MindThe Beginner

What is the next step you can take? A single question, with a lot of power behind it. I’m going to ask you to do one thing right now: Sit back, close your eyes and envision how you want your life to be. Give it a minute and really imagine it, in as much detail [...]

Looking around as I often do I realise that there are a lot of things here that get no attention at all. I own a guitar, but over the last years, the hours spent playing it could probably be counted on two hands. Why am I still keeping this thing? Do I like the idea [...]

How many things do you need? Of course you can think of primary life needs like water, food, clothing and a roof above your head. Those things apply to everyone. But what makes minimalist bloggers so special? Blogging means writing articles online, either for your own blog or guestposting on other blogs. To write articles [...]

A warrior is measured by this: That he learns from the dregs of the ancients and extracts clear liquid from them. -Chozan Shissai (18th century Japanese Swordsmaster) A very powerful effect of the internet is that when you are perceived as an expert, you are an expert. It’s quite hard to call a bluff and [...]

Is there anyone out there who does what you do? Or do you think you are absolutely unique! On the one hand every action is unique, but that’s the Zen view on things. Most people don’t see life this way and find that in one way or another we’re all just copies of each other. [...]

In this third blogpost in a about being unhappy with the current situation I’m giving you the exact way I’m going to change my life in the course of 1000 hours. In the previous blogpost we identified three main topics that need to be addressed in order to make a significant change. These were; Building [...]

You can call it a bucket list, or you can call it a life list. Some people even just call it a to-do list. No matter what you call it, people who make a list of life goals early on in life somehow seem to accomplish most -if not all- of those goals before they [...]

There comes a time in your life when you realize that the way things are going is not how you want to be living. Right then and there you start developing an interest in personal development and you might even discover phrases like “digital nomad”, “lifestyle design” and of course the mandatory “4 hour workweek”. [...]

As you might have noticed, I haven’t been blogging much lately. Less than a blogpost a week even, which somehow feels very wrong. The big problem is that I can’t find anything to write about these days. So let me just enlighten you on how life is at the moment. It’s a bit of a [...]

This is not a post I wrote, I copied this post to the letter from Everett Bogue over at www.farbeyondthestars.com and with a very good reason. This might indeed be one of the most important posts ever written. (And not just on Everett’s blog!). So in recognition of that and in an attempt to reach [...]