What we do every day becomes our legacy. The contribution may be small, even very small. One minute, five minutes, ten, fifteen. Your dreams of writing that book, creating that painting, becoming a photographer, being a chef, becoming a yogi: they require just that one small effort a day to …
We all insist on playing the changing game every now and then. Whether we’re aware of this or not. Especially people living under the same roof, friends, and coworkers. Do this, do that, don’t do this, don’t do that, you’ve done this wrong, you can do that better, you better …
If you try to be a happy and aware person, enjoying as much of your life as possible, probably you’re doing one thing wrong. You’re applying 100% focus to everything you do. 50% to 80% of focus for what you do should be enough. I’m not saying you should multitask. …
Some things are without obligation, but do free things exist? A free shipping policy, is one way or another paid for with higher product-prices, lower salary and thus probably less quality personnel, lower margins and thus a less quality total product. Or something else. Subsidies are paid for by other …
This one person tells a story about this webshop that a.o. sells rucksacks. An online marketing agency that does their marketing, selling the rucksacks at a Google-cost of €20,- per sale. And that is well within the target of – to break even – €25,-. Unfortunately, over 80% of the …
The voice in your head is ultimately only talking to yourself, making up stories. Present, past, future. About winning, losing, pride, fear, fair, frustration, reality, pain, pleasure. The challenge is not silencing the voice. The challenge is being you, together with the voice. Time will keep ticking at the same …
My friend asks me something in a private chat. And because this personal message is so serious – it’s a question about one of my messages (a joke) in a ‘group’-chat -, I feel personally involved. However, I completely disengage from this friend not understanding me. And my first emotional …
I’ve received this year. Because why make my own life ‘better’, whilst there are countless others who don’t even have basic human needs. Like water. charity: water is on a mission on solving that. And from now on I’m part of their journey. Today, unlike every day, I’m confronting you …
I don’t share this often enough. We live in this world that has innumerable impulses. And I’m not talking about the color of flowers – things we experience as long as human history. I’m talking about the impulses we have every day from brands, products, and services around us. All …
People have ideas all the time. Creativity is part of being an inventive human. It’s part of evolution. But most people don’t act on the ideas, except for talking about how great they are. Many people want to be entrepreneurs, few are. Why? Because entrepreneurs, unlike others, practice (often unknowingly) the 10 …