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Sneak preview……

Het festival komt steeds dichterbij…..

Tijd voor een update van het programma.

Wat kan je verwachten?

Proeverij van eten, drinken, bijzondere kunst, photobooth, maak je eigen lippenbalsem, dichter, massage, film Mindfulness, beste singer en songwriter van Utrecht; Sjoerd, de Spinkit, talkshow, presenteren 3.0: wat is jouw beroep van de toekomst, Locals chillout, DJ’s en heleeee bijzondere sprekers; onder andere 11 jaar oude ondernemer en de vrouwelijke kracht achter Seats2meet Marielle Sijgers en nog veel meer ……….

Waarom vieren we dit feest ookalweer?

Onze eerste locatie en flagship store Seats2meet.com Utrecht CS bestaat 10 jaar. We organiseren dit festival, omdat we graag ons succes verhaal willen blijven vertellen en delen met het S2M (toekomstige) stakeholders waardenetwerk.

We kijken tijdens dit festival met elkaar vooruit en willen onze traditionele en vernieuwende netwerken nog intensiever met elkaar verbinden, waarbij we onverwachte relevante ontmoetingen durven te laten ontstaan, hetgeen we stimuleren door een aantal collega’s, boekers en bezoekers van vergaderzalen en de ZP’ers als co-workers hun persoonlijke netwerken uit te laten nodigen.

Overdag is het programma gericht op de snel veranderende en dynamische maatschappij en ‘s avonds op het individu.

We willen onze festival gasten inspireren, zodat zij samen met ons de komende 10 jaar inhoud kunnen geven aan de S2M kernwaarden ‘connect, collaborate & grow’.

Hoe kan je je aanmelden?

https://www.meetup.com/Seats2meet-Podium/events/244572458/

Tell me more!

Hier in het magazine vind je alvast de leukste verhalen:

https://magazine.seats2meet.com/s2m-10-jaar-2/

Zien we je daar?

 

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2018 Revealed

It’s going to be a cozy, loving year and there are two words that define the light energy of 2018: LOVE AND SELF WORTH.

THE OVERALL NUMBER ENERGY FOR 2018

2018 is a number 2 year.

(2+0+1+8 = 11 = 1+1 = 2) This is the overall number energy that affects everyone and will have an impact on your life and on the world. 2017 was a number 1 year and the start of a new 9-year cycle. It was a year of new beginnings and a year of change at all levels – personal, national and international. A year of tumult.

 

2018 is a year of love – self-love and romantic love. For your life, 2018 has the energy of respecting and loving yourself; and remembering that you are important and significant. It is a year of keeping your sense of self in all of your relationships; and developing your self-worth.

2018 impacts your closest love relationship. If you are looking for a partner, 2018 encourages you to reach out and take a risk on love. If you are already in a loving relationship, 2018 is the year to deepen that love and take it to a more meaningful place.

ENERGY ON THE PLANET IN 2018

In 2018 the energy on the planet is supporting you as you transform your personal energy from a sense of unworthiness to a feeling of being worthy. A deep knowledge and certainty about your place in the world.

2018 is a year of love, of self-love first and then romantic love next.

The light expanding belief attached to the energy of 2018 is:

I know who I am, I am important and significant and I choose to feel valued

Because we live on a planet of contrast and duality, there is also a dark limiting belief attached to the energy of 2018. Don’t let yourself be drawn into:

I believe that I don’t matter and I am unworthy

Choosing to believe that you are important and significant and choosing to feel valued, will be transformational for you and also for the planet’s energy. This choice will facilitate the collective shift from ‘unworthy’ to ‘worthy’. “In every moment of every day in every situation, you are faced with choices. All of these choices have an outcome or behavior.” Seth.

TRIGRAM OF THE TAO FOR 2018

The trigrams of the Tao are basic building blocks of creation that depict natural energy. Trigrams provide clues to the fundamental energy of each year.

There are eight trigrams of the Tao and these are Heaven and Earth, Fire and Water, Lake and Thunder, Wind and Mountain. Together the eight trigrams combine to form the yin-yang and tai chi. The trigram for 2018: Earth.

On the light side, earth energy is life-giving and nourishing.

BUT

On the dark side, earth energy absorbs too much and can’t replenish itself.

