PeopleComm - your money or your life!?

Helping you find the balance between earning a living and really living

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We humans have always been faced with the question: Your money or your life!?

First in tribal and all other kinds of warfare, then with bandits. Nowadays, in our jobs and with our own ambitions, we are constantly being asked. And needless to say, in the 21st century with its “endless choices” the response is no easier.

The fact is, we spend most of our waking hours at work. Countless research confirms that up to 80% of us are not particularly thrilled about what we do. What could, in theory, be the best part of our lives becomes, therefore, mere survival. That makes replying to the question and maintaining a life balance ever harder.

Therefore, the key focus of this blog is life at work. The purpose is to help in a search for the balance between making money and having fun.

I hope you find it stimulating and inspiring.

About the author

For most of my life I used to be a passionate rat racer.
Running after degrees (spent 26 years getting through an educational system), climbing up the corporate ladder (worked for 3 corporations in 10 roles), and starting up companies (founded 4) was my modus operandi.

I didn’t do what I loved; instead I did what moved me up.
In the late 1990´s something weird happened. One morning, I couldn’t get out of bed.
Instead of my usual trip to the office I went to see a doctor.
After several tests, he put it quite bluntly: Burn-out syndrome. You’d better get out of there.

It was a slap in the face. But since I wasn’t the first and neither the last in our company, I knew what was going on. I didn’t think about it for long, and left the corporate world for good.

Your money or your life!?
The question has been popping into my mind ever since

Gone, I started looking for an answer.
First went to Africa, then Latin America and Asia, read hundreds of books. In my native country I started a life balance company PeopleComm, ran hundreds of seminars,… all in search of the response.

Also, what influenced my outlook on life was first growing up under communism, and then being part of pioneering efforts to re-build a democracy. Also numerous trips to western Africa and plentiful stays in the USA, China, and Russia gave me an interesting perspective on how we humans organize ourselves, what makes us go or why we share or fight.

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