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Empathy is THE social emotional intelligenceto make us successful: it connects us to those around us, helps us feel seen and understood, and provides us with the ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes.

But sometimes empathy can be unhelpful if used too one-sidedly, leading to burnout, or feeling overly emotionally manipulated, invested, or having issues with boundaries. Today I want to talk about how we can 'flip' empathy and make it work for us so we don't just give it away, but it keeps giving back to us.

Have you come to your senses yet?
That's what 'the days between the years' are there for. Suspended between the years you can observe yourself with curiosity and decide to make another kind of resolutions that will marry 'taking pleasure' with 'taking responsibility' and fin words that ring true to you.

What is hope?
No seriously: What is hope?
I know you know what it feels like to be hopeful, but there's more to hope than the feeling bit. Hope can be created and here is how.

It’s back-to-school.
It’s back to routines.
It’s back to showing-up, back to performing, back to getting more done in less time during the week and back to wanting to catch-up on ‘the good life’ on the weekends.

And soon it’s also back to living life on the edge between burnout and bore-out. A day-to-day that is so utterly process-optimized that we crash tired at night during the week and ask ourselves ‘Is THIS it?’ On the weekends.

Instead of just having a coffee-to-go every once in a while we created an entire eco-system that led us living ‘a life-to-go’.


is this really what we want?

The two most common hurdles clients face when wanting to make a change:
The one before they start.
And the one that comes up during the process, which keeps them from achieving great results.
"You can't streamline anything that you have no practice doing.
And because you are not streamlining what you are already great at, you keep being too busy to start something that you really want to start, but are not doing."

What do you do when you face a work problem that requires you to find a new, creative solution and you feel is: I'm stuck.

In this episode I'm discussing with Nicoline Douwes Isema how we use 'thinking in our sleep' in order to come up with great solutions to actual problems.

You can call it dream storming. and it's highly effective.