The Corona virus outbreak in China scares me. In 1918-1920 the Spanish Flu killed 100.000.000 people. A hundred million. Let that sink in. HIV and AIDS killed over 30.000.000 people from the 1960’s now. The SARS and MERS coronaviruses were amongst the most dangerous in the 21st century and both …
Our daughter has a timer-sheep now in her bedroom. The light turns ‘red’ and sheep closes its eyes – with a ferm click sound – at 7:30PM. And the thing opens its eyes, the light turns ‘green’ and sais “meehhh” at 6:15AM. Last week we placed the thing in her …
Wow, and time has flown. Today it’s Emily’s birthday! She already knows how to put up 2 fingers and show that she’s 2 years old… She also knows how to say ‘no’ at every idea I have, to say ‘poo’ instead of ‘peanut butter’ on her bread. From zero to …
Kids play all the time. They experiment. And we adults encourage them. We’re incredibly happy when they showcase a new skill. Even though they need the upcoming 10 or 20 years of polishing that skill until it’s mature. We are their biggest fans. When we encourage kids, they learn that …
We happen to raise our – two years minus a couple days – daughter a screen minimalist, at least until she goes to primary school. She happens to love reading books, play with toys, do puzzles, role play stuffed animals, crafting, play wit her mini-kitchen, dance and just hang out …
When I get stressed. I speed up: speaking, having less patience and I want to move faster physically. I lose oversight. I tend to jump in instead of zooming out. It would help me to find a different routine. Zoom out. Declutter stuff. Get back to my WHY and if …
Not back to the future. To me, selling my book is one of the things I flee for. I have created this remarkable anti-stres journal ‘Collectie van Rampen’. I just have a hard time by the idea of selling. I’m a bit insecure of what people might think of the …
It’s patterns that just like the motor in a car fuel our behavior. We can know and recognize the behavior and then optimize accordingly. But patterns are deep rooted. You would not even recognize one when you see one right in front of you. Because you’re too close to the …
Since I’ve written on domains two weeks ago, I more actively start thinking accordingly. Actually it’s in my mind every day. As if there are domains in life, and I need to master them. Find the key to mastery, but what is that? What I find is that it’s not …
I’m a positivist. To me that’s looking at what goes well, and not spending too much energy on stuff that doesn’t go well. Focusing my energy on that what gives energy. My coach always tells me that every once in a while I should look at the ‘negative energy things’ …