Hereby we officially welcome the 23 participants who have been selected for the first edition of How to Really Change the World! These courageous and motivated students and professionals have been chosen by the crowd, based on their Big Hairy Audacious Goals and motivation assignment. During the coming months they will learn from and with each other [...]
What do you remember most from your school days? The material that was presented to you, that inspiring teacher or the friendships you had? Chances are that your answer is the second or third. However, the emphasis in education is usually put on the content. While the very human side makes so much difference. In school [...]
Over twenty intelligent, ambitious and creative participants at the kick-off of our English program How to Really Change the World. Not all interested parties could be there. Fortunately, because otherwise the room would have been too small. Great to see that besides the students of The Hague University many professionals also are very [...]
"What it is exactly that you do Gustaaf...?" I was about to deliver my elevator pitch on consulting, training and coaching of top managers, experts and top talents. But she beat me immediately by pre-emptively posing the follow-up question: "And you do that so as to achieve what?" Sometimes hard questions have surpisingly simple answers: [...]
The driving force behind the movie? Not the beautiful scenery, that in real life South-Africa is even more splendid. Not the renowned actors, who masterfully restrict themselves to truthfully portraying their real characters. Not the story itself, simply summarized by: unlikely team makes it to champion. The goose bumps stem from the pinch [...]
A healthy mind requires a healthy body. To be able to deliver top performance and keep improving yourself, you need both. That is why from today on we also pay regular attention to how you can reach this in the simplest, sometimes surprising, ways. Former fitness instructor, and expert through research and experience, Gustaaf kicks [...]
Improve yourself? Don't drink calories! A sound and solid pillar under each diet and healthy life styel. Our body can't count calories in our drinks and will not give of the "Ok, enough already!" signal. Water drinking is the healthy habit: two litres a day, preferably cold. Why don't we all drink water? And what [...]
Another (new) year! The beginning of new, sometimes recycled, New Year's Resolutions. Why do we do that? To what avail? The answer you, like me, might find in the movie Groundhog Day. In the movie a man relives the same day over and over again. To his dismay it's not the best day [...]
My gym has an advanced scale and I was walking back to it to try again. The stupid machine had to be wrong, possibly defect. But once more the display showed 105 kgs (232 lbs). I gulped and sighed deeply. This was two years ago. I dusted off my 18 year old racing [...]
Awe and amazement fill me when I watch the Olympics. Years of preparation, pain and sacrifice and then that one run, game or other form of moment of truth. I stand in awe of the beauty and control in the movements. I bow to the power, agility and persistence. How contagous the joy, [...]
