Two years ago I started on a journey to improve all aspects of my health using a sustainable approach of habit building. This article explains how my testosterone level was positively impacted. — What is Testosterone? It’s important in many aspects of our health, from sexual function to disease risk. It’s a steroid hormone that the body mainly produces in the testicles and ovaries. The adrenal glands also produce small amounts.

Eight months after starting to track my sleep I was able to improve its quality dramatically. This article describes the experiment, the new habits acquired and the tools I used. — Sound sleep is essential for mental, physical, emotional & intellectual health. However, it‘s a luxury not many can flaunt. Whether due to stress, work or health issues, most people don’t sleep properly. Why sleep is important

The most important decision for a founder is to decide what business to be in. It doesn’t matter how flawlessly a business is executed if it’s the wrong business, wrong timing or too small of a market. — Founders are biased towards action. We have an impulse to make things happen, to move fast and achieve things. Yet, when deciding what opportunity to pick next, I can’t overstate how important it is to resist the urge to start executing. To dedicate as much time necessary to pick the…

When it comes to measuring the traction of your team, it’s very common to lack consensus regarding the KPIs that matter. The Scorecard creates alignment on what matters to stay on track. — Picture this: the Head of Sales at a B2B company presents his team’s numbers for the past month, happy to have reached her quota. The next month, the CEO starts fundraising and needs to put together the company traction data for the last quarter.

Whether you like it or not, once a startup has five or more members there will be a culture, a set of behaviors shared by the team. Culture can make or break a company. …

Meetings are very expensive, yet teams need some effective way of weekly planning. EOS® proposes 90 minutes of what they call a Level 10 meeting. This article is a tutorial to implement it. — Usual problems with meetings 1. Meetings are expensive. Management meetings are even more! It’s estimated that approximately $37 billion is spent on unnecessary meetings in the US every year. In addition, studies indicate that having face-to-face meetings can cause up to 60% in productivity loss from employees.

The Accountability Chart is one of my favorite EOS® tools. This is a step by step tutorial to help you implement it in your company — We’ve all been there: a pending task is never done because two team members think the other will deal with it. A decision brings tension between two team members who think they are both accountable for the topic. …

With this article I intend to explain some personal lessons I learned the hard way, while embracing the hustle culture that led to me and my teammates burning out. I’ve also included some practical recommendations to be the health-savvy entrepreneur. — The hustle culture is more present in the entrepreneurship world than in any other environment. This culture teaches us that it’s ok to work 100 hour weeks, have a “full-life“ dedication to your startup, sleep five hours if necessary and win at all costs against your competition.

The Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS®) is a method to run a company. In this article I’ll share some personal experiences and examples so you can also implement it too and see its benefits. — Startups are all about identifying big opportunities, finding product market fit before running out of money and if successful, scale as quickly as possible. The Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) is, in my experience, the most efficient method to maximize the chances of success for a startup.