Marcel van Marrewijk's Blog, page 165

A-synchrone wederkerigheid

Het zal vast geen toeval zijn dat ik in deze week zo vlak voor Pasen opeens de geest heb een blog te schrijven over a-synchrone wederkerigheid. Al langer stond dit onderwerp op de rol. Het is één van de wezenlijke principes waar we binnen het Seats2meet-concept in geloven.

Gister keek ik naar The Passion. Eigenlijk vooral omdat deze keer Amersfoort het decor was. Naast dat ik vol trots keek naar het indrukwekkende spektakel in “mijn” stad, werd ik ook geraakt door de rode draad door het verhaal: open je deuren, kijk om naar elkaar en geef zonder te nemen.

Ik zie mooie paralellen met waar wij binnen Seats2meet in geloven. A-synchrone wederkerigheid, investeren in anderen zonder dat je er direct iets voor terug verwacht. Niet geven en nemen, maar geven en ontvangen. Geloven in het gegeven dat wanneer je iets weggeeft je dit altijd ergens weer terugkrijgt. Misschien niet synchroon van de persoon waaraan je iets hebt gegeven, maar in ieder geval van iemand binnen jouw persoonlijk (waarde)netwerk.

Wat ook hoort bij a-synchrone wederkerigheid is dat het in sommige gevallen ook helemaal niets oplevert, of niet dat wat je had verwacht. Maar soms is iets geven aan iemand (of bijvoorbeeld bijdragen aan de maatschappij) waar je niet direct iets voor terugkrijgt toch ook ok?

Uit eigen ervaring kan ik ook zeggen dat a-synchrone wederkerigheid “business-wise” uitstekend werkt. Je directe relaties staan minder onder druk omdat je niet geforceerd wordt om gelijk een tegenprestatie te leveren. Een ander positief effect is dat je netwerk enorm snel groeit en wel met personen waar je vrijwel direct zaken mee kunt doen. Daarnaast is niet alleen zakelijk gezien aantrekkelijk, maar ook een verrijking in de zin van persoonlijke ontmoetingen. En…delen maakt je gewoon blij en gelukkig!

Dus…kan ik jou ergens mee helpen? Laat me weten!

De enige factor die me soms beperkt is tijd. Misschien dat jij me daarin kan helpen? Meer doen in minder tijd?

Tot geefs!

 

 

 

 

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A Seats2meet location als an ExO (Exponential Organisation)

When I started to prepare my strategy for 2016, last december, I used the model of Yuri van Geest and Salim Ismail known of the Singularity University. This model is explained in their book ‘Exponential Organizations’, business book of the year 2014, in which they explain why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours. A book that I find to be very useful in developing my strategy, since they explain in their book about their research into startups and why they succeed or fail. Turns out there are several factors that indicate a startup is going to succeed. So all the more reason for me to check if I have these factors covered.

MTP

At first they say a startup has to have a so called MTP: a massive transformative purpose. You can compare a MTP with the Why of Simon Sinek (The golden circle) and the value proposition of the Business Model Canvas. For Peer!, my Seats2meet location, that is building on a new economy. Building a mesh, a network of companies and communities that create value to one another with new business models, fair and sustainable trade. (why) We facilitate business meetings in the new economy (what), which makes this happen.

The model

Yuri and Salim present their model with a picture of a brain with a left and right brain: the left part stands for order, control and stability and the right part for creativity, growth and uncertainty. With both parts they have five factors that need to be covered, will your startup be a success. I will share with you my analysis of my location with you on every one of these factors.

Staff on demand

Besides my business partner and I, I do not have any employees. However, there are working approximately 20 persons for us. So we have a 100% flexible workforce. The people that are working for us pay with social capital for what we give them: a free workspace, a network, a place where they can meet and develop themselves. We have a facilitator that leads meetings an workshops, a twitter reporter that makes a twitter report of a meeting and hosts that receive guests and introduce them to our community and our ways. They do not just tell where the coffee and the toilets are, but especially how we work with social and monetary capital and how they can tap into the collective knowledge of Seats2meet. We even have an IT-project manager, an office manager and an event manager. In all the cases the exchange of value must feel good: what we give and what we receive must be in balance.