When you embody the light side of the earth trigram – being nourishing to yourself and to others – you align your energy with the light energy on the planet in 2018. When you collapse into the dark side of the earth trigram – you forget to nourish yourself, you absorb too much and neglect to replenish yourself.

In 2018 we will all be faced with this choice – to bring the light energy of earth into our lives or allow the dark energy of the earth to overwhelm us. We will be faced with this choice with ourselves and our self-love and in our most intimate relationships.

YOUR PERSONAL ENERGY IN 2018

There are light and dark energy in every year and whether you tap into the light expanding energy or the dark collapsed energy is your choice.

“One choice of positive behavior, of loving actions, has an enormous impact on all.” Seth

Here’s how you can make 2018 your best year and bring love into your life

Respect and love yourself – remember you are important and significant.
Create meaningful relationships with those who respect you.
Give and receive love easily while keeping your sense of self.
Choose to feel worthy and make self-love a priority.
Take care of yourself. Indulge in self-love, pamper yourself and make other healthy choices that help you to feel loved.
Stay reliable, centered and receptive.
Interact with others often while keeping a strong sense of self.
If you are in a close romantic relationship, choose to deepen this and take it to the next level.
If you are looking for a close romantic relationship, feel confident and worthy and take a risk on love.

Here are the challenges for you in 2018, this is what you need to avoid and choose away from:

Don’t indulge in gloominess and feeling unhappy.
Catch yourself when you are having negative feelings directed at yourself.
Remember that you are whole – you don’t need anyone else to ‘complete’ you.
Be careful not to lose yourself to others – especially in your closest relationships.
Remember that your life is important, you are important.
Never believe that you don’t matter and are unworthy; 2018 is the year to believe in yourself and to believe in love.

“It is not that it is difficult to choose but rather that you have not been aware that your behaviour is a choice. So many respond to life without knowing that they are choosing, deliberately choosing, their thoughts, feelings and outcomes. There is an acceptance of negative and withholding behaviour and a sense that they happened without personal participation.”

Seth

YOUR HEALTH AND HEALING IN 2018

Focus on the health of your heart and your blood in 2018. Heart health is impacted by diet, exercise, stress, and weight. This year, take care of your blood with regular check-ups for blood pressure and blood analysis. Remember to make personal care a priority in 2018. It is a year of self-love.

Make time for luxuries, For visits to the spa and indulgences that make you feel great and loved.

LIGHT ENERGY TOOLS MATCHING THE VIBRATION OF 2018

Colour: Pink is the color for 2018. Pink represents all forms of love, facilitates compassion and tolerance and provides a connection to earth energy. Wear pink or use it in your home furnishings such as your towels or sheets.
Gemstone: Rose quartz is the gemstone for 2018. Rose quartz stimulates unconditional love and heals emotional wounds. Place two pieces of tumbled rose quartz in your pocket or purse to bring this energy everywhere you go.

Essential Oil: Juniper Berry is the essential oil for 2018. Juniper berry enhances love of self and positive interactions with others. A few drops of juniper berry essential oil in a spritzer bottle with water can be sprayed around your space at home or at work.

Animal: Ox or buffalo is the animal energy in 2018. They are powerful, protective, determined and resolute. They value commitment and have an air of nobility. Bring ox and buffalo energy into your life with images or statues.

BALANCING YOUR SPACE IN 2018

Make these adjustments to your space to create a home that nourishes and supports you in 2018. Where the energy works for you rather than against you.

De-clutter your books and music collections. Only keep the books and music that you love and make you feel good about yourself. Make sure that the nightstands and lamps on either side of your bed are the same. This will attract and ensure balance in your closest relationship.
Introduce two pink candles into your bedroom. Place them close together and safely light them often.
Decorate with soft, plush, cozy textiles.
Remove all dead/dried flowers and plants from your home, including potpourri.
Hang a wind chime outside the front door to attract energy into your space.
Feng Shui your space to create a beautiful, loving, caring environment.

YOUR PLACE IN THE WORLD

After the fire energy of 2017, which represented all kinds of chaos and change, the earth energy of 2018 is a welcome relief. Your work in 2018 is to be aware of your self-worth, to focus on what makes you feel good and to take a chance on love without losing yourself in your relationships.

