At the beginning of 2017, I went to Peru for a 7-day plant medicine retreat including five Ayahuasca ceremonies and one Huachuma ceremony with a sweat lodge. The shaman and facilitators were good people, the food was excellent and the place was beautiful. I was very lucky. The promise was…
As it is gift giving season so I thought I’d explore the question of why people send YouTubers gifts and donations. I don’t really understand why people send YouTubers presents or give them money on live feeds. Especially the bigger YouTubers with 300k+ subscribers.
At first I was fascinated to…
Several months ago I decided I would turn one of my Medium stories into a storybook for children. I started by removing the story from Medium. I worked and reworked the story, added dialogue and gave the characters names.
Next, I went on Fiverr and hired an editor to polish…
I was watching a Seth Godin interview today. He says to “find generous work that scares you”. He says to blog everyday even if nobody reads it because it’s a generous way to confront your fear.
I don’t consider myself a writer. I write when I feel inspired or if…
To my mind, this is a kind of a grown-up version of “What are you going to be when you grow up?”.
I recall being back in 5th grade, I am trying to make myself invisible because I haven’t done the homework which was to prepare a speech to give…
Chris Brogan has a yearly ritual at New Year around setting three words as a kind of theme for success for the year ahead. He’s been doing it for ages and explains what works and what doesn’t in his annual posts about it that go back to 2007.
Two years…
After I left University, I struggled to get a job. There was a recession or something going on. I sent many job applications. I was so excited and happy when I was offered my first job. …
I sat in my apartment, low on energy, wondering how I was going to get everything moved in three weeks. I probably have less stuff than most people, but it seemed like I still had mountains of stuff. It also seemed like there were mountains of tasks to accomplish.
In…
Long ago, in a land far away, I lived next door to an old lady named Kathleen. She lived in a big house all by herself yet never seemed lonely. She kept a pair of men’s boots by the front door to deter thieves.
She would invite me in sometimes…
Moving On — House Hunting
I’m moving from the UK to the Netherlands. I spent August and the first week of September in the Netherlands looking for an apartment to rent. It was more difficult than I expected. There is a lot of competition for places.
At first, I had…
