Motivating myself to do nothing. It sounds like a contradiction, but I need willpower to do nothing. Not grabbing for my phone to watch a video, open socials or message apps. It costs me energy not to. It shows my sickening addiction to triggers. From other people, from technology, and …
Prioritizing above all is making a choice for yourself, first. To know and act upon your own highest need. To realize that’s to be prioritized above all else. When someone else’s priority not just demands your energy, but is ready to be your highest priority: That’s when you should give …
Some time ago, the conversation about ‘climate’ has become one about truths and untruths. A political debate. The debate is about emission, pollution, clouds, temperature is or is-not rising, poles are or are-not getting smaller than ‘normal’ nature behavior, complying or not complying with Paris agreements. The conversation at dinner …
Most people tend to focus on busywork. Take any new customer. Accept any invitation. Execute all parts of a plan simultaneously. Instead of any, focus on priority. What is currently the utmost priority to create success? Stop doing the rest. Do that thing, even if it’s for the whole day, …
Imagine a mailbox where incoming mail would not fall on the top of the pile, but at the exact spot where its priority is. What would be on top of your pile right now, if you had such mailbox? De stapel Stel je voor dat je een mailbox had waar …
Instead of a to-do list, today make a success list. Create your to-do list just as usual. Cross out 80% of the tasks that not today are going to help you build your success. From that 20% left, cross out another 80%. Are you crossing out short-, or longterm tasks? …
What is the purpose of analysis? A. ActionB. Decide not to take action For whoever the information is. That’s it. The purpose of any analysis must therefore also be to take action or to decide not to take action. The purpose of this insight is to use the time that …
The pictures on booking.com, of two hotels, show a great inflatable giant unicorn, floating in the pool. At hotel 1, this image was confirmed on arrival. Awesome. Happiness increased! At hotel 2, a black swim band and an inflatable ball float in the pool. No unicorn. No harm done. But …
Taking a distance provides perspective. My vacation has given me a lot of perspective this month. Like every time. The easiest thing after a vacation is to pick up everything again as it went. Despite the new insights. Keeping distance while you are physically present again is the biggest challenge. I …
Today is my 30th birthday. There is one lesson that 30 years conclude. Be and love yourself, in the end it’s all you have.