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How a Dutch-Czech start-up is fighting plastic bottle pollution

When Radek and I traveled through South-East Asia we got the idea of a brand-new water filter that would effectively fight plastic bottle pollution. After 12 months of testing in the lab and field, and 5 prototypes later, we are finally introducing the first universal and portable water filter for travelers. Our mission is to help travelers save money on bottled water and prevent plastic pollution all over the world.

Go directly to the Kickstarter campaign

During our trip to Asia, we encountered first-hand the effects of plastic bottle pollution. We started to dig deeper into this issue and learned that there are 1 million plastic bottles sold every minute. PET bottles are everywhere – washed up on beaches, or hidden in the deepest parts of nature. That’s when we realized that there isn’t an easy-to-use, portable water filter for travelers, that provides a solid alternative to bottled water.

The Flo-Bro One water filter is compact and intuitive. We combined our experience in business and membrane engineering to create a small-sized and lightweight device that can be carried in every bag.  

During the development stage, we focused on a universal design, which allows travelers to use the water filter indoors, as well as outdoors. This means that water can be filtered from any freshwater source: a sketchy tap, shower hose, river, lake, or stream.  

The core benefit of Flo-Bro One is the membrane testing & flushing technology. It makes expensive replaceable cartridges obsolete and makes the water filter fully reusable in the long-term.

“At Flo-Bro we believe that simple and durably designed products are the core of sustainable development. That vision led us to the creation of a simple cleaning procedure, which enhances the lifetime of the filter. This eliminates the need for expensive and often polluting, replacement cartridges” Radek Oborný (Co-Founder) comments on the water filter’s lifetime and durability.

In June 2017, our idea won the first prize in a start-up competition, for having the most innovative and promising idea. We used the main financial prize to give a boost to the development of Flo-Bro One. Thanks to this, we are now ready to bring the finalized product to the whole world.

From the 7th of November, the Flo-Bro One water filter is available to everyone at a discounted price on our Kickstarter campaign. Support us in making safe drinking water more accessible worldwide!

Robin Rijnbeek, Co-Founder

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STARTUP24: Intense Brainstorming, Entrepreneurship and overnight on Central Station!

This article was originally published at timespace.nl

On Friday, November 10th, Startup24 entrepreneurship challenge took place in Seats2Meet location on Central Station in Utrecht, organized by UtrechtInc Students and facilitated by Time Space!

For 24 hours, four teams of students were creating and developing startup ideas, guided by experienced mentors, such as Michiel Kalverda – a TMI startup founder and trainer, and Joep Bremen – Lean and Agile coach. The evening started off with an opening ceremony, attended by Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands and newly assigned Minister of Education Ingrid van Engelshoven, who inspired the participants to focus on what they want to achieve and proceed with their projects. As the confetti canon marked the start of 24 hours, the students split into teams and the work began.

“WHEN I WAS A STUDENT MYSELF I ALWAYS TRIED TO DO AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE TO PASS MY EXAMS”

Interview with Dr. Debra Ford from SolePath

Seats2meet has been connected to several locations around the world, each one with their own characteristics. The most recent one is SolePath in Calgary, Canada. We spoke to Dr. Debra Ford to understand better what is that they do and how everyone can join them.

Hi Debra, could you tell a little bit about yourself?

I am a spiritual philosophy teacher with a doctorate in metaphysical science. I also act as an ordained minister and a member of the American metaphysical doctors association and the Canadian Institute of metaphysical ministers. I am the co-founder of the SolePath Institute, along with the four core team of John Ford, Deneen Justason, and Terry Justason. The SolePath Institute joyfully encourages everyone to know and understand their SolePath and live a beautiful life, filled with purpose and meaning. The SolePath Institute provides support and guidance on your journey, helping you to take the next best step to a happy life.

Where did you get the idea to initiate Sole Path?

SolePath was created in 2009 out of a deep yearning to help my clients find purpose in their lives. I had a busy spiritual counseling practice at that time and most of the people who came to me were asking the deep questions “Who Am I?” and “What am I meant to be doing with my life?” SolePath was created to help answer those fundamental life questions.

What is my SolePath?

