Help test a 6-week online coaching program (for free)
Learn key time management skills, overcome barriers (procrastination..), and start networking to give your project the platform it deserves. This 6-week online program helps you progress your personal...
View ArticleOverwhelmed by emails? A 5-letter solution
We come across obstacles on a daily basis. Lack of funding. Tensions in a team. Feeling overwhelmed by emails. Two weeks ago I learned a nice technique to get a better grip on these obstacles. It’s...
View ArticleUnder construction…
We’re building this website at the moment: you may see some test items and occasionally stumble upon an inaccessible page (or, not find a page because it’s inaccessible)… I hope it’s not too...
View ArticleWeekly Experiment 1: write 150 words every day
Front page of the New York Times. With a title saying ‘innovative‘, ‘helps…’, or ‘successful‘. Or something like ‘wildly creative‘. That’s what I’d like to see for your project. How do we get there? We...
View ArticleWeekly Experiment 2: Three compliments every day
The first Weekly Experiment was on writing. This week we’ll do something very different (but hopefully fun!): we’ll give people compliments. I explain it in the video: So get ready to make the people...
View ArticleWeekly Experiment 3: Chat with a stranger
You’re on a flight from Zurich to Paris, and your neighbor turns out to share your soft spot for South Africa. The hour passes by in no time, discussing anything and everything from the most beautiful...
View ArticleWeekly Experiment 4: Bedtime procrastination
It’s 23:00 and I should have been in bed already. No really. Tomorrow, my old ‘dumb’ Nokia phone will start beeping at 6:00. But I’ve just gotten into the swing of things… working through emails at...
View ArticleWeekly Experiment 5: Meditate for 10 minutes
A blue-ish baseball cap. Walking stick handy. As well as a ticket to Zurich airport. My neighbor on the train – at least 70 years old – tells me he travels to the airport every 2 weeks. It takes him...
View ArticleWeekly Experiment 6: Getting energized
Did you try the meditation experiment of the past week? If you did, that was a total of 50 minutes of meditation. Quite impressive how those little bits add up. This week we’ll try another approach to...
View ArticleA new week: How to make the most of it
. The wooden floors in our lovely Brookline mansion give her away. It’s 02.23am. Not that my housemate has been to some wild party. No, she has been running experiments in the lab. Is she crazy?...
View ArticleHow to feel better amidst chaos
It’s less and less cool to be busy these days. “Being busy is for losers” was even the headline of a major Dutch newsoutlet this week. That’s all very nice, but it’s not that easy to un-busy all of a...
View ArticleReflections
Welcome to Accountably Yours! After a few trial runs of the Stepwise programs, it’s time for a little break to consider revisions… And this appears to be a good location for those reflections :-) ....
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