• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content

JK Executive Coaching

Just another WordPress site

  • Home
  • Services
    • Executive Coaching
    • Business Coaching
    • Team Coaching
  • Books
    • Go Your Own Way
    • Geh Deinen Weg
  • Blog
    • English Blog
    • Deutscher Blog
  • About Joerg
  • Contact
    • Privacy Statement
  • Show Search
Hide Search

perseverance

Could this trick help us through the tough winter ahead?

Joerg Kuehn · Oct 28, 2020 · Leave a Comment

It was a lovely evening on 25th May 2005 in Istanbul.  One hour before the Champions League Final between AC Milan and Liverpool FC, coach Rafa Benitez, began to share the line-up for the Liverpool team.

After hearing the seventh name,  Didi Hamann realised that he was not in the squad for the probably most important game of his career.  Later in his bestselling book, The Didi-Man – My Love Affair with Liverpool, he would describe that moment as follows:  “My stomach churned.  I did not hear anymore after that.  I was on the bench.  It hit me like a hammer blow.”

Hamann continues: “I have to thank my previous coach, Gerard Houllier, for how I was able to deal with it. Gerard used to say: ’If you are not selected for the game, you have 2 minutes to get over your disappointment. Then you get your head up, as if you were going to play and prepare yourself!’”

The game starts with Hamann on the bench. And what a game it was.  AC Milan totally outclassed Liverpool and seemed to be able to score at their leisure.  Not even one minute was played when it was 1-0 for the Italians.  Playing like they were “from a different star,” they added another 2 goals to make it 3—0 when the half time whistle blew.

Everyone thought, “That’s it. Game over.

[Read more…] about Could this trick help us through the tough winter ahead?

Is this the most important life-hack in times like these?

Joerg Kuehn · May 27, 2020 · Leave a Comment

“You have seven days to vacate your property!” That’s what the judge told Moth and Raynor Winn in the spring of 2013 after a three year court battle. They had made an investment with a close friend of Moth’s. It went bad.  Creditors were now claiming their small farm house in Wales.

Moth and Raynor could not believe the judge’s order. Together, they had built up the house and farm from a ruin over the last 20 years. It was the place where their two children grew up and still came back to on university breaks. It was a place where families came to stay for the summer as a countryside holiday. And most importantly, it was their home.

Seven days later, they would be homeless. There are times you think things can’t be any gloomier, but they can. Within the seven days, they had a doctor’s appointment and Moth was diagnosed with a rare brain illness.  The Doctors gave him only two to three years to live. That’s how the book “Salt Path” begins, a true story of hope and fate that deeply touched me.

[Read more…] about Is this the most important life-hack in times like these?

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 3
  • Page 4
  • Page 5

Please connect here:

Copyright © 2025 · Monochrome Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.