For that one man, it’s that new arm chair in the living room, that he can relax on after a day of hard labor in the factory. That job by the way, that he values over everything. For that woman, it’s the sole idea that her four kids will grow …
Every person lives in cycles where things go more and less like you want them to go. It’s the outcome of the ‘system’ of your life. Systems are working this way, because there are variables and margins. Things that depend on each other and all those things have a margin …
You don’t drown by falling into the river, but by staying submerged in it. -Edwin Louis Cole
If you study inspiring people’s life work, you can enhance yours and win decades of wisdom.
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 …