Monday Morning Vibes

April 8th, Lilli Lehmann

Listening to one of my favourite's albums again, I read the challenging book "Art and Time" and think about how I totally misjudged the time I would need to finish that book. To be fair, it is quite inspiring and I already developed some ideas from the context for my new project. So let's see what the last 100 pages hold for me. Until now I managed to distract myself from reading through running a Window's update, reading through job announcements on LinkedIn and to write... yeah... my blog. I mean I ignored this section for like months, but now I felt the urgent need to type something IMMEDIATELY instead of finally reading the god damned book. Who else knows this technique of avoiding your actual tasks ahead? (I am pretty sure, it is not just me.) So let's start this week without any more distractions and let's get any planned tasks done!  Iron and Wine will help.

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04. March, Lilli Lehmann

This is a great song, when you are marching through the melting snow and enjoying the slightly warmer air. After a long weekend (which felt more like two mondays in a row) the crazy weather stopped being crazy. I mean, we have March and it was freezing! For this week we get a rainy spring weather and personally some upcoming deadlines. So I go back to my work now. But today is already proof that constantly improving certain skills will pay off and when they do: it's a sweet victory! (Photoshop - I got you!)

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04. Februrary, Lilli Lehmann

Nearly everybody connects a certain feeling with the word "arrival". Sometimes arrival is connected with seeing family and friends again and another time it is about arriving back home to continue your work. Or it could also be linked to a completly new start after a move or a new job offer. The following song connects arriving with uncertainty and coming together. So let's start with a fresh week and this song - recommened by a good friend of mine. 

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Monday Morning Vibes

January 28, Lilli Lehmann

This song got stuck in my head, since I re-watched some Animes. In my teens - like probably most people - I watched them regulary and it is incredible in what kind of variety they come. I like most that nearly every character has a background story and their own personal growth. These appear more thought-through than some big movies. So... who were the heroes in your teenage years? 

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21. January, Lilli Lehmann

This song proves that a great music video can be simple and great at the same time - as long as the lead singer has an amazing voice. This next week shall begin with the voice of Lady Gaga and her song: Million Reasons. Hopefully, everyone finds as many reasons to enjoy the new week. And if nothing nice is coming up, you always have the possibility to plan something out! Sometimes it's worth to leave your daily life "bubble" to discover new input, which will keeps you driving with a fresh mind and ideas.

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January 14, Lilli Lehmann

This week should start with a really engaging and motivating song - literally containing all the energy we - or at least - I collected durig this weekend. My head is still buzzing from the great tunes from the film "The Greatest Showman" and I want to transport a bit of this daydreaming, fantasical, sparkling world into my daily life! So get ready for "Come Alive"!

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07 January, Lilli Lehmann

The long winter holiday break is over and finally there will be Monday Morning Vibes again! I do not know about you, but it was good to have some days off and to relax, while reflecting about 2017 and considering what is worth improving for the new year. Actually, I came to a lot of conclusions, but in theory, everything is easy, while putting something into practice, is hard. Therefore - even if you do not have any good resolutions - we will need motivation and energy to make the most of all the upcoming opportunities in 2018. It does not matter if you have big plans or small; the energy for both are coming from the same source: you. So "feed" your spirit with some postivity, starting tomorrow morning when your alarm will turn on with this song:

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December 03, Lilli Lehmann

It is the first advent and I cannot believe, how fast this entire year passed by. I do already apologize for my moaning and I am sure I will write this sentence for four more Sundays. (What does not make it less true!) Advent is an interesting time and we are supposed to calm down and relax. Anyway, I might would relax, if not Christmas is coming up and I still need to organize presents, bake biscuits and hit all of my upcoming deadlines. I assume, everyone feels a little bit hectic around those days, so I will choose one of my top track lists, to guide you into a lovely new week.

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November 26, Lilli Lehmann

So... this really long and productive weekend is about to finish and I have to come up with another song recommendation. Let's see! What about a really strong and inspirational song - created by a powerful woman? A song and a music video which is touching and uplifting at the same time? You know what song I am talking about? Well, then set your alarm to this highlight of my week! And do not get me started on how amazing the dancers portrait their emotions in Pink's "What About Us" 

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November 19, Lilli Lehmann

There is only one perfect song to end this week: Sunset Boulevard! So sit back and enjoy. I am well aware that the musical's ending is not pleasant, but this does not mean that dreams will never work out. Joe's dream could have become true, if he had been more forceful. Norma only needed to accept her aging and her husband should have opened her eyes, instead of making her believe, that she is still a star. So this song is dedicated to our dreams - even if they are as foolish as we are.

