Inspirational Articles

Sometimes you meet someone and relax within minutes. The conversation flows, silences do not feel awkward, and you sense that you do not have to keep explaining yourself. With someone else, the exact opposite happens. They have barely said anything wrong, yet you already feel resistance. You become restless, critical or tired. Perhaps their speaking pace irritates you. Perhaps it is the way they look at you, hesitate, make decisions or seem unable to move towards anything at

On charisma, energy and Silent Authority Thought Leadership. Years ago, I met Satyanarayana Dasa Babaji in Faridabad, India. He was a spiritual teacher with followers around the world. During our meeting, he asked whether he could stay with me whenever he visited the Netherlands. What stayed with me most was not only what he said. It was the calm he radiated. There was something mystical about his presence, yet at the same time something remarkably grounded. He seemed to have

The tuning fork methodology, resonance, and the difference between attunement and compatibility. Place two identical tuning forks opposite each other. Strike one and leave the other untouched. The first tuning fork begins to vibrate visibly, setting the air around it in motion. Because the second tuning fork is tuned to the same frequency, it picks up the vibration. Without anyone touching it, the silent tuning fork begins to produce sound as well. This phenomenon is called r

As a child, you wanted to know everything. Now you mostly tell people what you already know. How curiosity gets buried beneath experience, ego and shame, and why we need to become über-curious again. In 1992, I wondered whether it was possible to create panoramic photographs that would allow people to walk digitally through a city. That does not sound particularly revolutionary today. We have Google Street View, three-dimensional maps and phones that take better pictures than

Two good friends and smart young men decided to start a fantastic adventure together. They were going to build a software company with a specific solution for municipalities, and the idea landed so well that they raised their full start-up capital through crowdfunding. Before long, they had a handful of employees and the future looked bright. Until it turned out that municipalities can be very slow when it comes to decision-making, software needs constant maintenance and bugs

A woman I have known for quite some time recently started her own business. She is smart, capable and brave enough to take the step many people keep postponing, but when we had a short session about how things were going, I could immediately feel that the beginning was heavier than she had expected. Not because she was doing something wrong, but because starting a business for the first time is not just a practical move. It is a new identity, new decisions, new risks, new exp