My new book · Out on 22 February 2027

Die Türen, die wir wählen

Why a single decision can give your life a new direction

The book is published in German.

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You may have made the most important decision of your life today without even noticing. With the big questions in life you weigh things up carefully: relationship, career, where to live. You think it through, ask for advice and sometimes lie awake at night. Yet the decisions that shape you day after day often do not feel like decisions at all. They happen in half a sentence, in a nod, in the moment you stay silent, give in or let something slide.

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You do not think about it, because there seems to be nothing to think about. And yet it is exactly in these moments that you stand in front of several doors, and the one you choose gives your life a direction. On its own such a decision hardly seems to change anything. But you make it again and again. A decision becomes a habit, a habit becomes an attitude, and together they shape you more deeply than anything you spent a long time weighing up.

The big decisions determine what your life looks like. The small ones determine whether it is still yours.

In ten true stories I tell of people whose lives take a new direction at such inconspicuous turning points, and I show why some decisions carry us for a lifetime while others lose their power after a short time.

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Paperback, Goldegg Verlag, € 22.00, ISBN 978-3-99060-614-8