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November 12, Lilli Lehmann

To be fair, I actually wanted a song about comfy jumpers, but apparently, there are none or at least I could not find one. I even contemplated choosing a christmas song, because in my flat, christmas is already reality. The tress is up and decorated and even presents are good to go. Even though, my flat is well prepared, I assume we are an exception and that other people like to ignore the thought of an upcoming christmas. So, I decided on a good mood song, which is only slightly related to christmas (or a christmas movie :)) and which will definitive kickstart everyones week. Here come's jump! And I will pretend, that there is an "er" on the end of the word.

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November 04, Lilli Lehmann

Did you realize something the last week? Did you recognize it? You do not know what I am talking about, while you are sitting there with a wooly hat and gloves in your flat in front of your PC? Right! It was the first really cold week and where I realized that winter is about to come. Well, hopefully your hot water boiler and heating is working properly, so that you are able to escape the cold. And (because it is too early to start with proper christmas songs) here comes a relaxing song, which will hopefully get you the right start into the next week and "propitiates" yourself with your gloves, scarf and hats.

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October 29, Lilli Lehmann

The evening is still young and only a tiny bit of jazz seems to calm me down and it gets me in this "autumn" mood. My "autumn" mood makes me want to be creative and to sit (hands covered in paint) with a cup of tea in the living room and get work done. How was your weekend? Productive or really laid back? It does not matter, as long as you are ready for a new week!

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October 20, Lilli Lehmann

It is time to be brave again and to get out of the comfy mode  after enjoying a layed-back weekend. And I am sure, that there are some nice event ahead of us, we can look forward to . It might be a birthday or a concert or a theatre visit.... who knows! I am ready for surprises! Are you?

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October 16, Lilli Lehmann

This song will make you jump out of your bed and right into the streets of Baltimore.... Wait, maybe not Baltimore. Your home town needs to be enough. Hairspray (if you have not read my Review) is a sing-along musical with really good songs and a message behind them. So, let nothing stop you this week!

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October 08, 2017 Lilli Lehmann

“Always look on the bright side of life” – This week we should start by taking life and ourselves less serious. Often problems appear too big and too complicated on the first sight, but when you start working on them, they reduce themselves. And in the end, nothing is as bad as it seems and normally by talking about it, we often realize, that it was not even a real problem. It was just ourselves which made a mick to an elephant and needed to be extra complicated. So let’s try to be more happy and more enthusiastic – this will not even wipe away problems, it will also help us, inspire others.  

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October 01, 2017 Lilli Lehmann

Tomorrow evening I will be at a concert from Kip Moore. Maybe I should already get into the mood, by playing one of his songs in the morning. This will be the first time when I actually listen to his music. A friend mine had a spare ticket and needed company, that is when I chipped in. I am looking forward to go and I am even more excited to write a review about my experience! So these are your vibes for this week and do not forget to check the review section soon!

Multicultural Britain

June 06, 2017 Lilli Lehmann

It is nearly 10 years ago, since I touched the British ground for the first time. As a child London was just amazing and being in an international college with so many nationalities, was an once in a lifetime experience. This was something, I never accoutered in the german countryside. To see all the nationalities living side by side and walking along the various stalls at the markets and try to trade with the traders in a language, I still tried to learn. Well, the language. For me the English language bound together all this multiculturalism I started loving so dearly. Over the years I luckily improved my English and followed my dream and moved to the UK.

Does it fullfill my expectation? Or did I follow a daydream, that I could find home in this country? Well, I definitive fond home, but of course not all of my assumptions have been true. I always saw the U.K. as a place, where you are free to be and wear what you want to be and no one would judge you. This culture of no- judgement… I have to admit, I do not think it exists in any country. To realize this, is probably the hardest thing I will ever admit. Maybe one day, we will be like this.

What has changed was not so much my surrounding. I changed changed. People are still judging, but they judge me less. They feel like they cannot, because they do not how much it is my cultural background and how much it is me. I do not know what gives the idea, that they know more about someone from the same country. How many people do you know the background story of when you pass them by? Daily we pass by so many and we know nothing about them. On a party, a friend of me quoted a film and it got stuck in my head: “Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind.”

