travel Lessons
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house tutoring 3: Love in the times of Corona
Who could have ever imagined this, a pandemic as we have read it in books or seen in movies. One of my favorite writers, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, once wrote the book “Love in the Time of Cholera” and i will write a blog post about it today “Love in the times of Corona”. I won't even be able to approach his literary level with this blog post, but instinctively I experience what he has recorded as fiction. His fiction has never been so close to reality. You can buy his book here if you have become curious about this masterpiece. For the second months I was able to experience within the walls of my house how…
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house tutoring 2: The world will never be the same again
Why will the world never be the same again? There are events in history and in our own lives that turn everything upside down. And from then on we only know one before and one after. I personally know these events as the turning points of Saturn and we happen to be in the middle of such a planetary transition right now. It will come as no surprise to anyone that after this corona virus, the world will never be the same again. We are collectively forced to change and collectively forced to change our standards & rethink values. We are collectively forced to make different choices, for us but especially for the people around us. These changes…
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house tutoring 1. The strength of start
Today is a day in March 2020 and exactly 5 years ago I decided to start over. I made this decision from my heart, after my world stood still for a moment due to the death of a dear person. This event turned everything upside down. I felt deep down that life was more than wearing fancy clothes and being stuck in traffic for one hour every day. So I decided to follow my wild dreams. Today more than ever I think back to this decision that is difficult for many, seemed weird and brave. I think back to then and realize that the decisions made from the heart…
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Travel lesson 18: A Post-Travel Depression is real!
It's December 2018 When my feet finally hit Dutch soil. The return flight from Asia to Europe was safe and comfortable. I am home again. Coming home this time felt completely different. It was the end of my greatest adventure. It was the end of my world tour that began in 2015. Coming home will be a difficult transition, other travelers had warned me. They talked about a Post-Travel Depression , something I could barely imagine as I follow my heart's ardent desire. I wanted nothing more than to see my family, meet up with friends and wander through the streets of the famous cities that still smell like mine…
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Travel is your best life coach
Travel is your best life coach Why choose coaching sessions anywhere in a confined space, if the world is at your feet with the best advice and customized change management. For me personally travel the best way to get my life back on track, I do not need a life coach. Still, I was curious about the opinions of others, they would travel also experienced a life coach? And like every Tuesday last week was my turn to ask a rating question to my followers on Instagram. was the question: “Which trip has your life changed forever?” The answers were very different and inspiring, therefore…
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What can you learn if you are traveling long?
“Of all the books in the world the best lessons are found between the pages of my passport” What life lessons do you receive after a long journey? From the moment our heart says hello to the world, our learning path begins, we start to develop personally. The personal development path is not straight or smooth as most people think. The trail which travelers make is full of bumps, potholes, sharp edges, unknown roads and dangers. That makes learning intense and unique to each traveler. Past two years I have walked this path and it has taught me life lessons that I find worth spreading. Why? Because…
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Travel lesson 17: My curse is now my blessing
As a child I was traveling with my parents throughout South America. A real choice I had not, because where my parents went, I had to go. At that time there was no democracy, For mothers word was law. This felt to me like a curse. my children “mind” could barely comprehend what was happening around me. While my peers year after year went to the same school, I was like a chameleon look to adapt to new countries, new schools, new fragrances, new people and strange children. My childhood memories are from the window of a vehicle, staring at an outside world that is too for me…
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Travel lesson 16: The reflection of 35 to be able to blow out birthday candles
Today I am 35 become year, I feel the best age I can ever reach. I'm not too young nor too old, but as one would say in words Gouda “show jong” :). Although I must admit “Old” I tastes better. Unfortunately, I still miss the savory wisdom that can only come with age. So is there anything else, then wait patiently for things to mature a little further. I'll have to wait until the day when everything is so simple it's daunting. Wait for the needs and wishes are with less days. Waiting for my luggage to get lighter…
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Travel lesson 15: Escaping is useless
How often I wanted to escape from a situation, feeling, intense sadness and yes, also a destination like Hanoi, which broke my heart into a thousand pieces. There I received the news that one of my loved ones had died. I think we have all wanted to escape from reality, which can sometimes be hard and painful. Yet escape no sense. All of this, how painful and hard too, forming one or more chapters of our story, that story, paragraphs exposes every day. And no matter how unreal it may sound, that story is about us, but not about us. The life story is one of them…
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Travel lesson 14: My new mentor wearing a kimono
My trip through Japan was much more than a trip to visit temples and eat a lot of sushi. It was a trip that I learned more about this amazing country and their culture. Therefore, it is perhaps not surprising that my new mentor is wearing a kimono. In the short time that I can spend it taught me a lot with my mentor on the Japaanse culture containing interesting life lessons. These lessons can be useful for anyone who is concerned with personal development or simply want to learn new things. So for anyone who is interested in Japan but hasn't had the chance yet…