Go Bananas!

July 3, 2008

Actions speak louder than words!

Hoe ver zou jij gaan om een kind te redden?
De meesten onder ons zouden tot het einde van de wereld gaan én terug om een geliefde te redden.
Maar hoe ver zou JIJ gaan om een wanhopig kind te redden?

Go Bananas!Wij stappen alvast 100km voor de Banana Man! Doe zoals onze huidige sponsors en doneer een bedrag per afgelegde kilometer. Gewoon een bedrag naar keuze storten mag uiteraard ook!

Vandaag werd de nieuwe website van Go Bananas gelanceerd. Binnenkort volgen nog updates…

Stay tuned,

Bert Verdonck
Create, Connect & Contribute

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New Year’s Resolution

June 22, 2008

Today is the first day of the rest of my life, so I decided to create a New Year’s Resolution. What will be different this time? Few people make resolutions on their own, with no one else around, reported to no one else. From that point of view, resolutions are more of a social convention than an act of goal-setting.

People make resolutions to shore up a shortcoming in their lives, character, careers or businesses. Resolutions are not nearly as powerful as goals since goals ideally represent movement towards some positive, desirable outcome.

In contrast to wishes, dreams, and fantasies, resolutions are not totally useless gestures. If you make resolutions for fun, go ahead and keep doing it! Who says you can’t have fun?

Anyone can be so easily and quickly diverted these days that it is possible to arrive at work, and by noon, have no active connection with what you’ve identified as being important in your life. Even if you are among the lucky few who make some significant progress on some of your resolutions, you probably could have achieved them in multiples had you turned them into formal goals.

So, coming back to my Resolution, I am bound to succeed, because I maintain a relative simplicity and recognize that progressing a step at a time will result in spectacular achievement.

I turned my personal Resolution into goals and it looks like this:
This year I will become the most successful lifehacker in Belgium. I also commit to more sports, at least twice a week and spend more time with my friends and family. Finally, I am stepping up by giving away 10% of my profit to charity.

In 365 days, it will be time to review my Resolution and see how I performed. Now, you know what I am up to and I would like to ask for your involvement too! How? Can you keep me accountable for my resolution? And take the necessary steps to keep me motivated and committed? That would be fantastic! Maybe something to put in your Resolution ;-)

Feel free to share your Resolution as well…

Enjoy every day,
Bert Verdonck
Lifehacker

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Cash funds dreams!

February 22, 2008

Ok, it might surprise you, but money wasn’t that important to me in the past. I earned a nice income, sometimes a bit less than anticipated (being independent has disadvantages as well ;-) ) , but always (just) enough.

Since my Power-sabbatical last year, my point of view changed. Why?

I used to believe that I was doing great! Assuming that I earned a “100″, I gave away about a “10″ to charity . I still had more than enough with my “90″. Now, instead of giving away the “10″, I spend invest it in myself (and others). Why? To learn, grow and increase my income to “200″, so I can give away “100″ instead of “10″! I learned that Cash funds dreams! You can give away a lot more if you have a lot…Of course, I am also dreaming of travelling the world and some other stuff. So I’ll be even happier! ;-)

We all know the “Law of Attraction”, right? If you settle for a “100″, that’s exactly what you are going to get…

So, I have set a new standard for myself and I am keeping myself accountable for reaching it!

What about you? What’s your standard?

How are you going to reach it?

Enjoy every day,

Bert Verdonck

Network Creator

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