Categorie: Reinier’s blog

In Asian martial arts it’s good practice to use other people’s offensive energy to first go with the move and then use that move and energy to attack your opponent. There’s a life lesson somewhere in there.

Some days you didn’t notice anything special. Those days, at least choose to be present and notice you noticed nothing. Reflection is a valuable thing, even if it seems there’s nothing there.

In conversations I’m often looking for parterns lately. Pulling the stuff out of the conversation, hanging it on the peg of a specific topic. When you look for domains, concepts and patterns in the bigger picture, it’s so much easier to overcome bumps in the road and make progress on …

From the childhood everyone brings patterns. Some people call them ‘rules’. The magic tasks you have to fulfill. “I cannot make mistakes” “I must take care of others before myself” And the reason to fulfill the magic task is … “otherwise I will be left alone” We don’t know the …

Yesterday I have created my first video ‘for seruous’ with my girlfriend around. It’s not that I don’t record with her around. I do, and share it with friends, family, Instagram. But this was different. I’m creating to share a story, talking into a camera. That’s currently out of my …

Do what you can. Delegate what you cannot do. But first you have to pick what to do. That’s last one is the hard part.

We have stepped into a new home in June 2016. And in three years we never fixed a CV-maintenance contract. It never entered top priority. However – at least last couple of months – we talked about it more often. The risk of non-maintenance increases bit by bit. Now I …

It’s not that candles shine more light than halogen lamps or are better than LED. It’s certainly not safer. It’s not more money efficient. Neither is it more time efficient to get done. So why do we still use this format of lighting? Probably because they give us a cosy …

When you cut the corner in a Formula 1 qualification, there’s a monitor that detects you have cut a corner. Your lap time will be deleted, as the impact that it made: Let’s say pole position is taken from you. When you cut corners in the race, you get a …

February 21st of 2019, my life changed. Bestselling author Seth Godin decided to publish a podcast named “Publish yourself”, that I listened to. On this day I started to write a book I wanted to write for a couple of years already. Had I not listened to that podcast… Today, …