Weekly Summary 1 | Life as a yogi | The four-hour day | the plan is no plan



Many people have asked me what I exactly do every day, how we go to work and what kind of results we actually book as Light Workers. If I tell them, they will be amazed. As a digital nomad I work all over the world and I get paid to guide individuals and organizations to effectively make a difference. That’s a dream life for many. I myself am very modest, but I have decided to give you a glimpse into my life. In this section every week I take you with me in my adventure as a traveler, living artist, owner of the inspiration label Lightworks and director of organizations and individuals who have the balls to go for transformation: to fully live and work and to maximize their human potential.



Friday – Trust

Yesterday was the day I left on my “workation”. It almost had not been here, because everything didn’t went as planned and there was much uncertainty, drama and fear. Yet I did it! I boarded the plane to fulfill my needs: stilling, slowing down, deepening and enjoying. After day one I am SO glad I put aside my fears and went anyway. The place that I have found is so great. It’s 1 minute walk from a yoga studio, has sea view and best of all: it is only a few minutes walk from the beach! And by chance there was a great beach party that started just when I arrived. On the way home I saw a very nice restaurant and have eaten there with a surf teacher from England who has been traveling for four months. It was nice to get tips from someone who is in Bali for a month AND to talk about my love book and film project. Expedition self love. I even got some new ideas and inspiration!

Saturday – Eye candy all over the place

The women here have hot bodies’ that are covered in tiny bikinis. They carry almost no makeup and they do not need too. They are all natural beauties. The men are certainly not less beautiful. The men here are like gods sons, wild hair, wild beard and muscular bodies. You can see nature in their eyes (like a friend always said about surfers) and are therefore real men. Pure: I like that. I am happy and proud of myself that I have consciously worked the last ten years to the layer by layer peeling off myself. And in this environment, I feel completely at home. Today I interviewed a woman for my film – and book love project “Expedition Self Love”. She was open, honest and had so much wisdom and love to share . For both of us it was a very special moment. Click here if you want to see the fragment.

Sunday – What’s cooking ?!

In three days Bali I am more creative and more decisive than the Netherlands in three months! I have gathered more insights and made more decisions than ever before and normally I do it all at great speed, I think. It’s like I see everything brighter here. It helped, of course, that I took a semi-digital ‘break’. In recent days, for example, I did not read mail and I’m minimized my time on social media. Not because I made myself, but because I honestly didn’t feel like spending my time here. It felt good to release tension of the bow, and while eating, for example, just stare out in front of me. Just nothing. This evening I met a young man with a very special story. Hours I spent chatting with him – with pleasure -. I asked him to write a blog about his story which will be published next month.

A little return on the manifest. Indeed, there is something different about me, especially since my ‘summer of love’. This time I will not work harder or smarter, but wiser!

Working wiser also includes saying goodbye to people who do not (anymore) seem to fit in withLightworks (currently) so that I can go forward myself and can help others even better. With pain in my heart I today said farewell again for the second time this year to someone who worked on Lightworks support and development. As Gandhi once said, “Be the change you want to see in the world’. This sounds nice and simple, only in practice can occasionally be quite difficult and challenging if I’m honest.

Monday – The life of a digital nomad is not about roses

To prevent me from doing nothing or doing too much, I made a daily schedule for myself to be sure that everything is included that I consider important, such as:

• yoga early in the morning
• my daily meditation practice
• walking on the beach
• breakfast
• 3/4 hour working on my book
• business and transformation processes of customers
• lunch
• yoga
• walking at sunset
• supper
• messing around and then sleep

A program where I can live with it ;-). Only I will quickly discover that here the principle of “the best plan is no plan” applies. The second day I stick mostly to my plan, but also make room for spontaneous meetings and conversations about dreams, sex, love, depression, travel and tantra! That’s possible here.

Tuesday – Inspiration ‘all over the place’

I have discovered two new workspaces. One is the yoga studio: “The practice” where I keep meeting extraordinary people after my daily yoga classes. The other is a café nearby where you can eat delicious and where I also keep discovering great people. And today it’s no different. Curious? Keep checking the blog regularly for their particular stories or check my Facebook conversations about love, forerunners on my book and documentary entitled: Expedition Self Love. What are the places or events where you inspiration to do and what makes that place and / or meetings for you so special?

Wednesday – Being free, I just want to be free

Until 16:00 Bali time (which is 9:00 am UK time) I was free! Ohhhhh what it is wonderful to be here and to have a work schedule that is really fantastic. Sometimes it seems like I do nothing, but nothing is less true. With a friend from the Netherlands, we spontaneously exchanged the most bizarre and good ideas about his personal and my business development. In between we have also interviewed a globetrotter for the documentary Expedition Self Love. This is so special? Seriously, the first week is not yet over and I’m already almost saturated of spontaneous encounters, deep connections, nice conversations, beautiful weather, special places and weird inspiration. Workations are really my default way of life though. I mean. I experience so many awesome stuff that I can not even write about it all because less is more. It’s so special! I have traveled a lot and I work internationally, so what makes my time here than SO special? I think it has to do with finding a perfect match. Discovering an environment that is extremely fruitful and fun for you. Why Bali and this town are such a good match for me? 1. Canguu is located on the beach and I’m in a guesthouse just five minutes walk from the beach with sea views. I’m a real beach lover. In Holland I’m not living close to the beach for nothing. If it were up to me I would live permanently ON the beach.

2. The people with whom I associate and meet here are like minded people. They have also often had a wake up call from life and have been brave enough to completely change it. They managed to break free from the rat race and (temporarily) to escape ‘The Matrix’. We inspire each other with our stories. It widens our horizons, it nourish our souls and makes us hungry for more. 3. I created a ‘program’ for myself with basic ingredients that I need to keep working on my emotional and spiritual base. That base is important to keep connected to myself and create from there contact with others and in addition to build myself to have a solid foundation to further expand my business

Thursday – A shot of inspiration!

Today I have no business appointments, just a lot of work. Unfortunately I have skipped my morning yoga and walk. I was awake early and I just could not bring myself to get ready and leave my bed. So I spent a few hours of non-ergo-friendly work wrapped up in a Sarong from my bed ? I was so on a roll that after skipping my breakfast and lunch I even wanted to skip my yoga class in the afternoon. It was that I had arranged to make a sunset walk after yoga or I probably stayed in bed. I am proud that I was able to work out the ‘journey building blocks’ of our enlightened work process over a much-too-expensive-but-delicious lunch. What I do wonder about is whether there is a connection between people who have / earn lots of money and the limited extent to which they radiate into behaving extremely spoiled. One of the owners was sitting next to me and the only thing she could do was whine and complain. And then I looked around me I saw that everyone who was present was in a grave mood or at least there was no enthusiasm. The nicest and friendliest people there were the Balinese ladies serving me. That’s crazy right?