BOOKS

The Big Five for Life - John Strelecky
An answer on how to align our personal life goals, the "Big Five for Life", with our work.

Start with Why - Simon Sinek
How great leaders inspire everyone to take action.

Deep Work - Cal Newport
Deep work: Rules for a distracted world.
About: How the rise of technology has wrecked our ability to concentrate deeply on tasks – and how to overcome this blockade.

So Good They Can’t Ignore You - Cal Newport
Follow your passion - good advice, but only if you're also willing to put in the necessary preparation and work. #CareerCapital

Do What You Are - Paul D. Tieger
Discover your perfect career through the secrets of personality type.

Who moved my cheese? - Dr Spencer Johnson
This book shows you an amazing way to deal with change in your work and your life.

Wähle die Freiheit - Richard Bandler, Alessio Roberti, Owen Fitzpatrick
This book is about mindset and why some people live happily and others do not.

Man’s search for meaning. - Viktor E. Frankl
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how" – according to this motto, Viktor Frankl explored how finding meaning can enable people to remain mentally healthy even in the face of severe hardships.

A whole new mind - Daniel H. Pink
Why and how we need to develop our right-brain potential.

Principles - Ray Dalio
Ray Dalio, one of the world's most successful investors, shares the unconventional principles he used to achieve unique results in life and work.

Tools of Titans - Timothy Ferriss
Insights into the tactics, routines, and habits of millionaires, icons, and world-class performers.

Mehr Musenküsse - Mason Currey, Arno Frank
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work - Mason Currey
The daily rituals of famous artists.

Fascinate - Sally Hogshead
What must be done to make your brand irresistible? This book gives surprising answers and offers readers a framework that fascinates everyone.

Emotions Revealed - Paul Ekman
Recognizing faces and feelings to improve communication and emotional life.

PODCASTS

Tim Ferriss Show
In this show, Tim Ferriss delves into various areas (investments, chess, professional sports, etc.) and digs deep into the tools, tactics, and tricks that listeners can positively use for themselves.

The Tony Robbins Podcast
The podcast website of Anthony Robbins, a recognized authority in the field of personal peak performance and author of Personal Growth.

Citizen Circle Podcast
Wir stellen dir spannende Unternehmer(innen) und Querdenker vor, die dich inspirieren und melden uns alle zwei Wochen mit Updates aus unserer Community.

Selbst Managen Biz Podcast - Thomas Mangold
Wie du deine Effizienz steigern kannst – bei der Arbeit, beim Lernen und ganz generell in deinem Leben

NLP Fresh Up Podcast
Für Menschen, die sich persönlich und / oder beruflich verändern möchten. Einzelne NLP Tools werden anhand von tagtäglichen Situationen und Lebensfragen erklärt und praktisch angewandt.

Happy, Holy, Confident - Laura Malina Seiler
Ein Podcast mit Inspiration und Coachingtipps rund um die Themen persönliche Weiterentwicklung, Bewusstsein, Erfolg, Glück.

VIDEOS

How To Find and do Work You Love - Scott Dinsmore
Scott Dinsmore’s mission is to change the world by helping people find what excites them and build a career around work they are uniquely capable of doing.

How to IKIGAI - Tim Tamashiro
Have you ever wondered what your purpose in life is? Tim Tamashiro delights us with a journey to find it in his TedTalk.

BLOGS

80.000hrs
Find a fulfilling career that suits you. The blog provides the necessary information for this. A guide for anyone who is searching.

Philosopher's notes - Brian Johnson
The best ideas from 545 of the greatest personal development books.

52 Ways - Dennis Fischer
Die 500 besten Business Ratgeber werden hier in Kurzform vorgestellt

The GaryVee Content Strategy - Gary Vaynerchuk
Here you will learn how to expand and distribute the social media content of your brand.

Personality tests

16Personalities - Free personality test. Only 10 minutes to get a “freakishly accurate” description. 16 Personalities helps to build more meaningful relationships by understanding others.

