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Life

33 things to be thankful for

Posted on Utrecht, The Netherlands

Yesterday was my 33rd birthday and it gave me the idea to write down 33 things to be thankful for:

  1. A loving family
  2. Great loyal friends all over the world
  3. A healthy body
  4. Freedom to go wherever I want
  5. The wonderful adventures I’ve been on so far
  6. Working with my own business Webpuccino®
  7. The tools I have for my work, like a Macbook pro and noise cancelling headphones
  8. My dream bookcase
  9. Coffee
  10. Starbucks
  11. Good music
  12. Creativity
  13. The gym
  14. Meditation
  15. Disney
  16. Having food on the table every day
  17. A home cinema
  18. Fresh leaf tea
  19. Beautiful nature
  20. TV shows that make you laugh
  21. Online courses to learn new things
  22. Pizza
  23. Living in a nice city
  24. Weekends
  25. A big comfortable bed to sleep in
  26. Ice cream
  27. Creative people to work with
  28. Being able to make phone calls all over the world
  29. Bullet journalling
  30. Christmas time
  31. Being able to read and communicate in multiple languages
  32. My programming skills
  33. Future adventures
Life

The real you

Posted on Utrecht, The Netherlands

The real you is strong and powerful beyond imagination

The real you is creative and inspired

The real you is positive and optimistic

The real you doesn’t know fear

The real you has many dreams and unlimited potential

The real you is full of life and energy

The real you is here and now

The real you is connected to all

Life

What do you expect?

Posted on Amsterdam, the Netherlands

For quite a while now I’m a bit struggling with the mundane of life. In the mornings I wake up early, go to the gym and then to work for the rest of the day. In the evening I cook dinner, watch some tv and before I know it’s time to go to bed again. Even though I do my best to make days different by working at several locations, it still feel often that most days look the same and the desire for breaking out of that grows by the day.

Life, Motivation

Change your beliefs

Posted on Utrecht, The Netherlands

In my last post I wrote about how you can live your best life. Doing the things that you find important is a good start, but I realised that I didn’t mention one more important thing: changing your beliefs. When you start out with adjusting your daily habits you might fail some days and it’s easy to beat yourself up for it or just give up all together. To keep going, you have to alter the way you think about it.

Life, Motivation

How to live your best life

Posted on Utrecht, The Netherlands

Last weekend I went to Dublin with my dad. It had been on our list for a few years and we finally did it. It was a great weekend together with going to Irish pubs, visiting the Guinness factory and Trinity College and doing a beautiful hike along the coast. I could write some travel tips for Dublin now, but my favourite part was just spending some quality time together and enjoying being abroad for a couple of days. What I want to write about now is the challenge of getting back to normal life this week.

Life

Lessons on the journey of life

Posted on Zandvoort aan Zee, the Netherlands

It’s challenging to maintain a travel blog when you’re not traveling continuously. Fortunately – how cheesy it may sound – I’m still on the journey of life and I can write about that as well. Today I want to write about the ups and downs of life and how I’m learning to deal with that.

I do my best to enjoy this journey of life as much as I can, but at the same time I’ve been struggling for years with depression, self-doubt and worries about the future. Not continuously, but from time to time there are dark days that are challenging to get through. As I read a lot and watch videos about it, I learn more and become better in dealing with it. Here are some of the lessons I’ve learned so far.

Life

The antidote for stress: vacation mode

Posted on Schiphol Airport, the Netherlands

Before I went on my journey to America I sometimes suffered from stress. Being an entrepreneur means that you have to think about a lot of things. It’s not simply working from nine to five, but it goes always on, at least in your mind. Going on a real vacation helped me breaking free from that and when I got back I noticed that one thing was different: I didn’t have any stress anymore. Now I’ve been back for three weeks and there have been moments that stress tried to get back into my life, but every time I notice it, I take a break and be in the moment.

This morning I thought about writing a blog about dealing with stress and a while later when I was in the train and listened to the latest episode of one of my favourite podcasts. It turned out to also be about stress. You can listen to it here. I don’t believe in coincidence, so without further ado is here my advice on dealing with stress.

We seem to be living in a faster time than ever before. We multitask a lot and there are hundreds of things each day calling for our attention.

Life

Time for a new adventure

Posted on Utrecht, The Netherlands

I’ve had several blogs in the past. One of them is of my first journey in the United States in 2011 where I traveled for 80 Days in America. Another one is the blog of my adventure in New Zealand in 2017. These websites contain the stories of beautiful journeys I’ve made and are full of good memories. I think that writing blogs while traveling is a nice way to stay connected with other people and to share experiences.

Next week I travel to America again. Unlike some previous trips, I won’t do much work this time so I can focus more on the journey. In line of that I was thinking not to write a blog either, but last week I realised that I would probably miss it. I love to write and it also helps me experience traveling in a different way. Traveling alone is a great way to discover the world and life and more about yourself, but it’s also nice if you can share your stories.