White walls, brown doors. The gentle hum of the AC in the background. The interplay of light and shadows through the terrace window tells me its about 4 in the afternoon. There’s an open fantasy book I just put down on the sofa as I start trailing my thoughts...It’s Saturday morning, and I feel at peace.This is the kind of peace that most people would use a different … [Read more...]
People are awesome – Paul
“When I’m older, I want to be like Paul.”I met Paul in Bangkok last year. I took the same Airbnb this year so it’d be easier to meet him again. Paul’s a very, very unique guy, and I’m very grateful I was able to hang around him.To begin with, he’s in better shape than most 20 year-olds. And he’s in his 50s. Read that again. Look at the picture. See what I mean? He’s … [Read more...]
What matters more than money?
We have a cool little channel on Slack. It’s called # who-I-noticed. This channel is actually an adoption of a therapeutic circle I observed a few years ago when I was doing voluntary work with problematic children.It’s a small, but very powerful channel. It has some rules, and people think twice before posting there. But the result of a post there (at least for myself) is … [Read more...]
What if everything you truly wanted was already in your reach?
Yesterday around midnight, I had a long solo walk. Dressed in old jeans, a hood on top of my head and deep thoughts in it. My sole aim was to answer this simple yet difficult question:“If I was free to do anything I wanted right now, what would I do?”Before I tell you what I figured out, and how you can benefit from that, we must first go a few weeks into the … [Read more...]
Just. Start. Moving.
Alarm rings at 7.30, you wake up. Go piss. Grab caffeine pill, check the scale, vision board, do the bed. Get dressed, put on headphones, and leave the house. It’s 7.40.As you walk, listen to an audiobook. One where an expert talks about an area of the life you’re currently working on. After about 30-50min of the book on 1.6x speed and 5,000 steps later, you are back in … [Read more...]