To share or not to share when you are facing difficulties?
- Sustainable Many leaders and high potentials keep doubts and difficulties completely to themselves. We would suggest a more nuanced approach… Opening up has some advantages…
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3 tips to catch up when you have too much to read
- Sustainable Here are 3 tips you might consider worthwhile to catch up on your reading, with impact.
5 tips to deal with rejection
- Sustainable Whether it is your idea that is rejected, or you as a person that feels excluded – rejection is never an easy thing. Yet it is part of life. Here are 5 tips to help you positively deal with rejection.
Book review: ‘The Power of Moments’ by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
- Leadership / Sustainable Being able to create memorable moments (also known as defining moments) is not something ‘blurry’. Chip and Dan Heath, the authors of this book, have identified the 4 key components of memorable moments. Throughout the book, they provide very pragmatic advice on how to put these components into implementation so you too can proactively create those magic moments.
When can you call yourself ‘successful’?
- Sustainable What is your definition of success? To have the highest status? To be first percentile in every area of life? Life has taught us that one can have a high status yet not feel successful. Here’s a definition of success that helps you live the life you desire the most.
How to make trade-offs that you feel comfortable about
- Sustainable Making difficult trade-offs is so frustrating. It takes a lot of time, often there’s that nagging feeling of doubt, sometimes even guilt, and all of that for an undesired end result: choosing ONE of two options whereas you wanted BOTH. The other day we had one of those typical dilemma’s. We had planned to speak … Continued
To live without loving is not really to live
- Sustainable Molière died of tuberculosis at the age of 51, while on stage in the middle of a live performance of, precisely, Le Malade Imaginaire. Yes, imaginaire. Imagine Molière could have doubled his longevity, that is, living 100 years. How many more genious-pieces would his intelligence and imagination have created? Mozart would correct me, arguing that “Neither intelligence nor imagination, nor both together, go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
Are you a ‘sousou’ or a ‘vivi’ person?
- Sustainable People that thrive and feel at full potential tend to be ‘vivi’.Those who are not fulfilled tend to be ‘sousou’. Let us explain.
Book review: ‘End of Stress’ by Don Joseph Goewey
- Sustainable Learn more about this book providing a program to change from ‘easily stressed’ to ‘rarely stressed’.
3 tips on how to react in difficult situations
- Sustainable Most, if not all of us, have our moments of doubt. Perhaps we wonder whether our own actions and results were ‘good enough’. Or we are critical of others’ efforts. The right course of action is not obvious. We hesitate what to do and how to react. Here are a couple of tips to help guide you in your reflections.