CliftonStrengths - CliftonStrengths is an assessment developed by Don Clifton while he was chairman of Gallup, Inc. This online test measures the intensity of your talents in each of the 34 CliftonStrengths themes

Human Design - The road to being your happiest, most successful self is one that is totally unique to you. Human Design is here to help you recognise your innate gifts and traits, so that you can be who you truly came here to be - which is the most effortless road to living your dream life.

PI (The Predictive Index) - The PI Behavioral Assessment is an untimed, free-choice, stimulus-response tool that measures a person's motivating drives and needs.

The Fascinate® Test - Gain insight into the hidden signals and cues shaping your reputation, from first impressions to lasting value. This is the first and only way to measure how others see you, at your best. This 15-page profile reveals how other people will respect and remember you. Fascination is a neurological state of intense focus.

DiSC® - DiSC® is a personal assessment tool used by more than one million people every year to help improve teamwork, communication, and productivity in the workplace. Organizations and facilitators use these profiles as tools to help ignite cultural change, inspiring lasting behavior changes that positively shape their workforce.

The 5 Love Languages - The 5 Love Languages® Quiz is easy, insightful, and always free. Learn your love language, and get equipped to build a love that lasts.

Enneagram - The Enneagram of Personality, or simply the Enneagram, is a model of the human psyche which is principally understood and taught as a typology of nine interconnected personality types.

NETWORKING

Eventbrite
Eventbrite is a global event platform where anyone can create, share, discover, and attend new events.

Meetup.com
Meetup.com is a platform to find and build local communities and their events.

Munich Startup
Promotes the networking of founders with potential partners, investors, and mentors. All important stakeholders in the Munich startup scene are involved.

Gründerszene
This startup platform offers daily news and backgrounds, expert and video contributions, as well as analyses and reports.

Panda
The Women Leadership Network PANDA bringt ambitionierte Frauen zusammen und bietet ihnen eine Plattform zum persönlichen und fachlichen Austausch.

Wirtschaftsjunioren
The network consists of more than 10,000 entrepreneurs and executives under 40 years old. Globally connected and known as the largest network of young businesses in Germany.

GDW - Global Digital Women
An international network of women shaping the digital industry.

Do Work You Love
The network for those who want to do work they love and enable others to do the same.

CDTM – Center for Digital Technology and Management – Events
CDTM offers the interdisciplinary add-on study program „Technology Management“, which is part of the Elite Network of Bavaria. Students from various study backgrounds with creative ideas, great motivation and an entrepreneurial mindset are offered the tools to put their ideas into practice.

herCAREER
Leading trade fair for female career planning. Here, graduates, women in specialist and management positions, and female entrepreneurs meet.

12min.me
Talks, networking. Under the motto “Don’t waste your time!” the 12min.me event series regularly gathers people with diverse backgrounds from science, business, culture, and politics.

Gedanken Tanken – Events
”TED Talks” für den deutschsprachigen Raum

Startup Weekend
Surrounded by passionate people and interesting and helpful tools and approaches, you will make great strides towards starting your own business.

Sillicon Drinkabout
Every Friday evening, startup enthusiasts meet for networking.

DNX – Digitale Nomaden Konferenz
The mega event for digital nomads, online entrepreneurs, and a holistic lifestyle.

Made in Minga
Fair for regional, handmade, innovative, and enjoyable products.

Absolventenkongress
The most important information and the right entry – everything from internships to student jobs to permanent employment.

SugarTrends – online
Local and independent stores from around the world. The products are carefully selected by the owners and presented to you here. At Sugartrends, you always order from owner-operated stores. This way, every order promotes local sustainability and diversity on site.

Yes Stories
We're a global community with regional tribes, dedicated to creating events and spaces where you can meet inspiring, motivated people.