SolePath is your soul ID. At the SolePath Institute, we measure your energetics and give to you your best lifehack ever, your SolePath. When you know your SolePath you understand how to navigate your life. You can be who you dreamed you’d be and who the world needs you to be. Knowing your SolePath is priceless but you pay only what you feel able to give.

Why do I need to know my SolePath?

SolePath is always only about you, about you as an individual finding your way and walking your path to purpose and a beautiful life. SolePath helps you find your role so that you can make a difference because there is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill; something you are to do, which no one else can do.

You offer a lot of services at Sole Path, could you tell a bit about them?

At the SolePath Institute, we are in the business of happiness. We help make your life happier using analysis; teaching you tools, techniques; and offering healing services – for your mental, spiritual and physical health.

And how did you got in touch with S2M?

Serendipity I think. You are connecting people and we are connected.

You are the first S2M location in Canada! What is your vision of S2M and Sole Path getting together?

We have a nourishing, energetically balanced space that we would love to share with others. We see ourselves as connected – to our neighbors, to our city and through you – to the world at large.

What is your tip for the people who are looking to find their purpose?

Start the journey into deep self-awareness, know your SolePath and then get to work. Find the place that you are to fill in the world. Each of us is fundamental to creating the shift that is needed.

You can book a seat at SolePath here.

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In the spotlight: Permanent Beta

Kim van den Berg en Martijn Aslander vertellen over: Permanent Bèta

Permanent Bèta is als label bedacht om zaken in de netwerk- en informatiesamenleving te verkennen, te bediscussiëren of mensen over voor te lichten.

Permanent Bèta is volkomen pretentieloos.

Iedereen maakt het zelf, als je het niet leuk vindt of je mist iets dan kan je het zelf veranderen. Meet ups gaan altijd door. Soms zijn meet ups met 5 deelnemers minstens zo geslaagd als die met 30 deelnemers, omdat je met z’n vijven tot hele ander gesprekken komt.

Met bijna geen budget hebben we inmiddels meer dan 1000 sessies veroorzaakt in een paar jaar tijd. Dat is volgens Kim en Martijn het bewijs dat je grootschalig kennis, energie, ideeën en inspiratie kunt faciliteren, zonder budgetten en zonder draaiboeken en dankzij technologie en infrastructuur, waar S2M natuurlijk aan heeft bijgedragen.

Sinds de kennismaking met S2M ben ik nooit meer bij een netwerkborrel geweest.

Seats2meet roept in eerste instantie namen op en in het bijzonder Ronald, Mariëlle en Felix . Het is een plek om te co-creëren en van elkaar te kunnen leren. Daarnaast zijn er mooie vriendschappen en relaties ontstaan zoals die met Jurjen en Samir van het PFLab. Ook is het een podium geweest voor Martijn als spreker waar hij kon oefenen oa tijdens de Fris-in-je-hoofd events 

S2M is 1 van de meest hoogwaardige plekken voor sprekers en schrijvers in Nederland

Honderden ontmoetingen in vele jaren zorgen ervoor dat even rustig werken wel eens lastig wordt bij S2M030. Daar kiezen ze nu andere plekken voor, maar het netwerk is nog altijd belangrijk.

Een leuk detail is dat Erwin Witteveen en Martijn elkaar hebben ontmoet in S2M030. Erwin ging Martijn interviewen. Uit deze samenwerking is eerst ‘Easycratie’ ontstaan en daarna ‘Nooit Af‘. Deze boeken hebben de nodige impact gehad op de samenleving. Dit soort initiatieven ontstaan er bij S2M.

Er zit een maatschappelijk belang in S2M dat gewoon niet uit te drukken is in getallen of in feiten.

De kennismaking tussen Kim en Martijn liep iets minder soepel. Kim boekte Martijn als spreker voor een bijeenkomst van haar toenmalige werkgever. Na twee minder geslaagde pogingen om Martijn te spreken te krijgen, maakten ze een afspraak om samen koffie te gaan drinken. Dat bleek een schot in de roos en de start van een mooie samenwerking.

S2M is een plek waar heel veel creativiteit is en veel ontstaan.

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LEGO wants to keep us creative

Everybody knows LEGO. Kids have been playing with the bricks since 1932 and they show any sign of stopping. Through the 85 years of its existence, LEGO was able to keep up with children from all different generations, from baby boomers to millennials. And now it is educating a whole new generation on how to program through toys as Mindstorm, which new schools as the Happy Kids School are using in their classes.

