Categorie: Reinier’s blog

Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life. -Jerzy Gregorek

Consider that the iPhone was invented as iPod that you can call with. “The best iPod ever”. Only after 32 minutes in Steve’s first iPhone-Keynote speech he mentioned apps. Instagram used to be an app to share inspirational images. And now it’s the place you compulsively return to when you …

Yesterday I have shared fruit snacks with my whole office. It cost me 10 minutes to peel apples, wash the grapes and peel the mandarines. The happiness and gratitude that I created with my colleagues for this random act of kindness surprised me. It only cost me 10 minutes. What …

There’s only so much different root types of weather. Sun, rain, wind. And a combination of those or different depths. Only what is caused by this on planet earth, has an insane number of possibilities. Flooding. Rainbows. Sunsets. Wild rivers. Darkness. Wind-surfing. Antelope Canyon. And even rain at its core …

If you expect to become something, you’re likely to become that. Probably with a lot of effort. If you’re working your ass off every single day, to become that 2% better and win, you’ll win. If you don’t do nothing and you don’t get that result: you might say it’s …

Just recently I received my first f*ck you e-mail. I’ve known the concept for a while but I just never had the honor to receive one. For those of you that don’t know: a f*ck you e-mail is an e-mail that states “hey you haven’t opened our last X e-mails …

In my first week of mindfulness in 2015 I have learnt that being present isn’t the same as being aware. You can know there’s something called a presence without being there present in the moment. But this depth of presence and living you can only know and obtain this learning …

The one skill that matters in a noisy world is to filter priority and distraction. How can you filter out the important message from that one friend, when you’re scrolling through a dozen of party, cat and Kilimanjaro pictures? How can you connect and engage with the friend in need? …

It’s not the people that know how to live an exceptional life, that live it. It’s the people who use that knowledge.

Earlier this year I had a conversation with a shareholder from a Facebook-marketing tool. The meeting was about something totally different, so it was a conversation every opinion was free to come to table. He asked what tool we use with our agency, and I named the tool. It was …