Ignite your Inspiration.
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Insights to Ignite Your Inspiration Towards a Life That Lights You Up!
Pray: Four Years After Finding Faith [POEM]
How often do we prefer the road towards perceived productivity over presence? But when we honestly think about it, are we truly more productive when we arrive at work those few minutes earlier? When we skip our lunch break to get things done? When we talk or type faster?
Of course, we know the answer. It’s just that the pace of society is so easy to get caught up in.
Play: Getting Into The Habit of Having Fun!
How often do we prefer the road towards perceived productivity over presence? But when we honestly think about it, are we truly more productive when we arrive at work those few minutes earlier? When we skip our lunch break to get things done? When we talk or type faster?
Of course, we know the answer. It’s just that the pace of society is so easy to get caught up in.
Peace: What Is the State of Your Serenity? [+VLOG]
How often do we prefer the road towards perceived productivity over presence? But when we honestly think about it, are we truly more productive when we arrive at work those few minutes earlier? When we skip our lunch break to get things done? When we talk or type faster?
Of course, we know the answer. It’s just that the pace of society is so easy to get caught up in.
Presence: Slow Down, Simplify, Breathe…
How often do we prefer the road towards perceived productivity over presence? But when we honestly think about it, are we truly more productive when we arrive at work those few minutes earlier? When we skip our lunch break to get things done? When we talk or type faster?
Of course, we know the answer. It’s just that the pace of society is so easy to get caught up in.
The Power of Positivity
Positivity may not fix our problems, it does provide a different perspective on dealing with them. In addition, it turns out that a positive mindset brings a whole host of benefits: From increased life expectancy to increased creativity, from better immunity to better social skills and relations, from lower levels of stress and pain to a lower risk of mental and even physical disease. The list goes on.
The Practice of Pressing Pause
We simply need to escape our external and internal culture, that is, our mindset, from time to time. Not just on vacation, but on a daily basis. Simply said, we need to sometimes: Press Pause. Because stress, to me, brings the image of having to keep on keeping on. We can interrupt the chain of events that make up most of our days, by taking short moments to stop moving and to. simply. be.
Purpose: What Makes You Get Out of Bed Each Morning?
What does it look like when you live lit up? When you shine and glow from within? How does it make you feel?? This is a hint towards the purpose and priorities that will keep your fire burning. Yes, that inner flame that we all have. It can be lit by a spark of insight or inspiration. We receive an idea and choose to pursue it. Moments of motivation.
Unlocking The Power of Perseverance (+Top 10 Quotes)
If passion is the spark that ignites a flame on the inside, then perseverance is the breath that continues to blow, in order to let that fire grow. Perseverance is an underestimated quality. It’s the grit that brings you to your goal. That whisper on the inside saying: take. just. one. more. step. It’s the award of accomplishment after achieving the purpose you had been pursuing.
Ponderings and Perspectives on Passion
Is passion a feeling you experience on a daily basis? Do you need to blow onto your inner fire from time to time? Is it a distant memory from the past? Or are you still searching your passion (for life)? Regardless where you stand on the scale, I’d love to introduce you to a different perspective on passion which hopefully brings a lot less pressure.
A New Now: How To Continue After a Crisis?
How to move on after parts of our world have been locked down, shut down or slowed down? There is no manual on how to continue after a Covid-19 Pandemic. There's also no certainty that it is truly over. There's no clear vision of what the world will look like moving forward. But then again. Do we really need to know?
Changing One Choice at a Time
Changing behavior or aspects of our lives can seem daunting sometimes, especially if we’ve tried and failed one or many times before. That’s why I want to share with you a way of looking at change that may make it more manageable and achievable, I hope. It's about changing one choice at a time. Let’s start with a reflection moment:
How to Have Fun Working From Home
1. Start Your Day The Right Way If I could share only one advice, it would be this. The way …
Comfort in Corona Times – Continued
Meanwhile, most of us are slowly settling into this currently-new-normal and I hope you are as healthy and happy as …
Comfort in Corona Times
By now, whether or not the Corona virus is in people’s bodies, it surely is on most of our minds. …
Happy New Year!! (Poem)
Dear You, Just wanted to write you a personal post to wish you the most beautiful beginning of this new …
Embracing Emotions: Healing The Deeper Layers
Facing and embracing our emotions, especially the ones that we label as ‘negative’, is not something we’ve been taught how …
When You Are Tempted To Give Up Or Give In
This is a letter from my heart to yours, for those of you who are in transition times. Those phases …
A Leap of Faith – From Comfort to Christianity
As some of you already know, some months ago, I converted to Christianity. A change I had never, ever, ever expected myself to make in my life. It has taken me some time to share my story, but here we go, below are some milestones along the way that led to this literal leap of faith and change of heart:
The 5 Stages of Creating Change
There are phases in our lives that are quite difficult at the time, but offer powerful potential to change ourselves and our lives for the better...
Ignite Your Inner Fire!
I have a question for you: if you knew you had a fire burning inside of you… what would that …
Getting Back On Track After a Slack [Vlog]
The new is ready to unfold, deep dreams that can come true surrender what you were once toldto believe …
Free to Be Me [Poem]
“Freedom is the message here. No longer being held back by fear” Nicky de Koning This paragraph belongs to a …
Learning the Languages of Love [Blog]+[Vlog]
Author and counselor Gary Chapman states that we all have a primary love language, in other words, a way in which love is best received. When someone expresses their love to us this way, our love tank get filled and love blossoms between the two of you. When both individuals speak different love languages though, it can create many miscommunications and difficulties in relationships.