Fear of missing out: the anxiety to miss something whilst doing something else. Fear of focus: the anxiety to focus, because you might miss something wilst doing something else. Fear of focus is a niche in Fear of missing out. fof = fomo, but fomo ≠ fof. Fear of focus …
If you do the daily work, you’ll notice that progress comes with the process. I have this habit already a couple of months with all the content I create, only to notice today that I hugely appreciate it: working a day ahead. All my posts that are strong and stress …
In Black Friday week the webshop Logistics partners still aren’t used to the insane crowds ordering best priced deals. It occurred to me that even though webshops and even trade associations advertise for this with “Late warnings”, consumers act like it’s a normal week. We consumers still expect to have …
The Butterfly Effect is derived from chaos theory, and one way explain it is by giving the example that the flapping of a butterfly in once place can result in a tornado elsewhere, several weeks later. Do you remember what you were doing today a year ago? Scroll back in …
“Normal is already crazy enough.” That’s Dutch slang. It’s a culture thing. It’s shallow and deep at the same time. Slang is bold and subjective. Specific language for a certain group of people, behaving a certain way. People like us doing things like this. What marketers can learn from slang …
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. -Saying
Last weekend I have released my anti-stress journal Collectie van Rampen. Launching a first book is like throwing your first newborn-party: everyone is happy for you, you show something to the world that is intensely dear to yourself and you don’t have a clue what the life of it is …
What’s a better way to start off a book (baby birth) than celebrating the birth with close friends and family? I don’t know. This is what I experienced this weekend and I’m so incredibly proud, thankful and overwhelmed with fulfilment about my book and book launch and all the messages …
I believe in routines, like close to religion belief. To me, I unconditionally believe that if you make progress every day, you will eventually grow beyond what you can see, imagine or even dream on day one. Progress is the currency in learning. Today I am publishing the last blog …
The difference between a task manager and a backlog is that we think a task manager provides us with structure in our planning and acting. Few task managers do, because it’s not the tool that provides us. It’s the process around it. A backlog is really reeeeally low maintenance, a …