Reinier van Eijk

It’s our moments of struggle that define us.

Because we can’t deal with a potential negative future. And what we all do is: We search for hope, expecting it to come to us, and cling onto any piece of good news. What’s more impactful instead is creating hope ourselves, by making a plan B and deploying it.

…We’ve seen this before. …Going through crises and discovering there’s a life after. …Taking things seriously, but not too seriously. …The ability to see things from a distant perspective …Having a vision on how to deal …Balance Above all experience is something that comes after times. You can enhance it …

Behind letting go of stories why we may eat is our slim posture. Behind letting go of sadness, frustration and angee is our happiness. Behind letting go of distraction is our focus. It’s time to learn that skill of letting go, instead of heavily focusing, to get where we want …

Now that we’re homebound, we have no choice but seeing each other more often. And that’s great, but new rules apply. New communication paths are developed. Before, we had the opportunity not to communicate for the larger part of the day: simply because we didn’t see each other physically. Now …

I think I’ve never shared this before, but as you may read between the lines of blogs I’m quite an undertaker regarding personal life optimization. Amongst things I’ve tested are the 5AM club, running every morning, intense breathwork (wim hof method), cold showers every morning, hot baths, saunas, meditation (several …

We can live life in maximums. We aim for the moon, shoot for the stars. But what if we sought for progress. For the small steps. The one only next step. For the minimum viable? What would minimum viable social media mean? And minimum viable news? Minimum viable eating? We …

It’s as interesting as it is depressing to see how much time and energy people are spending on topics they have zero (potential) impact on, as opposed to utilizing their potential (Time x Energy) to start changing things for the better. Sharing worthless thoughts multiplies worthlessness. Changing things for the …

We are gatekeepers of our own thoughts. Just as we’re gatekeepers of our bodies. We don’t allow strangers to touch random parts of us. Of course not. But do we act as gatekeepers of our thoughts? If you grab your phone and open a news or social app, that’s the …

I’ve prompted it endlessly to myself. But need to read back sometimes. I write this as much to you as to myself. Coffee does this to me. It activates my mind. That activates me to drink more coffee. That in turn makes me restless and makes me drink more coffee. …