Categorie: Reinier’s blog

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, …

Many people talk about becoming a personal brand. Only few realize they have to become a brand. Becoming a brand, amongst others, requires having a set of strong values and consistently behaving accordingly, even if it seems like no one is watching. And don’t forget the tagline. Every great brand …

There’s this State of the art new, but cosy, coffee store in the city centre of my hometown. When I was there with a friend today we ordered our coffees. The Grande piston machine hisses, buzzes and the sound of steam are familiar. My friends Latte was receiving a wonderful …

Today I’ve taken the next step into becoming less stressed about great things: important conversations, a presentation, a certain appearance. To me, nothing was more stressful than an important conversation, a presentation, or a meet-up with someone I admire. Last years I have learnt that this all is nothing to …

When we start things, that’s the moment to think about how it will end. A relationship will end in either death or separation. A start-up will end up a scale-up, or a grown-up. Projects end up being terminated either because of success or failure. Jumping ends with falling down. When …

I recently got myself into a thinking process around self pity versus discipline. Self pity on the lift side of the horizontal axis, discipline on the other. And effectiveness is highly correlated to discpline. Meaning output of tasks is low when self pity is high, output is high when discipline …