Looking for similarities
“In speech we’re all different, but in silence we’re all the same.” A quote by Andy Puddicombe, founder of Headspace.
Yogi perspective
I’ve listened to a Yogi on YouTube today and discovered a new perspective on bread. Bread is intelligent. If you give it to a man, the bread becomes a man. If you give it to a woman, the bread becomes woman. If you give it to a dog, the bread …
Responsibility
Ultimately, the highest form of freedom we can achieve may be taking responsibility for everything that happens to us. Accepting that your world has evolved into the current reality, instead of pointing the finger or blaming someone else for that reality. Realizing that the only way forward is by our …
Everything is a lot for those who don’t expect much
Two men walk into a meeting room. They sit down, talk chit chat and then get to business. I have great news, you’re going to get your bonus, even though corona hit our company very hard. the bonus will be calculated over the last quarter of 2019! – the one …
The obstacle is the way
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. -Marcus Aurelius
Making excuses
Last weeks I’ve done an intensive application process for our traineeship program. The ‘case’ that people make in the second conversation, after passing the introduction call, is way too long for the time set. Moreover it’s way too hard for the skills they have. It’s a pressure cooker. Having an …
Permission to be yourself
I’m listening to the Lessons for a rich life podcast, made by Thijs Lindhout. It’s a series of 7 podcasts, Thijs asks his interviewees to share lessons they have learnt for a rich life. One of the lessons that stuck with me after listening is the answer Zarayda Groenhart spoke …
Black Out Tuesday
Social media posts are black today. An initiative from solidarity, an act against racism, standing together. Speaking up is always an option. And therefore it’s a decision. But rarely it’s the easy decision. Rarely it’s the path of least resistance. And you will never know what happens next. It’s that …
On racism
Every once in a while racism is hot topic again. Rarely I talk about it, because I don’t want it to be there, from the deepest of my heart. I keep hoping we’re past that station as humanity. But we’re not. And although we’re making progress, it’s slow. And that’s …
mantra’s
As I’m into a new life year now, learnings from recent and further past come by. I take them with me as mantras for life. Mantras that gain new depths when I incorporate (not only consume) more wisdom in my life. Today one that stuck with me is the Socratic …