Humanity kills violence.

There must be a better way to do business.

Bert M. Ohnemüller
3 min readApr 5, 2019

Work is joyful or it makes you sick.

Reality bites: the evidence lies in the large increase of sick days and the rapid rise of depression and burn-out cases. The Gallup Engagement Index proofs that only 15 % of all German employees have a high rate of identification with their company. 25% of all EU employees are on an inner leave. Isn’t it pure insanity, that at worst we are killing ourselves with our work? We harm ourselves because we are determined by our head instead of our heart.

Let your heart be your pilot.

True change is only possible from the inside out, when we start following our hearts, which represent our true selves. When the transformation is rooted in the heart, we build an inner strength far stronger than any outside pressure.

True leadership is self-leadership

The ability to change your own conceptual world and the world of others in a positive way is true (self)leadership. Who are you? Why do you do, what you do? Do you like the face you see in the mirror? What kind of story are you telling yourself? Are you happy?

Please remember the logic of life (bio-logy) means creating uniqueness. Every human being is unique, you are unique. Find your inner gifts and share them with the world. How to find it?

Use your Emotional Positioning System, follow your joy. Where this joy lies, there is the truth and behind the truth lies ultimate success, which is always a consequence, an outcome, a result. In other words, success is what follows, when you follow yourself.

Successful self-communication

Self-communication is not based on the mediation of facts or figures, first and foremost it functions via the activation of our emotional system. Most parts of the brain can’t really process words and numbers, writes neuroscientist Dr. Gerd Gigerenzer in his book „Gut feelings. The intelligence of the unconscious“.

That’s exactly what we learned from Daniel Kahneman when he talks about system 1: the fast, emotional system and system 2: the slow, the cognitive system. What are you telling yourself? What kind of story is that? „I AM“ are two very strong words.

Be careful! What follows your „I AM“ will find you.

Real motivations need inspiration

Nobody can motivate somebody in the long-term. You can only motivate yourself. When your “I should” become your “I have to”. The door of motivation that everybody carries within him- or herself can only be opened from the inside. Nevertheless, we can definitely inspire others to see their world from a different view, help them to change their perspective and rewrite their mental map of the world.

Yet this is only possible when what you do comes from the heart and only if your profession is your true calling — a fulfilling personal and professional life becomes possible. I want to emphasize that though we are the center of our own lives, the quality of our life is always dependent on the quality of our relationships.

We are the most important reference person for ourselves.

Come on! What holds you back? The (business)world needs you and people, like you, who love their life — and who become role models for society — welcome in the „decade of humanity!“

7 inspirations to take away.

Don’t believe anything you think.

Use your EPS.

Learn to become „response-able“.

Lead by example.

Attitude is kind.

You can do what you have to do because you want to do it.

All you need is (self)love.

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Bert M. Ohnemüller

Bert is a high performance business philosopher, speaker, author and entrepreneur.