“Wie wil je zijn voor wie?” Business coach Ivo Ouwerkerk begrijpt Positionering tot in zijn diepste vezel. In dit gesprek praten we over positionering in het algemeen en durft Ivo ook zijn eigen positionering onderwerp van gesprek te maken. Shownotes https://www.ivo-ouwerkerk.nl
Life’s not only highs. Because highs are defined by lows. If you know what’s cold, you know what’s warm. I have learnt that when you face a low: you can complain, lower yourself, or go to work. Sometimes when you want to go to work, you tell yourself stories not …
Who asks Why a marathon is 42.195 meters? Why Queen decided Bohemian Rhapsody is nearly 6 minutes? Why Dan Carlin’s podcasts are sometimes 16 minutes and sometimes 6 hours? What’s the distance between Sun and Earth? Why did God only send 10 Commandments to Moses? Why some books need 60 …
I know a man from some digital workshops I’m involved with. So this man is amongst 15.000 people in a community. It’s quite the large community. There’s more content uploaded in one day than one man can consume in one week. He stands out, I think it’s his generosity I …
The hardest thing for us is not becoming aware of something we need to change. It’s not the changing itself either. It’s the decision to devote mind space, time and energy to it. If you decide, acting is merely a result.
One of the things that I learnt, is that changing our mind is one of the ways we can distinguish humans from computers. Better decision making is not merely considering all factors and weighing them. That a computer can do. It’s our human ability to reconsider and weigh again, a …
Task lists are not as useful as you might think. It’s not the list itself. It’s the process around it. A task list provides you with the false certainty that if you do all stuff on the list, you win. The thing is. Chances are that currently more than half …
I trust you. I trust you. I trust you. A friend sent this voice message to me this morning. Slow. Steady. And after the second time I knew a third time would come. He said it to me, as someone else said I trust you to him, and it resonated …
We tend to forget that communication is at its best when it’s voluntary. Spontaneous. Authentic. We often say “we need to” when we talk about promoting something, creating engagement, building a community. Like there’s a overarching goal. Although, what we actually intend to say is “we want to”.
If you start your day, working on things that are on the list, and end it with things that are on the list: we call that devoted. If you start your day working on things that scream ‘important’ but aren’t on the list, and end your day with things that …