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#45 | The lightness in the heaviness

4. January 2024

Georgiy Michailov meets Prof. Dr. Anabel Ternès

On sustainable self-leadership, life-saving gratitude and the Impostor Syndrome.

1 h 2 Min

Imagine you have a serious accident and the doctors give you only a few days to live. Would you feel grateful? Probably not. 
It was completely different for Anabel Ternès. The fact that she managed to feel gratitude after her serious accident saved her life. Because she says: "When I got the news, a switch flipped in me."

"When I complain, I go into the heaviness."

In concrete terms, this means that instead of complaining and seeing herself as a victim, she seizes the tiny opportunity she has. And fights her way back into life with discipline, gratitude and self-love.  

Ternès is the author of over 30 books, a respected speaker, founder of 8 companies, but also a fighter. She is a guest in this episode of SMP LeaderTalks and tells her impressive story. She shows us what you can achieve if you change your mindset with sheer willpower, what role a certain lightness plays in this and what the right energy management has to do with it. 

"Sustainability is only truly sustainable when it is holistic."

The two also talk about their favorite topic: sustainability. 
What is our understanding of sustainability? What does sustainable self-leadership look like? 
They also shed light on the topic of digital sovereignty and why people can be expected to tell the truth. And they discuss why not only media literacy, but also sustainability and media education are more important today than ever.

*Video only in German

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