Patrick Brinksma

Nick Vujicic loves life. And his ability to share his love of life is incredible. A piece from the Life Without Limbs website:

Because of Nick’s unique personal story, he is able to speak to groups of all kinds. It gives him entree with both the young and old, impoverished, imprisoned, business people, children, young people, peoples of all races, those with disabilities and those without them.

The unconditional love Nick shows towards life is something any of us can learn from and more important get inspired by. » Read the rest of this entry «

Lately, I get a lot of inspiration from all around me. I must feel really inspired, otherwise I would not be attracting it so much. I am not complaining, as I thrive when I am inspired. It is a great state of being in which I feel my expansion on a vibrational  level.

I am of the generation that grew up in the period that internet transformed into a mainstream phenomenon. So, I know life without Social Media as we know it today. I did not have my online profile scattered on sites like Facebook and Twitter  and did not think about posting videos online. The content of websites was pretty much static, and any interaction with the authors was by email. And that was only the case when the author was bold enough to share his/her email address. So, did I not interact at all online? Hell yeah I did! » Read the rest of this entry «

Nina Simone – Feeling Good

Thank you Nina for giving us this song. » Read the rest of this entry «

Yesterday I was inspired by the Golden Circle concept of Simon Sinek when I watched him explain it in a TED video. And when I get inspired the subject tends to stick in my mind. Even better said, my mind has awoken to the subject which I already knew. So today the Why, How and What of the Golden Circle concept kept popping up in everything I experienced today.

In ordinary life I am a solution architect, so I spend my working days helping customers to a successful IT implementation as part of a bigger business change program. Today I had an interesting discussion about design documents and how they relate to each other and what information they should include in order for the readers to understand the context. During the conversation it became clear to me that the Golden Circle concept would greatly enhance the success of IT implementations. » Read the rest of this entry «

Today I watched this great inspiring video on TED (included below). Simon Sinek, a marketing consultant, talks about the Golden Circle, which is his model of explaining why some have success and others don’t. The Golden Circle concept consists of three circles of which the first one represents the ‘Why’, the second one the ‘How’ and the last one the ‘What’. » Read the rest of this entry «

A while ago I discovered TED, a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. I was drawn immediately to a specific topic displayed on the homepage: Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world (video embedded below). In this presentation Jane explores the emotions of gaming and how they can be used to create solutions for the ‘big problems’ our world is experiencing today.

As a gamer I can relate to some aspects, but on one subject Jane had a totally different perspective, and that is on feedback. In games you tend to get a constant flow of feedback on how you are doing in relationship to the subject of the game. Jane explains that ‘in real life’ we do not get this feedback. And there is were I have a different perspective. For people who have read my previous posts know this. We do get constant feedback on how we are doing in relationship to every subject we focus our attention on. The feedback is given by our emotions, which are very, very accurate. The situation is that many of us have forgotten, or have been tought not to, listen to our emotions.

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I believe that our purpose in life is to have joy. Nothing more, nothing less. To some this may sound a bit shallow, but they just want their own statue for their suffering, offers and hard work.

This morning my believe was confirmed by The Fun Theory. I was reading a blog entry on the game theory for enterprise 2.0 adaption, and the last part of this entry caught my attention. It shows a video where it is shown that the behavior of people can be changed by making things more fun. In this case using the stairs instead of the escalator.

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A couple of days ago I read the daily quote from Abraham-Hicks and it got stuck in my head for the days that followed. It was the following quote:

As you diminish contrast, you diminish your ability to decide, and as you diminish your ability to decide, you diminish your ability to focus, and as you diminish your ability to focus, you do away with your reason for existing.

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An amazing fragment (via Abundance and Prosperity) of Jim Carrey speaking at the 2009 Inaugural GATE Event (Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment). Especially the part when he describes his moment when he ‘understood it all’. Furthermore, he describes accurately that alignment is not a scholar degree. It is more like riding the waves; sometimes you are on, other times you are off. But you innately want to be on, were all feels good. Enjoy.

For some time now, I have been reading the books of Abraham-Hicks and listening to the workshops. The teachings – I am still not sure if this word describes it correctly – resonate with me on a level I have never experienced before. The clarity and intensity of the ‘answers’ are a perfect vibrational match to the questions I have asked. I feel that I have a solid basis of understanding this attraction-based Universe we live in, and would like to share this with you. » Read the rest of this entry «