Community and crowd

We spend a lot of time in building our community. We do that on the location as well as online. To improve the interaction online, the members of the community also blog on our website and we share this on our social media. The authors share it also, which gives us more visibility. On the location we organize events and every day we lunch together and ask people to help each other: do they have a question about software, social media or about a possible client? There is always another community member that has the answer. Also the contributing to the community with labor and subgroups on a theme that find project together add value to the community. We have two groups now: Innovation and Events&promotion. They are a collaboration of freelancers that present themselves as a network within the mesh.

Algorithms

As I am no It-specialist, an certainly have no knowledge of data science or algorithms, I am very happy that Seats2meet International helps me out on this one. They put all their effort in increasing the value we can offer to our clients with software for meeting and exchanging knowledge. The software for meeting the relevant people was already available for the workspaces, but the software for the meeting spaces is now developing and it looks great! I have used it during a meeting with 50 guests lately and I could share my experience with the developers, so that they can use it to continue building.

Leveraged Assets

In this factor for me the main goal is to have access, not ownership. Ownership means maintenance, administration, etc. So I can tell you I have no fixed costs but the service costs of the owner of the building where our location is and the subscription on the coffee(machine). We order catering if a client orders with us, so that are variable costs. We have no outstanding loan. The rent we have is a profit-related rent. This means that after we paid our costs (like catering, cleaning, coffee and so forth) we share the profit with the owner of the building. What also is a new business model, is that we have just half of a floor (the workspace and coffee corner) as a steady, continuous factor. For the meeting spaces we use the not rented offices in the building. There we put a conference table, chairs, art and a whiteboard. When the room is rented, we move the interior to another free space in the building.

Engagement

The engagement is visible: on the website you can see the reviews of our customers. We are open for social deals: we can organize an event of workshop together with a trainer or company and share the profits or we can give a discount on the monetary capital if there is an extra exchange of value. For example if the company or person does something for the community, therefore for Peer!. The things we do to build the community also contribute to the engagement of the people that work at our location.

Interfaces

I already mentioned the software for meeting and exchanging knowledge, so that’s covered. Off course Mirjam and I are also interfaces, we do manually what the software does: we always get to know a client and what he does, so we can make connections and give tips to them who to contact. The Seats2meet-software also provides us an interface for the clients to book their meeting spaces online and it translates to our internal processes, like invoicing, administration and CRM.

Dashboards

The Seats2meet-software provides us with a dashboard on profits per month/year/day and makes yield management possible. For my navigation, I use a simple excel-sheet for the organization goals and activities. For sales I use the free tool Hubspot, in which I can put all the contact that are not a client (yet) and monitor my Sales Funnel.

Experimentation

We are doing several experiments: professionalizing our workshops and trainings to Peer Academy, building on an art community Spaces4art, constantly experimenting with social deals and creating extra value for the community.

Autonomy

Here Yuri and Salim mean self-organized multidisciplinary teams that act under a decentralized authority. Well, we have a network structure and the people that work with us, are a member of teams. Every team has his own task and can decide and work together to finish these tasks. Because we have our location for only one year, I participate in a lot of these teams, so decisions can be made quickly. If I am not there, the host of the day makes the decisions.

Social

If you have read about the community building and engagement, you probably know that we are also social. We use the Seats2meet-software for making relevant meetings possible, keep in touch with our community online through social media and ask them to contribute actively to the content of our social media. We also have room for people with a distance to the labor market. They work with us with what they can do. They grow into a new profile of skills, when they want a job switch or re-integrate. Everything is possible, what is most important is the agreement we make: what is the exchange of value and for how many hours, which tasks, etc. That is the deal and if it takes the person to do it in a week or one day, doesn’t matter. It is important that they contribute to the community and feel they have a useful day filling. The freelancers, companies and people that re-integrate are all working together and there is no difference of rank. They are all members of the community and the network of Peer!.

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Vrijwillig host bij Meet&Discover: wat levert dat je op?

Anderhalf jaar lang (nov 2014 – jan 2016) was Joyce Hardeman één dag in de week vrijwillig host bij Meet&Discover, Amersfoort. Met haar telemarketingbureau had ze vooral contacten in Utrecht en ze wilde dit graag uitbreiden. Het hostschap bij Meet&Discover leek haar een mooie manier om een netwerk op te bouwen in Amersfoort. Dat het haar nog veel meer zou opleveren – tot en met een succesvolle carrièreswitch – had ze niet kunnen vermoeden.

“Meet&Discover is de perfecte plek om mensen te ontmoeten. Als je daar zit te werken en je kijkt om je heen, breidt je netwerk vanzelf uit. Als host gaat dat nog harder: je bent een spil.”



Hoe ziet je dag eruit?

“Als host ben je de gastvrouw: je ontvangt de mensen die een vergaderzaal hebben geboekt en de zelfstandig professionals (ZP’ers) die komen werken in de workspace. Je bent het aanspreekpunt; een van je belangrijkste taken als host is het verbinden. Ook verzorg je de lunch, soms met stagiaires. Aan nieuwkomers leg je het concept van de workspace uit: een gratis werkplek in ruil voor je sociaal kapitaal. Het uitleggen van de gedachte achter Seats2Meet is een wezenlijk onderdeel van je rol als host.”

Past deze ontmoetingsgedachte bij jou?

“De deeleconomie steunde ik al en hier werd dat bevestigd. Ik geloof dat mensen elkaar graag helpen en dat we door het delen van kennis elkaar kunnen versterken. Het draait hier om de ontmoeting. De zelfstandig professionals die hier komen werken, hebben allemaal hun eigen talent. De een is goed met tekst, de ander bouwt websites, weer een ander is koning Excel. Het is ontzettend leuk om die kruisbestuiving te zien. Het inspireerde ons tot het opzetten van Eerste Hulp bij Ondernemen.

Als ik zelf met iets zit, kan ik ook hulp vragen aan iemand in de workspace. Het schakelt snel. Serendipiteit op zijn best.”

Hoe geef jij als host invulling aan dit concept?

“Ik streef ernaar open en onbevooroordeeld te zijn. Dat je nooit weet wie je voor je hebt tot je diegene spreekt. Oprechte interesse in de ander tonen – dan ontstaat er vaak wel iets.

Het werkt alleen als je allemaal gelooft in het delen; ik word kriegel van mensen die slechts komen halen. Ik geloof erg in ‘eerst geven.’ In de Sales gaat het ook zo: het gaat erom dat je de klant het hof maakt, voor je wint.

Elke ‘hostdag’ heeft voor mij iets waardevols. Een inzicht, iemand die je vrolijk maakt, een opmerking – mijn cadeautje van de dag.”

Kom je wel toe aan je eigen werk?

“Op sommige dagen, als er veel zalen zijn verhuurd, dan ben je best druk met het ontvangen van gasten en het beantwoorden van vragen. Maar er zijn ook veel dagen dat er minder te doen is zodat je goed aan je eigen werk toe komt. Ik spaarde altijd mijn administratieve klusjes voor deze dag: werk dat wel moet gebeuren maar niet zo veel concentratie vraagt. Dan is het geen bezwaar als je wordt onderbroken.”   

Wat heeft het jou gebracht?

“Meer dan ik had verwacht. En sneller. Ten eerste een enorm netwerk. In de workspace had ik al gauw veel contact met ZP’ers. Je bent voor die dag het gezicht van de locatie, een aanspreekpunt. Na een maand werd ik gevraagd als medeorganisator van ZZP Connect. Mijn netwerk groeide met de dag.

Ten tweede fungeerde deze locatie voor mij als een prachtige proeftuin. Als host mag je gebruik maken van de ruimte (’s avonds, in het weekend en overdag als het niet verhuurd is) en ik heb dat ten volle benut: op netwerkgelegenheden organiseerde ik workshops om mijn expertise te laten zien. Ik heb hier trainingen gegeven, belsessies georganiseerd, van alles uitgeprobeerd. De Open Coffee is ook hier ontstaan. Langzaamaan werd ik het gezicht van ZZP Amersfoort.” 

Heeft jouw ervaring als host je ondernemerschap beïnvloed?

“Jazeker – ik ben hierdoor zelfs geswitcht in ondernemerschap: van telemarketing naar acquisitiepartner. Mijn huidige bedrijf, Samen met JOS, is voortgekomen uit mijn werk als host.

Ik herinner me het omslagpunt. Dat was op het Zakelijk Festival MNL 2014­­­­. Vanuit de telemarketing was ik gewend om zeer doelgericht te werk te gaan. Ik had als een ware control freak de hele dag van tevoren gepland. Op dat festival viel een en ander op zijn plek. Op een gegeven moment stapte ik een yurt binnen en daar wist ik het zeker: ik ga het helemaal anders doen. In die tent heb ik mijn lijst verscheurd.

Vanaf dat moment ben ik veel meer gaan varen op mijn intuïtie. Meegaan in de beweging en openstaan voor nieuwe mogelijkheden. Het hostschap wakkerde dat nog verder aan. Grappig genoeg zit ik dit jaar in het communicatieteam van dat festival. En onlangs ben ik ook gevraagd voor de organisatie van de Rode Loperdag.

Werken voelt nu veel minder als werken. Ik sta nu veel dichter bij mezelf, ben minder bezig met wat een ander verwacht. Ik heb nu zoveel meer plezier in mijn werk. Win-win-win!”

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Global Meetup Day 2: Music, food and home away from home

The second I got in the room called Platform 1, located in the Utrecht Seats2meet location, the first thought was: I like this song. I don’t remember what it was, but the thought kept on through the day.

On the second day of the global meetup we had what , writer of the book Appreciative Inquires: of the 3.0 kind, calls an unconference. The concept isn’t new. An unconference is when instead of having keynote speakers on a stage everyone has its chance to speak out and the choice when what they want to work on. Might sound a little bit chaotic, and it is.

The word might not be new, but was definitely a new experience for me. We started from the micro, 1-0-1 interviews, to macro as collective dreaming and groups pitching their ideas that can eventually become into actions. All of those steps were measured in an ingenious way: music. The result was brilliant ideas and an information overload. All orchestrated by Cees as a facilitator.

Irene van Gent on the workshop “Create the life that suits you best”

On the end of the day was time to give our guests the stage. On a round of 4 different workshops: Teamily with , Bitnation with , S2M Carrousel w/ Permanent Future Lab given by and Create the life that suits you best with .

To end the day with style we had an amazing dinner made by Mama’s Koelkast. Long story short they are moms from all over the world, Suriname, Morocco, you name it. I can say for myself that as a foreigner it felt like home.

The Mama’s

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Ten visionaries, one future – Grace Sai

About a month ago, the CUAsia event on Bali was a big success. As S2M was one of the partners of the event, we took the opportunity to interview some real inspiring keynote speakers. Today in our series ‘Ten visionaries, one future’, you will find the interview I did with the .

Grace is the CEO and Co-Founder of The Hub Singapore, Singapore’s largest co-working community of entrepreneurs, creatives and techies. She is regarded as the node of entrepreneurship ecosystem in Asia and speaks widely on that topic. Interested in ecosystem building and policy development for startups and social enterprises, she has been invited by the Prime Minister’s Offices in Singapore and Malaysia, Angela Merkel, Mayor Park, amongst others; to share her inputs. She also sits on the Advisory Board for Ben & Jerry’s Singapore, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at INSEAD and a TEDx Singapore speaker. She was also the founder of Books for Hope, a social enterprise in children’s education in Indonesia. Grace has been nominated as a Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum (2013), 40 Under 40 by Prestige Singapore (2014) and is a UN Women Entrepreneurship Day Ambassador. She now resides in Singapore and has an MBA from University of Oxford, where she graduated with Distinction and was a Skoll Scholar (funded by Jeff Skoll, the co-founder of eBay).

What does the term ‘coworking’ mean to you specifically?

I think co-working is a mindset. It’s not even a skill set. It’s a mindset of a level of collaboration that has never happened before in the now capitalistic society. I do believe that co-working has existed in societies in the past, when people really helped each other to survive almost. I love the Dutch concept of ‘gezellig’; that to me is co-working! It’s a sense a belonging, it’s about community. It’s about belonging to a tribe that understands you and shares the same values, giving you a very profound dope of courage to pursue your own ideals for the world. I fundamentally believe that the big guys out there do not have the solutions for a better world. I think leaders in the past were more noble, more altruistic, than the leaders today. And so the problem with the world is now that everyone is used to the big guys having the solutions, but that’s not true. They have the power, but that doesn’t mean they have the right intentions. I think the power is with the many, so how do you organize the many into environments where they are productive and courageous enough to pursue the solutions? Perhaps that is how society should be organized.

How would you describe the development of co-working in Asia?

Growth is happening. We were probably the 3rd co-working space in Singapore four years ago, now there are 60. I think it is a growing pie, so there is no real competition between operators yet, but one can expect the market to be more segmented, discerning and sophisticated.

How does this development relate to the rest of the world?

I can’t say the same about NYC and London; those cities are more saturated and there are dominant players already. Here in Asia there is no dominant player yet. Each co-working space stands for something different. For The Hub Singapore, we are about community and collaboration. The emerging market of 650 million in population in Southeast Asia also provides an exciting opportunity for the way we are restructuring work and society. There’s lots of opportunities to make an impact in a developing part of the world!

What do you think is the biggest challenge for the co-working movement worldwide?

The biggest challenge is that the people who start co-working spaces are nice people, not business people. Idealistic, passionate people, who want to serve other people. And if you do that without business acumen and a cashflow projection, than you are bound to get tired of just giving and not seeing the feedback or reward of your work . And you also run the risk of closing down because of the bigger peers coming in and offering better spaces and cheaper prices as well. Globally, only 30% of the coworking spaces are profitable. A lot of us here who are giving classes at CUAsia have done a lot of these mistakes and have come out alive to share those battle scars. Also, if you love building community, starting a co-working space is not the only to way to build community. There are many other ways that are less expensive and less risky. Like Seats2meet! It is a way of building community without having real estate risks!

What is the importance for people of being part of bigger collective?

Because there is an inherent need for humans to connect. To belong to this thing called humanity. Especially for people that want to create change and come up with innovative and disruptive ideas. I really believe that. Like Margaret Mead, the famous philosopher, said: “Never doubt that a small of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” For movements, whether it is female emancipation or anti-slavery or the LGBT rights movement, it all started first with a small group of passionate people who were pioneers. And I believe that what we are doing is really aggregating a group of pioneers, who are restructuring the definition of success. the structures of business society, technology. So this whole idea of  business for society, technology for society, spaces for society is the kind of the people we are serving and attracting. And because it’s pioneering work it is lonely and so to take away the loneliness you need to know you are not alone. Because the movement is exploding. So it’s psychologically relaxing and encouraging to know you are part of a bigger goal. And you know, the best people and leaders I know dedicate their lives to a bigger goal.

If you had to pick one favorite place to work in this world, where would it be and why?

Amsterdam! I think The Netherlands have a truly egalitarian society, where there is real gender and power balance. It has a flat power structure. I appreciate that a lot. I think it is a very enlightened form of society. I think the concept of ‘gezellig’ is amazing. I have never seen a national culture that is so consistent as I have seen in The Netherlands. And Amsterdam is beautiful with the houses by the canals. It’s a very liberal and free thinking society. So yes, Amsterdam!

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S2M Global Meetup 2016 – Let’s keep on building Society 3.0 together!

What an amazing experience it was, the S2M Global Meetup 2016! We kicked off on Sunday night with our group of international guests in a bar, to welcome them in The Netherlands. Most of their faces were familiar to me already as we talked on Skype before about what the S2M ecosystem can do for them and what they can contribute to the S2M community. But of course technology will never replace the pureness of being in touch in real life.

Mariëlle Sijgers picked up the mic on Monday morning to introduce all 14 nationalities within the group on stage. People coming from different cultures, with different backgrounds, different ages but all united by one thing: the ambition to create another type of world together. A better world, another lifestyle, other ways of work. Building communities, facilitating the basic need of people to connect. And triggered by the S2M concept of course, their main reason to attend the S2M Global Meetup in the first place! In a short, hilarious story about his life as a digital nomad, S2M Ambassador Mike LaRosa from the US immediately underlined the importance of accelerating serendipity.

Sketching the context for us all from his role as a trend strategist, Ronald van den Hoff then took us on a fascinating journey through the world that is changing so rapidly because of current technologies. The world he gave the working title ‘Society 3.0’. Lenneke van Rossum and Vincent Ariëns elaborated a bit more on what this means in daily practice using the S2M software. In the afternoon ‘experience’ was the magic word! The hosts of the S2M locations in Utrecht, Amsterdam, Eindhoven and Amersfoort did a great job in organizing visits to other types of S2M locations, organizing S2M Safari’s (brainstorms), inspiring talks by people from the community, boat and train rides, climbing towers, and excellent dinners.

After sleeping in, the stage was for Cees Hoogendijk on Tuesday morning, doing a mini Appreciative Inquiry session with us all. Great tool to use for community building, one of the main aspects of co-working in any way. Interviewing each other, really connecting, listening to the other person and retelling his or her story. Trying to find the common denominators to come up with one shared dream as a team. Not easy, but a great challenge! Interesting workshops on teambuilding, bitnation, happiness, artificial intelligence and S2M were scheduled late afternoon. One of the highlights definitely was the dinner that evening cooked by the mama’s of Mama’s Koelkast (Mama’s Refrigerator). From Italian to Chinese to Surinam, which went pleasantly well by the way with the extraordinary gin-tonics of Marloes den Engel from De Gintonnerie.

Not having a program is the best thing sometimes, which was proven on Wednesday morning, when we sat down in a small circle to discuss how to make the S2M ecosystem even stronger worldwide. It was wonderful to see that over the previous days, enough trust was build up already within this group to have a real open discussion with great, concrete outcomes. Miroslav Mijatov, S2M Ambassador from Serbia, concluded the morning by saying that he was very thankful for the opportunity, that S2M030 was the best example of a co-working environment he had ever experienced and that he would always be a S2M ‘soldier’. Amen :). Let’s keep on building Society 3.0, together!

Want to build with us? Have a look here to see how you can contribute as an S2M Host or S2M Ambassador yourself.

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Seats2meet Global Meetup Day 1: Where are we running?

Monday was the first day of the Seats2meet global meetup. More than 50 people from all corners of the world got gathered to experience the Seats2meet concept on ground 0, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Even though most people got here one day before the first event you couldn’t tell that everyone came from all different time zones. You could feel the curiosity and vibration.

After a nice Sunday night with drinks and food in a bar in the center of Utrecht Monday started like it should: with coffee. One hour of just talking and getting to know everyone present. All different kinds of backgrounds, experiences and goals getting together to be just one thing: curious.

, cofounder of seats2meet.com and writer of the book Society 3.0, was the first keynote speaker. From Society 1.0 (industrialized institutions), to Society 2.0 (internet came and we started interacting with institutions) to finally Society 3.0 (experience, knowledge, social capital and access are more significant – no institutions) we change. Of course I am speaking in a very very very simple way, but if you want to know more about it read the book for free.

Following him we learned new seats2meet.com features from and . I can’t say a lot now but I do think it has potential to deconstruct borders. But I will talk about it later.

With the energy of the “new” flowing we split up in groups. Some went to Eindhoven and Den Boss, others to Amersfoort, some stayed in Utrecht and the rest (including me) went to Amsterdam.

Our first stop was Amsterdam Connected for one of the first Seats2meet Safari. In the majestic location that aims to be an ecosystem for the creative and big minds of society 3.0 members, we got ourselves a tour from the host and cofounder itself, and had the chance to talk and exchange ideas with the main person behind it, . With Brazilians’, Americans’ and Serbians’ eyes the picture enlarges, adapt and develop.

That is the magic of a global meetup. You have new eyes and as , a coworking space owner from Serbia, cleverly said, we have fresh ears as well. Another interesting insight from , the entrepreneur responsible for bringing seats2meet to Brazil. He said we, in seats2meet, we are all sort of refugees. We are running from the modus operandi of a society that is in collapse. We may be still running, but we definitely found a way to the promise land, not a geography one, but more a state of mind.

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Livestreams of day 1 (Global Meetup 2016)

The first day of the Global Meetup is over. The first part was live streamed and you can watch that livestream above. After this kickoff session various groups went to Amsterdam, Utrecht, Eindhoven and Amersfoort to find and experience some local initiatives and S2M locations. Next to that there is also a very nice video made that summarizes the day.

 

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Ben jij klaar voor meer geluk in je leven?

Elke dag alleen maar doen wat je echt leuk vindt. Kan dat? Mag dat? Als ondernemer had ik op een gegeven moment de overtuiging dat ik vooral hard moest werken voor het resultaat. Het was een beetje met de paplepel ingegoten, want dat was wat ik zag bij mijn ouders en grootouders. Altijd aan de slag zijn en hard werken, nooit eens stilstaan.

Dus toen ik begon met ondernemen was ik ook vaak en hard aan het werk, alles om mijn bedrijf te laten slagen. Een burnout en andere mislukkingen verder bedacht ik dat dit het toch niet kon zijn. Ik wilde mijn leven niet voorbij laten gaan met werk waar ik niet gelukkig van werd, ik wilde het leven leven waar ik wel gelukkig van werd. Met de juiste mensen, moeiteloosheid en de mogelijkheid om persoonlijk en zakelijk te groeien.

Dus ging ik op zoek naar de elementen die voor mij belangrijk zijn. Wat wil ik elke dag doen waar mijn energie van gaat stromen, waar ik een twinkeling van in mijn ogen krijg en waar je me ‘s nachts voor wakker kunt maken. Al jaren weet ik wat het is. En toch heb ik nooit begrepen dat je het dan gewoon kunt gaan doen. Dat je ergens moet beginnen om resultaat te krijgen. Ondertussen ben ik het gaan uitproberen en heb ontdekt dat het werkt.

Ik ben een self made entrepreneur, ik probeer van alles uit en leer mezelf dingen aan. En dan komt er op een gegeven moment weer een boek uit. En dat geef ik uit in eigen beheer, omdat ik niet meer geloof in de logge organisatie van uitgeverijen. Als je het een paar keer doet wordt het een fluitje van een cent, maak een website en ga aan de slag met je marketing. Ik ging op zoek naar nieuwe mogelijkheden en ideeën. Wat kun je doen om iets onder de aandacht te brengen en wat heb je daar dan voor nodig? Om een boek onder de aandacht te brengen dat vooral online beschikbaar is, leek het me slim om mensen kennis te laten maken met mij en het boek, dus maakte ik een videoserie waarin ik fragmenten voorlees uit mijn boek.

Ik heb alle fragmenten op mijn site gezet, neem dus een kijkje en laat je inspireren.

Wat doe jij om het anders dan anderen te doen en het leven te creëren dat echt bij je past?

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Kom zaterdag 2 april gul geven in Utrecht!

Op zaterdag 2 april zetten De Gulle Gevers Utrecht op zijn kop. We gaan de stad in om bloemen en vredesgedichten uit te delen. We doen dat samen met onder andere 30 vluchtelingen.

Wanneer? 2 april van 13:00 uur tot 15:00 uur

Waar? We verzamelen op het Domplein in Utrecht

Waarom doen we dit?

In het leven gaat het om het onvoorwaardelijk geven van jezelf! Tijdens ons event kun je ervaren wat onvoorwaardelijk geven betekent en wat de impact is die je ermee bereikt. Het belooft een bijzondere middag te worden!

Wie doen er mee?

Op dit moment verwachten we ongeveer 50 mensen, waarvan de helft vluchtelingen. Daarnaast doen maatschappelijke organisaties mee en andere maatschappelijk betrokken mensen.

Hoe kun je ons helpen?

Natuurlijk vinden we het leuk als jij geïnteresseerd bent en zelf komt. Daarnaast kun je ons helpen door jouw vrienden uit te nodigen. Of misschien ken jij betrokken organisaties die graag mee doen? Tip ons event bij hun of tip ons!

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