Imagine a good friend having a hard time. You walk up to her and put an arm around her. You comfort her. It’s okay. Don’t be so hard on yourself. Give yourself a bit of slack. What about when the good friend is not that friend, but it’s you yourself. …
The conversation you go in, with the goal to get out. And this is what might help. Know thy why Understand why you are going in, what you are defending or trying to accomplish and why it’s a good idea to do that. Knowing yourself is the way to open …
Let me get straight to the point: I have a schizophrenic relationship with coffee. At times, I love it deeply ánd I hate it intensely. I love the taste, the smell, the thought of it, the warmth, the cosy feeling it gives me. I hate the chain reaction of hormones …
A moment of truth: ’the decisive point in the progress of a disease’. A turning point: ‘vitally important or decisive state of things, point at which change must come, for better or worse’. Crisis. It’s when we would say, the situation is untenable. Did you make scenario’s, for the point …
You may know that as of December ’19 I’ve dramatically minimized my social media use. Except for messaging apps. Here’s what I’ve learnt: This saves me 3-6 hours a week in time, and I honestly believe 6-12 hours in mind-space (ability for focused attention). I don’t crave my smartphone – …
Without a .nl-extention (amazon.de), Amazon was already the 6th online retailer in turnover in The Netherlands. From 2012 there were rumors, “Amazon will come to The Netherlands”. March 10, 2020 marks a new era in the craft of Dutch online retail. Facebook got Hyves on its knees in 2013 when …
I was wrong about Corona. It transmits 1-3 days before you feel sick and that’s a dark spec of a virus. We simply can’t stop it from transmitting. My simple conclusion is a prediction: We won’t be able to stop COVID-19 from transmitting in 2020 and probably beyond. We can …
Often random is computerized random. Random is illogical. Random is unexpected. Random is weird. You don’t know what is random, until you actually encounter random. Some time ago I got involved in creating a daily 5-minute podcast for podcasters around the globe. You can find it here. The pod’s are …
If there was no budget, what would you spend? If there was no deadline, when would you be done? If you had no target, how would you perform? If you could be anywhere, where would you be? If you could do anything, what would you do? If only after the …
Sometimes stuff is frustrating. You had a great plan. Your execution was great. But still you encountered a problem and failed. Last Monday I had this problem. I went home far too late, whilst I actually wanted to go home early. The odds weren’t in my favor. First I was …