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12 June 2024

Breakthrough

When you feel like your life doesn't fit your ambitions any longer, it's time for a breaktrough. It feels you've grown out a jacket that doesn't fit you any longer. And more important, it's no longer possible for a tailor to make the adjustments to make the jacket fit. You have to accept that you don't have a jacket for a short period, untill you bought a new jacket that does fit you. A lobster has the same problem. When the lobster's body outgrows its shield, he has to throw it off entirely and is 'naked' for at least two days before his new shield has grown back, stronger this time! But in these two days he is a great catch for the larger fishes in the sea, and he has to hide with no food available to him.

8 May 2024

Respond

Like 70% of our population, I am a generator according to my human design. This means that my prefered way of interacting with this world is to respond. And to respond from my gut feeling and not from thinking. For a long time I wasn't so happy with this, because responding seemed so reactive. Like I have no free will in anything I do. This week it came to me that to respond is something entirely different than to react. When you respond you have the choice to either be reactive or pro-active in your actions. There are a few moments in time, when you can let the experience be and decide for yourself how to react to it.

27 April 2024

The base

This week I couldn't find a babysitter for my 12 years old daughther. Now that she's twelve I do belief though that she doesn't really need one and should be able to go to bed by herself. But what was my underlying intention truly when deciding that she's old enough to stay at home by herself and go to bed by herself? Was I really listening to her or was I listening to the voice in my head saying that work was more important? And what are the long term consequences of making both decisions?

20 April 2024

Don't think, feel!

Last week, I, for the first time in my life got a taste of truly feeling abundance running through my veins. It's an indescribable feeling, I wish everyone on earth to experience. It came to me right after my morning practices and in a week in which I felt so much energy already, so it just had to come out and show itself to me. I'm not actually doing it myself. I 'just' train myself to totally let go and surrender to the divine, and then it starts flowing. Sometimes it doesn't, but last week it definitely did! But like I said this was the first time in my life it did! And I'm so gratefull for it, and it made me realize that I have not able to receive love for a long long time.

6 April 2024

Go Fishing

Just before he died, my grandfather was lying in his bed all day, he could barely move, and was in a lot of pain. I remember however the twinkling in his eyes when he told me: 'Bart, life only gets better when you get older". I think he was just so happy for me that I had my whole life ahead of me, knowing that I - as he did himself - would discover the secret of life. My gradfather wasn't a religious man. Neither did he work on improving himself much, especially not after he retired at the age of 55. Most of his time he spent fishing, because that's just what he liked doing most. So were did he get this wisdom from?

30 March 2024

48

This week was my 48th birthday, and my second day in the kitchen as a cook. This sounds strange to many, but remember that a lot of great men in history found their way after the age of 40. Colonel Saunders was 40 when he first started selling fried chicken and Mohammed was 40 when the angel Gabriel appointed him as God's prophet.

23 March 2024

Parenting

One, only one activity each weekend with my daughter, in the week she stays at my place (every other week she stays with her mother), is one of the strategies I defined in my 10years plan in the category Parenting. Sounds easy right? Why is it so hard for me to do then? Why does it drain my energy, and why do I feel I have to take all the action to think of activities we can do together?

16 March 2024

Eating an elephant

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at the time! And last Thursday I took my first little bite. I got hired as an intern at a French restaurant and boutique hotel! Even though I am already cooking for almost 30 years now, I am officially at the start of my career as a professional chef, with small changes of getting hired as a cook in any restaurant other than the local bar, preparing burgers and fries all day.

22 April 2023

What do you want?

I remember I was about 14 years old and my English teacher asked the class which of us cooked at home. I immediately raised my hand, or better my hand raised itself, before I even thought about raising my hand. I couldn’t boil an egg at that time, and had no clue why my hand raised itself.

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