Online Courses and Seminars

Udemy
On Udemy, you can buy online courses, always learn something new, and sell your own online courses.

Discover your big five for life - John Strelecky
An online course on how our personal life goals, the “Big Five for Life,” can be aligned with our work. You can find the book in our book recommendations.

14-Tage-Lese Challenge– von 52 Ways
Hier lernst Du schneller zu lesen, mit mehr Motivation zu lesen und vor allem mehr aus den Büchern in dein Leben zu integrieren.

Higher Self Home - von Laura Malina Seiler
Im Higher Self Home bekommst Du regelmäßig neue Inspirationen und stärkende Routinen, die Du ganz leicht in deinen Alltag integrieren kannst, um dein persönliches und spirituelles Wachstum wieder zu deiner Priorität zu machen.

Rise Up and Shine University - von Laura Malina Seiler
An online intensive coaching program for those who want to go their own authentic path and create an extraordinary life for themselves. It helps to find self-confidence, create clarity in life, and unleash your full individual potential.

Mindvalley - Be part of the world’s most powerful life transformation platform, 100+ of the world’s top programs for personal growth and transformation.

Masterclass - Learn from the best, be your best. Get unlimited access to thousands of bite-sized lessons.

Job Applications

EnhanCV – Create a professional CV in minutes.

Canva – A tool with design templates (e.g., CVs, business cards, flyers).

Panda – Network and events for women in leadership.

HerCareer – Karrieremesse für Frauen

Do Work You Love Breakfast – Event, exchange with people who are also looking for or offering a job.

Digital Tools

WeTransfer - Allows the online transfer of large files.

Mailchimp - Marketing automation platform and email marketing service.

Squarespace - Website creation and hosting.

Canva - Create graphics with thousands of beautiful templates and images—from business cards, CVs, flyers to social media visuals.

Google Hangout - Video conferencing and instant messaging service where you can send messages, make calls, and conduct video chats.

Doodle - Online service for creating appointment polls or simple online surveys.

Slack - Web-based instant messaging service for communication within workgroups.

Typeform - Online form creation and online surveys.

Google Forms - Online form creation and online surveys.

AirTable - A CRM that works like a spreadsheet but gives you the power of a database to organize everything.

Monday - A cloud-based platform that allows users to create their own applications and project management software.

FullContact - The contact manager FullContact offers a web interface where you can collect contacts from various sources (e.g., services like Google Mail, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.).

Pipedrive - This CRM supports you in sales and is often used as a sales funnel. It is also possible to automatically track your emails, calls, and progress.

ScreenCastify - Free screen recorder extension for Chrome. Capture, edit, and share screencasts. No software download required.

Zoom - The leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars.

Anchor - Create, distribute, host, and monetize your podcast, 100% free

BeLive - Engage your audience on Facebook Live

Font identifier - The Font identifier extension, an essential Chrome tool, excels in providing a seamless font detection experience. Easily discover the typeface used on a webpage with its user-friendly interface and robust features.

MyFonts - MyFonts is the largest font marketplace in the world, offering professional fonts for any project.

WhatTheFont? - WhatTheFont uses deep learning to search our collection of over 133,000 font styles and find the best match for the fonts in your photo. It even works with connected scripts and when there’s more than one font in an image. Just upload an image, click the font you want to identify, then check out the results.

Locations and other Services

Velvet Space - stylish and cozy coworking space in Munich

SmartVillage – Event-Location

Design Offices – Office rental and event location.

WeWork – Office rental and event location.

Mindspace – Office rental and event location.

Friendsfactory – Office rental

Lovepixel Agency – Design Agency

David-Pierce Brill – Photographer, videographer.

Infoleven – Web- und App development

Münchner Kaffee Rösterei – Coffee catering and seminars.

Essklusiv – ESSKLUSIV produces individualized company gifts with melt-in-the-mouth pralines, fine chocolates and the finest confectionery of the season.

Big little things - Gift boxes for employees and partners.

