Looking back with compassion
What a year 2019 has been already. I discovered an enormous amount of things about myself and about my behaviour of self-care and shaming. Without realising it, I was suffering from a depression....
And immediately adding my second keyboard here
My second Ajazz Zinc keyboard is equipped with brown key swittches and is certainly not as loud as the blue switch one. There is however definitely an interesting sound. My first impression right...
First report in my mechanical keyboard adventure
So I thank Koen for triggering my interest for mechanical keyboards all of a sudden. I never really gave it a thought until I saw him working on his Anne Pro2 keyboard with blue key switches. I am...
Beaune - the history is stunning
For years we have been saying we want to visit this place, every time we pass by Beaune on the way to La Grande Motte for our summer holiday. This year, we planned ahead and decided to go for it....
The garden shed is up
We have been planning this for years, trying to figure out how big and where we wanted to build this. We have quite some stuff we could store in a garden shed so we wanted it rather big. Yet at...
The Music is on!
I have always had a special relationship with music. I have a hard time doing anything from studying, reading, programming and even facilitating workshops without music. I started using music in...
Forgiveness is hard
Hey y’all, how are you doing? I’m enjoying the sun and some holiday feelings today. A few days ago I got into a fight with someone at work. And I feel that I’m still carrying this around. We are...
And while we are at it - join this free online training!
One of my best decisions of the last 3 years, inspired by Jurgen, was to join the leadership gift program. This is an online program and community around practising and learning more about...
I am doing great and not so much
Alright, let me start by claiming a win. I am still loosing weight and am still working out. Yay me! My keto diet is still going strong and I finally ordered a breath analyser to help me figure...
Grateful
Everyday we take thousands of decision. I’m not kidding, literally thousands of decision, every single day. I am grateful for this opportunity, the ability to choose. I have been practicing this...
Manon writes her first blog post
Our daughter (8 years old) wanted to write her essay "in copy letters". She wrote a sheet of paper and wanted to copy it on the printer so that it would turn into typewriter letters. I explained...
Ho'oponopono
This week as I was part of the European call in the leadershipgift program. And The participants of the call reminded me of a concept that I was introduced to during a personal growth track a few...
When you focus on being on "the right side", you create the reality that there has to be a wrong side
I was participating in the European leadershipgift call with some wonderful people where we discussed a wide range of interesting topics. We looked into the human nature of being angry and how...
Personal automation, I like it
The last two weeks I have spent quite some time on the train (and on the couch) figuring out how to automate a whole bunch of things. I started using zapier to make the magic happen. And by now I...
Opportunities are like fish, not pokemon
While participating in today’s application mastery call in the leadershipgift one of the participants made a really strong statement that resonated with me. We were discussing the struggle you can...
Welcome to my new journal
I just wanted to share that I am using this postache.io thingy as my new journal from now on. I’m really curious if this is going to stick but so far the experience is pretty good and light...
Blogging like this is really simple and fast
I’ve been running this little experiment for a few days now. And this is even easier than blogging on wordpress. I think this is good enough to use as my little journal. So let’s continue to run...
Evernote XL
Let’s start using shortcuts and optimise the search experience through the use of tags. Create a note and drag a set of notes into it to turn that into a table of contents. Another few insights I...
Taking the train - and parking trouble
I have a new customer in Leuven, about 5 minutes away from the train station. So I decided to take the train instead of the car. This brings quite some advantages and disadvantages. PROCONI do not...
The agile leadership introduction workshop
Last week Thursday I ran an introduction to Agile leadership workshop together with Steven Deneir. It was totally awesome to collaborate with the 20 participants of the workshop.They were in...