Found this car in the same street where i found the wish envelope. I love my town.
People who do original stuff like this – they inspire me and bring a smile to my face. Thank you <3

Found this car in the same street where i found the wish envelope. I love my town.
People who do original stuff like this – they inspire me and bring a smile to my face. Thank you <3
This cartoon really struck a chord with me. And now, every time i find myself comparing me to someone else (the someone else is usually better), i remind myself of it.
We are all awesome. Now go spread some goodness.

A while ago i was cycling home through the streets of my hometown, Utrecht (The Netherlands). It was pitch dark, around midnight, and crossing the canal, under a street lantern i noticed the bridge railing had a cycle bag attached to it.
Somebody seemed to have put it there on purpose. I stopped and opened the bag. It contained a note which read:
Hey!
You pass by here
You’re curious
You look! and you find.
Take a star
and make a wish.
Make your day!
Isn’t that great?! My heart jumped with joy for such a nice surprise, and to know that someone took it on them to arrange for it. I picked a star and wished this person a wonderful life.
Some time ago, i bought a grill pan at the second hand store. It’s not really a pan, because it’s double-sided like a sandwich maker.
It looked completely clean and unblemished and i, having just returned from Greece holding fresh memories of grilled veggies with olive oil, coarse black pepper and halloumi cheese, i brought it home with me. We’ve been best friends ever since. Nom!
This is the best thing ever. I love the hearty taste of roast skins! (Animal parts never make it to my griller though. Just bread and vegetables and halloumi cheese, and the occasional banana. Really!) For me it’s perfect. I just slice up a courgette (zucchini) or pumpkin, or bell pepper, put a slice of bread next to it and close the pan. Your meal will only take a few minutes.
Here you see zucchini with red onion and buffalo mozzarella cheese, right before i decorated it with olive oil and balsamic sirup and then forgot to photograph it because it looked so damn delicious and i got distracted.
Take care that you don’t burn the veggies. If they burn, the black parts may contain carcinogens. We don’t like carcinogens.

Eating 2 pieces of fruit and 200 grams of veggies every day is easy!
Blend 1 apple, 0.5 banana, 0.5 stem of celery, 5 mm slice of ginger, handful of green leafy vegetables and a piece of fennel or broccoli with orange juice. Mix until smooth… and there you go! It’s only morning and already you’ve had most of your daily vitamins!
I like to take a big handful of green leafs (spinach, rocket salad, watercress for example) and drizzle with olive oil. Add pepper and salt and it’s already a treat. Add nuts or sprouts, cottage cheese and avocado and this is a delicious full meal.
Cut veggies, cook onions and garlic in a pan softly until just starting to brown and then add the vegetables. Add a bay leaf, maybe also tomato pulp or chunks and water. Simmer until the veggies are just soft and use the (hand) blender to make the soup smooth.
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The past year has been wonderful – literally full of wonders.
Until the summer, i struggled a lot with work, often feeling behind schedule and not living up to my own standards. Still, inside, i could feel this brimming of energy and creativity, ideas forming about how to live more open and fully. My beloved Marco said it just right: “It’s time to fly”.
During the summer holiday we were at SUN Festival with many lovely friends from all over the world and i worked my ass off in a falafel place and felt so fulfilled (dancing, frying balls, cutting onions tearing up and joking around). Marco and i hitchhiked from Budapest to Milan and from there… things just turned around. I started living the life i envisioned for myself and amazingly… everything started falling into place. I created a new website for my business (http://in1dagonline.nl/), sharing knowledge for free and empowering entrepreneurs even before selling my own services. And within a few weeks, new jobs came flowing in. I found partners to work with and in the meantime, started ‘planning’ my own first trip to India.
Sometimes, my mind still takes the upper hand and i worry and create tension. It’s a pattern i’ve lived in for years and it takes loving effort to turn it around. When i worry, hard things happen. When i relax and trust, magical things happen. At times it has seemed hard to find the ‘relax button’, but there’s one training i did which really helps me to deal with anything in my life: Persoonlijk Leiderschap by Amethist Developing People (http://
This next year will (hopefully) be as much about freedom, travel, wisdom, surprise and loving relationships as the past few months. First there’s India, then my sister has a little baby coming (yaaaay! i’ll be an aunt!) and.. well, let’s see what comes next. I hope to share all these beautiful life adventures with Marco, my beloved rock & bouncing ball and with all of YOU. You truly enrich my life. Thank you for your support, encouragement, your likes and jokes and honest criticism every now and then.

