We Struggle. You Benefit.
This blog is about what I learned from the bestseller Homo Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. Reading it left me highly inspired and the book has changed my world perspective for good. So therefore I highly recommend reading the book if you are open to learn about the world, human and yourself and perhaps it … Read more
Are you rushing through life with your to-do list? Try Mindfulness. To get some peace of mind. To feel alive. Mindfulness improved my life. I will tell you how.
I have a different life attitude than I had 4 years ago. Instead of living in my papers, and thinking about my PowerPoint presentation and to … Read more
I write this blog because I feel that I learned so much more last three years than I did in ten years of work as an employee in an office job. And I thought – how come? Why wasn’t my learning curve as steep as it is now? In this blog I explore this question. … Read more
I think living on a small budget is really cool. JD and myself are able to live an amazing life – in Europe – with only €400,- a month. For two persons. And that includes everything from transport to food and insurance. I wouldn’t say there aren’t any disadvantages. Of course there are. But the … Read more
As most of you know JD and myself are a strange couple. We are in our 30’s but we don’t have our own home. We don’t have a mortgage and we don’t rent one. It has been more than 3 years ago that we had our own house.
We might be strange because of other … Read more
I think everybody recognizes the following 2 questions: Is it it all worth it? And why am I doing this? For me as an entrepreneur these questions combined with mixed up feelings are very normal. But the feeling sucks. I am extremely driven to have an impact in other peoples lives. And not in a … Read more
I realized I never wrote the “Breaking-my-back-in-Mongolia” story for theperfectstrugglersdotcom. So here it is: my ‘How did I break my back memoires’ in Mongolia during our Mongolia horse trek.
In 2014 we decided to go for it. Chase the dream and live the consequences. Which meant quitting the 9-till-5 and selling the house. And go … Read more
Probably the most ordinary way to live your life: “Build a career. Marry your love. Buy a house. Get children!” Millions and millions of people walked this path. It is like Elton Johns – Circle of Life. It is the normal dogma. A logic you don’t question you just follow up. It is the evolution … Read more
For someone who hates the sound of eating noisily it is quite a challenge to be in China. Especially when you are aboard of a full train for the coming 30 hours.
For someone who can’t stand the sound of snoring a train ride in China by night can be quite challenging. Especially since the … Read more
I can really annoy myself with my own behaviour while working on – for example – this blog. I want to write, I want to be productive. But I find myself scrolling through my Facebook wall, investigating posts I already saw the day before. Or I walk into the bathroom every five minutes; first to … Read more