Dreams

Dreams

Summary:This article is not on how to create your dream life or realize your goals. It’s not about fantasies on how wonderful life would be if…It’s about those dreams you have at night and how they can help you live a better life with more awareness of the...
Going beyond Perfectionism in 6 Steps

Going beyond Perfectionism in 6 Steps

Perfectionism: Extreme or obsessive striving for perfection, as in one’s work. -Webster’s New World College Dictionary Voor Nederlands, klik hier. This article is about perfectionism and how to deal with it. I have decided to write it in one stretch and not to take...
Get out of your head!

Get out of your head!

Voor Nederlands, klik hier. We engineers love to use our head. It helps us to think structured and analytical. Also, it helps to make calculations, to model, make lists and predict outcomes. The command line [If…then…else] is one of the first things I learned...
The 5 minute journal

The 5 minute journal

Voor Nederlands, klik hier. -Do you think keeping a journal takes too much of your time? -Are you unsure if this will help you with your work or life? -Or you think a journal is only for the “others”?   This article provides you with a technique to write down...
Benefits of Self-Reflection

Benefits of Self-Reflection

Voor Nederlands, klik hier. In my last article I wrote that integer people reflect on the mistakes they made in order to learn from them and to act differently in similar situations in the future. Some people have asked me how to reflect. Self-Reflection is comparable...
The tree of life

The tree of life

We used to live in southern Germany for three years. The children did not speak any German so it was a big transition for them from going to a Dutch school or kindergarten to a German one. We had a great time in Germany. We made new friends and enjoyed the German way...