Coaching Monday: Something worth celebrating

Since Germany is celebrating one of its most meaningful national holidays this week, this Coaching Monday is dedicated to celebrations.

The big achievements need to be recognized as such and celebrated, sure thing, but what about the small ones that many people take for granted or brush off out of fear of being seen as someone bragging for no reason? 

[The answer to this question is a very solid hint

to what matters the most to you: 

career, health, success, relationships, self-awareness, generosity...]

And what about the tiny ones and even the mistakes, the good days, the bad days, the daily baby steps that help us be who we want to be, even when we are not at our best but we are still doing our best to get there? 

Everything can be celebrated, and there is so much to be thankful for. Celebrating is not about showing off, it's about gratitude, humility, and hope.

"What in your life is worth celebrating?"        

                                

Tags: Coaching question, Self-coaching, Self-awareness, Self-reflection, Celebrations, Thankfulness

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First Doodle Google of August 2018 is dedicated to German war phographer Gerda Taro

Today's Google Doodle in Germany is dedicated to Gerda Taro (pseudonym of Gerta Pohorylle), the German photographer considered to have been the first woman to work as a photojournalist in war zones and to be killed on duty.

[A big smile for the camera!

Google Doodle dedicated to Gerda Taro

on August 1st, 2018]

Activist against Nazism and Fascism, picture editor, photographer and furthermore personal assistant, muse and companion of Robert Capa (born Endre Friedmann) during the last two years of her life, Gerda Taro had to leave Germany in 1929 because of her Jewish heritage and worked with many important newspapers, also documenting the Spanish Civil War with David Seymour and with Capa himself.

Many pictures and negatives that she signed together with his personal and professional partner, seen as lost for decades, has been found in Mexico in 2007, making it possible to dedicate her prestigious art exhibitions.

Google Doodle pays homage to German graphic designer Ludwig Sütterlin

Today's Google Doodle in Germany is dedicated to Ludwig Sütterlin [1865-1917], a Berlin-based graphic artist and teacher at the "Teaching Institution of the Royal Museum of Decorative Arts" (lit.  Unterrichtsanstalt des Königlichen Kunstgewerbemuseums zu Berlin) that invented the Sütterlin script.

[Colorful Google Doodle on July, 23rd 2018

dedicated to Ludwig Sütterlin]

This minimal and very regular writing style based on geometrical forms, influenced by Art Nouveau and by the work of Rudolf von Larisch, was nationally adopted in Germany as a more adapt writing style for children (in comparison to the more tricky Eckenschrift) during the Twenties and the Thirties.

Every letter would have the same height and width, in order to help small children learning how to write properly while using a quill: