📚Books

7 Habits of Highly Effective People

• Understand before trying to be understood (practical listening techniques).
• Plan the week around important matters, not noisy urgencies.
• Create a personal mission statement to align life with your own values.

1-Page Marketing Plan

• Clients are like plants—keep watering them or they’ll wither away!

The Third Door

• There’s always a creative “third door” to reach your goal, beyond the main entrance and the VIP line.

The 4-Hour Workweek

• You need a burning alternative pursuit, not just “less work.”
• Fear is universal and wears many disguises.

Mastery

• Ten years of deliberate practice for true mastery.
• Mentors dramatically accelerate growth.

Glucose Revolution

• Food choices have immediate, measurable effects on energy and health.

The Mom Test

• How to interview customers so they tell you the truth (not what they think you want to hear).

Why We Sleep

• Consistency in sleep timing is the cornerstone of health and performance.

Reality Transurfing

• A sweeping model of energy flows—gives a fresh perspective on reality.

Elon Musk (Walter Isaacson)

• Life is a strategy game with a handful of big, high-leverage moves—choose wisely.

🌱Real Life

• “Ahrend” (mentor): the compounding power of networking.
• Dodo: happiness is sustainable.
  • In business, never quit—pausing is allowed.
  • “Choose the hard way” & “Choose the smart way” → Do both.
• Haha: pursue what you genuinely love doing.

🌐Internet

• Podcast “Lotgenoten”: sparked the idea for Simplegarden and ignited my entrepreneurial spirit.
• Joe Hudson: self-understanding > self-improvement; self-love matters.
• Pieter Zwart (Coolblue CEO): obsess over customer relationships.
• Ali Abdaal: practical productivity from videos & podcasts.
• X.com: constant stream of insights on topics I care about.

💼Experience

• Simplegarden (current): 30+ customer interviews → learned to ask, listen, and uncover real needs.
• Camping “Marenland”: guest engagement, event prep, team-building, and seeing the business from the inside.
• Taste & Flavor restaurant: discovered I love hospitality, but long-distance commuting drains me.
• GoGetters (sales): a poor work culture where colleagues demotivate each other is a clear “no.”
• RBZ Consultancy (Groningen): currently out of my league—something to grow into.
• The Market Hotel (Groningen, considered internship): realised it’s not the best route to my goals right now.