Reinier van Eijk

Battles are fought on all kinds of battlefields. They have one thing in common: they are won in bed with our eyes closed.

A good friend of mine confronted me last year with the fact that my car costs me about 20% of my monthly income. I find that way too high. What percentage of your yearly income is your debt? And what your savings? What percentage is your mobility? What percentage special/occasional …

Since a couple of days I have the SkillMentor app installed. It prompts once a day with a desired action on a skill I want to develop. This week it prompts “think for yourself” – Dalio’s first principle. Every time it prompts, this message reaches news depths with me. And …

I’m studying recent and older (life) work of investor and entrepreneur Ray Dalio. To discover his radical (and successful) vision on multiple aspects in life. He works his way through life, curious and often with a different view than the status quo / masses / accepted truth. One of the …

In every joke there’s a pain (in elk geintje zit een pijntje). That’s a Dutch saying. And we can take that beyond joking. Every tip – advice that wasn’t asked for – contains a need. Projection. Let’s figure out how this helps you or confronts you. I’m curious.

You can be in a busy city center or in a retreat. You can be very poor or owning an island? You can be an athlete or physically disabled. Mind is mind, and you will experience everything in life through that. We have the opportunity to be aware every single …

Don’t compliment yourself for other people’s choices. Don’t hate other people for your own choices.

When I was meditation, Bernice called me from downstairs. And she called again, harder. … Instant frustration. There was a spider on the dresser. I had to immediately fix it. After all, spiders are life threatening here in The Netherlands (not…). I caught the spider, let it outside and when …

One day, someone decided that waiting on the phone requires a waiting music. No one asked me. They just appear automatically when I call certain numbers. Mostly customer service. Actually, always when I call customer service. Isn’t it time to rethink this? Selection menu’s, waiting music. How about this When …

When you let go of annoyance and frustration, you acknowledge having full control over things is an illusion. Doing this frees up your mind to actually change things.