Week 10 | Wake up call, a nude shoot and a new LightWorks coach

Too nice. That’s what I’ve been the last weeks. This week I got a wake up call and decided to be radical honest with whom it concerned. I also had an interview with ‘Libelle’ (a dutch magazine) for my nude shoot. In this interview I explain why I want to do this shoot. And this week we got to open the champagne – or in our case tea – because one of the coachees successfully finished her course and is now a manifestation coach. She will be a coach in her own business but will spend part of her time coaching LightWorks clients and she is co-trainer for the workshops and the year programm for ‘Verlicht Werken’. As you might tell my week was everything but boring!

Friday – All my dreams came true

Today was the day that I was finally going to meet and interview a true ‘tantric king’ for my documentary: Expedition Self Love. After a hug that seemed to last for hours we went to a quiet place where me and my camera could interview him. His vision on life and the spreading of tantra is exactly how I see and feel it. Crazy! This interview was one of the best I ever got to do. At the end he invited me to come and ‘play’ at the event he was co-hosting that evening. Although I was curious to experience an evening of ‘playing’ I had to pass. That evening my important business partner, Jasper, and me had a train the trainer for ‘Verlicht Werken’ scheduled.

Part of the co-trainers, Jasper and me gathered for a train the trainer session to prepare us for the upcoming workshop for ‘Verlicht Werken’. Before the session Chiara, one of the entrepreneurs in the LightWorks network and trainer and coach for ‘Verlicht Werken’, wrote beautiful feedback that moved me on Facebook about the impact Jasper and I made on her development: “Today is a highlight in my co-working career. I’m being present at a meeting with my two most important coaches I ever had in my life (Jasper and me) and get to be co-trainer for the year program ‘Verlicht Werken’. All my dreams came true!”

The session went great! We all shared our moment of working enlightened and I got to interview everybody. Everybody shared their experiences in an open and honest way about happiness, impact and making money without effort.

Saturday – Soul transformation

Today I had a do-creation session planned with the project team for our Happy & Healthy cookbook and upcoming Foodparty. I was looking forward to this moment. It did not go as I expected or hoped. To start it took me nearly two hours to get there because the train company decided to work on all the tracks in the weekend. I was not amused! And when I got there one after the other cancelled on the meeting and the project leader and me ended up with just the two of us. Luckily three new project partners joined us: a project manager, animator and website builder. We were able to do a lot and had now a new team as well.

The afternoon I spend coaching and in between session enjoying the sun. How I love my work!

Sunday – Being busy is for losers

At the moment I have the feeling of being overwhelmed. Last night I even fell asleep standing up in the tram. I wonder where the pressure is coming from? Was it suddenly here? Did it came out of the blue? And another important question: How am I going to fix it?

The pressure is coming from a couple of things. To start with I didn’t do certain jobs (mostly administrative and financial jobs) during my workation and had to pick these up now. I also started way too many projects without a realistic estimation (writing a book in three days? Yeah right!). And I have a new friend who is asking a lot of my time which I know is not right. These are the lessons I keep needing to learn and get hold of. But everything in its own time, right?

Monday – From six hours workdays to a four hour workweek

The day started with clearing and cleaning my office supplies. I want to create more clarity, tranquility and structure and I know that your surroundings have an impact on this. I made a good start but I’m not finished yet. It was nice to do this. I found old pictures of myself and my first ever published article.

There is just so much on my plate, business wise, that it feels overwhelming at times. I decided that I’m going to change this and take back the control over my life and business again by working a strict six hours per day again. I’m proud!

I’m also happy and thankful that I was able to assign a couple of clients to LightWorks coaches and that I stopped one of the coaches in her transformation process. She kept going round in circles. Her reason: She was afraid to step into her own greatness. I really don’t care why you are not doing something as long as you keep moving in the right direction.

Today I also had a great talk with one of the LightWorks inspirators/facilitators about achieving goals, raising the bar higher for yourself and still dealing with a feeling of emptiness. A lot of people are doing this: setting a goal and when they reached this goal set a new one hoping to become happy this way. This doesn’t work! True happiness comes from inside! This is one of the reasons why we created ‘Verlicht Werken’. Do you recognize yourself in what I just described? Buy your ticket to the workshop or year program from ‘Verlicht Werken’ or ask me for a free intake!

Tuesday – Love, lust and betrayal

I went to library to work today and got order and overview in the LightWorks events and projects. It feels so good. I have been planting seeds for ten years and I feel that this year I will harvest the seeds. It’s time to focus what matters: my business, spiritual and emotion development!

Today I also continued clearing and cleaning – which is a great feeling – to create more space and I found the last letter I wrote and never send to my ex. It made me realize again how deep I was caught in this destructive relationship and how many thing I kept talking right and how I lost myself piece by piece. This was very confrontational to say the least.

Wednesday – Celebrating success (together)

The day started with doing jobs where other LightWorkers dropped a ball. I didn’t like doing this but felt I had no choice but to do it. The afternoon I did coaching. One of the people finished her course to become a manifestation coach (‘Verlicht Werken’ level 2). She succeeded and how! If you see her results and everything she learned in six months you’ll be amazed! I’m very proud to announce that Rosanne Verburgh received her coaching certificate. This means she scored average or higher on the fields of expertise, skill, entrepreneurship and network value creation.

I was happy she wanted to celebrate her success with me: success are meant to be celebrated! It’s a beautiful moment to realize and enjoy in every fiber what you achieved. What is inspiring about Rosanne is that she went on this journey with heart and soul and gave it everything she had. During her training of five months she got three clients (together with me) and with two she will be having an intake this week. I could keep writing about her but I will wait for another moment to do this. If you’re curious or want to know if she can mean something for you, go here for more information to get in contact with her or me.

Thursday – Hardcore clarity

This morning I had a coaching session which went very good and after this I had an great interview for ‘Libelle’ (a dutch magazine) to go with my nude shoot in the next week. It’s great to keep talking with journalists who just keep on asking questions and want to know more about me. I enjoy this because I see that they love what I’m telling them AND because I can share what I want to share.

This time I got to share why I wanted to do the nude shoot. I always thought that one of my three fears was non-functional nudity. After my first nude shoot I discovered that I’m not ‘afraid’ to be psychically naked, but to expose myself on a psychical AND mental level. I see the development I made in this and am proud of myself! I take the chance to break through the fear of being psychically vulnerable. How more you do something the more normal it becomes.

After this great morning came a dark afternoon. There was a big and dark cloud above me and this made me annoyed. I’m working together with 16 people and this doesn’t always run smoothly (to say the least). Often I’m double checking or asking if something has been done and some of the people are reactive instead of pro-active. Everything was telling me that I was doing something wrong and being too nice. This was the wake up call on which I decided to take action. I’m going to communicate in a hardcore clear way how I want it and it is up to the other person to say or no to this. Radical honesty as I like to call it myself.

Today I also continued my clearing and cleaning up. My closet was next. My process was good. What can I learn from clearing up my mess? If I keep making steps every day I will in the end be left with a beautiful result. It’s important to be focused and to make it as fun as possible for yourself. That is exactly what I’m going to do.

What are you doing right now to experience happiness?