Last week during the Web Summit LEGO showed their will for innovation and was present in various talks of the major tech event. They weren’t only present, but the talks were crowded. One in particular, where Lars Silberbauer, the Senior Global Director of Social Media & Video from LEGO went to explain how they the brand is always running smoothly despite all the changes the world has been through since it’s launch. We weren’t disappointed.

The Power of Stories

LEGO recognizes that the reason why their toys aren’t just a brick is that all the stories kids create around it. With that in mind, they are always fast to relate their brands to the biggest stories of each generation, hence Star Wars, Batman, DC and Marvel superheroes, Disney princesses, Minecraft, Pirates of the Caribbean, Jurassic Park, Ghostbusters and even a whole architecture line with the main landmarks for the older children (also know as me). There is something for everyone.

The Power of the Crowd

Relating to huge stories is cool, but you know what is cooler? Giving the stage to your own customers to tell their own stories. In his talk, Lars told the ridiculous amount of stories they track every day on social media. Right now, if you research LEGO on Youtube you will find close to 27 million results. By encouraging their customers to create stories and share them they became the most engaging brand on Youtube.

In the Society 3.0 book, Ronald van den Hoff uses the example of LEGO crowdsourcing their own Research and Development department to explain Society 2.0. LEGO Idea is a platform where anyone can post their project, and if it gets 10 thousand upvotes LEGO will develop and distribute it. In Lars’ presentation, he mentioned that ‘the power of the crowd will always be stronger than ours (LEGO)’, and that’s clearly not only talk.

Kronkiwongi – Children’s creativity throughout our lives

Knowing that stories are their biggest strength they are turning to their biggest customers and best storytellers: children. And not only while they are children. LEGO sees a trend that the work of the future will require tons of creativity, so their goal with Kronkiwongi is to keep children’s creativity through their whole lives. How? Creating lego set with no instructions. What is a Kronkiwongi? You can decide. According to LEGO, imagination is limitless, when there are no rules. And that’s how they also created one of their most successful social media campaigns, keeping their brand relevant.

 

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How to plan the absolute entirety of your life forever™

I’m in the middle of a big change in my professional, romantic and possibly geographical life.

Instead of frying my brain thinking about every single possibility ahead of me, I created a method to help me not to lose my focus. It’s a simple concept: I’ve made a planning technique that unfolds from time to time. You don’t have to plan the whole thing, just plan where to go until you have to stop and plan again.

So let’s make it happen.

Dude I’m high as fuck…
The unfolding map

If you’re a cartographer trying to chart the entire universe, you kinda know from the start that your mission is impossible. Still, charting well a reasonable chunk of the universe (let’s say, for example, the bloody Solar System) can be really valuable. With that in mind…

Allow me to introduce a simple 4-step program written by the Buddha while meditating in the face of a precipice.

Not true, it was written by me in an abandoned airport:

1 — Select your muses

2 — Grab their wisdom

3 — Solve the post-it maze

4 — Schedule Google calendar

Just to be clear: be suspicious of every X-step-program
1 — Select your muses

The first task is calling the 5 most powerful people you know — we’ll call them muses. But what do I mean? Should you call Bill Gates? Perhaps Goku?

Let’s stick to people you know, respect and admire (no offense, Mr. Gates, but you never reply to my tweets, what are we even???). People you can contact. Then let’s think about power.

Power, of course, may manifest in many ways. Throughout our lives we learn (and unlearn) to perceive it in different fashions. So most probably when you read the word power you thought about money or physical strength and those forms of power are alright, but I think we all agree that “keeping it cool”, “dressing super fancy” and “knowing the right people” are also pretty legitimate forms of power, right?

Understanding which manifestation of power makes more sense to you right now is the key to call the right muses. You should aim for wildly different varieties and colours of power, even if the people contradict one another (this would actually be good). Remember: there is no rights or wrongs, just your positioning on the game-board.

