Trust your intuition.

Your intuition is a gift. In India it is called the third eye, or the way to see with your soul.

This means you have to go inside for certain answers. Not inside your head, but inside your heart. Inside your soul. There most of the time the answer is. 

Keep on trusting your true self, it will help you to make your dream and your goals come true.

How can we make a better experiment?

Every time you are doing something new, it is an experiment. 

So, when this is true, the question should be: What will we learn from this?

Most of the time the outcome of an experiment has to be a quantitative outcome like a number of products sold, designed or developed. 

But actually when you are doing something new, the outcome should be: 
"What did we learn?"

Keep on experimenting, and by doing so, learning.

Expectations.

With a positive attitude you will always be pleasantly surprised.

Try to stop expecting things to be a certain way, so you can appreciate them for what they are.

Take your responsibility.

If something is not right, or something needs to change in your life, take responsibility on it.

You are the only one who can make the change. 

Do not come up with the old song: "I do not have a choice". 
By saying this you relieve yourself from every responsibility. 
You let go of control over your life. 

Do not give up. Keep on caring. For you.

What is your company's purpose?

The purpose of a company needs to be outward looking. The day's of an inward purpose are over. More profit, more market share etc. does not work.

What do the customers really desire? What do they really need? What does this world really need?

And, the companies and businesspeople who are the most successful in this, are the ones who have clear and good core values themselves. And large ambitions. 

Try to ask yourself this question: " Who must we fearlessly become?"

How much of my life story do I write?

Trap: the fiction of somebody else becoming your life's story.

Stay strong. You are powerful and capable enough. 

What should we stop doing?

Do you ever ask yourself this question? It is an uncomfortable question.

Most of the time we ask ourselves what we should start doing. Immediately.

Most of the time we do stuff which takes a lot of energy and actually is not serving us, or the project we are working on. By starting something new next to that, it only becomes harder.

So, the saying: "kill your darlings" could be very fruitful to do. And hard also, because we do not like to kill our darlings. Because once they where THE new thing to do, the starters.

But by stop doing certain stuff, it also means you have more time to do the things you want to do. And maybe also something new.

A healthy Ego.

The overall idea I hear most of the time is that ego is bad. A big ego. It can damage you and the ones around you.

OK. Lets stop pretending. In the name of being humble. Everybody has a bit of an ego. And, ego's give us strength and pride. Which is not necessarily bad. Being proud on what you did accomplish is good. Ego also makes it possible for others to connect to your ideas and make it happen for themselves.

I think most of the time when ego is being discussed negatively, the discussion is actually about narcissism. Which is something else. Narcissist are roaring about heir achievements, and they are most of the time on a power trip. They do not show love for either themselves or others.

I would say: bring out the ego. It brings out confidence, and appreciation about the success of others without feeling threatened.

What is it you would do if money was no issue?

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

(Quote by Gloria Steinem)

Sometimes you have to be pissed off first. Because we are hard learners, most of the time.

For example: you build up a relationship with a colleague, co-worker, or client. You think it is based on mutual caring about the same thing, the same project, the same company. And because you believe we care together, for the same things.

And then you are confronted with the reality. That the people you believed in are in it for a different reason. Not for sharing and bringing, but only for taking.

Then you have one power left: end it. 

Take your learning out of that experience. And approach the new situation as open as you can. With the learning of your former experience.

It will make you better. A better person.

What is your story?

The major question I try to ask myself when I am telling a story is: why to tell this specific story? What does it add for me, and the one(s) listening?

Try to ask yourself this question. It is a hard one. 

What is the belief which is burning in you to tell this story? It might be clear for yourself, but is it clear for the listener(s)? 

Because the burning belief why to tell your story is the heart of the story. And it should be.

One of my motto's in life.

Surround yourself with amazing people. 

You will become who you surround yourself with.

Be proactive about what you want. 

If you want to reach something in life, you have to move. To be active. Proactive.

Meaning that when there is a spark of wanting something in your life to appear or to happen, you have to take yourself off the couch and start moving.

Or, as I read once: Laziness and apathy are diseases.

Don't be ill. 

It will cost you nothing to dream, and everything no to.

and than: start working on them.

Lack of passion is fatal.

In the newspaper I read that almost 60% of the people going to work actually do not want to go to their work. 

60% of these people have "external" drivers, mostly financial ones, like mortgage, holiday's, a new car or something else external as a driving force to go somewhere in the morning, while honestly they do not want to go there.

I was looking around on the highway to Amsterdam and counted 10 cars, off which 6 drivers did not want to be there according the article in the newspaper. (It would save us a lot of traffic jams was my first thought)

How is it possible one is spending all, or part of his or her professional life, going somewhere they do not really want to be. Driven by an externally force.

That is why, in the end, it goes wrong with so many organisations in this world. They are driven by 60% workers who do not want to be there. 

That's why a lack of passion is fatal. Find your one reason in life what makes you cry, die or fly, and go for it. In this one precious life you have. 

It will make your and our world a far better place.

Step Into Fear and Take Action.

For change to happen you do have to take action. Be courageous, take risks and step into opportunities. Which can be fearful. Because you do not know the outcome. 

Stepping into action is fearful. Because you don't know the outcome. But, it is not about the outcome. That's what we have been teached. It is about the process. And when you focus on the process, to be committed on the process, the outcome will be good. The best.

Take consistent action and stay focused on the way of being. Then you will bring your desired reality to life. 

And, the Universe will lend you a helping hand to make opportunities possible.

Set a good example.

It is about how you live your life. Every day. Not about what you say you are going to do.

People are watching you all the time. They see what you are doing. It means less what you are saying. The doing means a lot more. 

I believe that one can, and also will change lives of the people around you by what you do. Each day. 

And by doing, you will change things. Your life, and the ones of the people around you.

Be sincerely kind to everyone around you.

When being kind you create confidence. 

When you give kindly, you will create love around you. 

When you think kind, you will create positivity.

These three ways of kindness I read somewhere. I think it is true. 

When being kind you can make a difference. It rarely happens that your partner comes home and tells you that it was so bad he met kindness that day. Everybody wants to be treated kind. 

And, kindness will bring out more kindness. And it will make you grow stronger. 

Always be transparent.

As an organisation this is a major important point. Every team, every employee should know about what is going on in the company. 

By facilitating full transparency they start living and breathing the company or project. By having access to all the information they know what is happening, and by far most important: what should happen. What they should make happen.

A honest working environment brings security. That they know, or can know, everything what is going on.

And, when there is bad news to share, it does not come as a shock. It also brings in responsibility of employees and possible taking initiative into their own hands.

Trust is a very important base for this. And, if you trust yourself, you should also trust your team.