Choosing yourself

Prioritizing above all is making a choice for yourself, first. To know and act upon your own highest need. To realize that’s to be prioritized above all else. When someone else’s priority not just demands your energy, but is ready to be your highest priority: That’s when you should give …

Climate and nature

Some time ago, the conversation about ‘climate’ has become one about truths and untruths. A political debate. The debate is about emission, pollution, clouds, temperature is or is-not rising, poles are or are-not getting smaller than ‘normal’ nature behavior, complying or not complying with Paris agreements. The conversation at dinner …

Priori-timeline

Most people tend to focus on busywork. Take any new customer. Accept any invitation. Execute all parts of a plan simultaneously. Instead of any, focus on priority. What is currently the utmost priority to create success? Stop doing the rest. Do that thing, even if it’s for the whole day, …

The pile

Imagine a mailbox where incoming mail would not fall on the top of the pile, but at the exact spot where its priority is. What would be on top of your pile right now, if you had such mailbox? De stapel Stel je voor dat je een mailbox had waar …

Success list

Instead of a to-do list, today make a success list. Create your to-do list just as usual. Cross out 80% of the tasks that not today are going to help you build your success. From that 20% left, cross out another 80%. Are you crossing out short-, or longterm tasks? …

Keeping distance

Taking a distance provides perspective. My vacation has given me a lot of perspective this month. Like every time. The easiest thing after a vacation is to pick up everything again as it went. Despite the new insights. Keeping distance while you are physically present again is the biggest challenge. I …

The first step

The only way to get something moving is to take the first step. No matter how small. Do. Get up. Go outside. Taking the first step is more difficult if you don’t know what is next. Don’t think about the next step. Take the first hurdle. Now. Today. De eerste …