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When Did You Go from Entrepreneur to Guardian of Your Own Success?
An entrepreneur I coached had a successful business. He had once been a highly successful sales manager who could sell almost anything to anyone. Impeccably dressed, a sleek Audi outside and a career that appeared to be heading in exactly the right direction. The future looked bright. Yet he had been carrying an idea around with him. I cannot reveal what that idea was. The market is distinctive enough that it would probably be quite easy to identify him. What I can say is tha
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The Energy Grid: Why Some People Draw You In While Others Instantly Irritate You
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
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Natural Authority: Why Some People Change a Room Before They Say a Word
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
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Why Someone Can Feel Right Immediately Yet Still Not Be Right for You
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
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Curiosity: Why We Would Rather Be Right Than Ask Questions
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
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Before a business conflict can be resolved, the real pain has to come to the surface
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
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Flow for Entrepreneurs: Why Calm Focus Is a Skill, Not a Mood
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
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How to Turn Uncertainty into Fuel: Why Positive What Ifs Create Movement
How to Turn Uncertainty into Fuel You know that feeling. That quiet question that shows up when the house is still and your brain finally has room to speak. What if? What if a miracle happened? What if I could change something? What if I tried again? What if this time it works? We all carry a pocket full of what ifs. Some are noble and global. What if there were no wars, no hunger, no children going to bed afraid. Others are much closer to the bone. What if I finally win big.
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What If You (Almost) Can’t Keep Going - But Nothing Lets You Stop?
She didn’t come to me for answers. Not really. She came because her body had stopped listening to her mind. And because the questions she was asking herself - quietly, in the background - had started to feel heavier than the pace she was using to outrun them. We’re sitting together on a bench. The sandwich has been ordered. We’re both hungry - I for the food, she for something far less tangible. She hungers for clarity. For a solution to the panic and the restlessness. To the
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Afraid of Rejection? Feeling Not Good Enough? This Will Help.
It’s exactly 7:00 in the morning when a message appears in my inbox. A woman I’ve been coaching asks if she can share something urgent - something that couldn’t wait. She hadn’t slept all night. I pour myself a cup of coffee and start a video call. Her tired eyes appear on the screen, saying more than any introduction ever could. This video is created with the help of AI so I can share this in languages I don’t speak natively. Three days earlier, she had met someone. Or more
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When You Often Feel Hurt by Something Said - This Might Be Why
Ships don’t sink because of the water around them. They sink because of the water they let in… I was sitting on a terrace when a friend of mine walked up. Even from a distance, I could see it in her face. She was trying to smile, trying to show that she was happy to see me, but anyone could see something wasn’t right. Her sadness was visible long before she spoke. I asked her gently if she was okay, but before I could even finish the question, a tear had already formed. She s
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What To Do When No One Wants to Hurt Each Other - But You Still Walk Away Bleeding
My stepson recently hosted his end-of-school-year party at my place. Dozens of energetic sixteen-year-olds - boys and girls - bouncing through the house, the garden, and in my case, the jacuzzi. It can be a bit of a challenge, sure. But mostly, it’s joy. And yes, finding a stray sock or swim trunk weeks later in some unexpected corner of the house? That’s just part of the deal. But that evening turned out to be different from the ones before. Around six in the morning, when I
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Should You Let Go or Hold On? This Might Be Your Answer.
They say that if you realise you're on the wrong train, it’s better to get off at the very next station. Because the longer you stay on, the further you’ll drift from where you actually want to be - and the longer, harder, and more expensive the journey back will become. But that logic doesn’t just apply to trains. Have you ever felt like you’ve stayed too long? In a relationship that no longer lifts you? In a job that slowly drains you? In a friendship that takes more than
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How to Handle Adversity: Building Resilience When Life Does Not Go as Planned
Sooner or later, life interrupts the plan you had in mind. Sometimes it happens quietly. A relationship changes, a client leaves, your energy disappears, or a dream no longer feels as alive as it once did. Sometimes it happens violently. You lose someone you love, your health changes, your business collapses, or something you counted on suddenly disappears. Adversity is part of life, but some adversity can have such a deep impact that you may feel lost for a long time. A majo
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5 Minute Virtual Coaching: A Fast and Free Tool for Self-Reflection and Personal Growth
Do you recognize the feeling that life demands so much from you that you hardly have time to pause and think about how you really feel? Do you ever ask yourself questions like, "Why do I keep getting stuck in the same patterns?" or "How can I find more balance between work and personal life?" Maybe you feel like you're always moving forward but aren't sure where you're headed. These moments of doubt aren't uncommon, and it's during such times that self-reflection becomes inva
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A Moral Story About Empathy, Forgiveness and Not Judging Others
Sometimes we think we know who someone is within seconds. A man on a doorstep. A woman who reacts too sharply. A colleague who withdraws. A stranger who irritates us. A client who seems difficult. A parent who was never there. We see the behavior, the clothes, the tone, the timing, the inconvenience. And before we know it, we have built a complete story around someone we barely know. But people are rarely only what we see in the moment. This is a short fictional story about j
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