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John Muir: “When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.”

Paul “Bear” Bryant: “I don’t hire anybody who’s not brighter than I am. If they’re not brighter than I am, I don’t need them.”

I am well aware that I made some people pretty curious as to where my ‘first and second step into something new’ blogposts would lead to…well, ‘disclosure time’ is finally here:

After a period of 1,5 years in which I haven’t worked (at least not in the routine rat-race way that everyone seems to love so much 🙂 ), in which I took the opportunity to self-reflect as well as self-study, helped out people left and right with their processes and practicalities, was able to intensely enjoy the freedom to have an almost daily choice of what to focus my energy on, and above all; a period where I have had an invaluable opportunity to witness Misha grow from ‘non-speaking-just-started-walking’ baby boy to a ‘hey-daddy-look-how-fast-I-can-run-away-from(-or-towards-to)-you’ little child…it showed me how valuable time is, and how needed change can be.

Today has been the day that this phase of my life transformed into something new: yessss, I started working again!!

I decided some time ago to start my own consultancy company, and I found my first customer; my former employer! (or at least, a sister division of it, meaning I will work together with some very familiar faces, again!) 🙂

This morning I enjoyed a warm welcome in an environment that I know all to well, with enough challenges to keep me sharp…yeah, it is good to be back in business!!

Happy and excited!!

Haha, my welcome package:

Sir Winston Churchill: “Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”

W. Somerset Maugham: “It is very difficult to know people and I don’t think one can ever really know any but one’s own countrymen. For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or the farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives’ tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can’t come to know by hearsay, you can only know them if you have lived them.”

Mahatma Gandhi: “Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.”

William Arthur Wood: “Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.”

Jim Hightower: “Do something. If it doesn’t work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.”

L. M. Montgomery: “Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”

Ovid: “Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.”

Julia Cameron: “What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.”

Bob Ross: “You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.”

Robin Williams: “You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “Let us, then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.”

John F. Kennedy: “We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.”

Time flies when you’re having fun, the last night is about to start…not a bad one, as we’re catching the party at Ushuaïa with Armin van Buuren on stage, woohoooo!!
Party onnnn!! 🙂

Ralph Waldo Emerson: “This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”

Last nights festivities called for a slow day and the mansion with its pool is a great place to do just that. 🙂

The biggest event of the day has been a follow up to last months first step into something new; a second hurdle has been taken, bits and pieces are falling into place and I am verrrry close to reveal it all…extremely excited and happy, and Ibiza is a great place to celebrate…yayyy! 🙂 🙂

Henry David Thoreau: “[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.”

The early wake-up call this morning has a huge advantage; a full day of Ibiza sun at the mansion (with pool 🙂 ) yayyy! 🙂 A pretty good way to rest a little before tonights highlight, Hardwell, the #1 DJ in the world!

I saw him once before, two years ago at Breda Live, just before he became ‘da man’…looking forward…party on!!