Author: Renske

This is me asking you to be bold, to be brave and to allow yourself to become all you can be. To live your best life, you need to be you. The authentic you, the you that is pursuing what you love doing, the you that feels the energy and drive that is caused by alignment with what you are really about. As Michelangelo put it: “Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.” The statue is the essence and the purest expression of who you are, the best that you can be. The sculptor is who you are today. The authentic you is not a person that is […]

I’ve always been fascinated by morning routines. They are associated with success and successful people, like Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey and Tim Cook to name a few. It’s not difficult to understand why. Morning routines include one or more of the following: making your bed (first accomplishment of the day), exercising, meditating or another way of focusing in silence, reading, a form of practicing gratitude like journaling, visualisation and goal setting. Each of these have significant benefits as established by hard science. One of the things that has held me back from doing this until now, apart from the getting up at 5.30 part, is the fact that this would be added to my already quite long to do list. […]