This chocolate just makes me want to shout THANK YOU to the whole universe.
6 if it’s just the chocolate. 12 if you’re dipping or joining with fresh fruits, cakes etc.).
Combine
in a blender. Don’t hesitate to add more of anything :).
All ingredients are essential, don’t skip any. The consistency should be creamy while in the blender. When cooled in the fridge, it will be fudgy.
I absolutely love this chocolate goddess goodness flavor magic <3. Go have some, it’ll make your day.
Soms wil je iets veranderen aan je website op meerdere of zelfs alle pagina’s of berichten tegelijk. Dat kan heel makkelijk, maar de functie zit een beetje verstopt. Toch is het heel handig om te weten. Wat je dan namelijk bijvoorbeeld kunt doen:
En hoe makkelijk gaat dat dan? Zo:

Nu kun je in WordPress meerdere pagina’s en berichten tegelijk bewerken. Easy-peasy!
Read this poem by Debra Nystrom. The dynamic she describes is as ordinary as it is heartbreaking.
Ordinary Heartbreak
She climbs easily on the box
That seats her above the swivel chair
At adult height, crosses her legs, left ankle over right,
Smoothes the plastic apron over her lap
While the beautician lifts her ponytail and laughs,
“This is coarse as a horse’s tail.”
And then as if that’s all there is to say,
The woman at once whacks off and tosses
its foot and a half into the trash.And the little girl who didn’t want her hair cut,
But long ago learned successfully how not to say
What it is she wants,
Who, even at this minute cannot quite grasp
her shock and grief,
Is getting her hair cut. “For convenience,” her mother put it.
The long waves gone that had been evidence at night,
When loosened from their clasp,
She might secretly be a princess.Rather than cry out, she grips her own wrist
And looks to her mother in the mirror.
But her mother is too polite, or too reserved,
So the girl herself takes up indifference,
While pain follows a hidden channel to a deep place
Almost unknown in her,
Convinced as she is, that her own emotions are not the ones
her life depends on,
She shifts her gaze from her mother’s face
Back to the haircut now,
So steadily as if this short-haired child were someone else.Debra Nystrom
This poem touches me deeply as i recognize the young girl’s fearful dissociation from her own feelings. She wants to cry out but instead grips her own wrist, searching eye contact with her mother, who -undoubtedly burdened by her own experiences- is sadly unavailable to support the girl in her shock and grief.
Much of what i share and find inspirational, is about not being preoccupied or identified with our own feelings so much and seeing them for what they are: movements in the energetic constellations that we perceive to be ‘me’.
However to move away from our emotions, to toughen up like the girl in the poem and to clench your wrist rather than to cry out in tears to your mom how much you wanted to keep your hair and for her to protect you instead of keeping up appearances… that is to not be honest with what is there in this moment, because it is too painful or too frightening, and the pain and fear lead us to untruthfulness.
The poem shows a lineage of hurt and misguided defense mechanisms, passed on from generation to generation. The girl learns to hide her feelings, mirroring her mother, building lie upon lie already in this early stage of her life, when she still needs a box to hop on the beautician’s chair.
Of course, especially as grownups, we can decide to deal with a certain feeling at a later time, when it’s more appropriate. But do it consciously, acknowledging and embracing whatever is there. Because to reject our own emotions in any moment, is to die a little inside. It is to withhold ourselves from the world and to deprive ourselves from love. It is deeply saddening. Let’s send this girl (and the child inside ourselves) some love and tell him or her it’s safe to cry out.
