Self-leadership en action

  • Smile, stretch and play

    Smile daily, at least several minutes. And if you don’t feel like it, hold a pen in your mouth stretching your muscle into a genuine smile. An easy trick to get your body into generating hormones associated with happiness… and smiling!

  • Happy botox?

    Did you know that facial botox can change your brain? Botox creates a small paralysis in muscles, telling your brain, those muscles are dead and no longer to be used. And in the brain, competition is high, efficiency is the key: when not using brain spaces (or resources) it simply…

  • 1, 2, 3, in the tree

    1, 2, 3 in the tree; 4, 5, 6 up the cliff, 7, 8 go create, 9 and 10, a realm.

  • No why in the world of sheep

    I thought I was human… I guess I must be a sheep. I keep being told what to do without any real information. It happened again, this last December. Out of the blue I received an email from a provider “We have refunded your recently bought laptop battery” –Yeah!- “we…

  • Please give me a why

    An evening listening to entrepreneurs short pitch and I’m wondering where was the why… why should I listen? Why should I use their product? Plenty of what… lot of who… but no real why… hum… What is Happening in the Yard! W.H.Y!

  • Nagging me…

    It used to be there unseen, a stable element in my urban city landscape providing shade and wind at times. It used to be the tree. And then it became “The big tree in the corner”, a meeting place, a token of interest, a beacon of possibility. It is nagging…