Rules to live (and work) by

We just came back from our three-week vacation in Scandinavia. While on the road with our camper van, I had some time to reflect on the last couple of months. Maybe the last couple of years. Being self-employed for more than five years now, I‘ve always been pushing hard to get everything right. I‘ve wanted to be a great guy to work with, satisfy my customers, roll in enough money, have a lot of free time, and be very happy. But things don‘t always work out the way we expect them to. While I‘m fairly good at building software, I‘m terrible at separating myself from my „work-self“. But we try, we fail, we learn, we improve. Over the last few weeks, I thought a lot about my strengths and weaknesses, things I‘m good at, and stuff I want to generally improve – both personally and in a business context. Finally, I tried to come up with a ruleset I want to live by. A ruleset I want to run my company by. A framework to build the house I want to live in.

The only constant is change. Most people think that they‘re done learning once they finish school or education. Wrong. By the time you‘ve finished school, you probably don‘t know much. You‘re only getting started there. It‘s important to know that you should learn every day and that you can learn from everyone. Develop a new skill, satisfy your curiosity, and try something completely different. Learning is fun and can get you anywhere. Never stop learning.

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