I previously misattributed this poem to someone else. With apologies to the real author: Debra Nystrom, and with thanks to the attentive reader Angie, this has now been corrected in the text above.
Volgens Seth Godin zijn de meeste mensen online net gorilla’s: ze komen ergens nieuw binnen en alles wat ze denken, is: waar is die banaan?
Aartjan van Erkel legt het in zijn boek Verleiden op Internet ook uit: “Internetgebruikers komen met een concreet doel naar je site en zien bij aankomst op je homepage graag direct waar ze moeten beginnen.”
Hoe help je je bezoekers snel de volgende stap te zetten? Dat lees je hieronder.
Dit artikel is deel 2 in de serie 10 gouden tips & to do’s voor een succesvolle website.
Een call to action vertelt je bezoekers in heldere taal en in opvallend beeld wat de volgende actie is.
Internetters zijn klik-graag en willen graag weten hoe ze het snelste krijgen wat ze zoeken. Als jij de leiding neemt op jouw website, creëer je een prettige ervaring voor je bezoekers. Daar kan bijna geen verkoopargument tegenop!
(Waarschijnlijk kunnen bezoekers ook nog steeds allerlei andere dingen doen op je pagina. Die krijgen ook aandacht, maar géén banaan. Denk maar eens aan een site vol opvallende knoppen: waar moet je nou heen?)
Wat is het allerbelangrijkste dat mensen kunnen doen als ze op mijn website komen?Het antwoord kan verschillen per periode of fase van je onderneming. Een paar voorbeelden:
Denk hier goed over na: wil je informeren, enthousiasmeren, engageren, een telefoongesprek voeren of direct verkopen?
Heb je een eenduidig product en is de aankoopdrempel laag, dan kun je meteen tot de koop verleiden. Maar vaak willen mensen wat langer nadenken voordat ze tot een (grote) aankoop overgaan. Hebben ze een paar keer nodig om te snuffelen, je website te bezoeken. In dat geval zul je eerder kiezen voor -bijvoorbeeld- een nieuwsbriefinschrijving.
De website Liveyourlegend.net heeft een heel duidelijke call to action. Je ogen worden direct getrokken naar de blauwe box met een krachtige boodschap er in: schrijf je in. Dan een opvallende rode knop: Let’s do this!
What’s in it for them?Waarom zou jouw bezoeker op jouw knop klikken? Hier maak je het verschil tussen een banaan waarop wordt geklikt en eentje die geen aandacht krijgt. Verplaats je in je bezoeker: wat levert de actie haar op? Zorg dat je echt waarde toevoegt, kennis deelt, iets waardevols biedt. Start met delen. Weer een paar voorbeelden:
Op Socialbusinesskees.nl zie je ook een goed voorbeeld van een call to action die je precies vertelt wat je krijgt als je er op klikt: een gratis quickscan én socialmedia-advies. De knop is lekker groot, heeft een knalkleur en is (onder de fotoslider) niet te missen.
En bedenk maar eens: waar klik je liever op? Een knop die zegt “Aanmelden” of een knop die zegt “Gratis quickscan van je social media?”
Ben je handig met je website en weet je zelf waar je html en css kunt invoegen, dan is dit een geweldige tool: http://onlinehtmltools.com/button-genaretor/ (sic). Je kunt er zelf een knop helemaal op maat maken, zelfs aanpassen hoe de knop eruitziet als je er met je muis over beweegt (hover) en er op klikt (press)!html: heb je een WordPress-website en wil je de knop van in een pagina of bericht zetten, kies dan in het bewerkingsscherm voor het tabje tekst (naast wysiwyg). Hier kun je de html-code plakken.
Heb je een WordPress-website en wil je de knop in een widget in je zijbalk zetten, ga dan naar Weergave, Widgets. Kies de zijbalk (sidebar) waar de widget moet komen en sleep daar een Tekst-widget naartoe. Plak hierin de html-code.
css: de css-code (de opmaak) zet je in het sylesheet van je theme: ga naar Weergave, Bewerker en plak de css-code onderin style.css.
Natuurlijk kun je ook je webbouwer vragen om een banaan op maat voor jou te maken. Als je webbouwer thuis is in online marketing zal hij/zij ook met je mee kunnen denken in wat de juiste call to action is op iedere pagina.
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