Reinier van Eijk

We so often tell ourselves that it’s the conditions that matter. Whether that video is in 4K or the length of our video is right. Or that hair we check in the mirror. That frame that takes ages to get insta-perfect. Things that matter never need picture perfect. They need …

Sometimes it’s the actual progress. That medal. Sometimes it’s the process of making progress, regardless of what was actually done. And sometimes it’s being together, having the same dream and working towards that. Whatever it is. Winning is something to live for.

Be there where you are. Go there where you dream about. Not the other way around.

In Asian martial arts it’s good practice to use other people’s offensive energy to first go with the move and then use that move and energy to attack your opponent. There’s a life lesson somewhere in there.

Some days you didn’t notice anything special. Those days, at least choose to be present and notice you noticed nothing. Reflection is a valuable thing, even if it seems there’s nothing there.

In conversations I’m often looking for parterns lately. Pulling the stuff out of the conversation, hanging it on the peg of a specific topic. When you look for domains, concepts and patterns in the bigger picture, it’s so much easier to overcome bumps in the road and make progress on …

From the childhood everyone brings patterns. Some people call them ‘rules’. The magic tasks you have to fulfill. “I cannot make mistakes” “I must take care of others before myself” And the reason to fulfill the magic task is … “otherwise I will be left alone” We don’t know the …

Yesterday I have created my first video ‘for seruous’ with my girlfriend around. It’s not that I don’t record with her around. I do, and share it with friends, family, Instagram. But this was different. I’m creating to share a story, talking into a camera. That’s currently out of my …

Do what you can. Delegate what you cannot do. But first you have to pick what to do. That’s last one is the hard part.