Life is not what crosses your eyes, ears, nor other senses. It’s what your brain makes of it. Life is not what you see in the mirror, it’s what you believe you see. 100% of your experience is formed by how you think about it. It’s time to take note …
In The Netherlands we celebrate Sint Maarten yearly in October. Halloween (it’s comparable) always existed, but never hit mainstream until the last years. It’s growing in popularity yearly here now. Becoming a cultural thing. And just as with every cultural thing there’s a time and place for it to emerge …
Gratitude, value, appreciation, sharing, ownership. Accepting where you are and looking ahead. Sometimes it feels like all wise mentors of the current and the past are trying to push us in the same direction. It’s the direction of looking at yourself for happiness and going the extra mile for the …
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. There’s so much to say for going together. But alongside the arguments for helping each other, there’s also the argument of joy. If you honour your hard wired nature to be together, life will …
For the last couple of weeks I’m writing this blog in my bed. End of the day. Because I’ve made a commitment to write a blog every day. So it’s not an option not to write. It’s so easy to squeeze the five minutes in somewhere during the day, but …
Domains are the ‘land’ of the internet. Domain extensions are countries, domains are land. And at a certain moment (theoretically and practically) the countries are full. Unlike land, it doesn’t matter in what city you are. Big, small. It’s about what you build on the land because everyone can access …
Monday morning. My colleague walks into the office, where I’m already seated for some time. “Hey, morning! Wow it’s always warm in here, isn’t it?” she says. “Morning! That could be, I think it’s quite OK, neither warm nor cold.” I reply. And I realize she has been cycling for …
Every habit can be called an addiction and vice versa. The trouble is: habits grow you, addictions demolish you. Habits we usually call behavior we know we show routinely that is productive or ’the right thing’ (don’t mix this up by saying that all habits are easy). Addictions we usually …
Is easy and fun talk. It’s affirming you are better than someone else. But you don’t need that. Why would you? Gossip isn’t productive or constructive. It doesn’t change things for the better. If you catch yourself gossiping next time, instead look at yourself. If you can’t make the change …
I’ve seen videos and podcasts of UFC (MMA) coach Trevor Wittman, the coach of some really great fighters. He sais some things that resonate deeply with me and one of the things is this. “I don’t demand things from my athletes. I never tell them what to do. I just …