Published in Change Your Mind Change Your Life·PinnedMember-onlyScrew Being Normal: Being The Odd One is 10x BetterIt hit me when I read that in a story by Tim Denning — My mom once said to me “You’re the normal child” out of the three children in my family. Do I feel normal? No. I don’t think I’m normal. Everyone thinks oneself is not normal. What is normal anyway? I’m questioning if normal even exists because every person is different and…Self Improvement5 min readSelf Improvement5 min read
Published in Carpe Diem Daily Inspiration·PinnedMember-onlyHow I Failed To Join The 5 AM Club And What You Can Learn From ItAnd how you can start a successful morning routine too — First one thing: I don’t want to make you a morning person. I am a morning person and I tried to wake up at 5 am to do the morning routine and it didn’t work out. It’s hard and you don’t have 100% of a saying in your sleep routine. …Self Improvement6 min readSelf Improvement6 min read
PinnedMember-onlyHi, I’m Karina!About Me — I write. I work at a small architecture office in beautiful Vienna in Austria. I started writing online in 2017, I did a small break to focus on my studies and now I’m back. I’ve already written 120+ articles on Medium and I continue to write. My Most Popular Articles 7 Steps I Took…Time Management2 min readTime Management2 min read
Published in Making of a Millionaire·PinnedMember-only7 Steps I Took in 2022 To Start My Path To Becoming A MillionaireI’m far away from becoming one, but I made my first baby steps — First, I want to say that I don’t want to become a millionaire for the money. That’s not my thing. For me being rich means having the freedom to choose how to spend my time. In the future, I want to have time for my family, my children, and my…Financial Freedom6 min readFinancial Freedom6 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·3 days agoMember-onlyHow I Learned the Most Important and Hardest Lesson of My LifeWhat doesn’t kill you makes you stronger — We all had our struggles in our childhoods. They scar us for life and we have to grow out of the negative mindsets we got from those negative experiences. I got mobbed in middle school. I grew up in a small town in the countryside of beautiful Austria (the one…Personal Growth3 min readPersonal Growth3 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·Mar 15Member-onlyThe 1 Hack that Makes Your Meetings More EfficientPreparation is the magic word! — For a few years, I’m part of the board in my student organization, and almost two now as the president. One important part of my tasks is to organize, prepare, lead, and take part in meetings. And I don’t like meetings, especially non-efficient ones. I was sick of it. So…Meetings3 min readMeetings3 min read
Published in Change Your Mind Change Your Life·Mar 11Member-onlyUncertainty: You Don’t Know Anything and That’s GoodNobody knows everything. — You think you are right but years later you know that you weren’t and it’s good that you aren’t right the whole time. Because if we were right the whole time, we would never change or improve ourselves. …Self-awareness4 min readSelf-awareness4 min read
Published in Change Your Mind Change Your Life·Mar 8Member-only“Happy” International Women’s Day! My Story — Their StoriesStories of equality and female empowerment — I’m a woman. 28-years old. I’m studying for my Master’s and I work in men dominating industry: the building industry. I grew up in a small town in the countryside of Austria. I was one of the smartest children in the class but I was shy and I’m an introvert…Success Story4 min readSuccess Story4 min read
Published in Practice in Public·Feb 25Member-onlyThe Most Important First Step To Online Success: Start a List of Loyal ReadersStarting an email list is the best piece of advice I got — I started writing consistently in August 2022 and one of the first things I did is to create an email list. It’s one of the first pieces of advice I got reading about writing online. I can proudly say that I have 20 email subscribers now. I’m really proud of…Online Business4 min readOnline Business4 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·Feb 22Member-onlyRihanna: From Selling Clothes On The Street To Being A BillionaireHappy Rihanna Day! What you can learn from her — How many people can say that their home country has a day named after them? Not many. But Rihanna can. Every 22nd of February it’s Rihanna day in Barbados named after their most successful, richest, and most famous inhabitant. This is a different level of success. It’s not just “I’m…Rihanna3 min readRihanna3 min read
