Christmas. "Heissa, that's great," I thought to myself. Because most of us already have everything anyway, but many have lost perspective in our disturbing messy times - the story they tell themselves inside. To get this flowing again, we sometimes need impulses from outside, some tried and tested tools, the sharpened view from the eagle's perspective. That's exactly why I invented the PowerHour .
If you want to give this to someone, you can with my brand new PowerHour gift voucher simply here make. And if you want to make a difference to yourself, your team or your company, you can do it. PowerHour then you'll find what you're looking for here.
Woman seeking farmer.
It's amazing what we often stuff into our mouths in the mistaken belief that we are eating: "I don't know what refined coconut oil, smoke flavouring, cellulose, methyl cellulose, maltodextrin, ascorbic acid or modified starch is, but I'll swallow it after I post it on Instagram...". That's exactly how kids see it with their parents. Apparently it has to be that way because it's all so convenient, and not everyone has a farmer's market right under their nose and so on and so forth....
Mistake!
Digital often divides us in analogue terms, but in other places it helps to build bridges and connect us. For example, when it comes to regional food, farmers, producers and us food shoppers, the Digital Farmers' Market does a great job in the field and a super-successful one at that. Markta.at is doing a great job in the field and a super-successful one at that. Markta founder Theresa Imre - currently on Forbes ' "30 under 30" list as one of the most notable people of the moment - joined me on the podcast. We talked for a good hour about career & vocation, the true value of work & success and about what we eat. Not with our mouths full, of course, but with our hearts full, of course.
Theresa and I look forward to you joining us for the latest episode of my podcast. And if you're drifting in the digital marketplace, many more will be happy. Starting next week, delivery will be even faster than before, and everything you order will reach you within 48 hours (in Austria) and will probably be eaten even faster ...
Stories like Matthias' and Theresa's are definitely worth telling and listening to, because they are special stories of departure, probation and the tangible experience of a new bond. I suspect that your inner story could also be or become such a story.
Because every person, every company, every one of us can help such a story come to life with what we do and tell. This could lead to something like a new story, a New Story, which we urgently need. Because this new story, like the old one, is about all of us, but it has a new perspective: it no longer tells of what separates us, but of the opposite.
I think this is the story my grandmother, old Story Dudette, used to tell when she stood by the steaming pot of soup by the fire in the evening and stirred in her magic with the words: "No Story. No Glory."