Coaches make me angry, especially the self-proclaimed ones.

And that although – as you have long known – hardly anything upsets me.

Even the train can count on my deep relaxation when the journey home from Munich takes six and a half hours instead of four because there is no train driver, there are people on the tracks and finally a window has to be repaired.

Is just the way.

Everything is correct.

Bettina Weiguny

Freelance author in the business section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper.

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My working day just doesn't go as planned.

And here we come to the annoyance "Coach", aka Carsten Maschmeyer.

I've come across Maschmeyer as all sorts of things: as a self-made billionaire and Veronica Ferres husband, slacker king and television lion, as a finca owner, Gerhard Schröder patron and red wine abstinent (because of histamine intolerance).

He survived a number of court battles involving a great deal of money and disappointed friendships, and – thanks to Vroni – also his addiction to pills.

Now he has his life under control and gives clever tips on how to be a little bit as successful as he is, for example by sticking to "time boxes".

The wonder things divide our working time into limited sections, which are available to us for various tasks.

Very important here: "visualize", says Maschmeyer.

So I imagine email time in blue for one hour, green for two hours writing columns, purple for one hour podcast, then lunch time (yellow).

Maschmeyer claims that you can work in a “focused and organized” way.

I want that, too!

But dandelion.

My time management is backfiring.

On the train I can tick off the blue hour blocked for e-mails, the WLAN keeps cutting out.

The fellow travelers cannot be expected to listen to lilac podcast chatter.

And despite the yellow lunch-time box, there is nothing to eat on the ICE (apart from water and chocolate, which the train gave us because of the long delay).

And then child 1 calls because it's homesick, or child 3 because it's running out of money, and all my time zones are dark red.

alert, alert!

I'm afraid nothing will work out with me and the Maschmeyer method.