It is Sunday, the wind is sweeping over Lago Maggiore and creating small waves, sometimes with a sprinkling of white foam. I’m sitting in my Laser, a small one-man yacht, in which even when there is scarcely any wind one gets a wet bottom. I’m sailing from Ascona to Ronco with the objective of sailing round the tiny island of Brissago and then returning with a following wind to the harbour in Ascona.Read More »
Tag: Wisdom
The right choice of a profession
I don’t know how one chooses the right profession. I was lucky and have found my profession. I am an entrepreneur with heart and soul. I love motivating people so that we can achieve common goals. It’s fun to attract exceptional talents and to share in their development and at the same time to learn from them.Read More »
The lost grandmother
I wasn’t late at all. I was perfectly on time for my next meeting when a woman approached me to ask if I could give her directions. She was looking tor Regina Kägistrasse. I had no idea. Read More »
Charity run on the Platzspitz
I am convinced that people need movement just as they need food. Without movement one becomes weak and it is no longer possible to function. Without food one dies, as one also does without movement, only perhaps it takes a bit longer than 3 weeks.
Gregor the egoist
Gregor was an egoist. An egoist straight out of a picture book and what’s more convinced that he was the best. Criticism bounced off him like water off an umbrella. Well intentioned feedback was welcome, if it was positive. Everything negative and everything that didn’t serve his purpose was denied and suppressed. Read More »
Elsbeth’s story
I saw them almost every day, if the weather was fine, sitting by the lake. They were both about 80. She was knitting, sometimes he brought a small yacht with him, which he steered from the bank, or he just sat next to her and gazed over the lake. I saw how time and again he picked the wild blackberries beside the lake and took them to her. They looked very content together. Read More »
Leonie’s three kids and puberty
Recently, I had a coffee with Leonie. Leonie has three kids, all of them in puberty. This is a challenging period, when many things get out of balance. Not only with the adolescents themselves, but also in the relationship between them and their parents.
Leaving a tip in New York
It is not easy to find your way around the jungle of customs for leaving a tip in New York. As a European, I grew up thinking that if you receive a proper service, a tip is the acknowledgement for this effort. If the service was bad and the food barely eatable, there is no reason to tip. You will not come very far in New York with that mind-set. Well maybe you will, but you will provoke many uncomfortable encounters, you will be yelled at, threatened and you will feel rotten. I do not know if I am right, but based on my observations of the locals, I now have elaborated my strategy for tipping. Read More »
What would I do if I could start over
It’s march the 3rd and it snowing almost non-stop. Winter has returned with full force.
However, as you read this, our local ice-rink is preparing to close down. Regardless of wether it is +10°C or -10°C this weekend. This is because in Switzerland everything is nicely planned. Read More »
Michaela Merz 