This is the part of my and my wrong assumptions. What really happened is, that I definitively found a home. I feel very good and very much like me truest self here. I do not know if – as soon as I speak another language- I could not find home in a different country as well. At the moment France is tempting me as well. One thing what makes the UK this unique place, are the different cultures. My UK experience is only so amazing, because I meet so great people here. In my friend hood we have all nationalities and I am grateful, that I meet them. Without the people (and you can find them in every country) it would not be the same and I would probably not love it as much as I do. To know, that I have my friends who I can trust and rely on and share happy moment and sad. This is very special. So far away from our families, we are on lookout for each other. Like everyone knows: friends are the family we choose.

Monday Morning Vibes

September 24, 2017 Lilli Lehmann

The summer holidays and the summer are gone. This means: back to your ordinary, daily life. Personally I had nearly 3 1/2 months off and at the beginning I was scared how I will fill all these days with productive content. Now - 3 1/2 months later - I cannot believe how fast the time passed by! Most of the time I actually was productive and I definitive cannot complain... but... am I ready for more university? I do not know. Maybe if I get up to one of the songs, which will eventually remind me of my free time in London...

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June 26, 2017 Lilli Lehmann

A new week means this time also a completely fresh start. This summer a lot of debuts are taking place. I guess I am not the only student who's new flat was ready to move in on 1st of July. A new flat and the obligatory move is a lot of work, first of all. Between packing boxes and managing a transport the joy about finding and starting a new home needs time to grow. Now after 11 boxes are in my flat and are waiting to be unpacked, I kind of start seeing the light on the end of the tunnel. This new flat, in a completely new neighbourhood, with s new grocery store and a different distance to university and gym, will be mine. With pictures and my stuff it will represent my personality soon. Pretty much every home presents their owner in an unique way. My last flat had this little extra, where I loved being and spending time in. According to unpacking boxes and moving around furniture for the ideal use of space.... this work commands a decent song. So for everyone who is starting new as well: turn up the music for your neighbours and enjoy these tune! 

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June 26, 2017 Lilli Lehmann

Sometimes we need to flee from the hectical and busy big city and our cluttered daily lifes to find back to ourselves and refocus. This moment of recollecting is very precise and I realized that spending time in a different surrounding can be very helpful. At the moment - when I lift my head from my screen to the window - I can only see woods and the sea in some distance. It is weird that the radio of my landlady is louder then any traffic. Here are no planes, trains or sirens. It is very quite. This new atmosphere and the fresh air I can breathe in, requires a matching song. Even if you are not on holiday and still in your daily surrounding, just close your eyes and listen to this song. Imagine you could be anywhere in the world... where would you choose to be? 

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June 11, 2017 Lilli Lehmann

The lights of the city are flashing and the stars twinkle: it is another sunday night and before I start mourning about how fast my weekend past by, I want to look forward. A new and exciting week is on the doorstep and you never know what might happen. Maybe this new week will become the best week of my life? (I highly doubt that.) Anyway let's see which song will be set as our alarm and which beat will sustain us by slurping our three cups of coffee in a couple of hours. Am I actually the only one who gets upset when my alarm tells me how many hours of sleep I will get? Well, now I can count the hours until Woodland of "The Paper Kites" will wake me up! Enjoy!

Mondy Morning Vibes

June 05, 2017 Lilli Lehmann

It is another Monday morning and I am on my train to work. As you could always expect, it is raining and really windy. If today is a Sunday, I would have stayed in bed with a hot cup of tea and just watched the rain dripping down the window. So I am sharing the train with a couple of elderly ladies who are probably on a road trip and they are more then happy and enthusiastic. Enthusiasm is something what makes people interesting. Sadly I cannot listen to YouTube and to write something on my pad, so I stopped listening to my new favorite album. For you guys and this raining morning, I have a special recommendation. So when you are still in bed, cuddle up and close your eyes. When you are on the train or in your car, listen up: here comes:

Monday Morning Vibes

May 28, 2017 Lilli Lehmann

Only a few hours are left from the weekend and it is time to face the ichy feeling and reality: it will be monday soon. Now you think: that cannot be. Again? Another one?

The beginning of a new week can be exciting or scary. I will start a new job tomorrow. Am I scared? Or excited? At the moment I have planned to be in a fantastic mood, when I arrive at work. Well... let's see to what song I will wake up! So when you set your alarm and your phone is telling you exactly how many hours of sleep you will get, do not bother. If you jump out of your bed with these tunes, your monday morning will get a good mood boost, you would have never imagined!

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