Lessons of a Good Vacation
In this blog, I share with you what I have learned and discovered this summer vacation. Some things are practical, some are informative and others are more profound.
Tag: reflection
Don’t set Goals (yet)
At the end of each year, many of us get reminders to set goals or make resolutions for the upcoming year. I am encouraging you not to set goals (yet). This article has 12 questions for you to help you to reflect on the previous year. Then, you can set better and more realistic goals for the future.
What are your Strengths?
This article gives you 4 ways on to how to discover your own strengths and how you can use them to be more effective, to be more successful, to experience more fulfillment and to have more impact both at home and at work.
How Do You Celebrate (Success)?
We often think more and longer about what did not go well than what went well. That’s too bad. By celebrating (your successes) you consciously enjoy the moment and you experience more satisfaction. It motivates you to take on the next challenge. This article gives you a way to sustainable celebrate your successes and achievements.
4 Ways to Discover your Values in Life
Summary: Values play an important role in decision making and help you to live a happier, effective and engaged life, both at office and at home. There are good and bad values. This article explains what values are, how you can recognize them in your own life and how to live more in line with…
How to Experience Life more Fully & Richer
Summary: This article is about how you can live and experience life more fully & richer. This is often not the case in a world with superficial interactions where many things go fast. This article gives you a few techniques to live life more fully, for more peace, wisdom and joy. Voor Nederlands, klik hier….
Secrets of Successful Multidisciplinary Teams
Summary: Multidisciplinary teams can successfully work together if there is a good preparation of the project, if attention is given to action, interaction and reflection. This applies to professionals who are working together for a short time and for international teams who are working on a project for many years. Voor Nederlands, klik hier. I…
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 programming in BASIC. This is also one of the lines in our…
4 tips on how to deal with an embarrassing mistake
Voor Nederlands, klik hier. It was a Friday afternoon. I was sitting with my manager, another colleague and a client in the small meeting room of the office. We had been working hard to meet a deadline and one hour before the meeting, we realized that a terrible mistake had been made…. The project was…
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 to active thinking. The thing is to ask yourself…