Lessons to learn

Does it strike you too? Everywhere you go, in every person you meet, in everything you do (or don't do) there is a lesson to learn. It might not always be a fun lesson to learn, but hey you keep running in to it until you've learned the lesson anyway! :-)

And through all the books I have read, the people I have met, the seminars I have been to it hits me every time don't judge a book by it cover. The fact that it hits me every time, that is slaps me in the face means that I am still learning this lesson. 

It's about walking into a room and looking at a beautiful blond girl thinking immediately... she's probably all about looks and realising afterwards that she is a really intelligent and nice person. It's about going to an Italian restaurant, seeing big people and thinking "I wouldn't eat that desert if I were you". It's about looking at yourself after a fight with your loved ones thinking to yourself "Did I really have to hurt him/her that bad", while knowing it is yourself you are really angry at. It's about watching yourself in the mirror and believing in you. It's about realising that everybody has his/hers own truth, and that every truth is good enough.

You can not judge a book by its cover when you haven't read the whole book. You may not judge a book by its cover as you may not forget that maybe out there others are judging you too.

I know that I wouldn't be too happy knowing others would judge me the same way I sometimes judge them. I learn this lesson again regularly when it hits me in the face.

But the fact that I realise this is an important lesson to learn, and that I give myself time to practise reading the whole book and that I really make an effort not to judge anymore, makes me realise I am walking in the right direction! So maybe some day soon this lesson won't slap me in the face anymore and I will be ready for my next lesson. ;-)

Enjoy every single moment!

Inner peace

It's been an exciting week for me this week. After writing the first blog a feeling of immense trust and peace came over me. I don't think it had anything to do with the actual blog itself, but it had everything to do with the fact that I finally jumped.

All of us have moments in our life where all of a sudden a feeling of trust that everything will always be as it has to be/ will always be good falls onto you. It's a feeling that comes from deep within and that gives you a great energy.

Others notice it, as you sort of glow. This energy is something people around you feel... as if you're beaming love/peace/energy to others. 

I certainly hope 'the others' felt something of the trust/peace that has settled in me. If it hasn't touched you yet, it will as I know that this feeling will remain with me from now on!

Enjoy your weekend and think happy thoughts!

The beginning of something new!

Pppfffeeeww... 

These might not seem the right words to start a blog on personal growth with but it sure was a difficult delivery to finally get to writing the first blog. It took me about a year to finally establish this! It makes me proud of myself in one way, but it also brings out my worst quality.

I am the queen of procrastination. There are so many ideas running through my head, all at a different pace, and until now that's what they mostly did... run around. 

For me in 2010 a whole new world opened up . In January 2010 I got fired (the best thing that ever happened to me) and took the chance to find out what I really wanted to do. This resulted in working part-time for a boss and starting my own coaching business. Due to my procrastination nature I used all possible excuses to keep the business in its start up phase, until today!

Throwing myself on the internet is my way of showing everybody that this is not just a business for me, but it is my dream to make it something big... to make it clear that I am ready to change and touch people's lives in my own way. Holding on to my positive affirmations I know this is my real start of the business.

So watch out here I am :-)

The purpose of the blog is to keep you posted on what happens in my life, on what happens on my path of personal growth and on what shifts in my business.

Hope to meet you real soon in real life, on a personal growth event, at a workshop, on the streets, in a bar, on Facebook or who knows what other places we might meet up at!

Enjoy life... every single moment of it! Taste life... it's delicious!