Develop healthy habits

Read about the “aggregation of marginal gains” or the 1% rule here or here

Eat healthy

• An apple a day keeps the doctor away
• Drink more water -> place a motivational bottle in reach

Stay healthy

• Wash hands after toilet
• Avoid shaking hands

Stop Multitasking

• Check Email only twice a day
• Time blocking / Focus time / Pomodore
• More breaks

Get more sleep

• Set the alarm clock to tell you when to go to bed
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Get better sleep

• Stop watching TV after 10pm, instead read a nice book
• If you have trouble falling asleep, try to listen to podcasts or music
• Switch of all lights, close blinds, use a sleep mask
• Apply the 10-3-2-1-0 Rule

Exercise more

• Try a lunch break walk
• Try Yoga
• Instead of writing emails visit colleagues at their workplace

Meditate

• Try Headspace

Some helpful tools

Sleep with me Podcast

Coach me App for iOS

Some book recommendation

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

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• Astrid Lindgren
• Tonke Dragt
• Wolfgang Hohlbein

On of my favorite authors at that time was Ken Follet. I read through the 1000+ pages of the Pillars of the Earth on just two or three days. The more we had to read for German classes in school the less I’d liked to read at home. Occasionally I read a Preston / Child thriller.

After I finished school I worked as a sound technician at the Landestheater Detmold. Due to masses of spare time and to the lack of nowadays always on communication devices I got into reading again.

I re-read all the classics which I should have already read in school.  Because I didn’t had to, it was actually a lot of fun. I read a lot of the books from Thomas Mann,  from Heinrich, Klaus and Golo Mann as well.

During my studies I started reading non-fictional books and often bought different books about the same topic because I enjoyed reading things from a different perspective to better understand them.

So what happened to the habit over the years? Why did I almost stopped reading entirely?

Distractions by other hobbies

• Working 40+ hours per week plus commuting
• Surfing Facebook and 9gag
• Binge watching
• Children 🙂

What got me into reading again

• Martin Suter
• Paulo Coelho
• Manfred Spitzer

My new most favorite author became Dan Simmons after I accidentally bought the book “Terror”
After I watched the TED talk Why I read a book a day (and why you should too): The Law of 33% I started to read again like crazy and started to build up a personal library

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