Yesterday morning, I noticed that I have published 2,000 blogs. My initial ones (in Dutch) were mediocre and reveal a lot of emotional pain. However, that was their purpose. My then-girlfriend recommended writing to me, for losing steam and for healing my soul, following a nasty divorce that lasted for 4 years in several courts. Her advice worked and I would...
On 28 April 2014, I started writing my blog. Initially my posts were only in Dutch and rather negative following my 2010-2013 divorce battle and my 2013-2014 burn-out. My number of daily views was low. This number has been increasing ever since I changed to the English language by the end of 2014. Nowadays, most of my readers are located in France - for reasons...
A quote by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato (428 BC-348 BC) has long been on my list of topics: "Human behaviour flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge." (book) These 3 sources of human behaviour appear to be similar to the 3 stages in my concept of Needs, Wants & Beliefs (my blogs). My diagram to the right, also connects these 3...
Next year will be a year of change, lots of change. 2018 will bring me a greenfield situation in which nearly every option becomes a variable. Sometimes this prospect is overwhelming and makes me melancholic for a life with fixed options. It took me some time in realizing that these variable options are mostly sequential rather than happening parallel. At...
Haarlem, 3 November 2016 Dear readers, By reading my blogs you have learned a lot about me. Yet I know little to nothing about most of you. Last weekend, my page view statistics suddenly dropped to a level I haven't seen in a long time. This even made me wonder whether I should continue writing. Your answer came quickly: on Tuesday almost 700 and on Wednesday 555...
Since a few days my daily page views are well above 300. I continue to be surprised by the ongoing success of my blog. Yes it's free but quite often things for free are worthless. Nearly 40 thousand page views definitely means that something interesting must be going on in my blogs. I don't consider myself as highly intelligent. Probably just intelligent and/or...
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