Let me illustrate this with a couple of example-lists. You could select your 5 muses by defining which sort of adjective you really value:

Happiest
Most connected to nature
Richest
Most travelled
Hardest to break

Perhaps you’d rather evaluate by achievements you consider important:

Runs the coolest company
Has the wildest marriage
Did the most impactful charity work
Tells the best stories
Has the most academic knowledge

Or maybe even go further and base a big chunk of your life on a specific goal or theme:

Climbed the highest mountain
Hiked the longest trail
Survived the trickiest situation
Wrote a book about climbing
Most famous in the climbing community

The exploration of what’s really important in your life and the selection of which people are the avatars, the manifestations of that importance, should be a single process. It’s alright if you change your mind a lot. It’s alright if you don’t include your Mom. Mom will never know.

Just relax and enjoy the feeling of having amazing people in your life. This will guide you better than any form of rationalization.

Cool, you selected 5 muses, time to call.

“That was a joke. Ha-ha. Fat chance” — GLaDOS
2 — Grab their wisdom

Listen up, punk! This is not a phone call, this is not some chitchat mint tea!

This is a mission. A sacred journey. This is destiny materializing in front of your face. You gotta feel (and perhaps dress) like a monk just reaching nirvana, alright?

Good! That’s the attitude. Now what to do?

You’re gonna be honest with your muses. You’re gonna tell them you’re thinking about the future of your life and you thought their opinion would really help. Perhaps you’ll mention this blog post. Just be open, don’t hide yourself behind big words.

Coffees, beers, skype calls, hiking — how to interact with your muses it’s your call. Some may not be available — worry not! If only a fraction of them show up, that’s fine. The only rule is: bring a notebook. Write their ideas, their directions, their criticism. Don’t worry about big blocks of detailed text, just process the individual ideas the best you can.

It’s gonna be alright, don’t worry
3 — Solve the post-it maze

Now it gets tricky.

It’s very hard for us to think about quantum fields and other really really tiny interactions in the universe. Even our representation of an atom is faulty — since it’s hard for us to conceive the electron as a field, we turn it into a mini-Moon. We get the Moon! Good ‘ol Moon!

But the mind blowing thing about quantum mechanics is that it changes the way we look at the universe and, just by doing so, give us new ideas on how to interact with… well, everything.

Ladies and gents, I present you the mind’s version of quantum fields — the post-it. All hail.

Now you possess those semi-chaotic text memories of conversations, what to do with this? Step one: buy 500 post-its. All hail.

The idea is to scan your notebook looking for advice. Recommendations, questions, personal parallels, jokes — advice comes in many forms and it’s up to you to find them in whatever you have captured. Keep asking yourself “what is the lesson here?” and they’ll come flocking. For now, all you gotta do is transform them into direct affirmative sentences and put each of them on a post-it (all hail). In the end you’ll have notes like:

“Stop procrastinating at work”

“Try different stuff”

“Pay attention to your body”

“Choose what you should be stressed about”

Don’t repeat the same advice from a single person, but if two different muses told you the same thing, burn a new post-it. That’s why you bought 500.

Alright. Sit down. Breathe. Time to reveal the secrets of the entire universe (of you).

Find an empty wall and start sticking those wisdom-filled post-its. Cluster the similar and related advice. Keep the contradictory advice away. Reorganize a lot. Find the pattern. Look for repetition. Look for the areas where your muses agree and disagree. See they arguing and agreeing with each other without ever meeting.

Finally and most importantly — choose.

You can see now a couple of paths, a handful of options. You can see the things that are obvious to everyone and the things that are obscure. Nobody but you can choose what’s best for you, not even your muses. Their role here was to reduce the complexity of having all the options in the world. The post-it wall in front of you is understandable.

Choose an amount of advices that you can manage. Transform them into mantras. Into funny internet memes. Into a detailed plan. Whatever works for you. This is a work of translation — making sense of something external and putting in your words, your habits.

Send the muses a thank you note.

See? it’s simple!
4 — Schedule Google calendar

What’s the point of doing all this and then just carry on with your life as if nothing happened? We need a JUDGEMENT DAY *dramatic piano*.

Open your Google or phone calendar and scroll. One year from the date you organized those post-its. That’s the crucial point. You’ll create an event called JUDGEMENT DAY (all caps, please, I know what I’m doing), write the pieces of advice you chose to follow and mayhaps paste this text’s link.