Steel Case – Office furniture.

WellNow – Büromassage

Colorbirds - Your agency for eventstaff in Munich (hosts, hostesses, promoters, models)

Health

HeadSpace - An app for meditation and relaxation.

Calm - Multiple apps for meditation and better sleep.

Freeletics - A training app with digital coaches that get you in shape.

FitTech Company - We bring together corporates, startups and investors from wellbeing, health and fitness sectors to help them move forward, get inspired and build long-lasting relationships.

Health.tech Conference - Europe's leading platform for top-tier content, sales and networking in the HealthTech ecosystem.

Urban Sports - One membership for fitness, dance, and sauna—access to hundreds of studios.

FitBit - Fitbit is a family of fitness products that help you stay motivated and improve your health by tracking your activity, exercise, food, weight, and sleep.

Productivity and Self-Organization

Trello - With Trello's boards, lists, and cards, you can organize and prioritize your projects in a fun, flexible, and rewarding way.

Basecamp - A good alternative to Trello. Basecamp helps you plan responsibilities transparently, communicate more efficiently, and keep everyone on the same page.

Asana - Asana is the work management platform teams use to stay focused on the goals, projects, and daily tasks that grow business.

Notion - A centralized business intelligence system that integrates data from multiple sources into a dashboard-based environment.

Evernote - Online service and corresponding software that supports collecting, organizing, and finding notes, documents, and photos in various formats.

OneNote - Your digital notebook. It is a Microsoft software that uses the PC as a digital notebook.

Calendly - You can plan and communicate your available time slots so others can book an appointment with you.

Book like a Boss - You can plan and communicate your available time slots so others can book an appointment with you.

Audible - Audiobooks at a fixed price, with a monthly subscription. Integrate book listening into your daily life by consuming content while exercising or shopping, without being tied to a physical book or Kindle.

Upwork - Find freelancers for your next project from the largest freelancer website and work with them digitally.

99designs - A creative platform for custom graphic design: logos, websites, and more. Here you can find and hire designers.

Habits - Changing Habits

66 Habits - An article about 66 habits.

Daily Rituals – How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work

Daily Rituals: Women at Work – A book about daily rituals and habits.

Event organization and management

Eventbrite – Create and promote new events.

Meetup.com – Create and promote groups (communities) and events.

Lovepixel Agency – Design Agentcy

David-Pierce Brill – Photographer, videographer in Munich.

Infoleven – Web- und App development

Münchner Kaffee Rösterei – Coffee catering and seminars.

Essklusiv – ESSKLUSIV produces individualized company gifts with melt-in-the-mouth pralines, fine chocolates and the finest confectionery of the season.

Big little things - Gift boxes for employees and partners.

entrepreneurship

Business Model Canvas - The Business Model Canvas is a strategic management template used for developing new business models and documenting existing ones.

Value Proposition Canvas - Value Proposition Canvas is a tool for marketing experts, product owners, and value creators. This method from the bestselling innovation book Value Proposition Design is applied in leading organizations and start-ups worldwide.

Entrepreneurship & Innovation networks & events

Bits & Pretzels - Bits & Pretzels hosts 5,000 founders, investors, and industry leaders for three days full of learning, networking & doing business during Munich Oktoberfest.

The Royal Jungle - A happening for entrepreneurs

Munich Startup Festival - Das Sommerfest der Münchner Startup-Szene – ganz egal, ob Ihr GründerIn, InvestorIn, StudentIn oder NetzwerkerIn seid: Hier lernt Ihr die richtigen Leute kennen!

business Networks

Entrepreneurs` Organization Munich - Entrepreneurs' Organization is a global non-profit organization formerly known as the Young Entrepreneurs' Organization, that was founded in 1987

student organizations

START Munich - Munich's largest student entrepreneurs community. Our alumni have started successful startups such as Freeletics, IDnow, and Trade Republic.