One of my friends told me about the Sunday assembly - what a wonderful concept! A Sunday gathering started by two comedians, Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans that realized that they wanted to do something that had all the best bits of church, but without the religion. "The Sunday Assembly is proud to fight More +
Archives for January 2015
Be the reason someone smiles today
When I walk around by myself in crowded areas I have this little game where I try to make at least 5 people smile. So today I am in London and due to the time difference I woke up an hour earlier than I needed to. When I walked out of the tube station I was pretty disoriented as I never seem to know which More +
Mr. Luther King, I have a dream too!
This morning I started the day of writing more than six A4 pages straight. I simply couldn't stop writing. Then I realized that today is the 19th of January, and I just wanted to scream out loud: "Martin Luther King… I have a dream too!" There is this vision in my head of a world where EVERYONE feels More +
You make a difference already
Born in 1975 in a rural area in the South of the Netherland I had the joy of having a "country-side" youth. I learned that if a sheep gets 3 lambs it will only feed 2 and the other one will be left to die unless someone else takes action. Already then I understood that the world can be cruel...Yet if the More +
Embrace
I fell in love with this word but really: What is it? To clasp or hold close with the arms, usually as an expression of affection: a hug To surround or enclose To include or contain as part of something broader To adopt or support willingly or eagerly To avail oneself of Eager More +
People like concepts
Browsing my way through sites on Minimalism, Simplifying and Mindfulness. Yet I haven’t quite found what I am looking for. None of the above concepts fully embrace me. I am a so called "Maximizer" (Gallup strength finder) What is the opposite of minimalist? Traditionalist (mmm odd?) Maximalist More +
What is a Life Philosophy?
If I want to make the "Embrace" concept a life philosophy perhaps I should first find out what a life philosophy actually is...So I am looking for more information and I found the blog from Marco Laberge from Ottawa, Canada. He seems to have similar questions as he posted the article A Lifestyle or a Life More +
How would you spend your last day?
So I want to start a blog, but where do I start? Clearly I have zero experience in how to actually do this. So I need to understand a lot more about blogging if I really want to pull this off. Starting with the big questions; What am I going to blog about? Who am I writing for? What do I want to say? More +
My 10 year and my 20 year goal
An inspirational email from a colleague triggered me to loop her into “my journey”. I told her about my plans to start a blog for people who want to make their world a bit better & brighter. I'd like everyone to give more compliments and the day more smiles. To truly enjoy the things they care for and More +