If you’re feeling inspired (and Gods, you should! You just called your version of Bill Gates!) you can set some milestones throughout the year. Actions connected to your new path — making it a solid, touchable, smellable, lickable thing.

In one year, you’ll think about the advice you’ve been given, the path you chose to listen to and — most importantly — if and how it changed something. You’ll be your own arbiter and how harsh of softly you’ll judge yourself, it’s up to you. But if you don’t probe yourself, the whole thing makes no sense.

Open the champagne. Feel miserable. Paint. Run. How you react is also an act of choosing. If you burst into tears or laughter and you may think that it didn’t feel like choosing, but these reactions are also part of you and you should listen to them.

And, of course, the map has to unfold a little bit more. Repeat the process.

See you next year.

Still pretty high
The results

If this text inspired you to do something — ANYTHING, even if you did a different process — I’d love to hear the tale.

More: I’d love to see the picture. Manifest whatever you did into a picture and paste it here in the comments. Tell me your story. I’ll be really glad to read.

I have this skill to make people do crazy things.

Yes, this is my doing. I do not know this person. Don’t ask.

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Proposals – Do it once and save time later

Together with the major update launched in the beginning of October came several features. A lot of them were made to save the time from everyone making the operational work. One of the features is ‘Proposals’. There, you can create a pre-formulated PDF document with 5 different blocks and send them out in a matter of seconds. For real! Seconds. So here is how you do it.

The Big 5

Once you are on the dashboard of your location you can go to Proposals and then Settings.

There, you can find the 6 parts of your proposal e-mail and PDF:

Mail – that will be the subject and the text of your e-mail
Introduction – this part will already be in the PDF. There you can present the items to follow.
Meeting Spaces – On Meeting spaces the description and picture of the selected meeting space will appear automatically. In this field, you can tell about how many meeting spaces you offer and that from all of them, you chose this unique one as a solution for your client.
 Options – here the options selected for your client will also appear automatically with its descriptions and pictures.
Summary – That’s where the table with the prices will appear. You can use this area to explain it.
Closing – You can choose however you want to finish your proposal if with a greeting, more information about your location or offering assistance if they need to clear any doubts.

Here is an example of each area you are filling and how it is going to look like in the PDF.

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Cool right? But hey, there is some stuff missing.

‘Caught in the App’ series – portraits of everyday zombies

Smartphones zijn de heroïne van onze tijd. We zijn allemaal hooked – een enkeling daar gelaten. Niet gek ook, want ze brengen veel goeds, waardevols en vermakelijk dansende panda’s. Het gebruik is nagenoeg gratis. En… de apps zijn bewust ontworpen om verslavend te zijn. De verslaving leidt tot ongelukken in het verkeer, roekeloos vergaderen, overgewicht, app-nekken, eenzaamheid, slapeloze nachten, depressie en zelfs zelfmoord. En meer.​ Steeds meer mensen maken zich ernstig zorgen en zoeken naar een gezonde balans.

De Groninger fotograaf en social engineer Ritzo ten Cate – smartphone-verslaafd sinds 2007 – zette zijn zorgen om in de fotoserie Caught in the App. Een jaar lang ging hij op jacht naar mensen die verzonken zijn in hun smartphone. Hij leg de ze vast, vlak na het moment dat ze zich betrapt voelen. Voor zijn serie gebruikt hij korte (vaste) lenzen, waardoor er een roofdier- en prooi-achtig spel ontstaat. “Van hoe nabij kan ik een onbekende fotograferen, die in zijn telefoon verzonken is?”

In de workshop #CaughtintheApp deelt Ten Cate al zijn leringen en ga je – uiteraard – samen de straat op. Met welke intentie ga je aan de slag? Hoe beweeg je? Welke kleding draag je? Hoe vind je hotzones en hoe zorg ervoor dat je daar echt op je plek bent? Hij hoopt de deelnemers te inspireren om ook hun pad op straat te vinden, samen te leren en nieuwe sub-series te laten ontstaan. De workshop begint met een lunch en eindigt met een prijsuitreiking. Halverwege de middag is er thee.

Dus als je interesse hebt in straatfotografie, close contact (niet-gestolen), portret… voel je welkom. Een serieuze camera is fijn, maar niets hoeft. Ook een smartphone will do, zolang je die maar gebruikt als een smartphone-camera