It’s time to reflect. After writing blogs every week for the last six months it is time to pause and look back at the last six months; what did blog writing teach me? What lessons would I share? Where do I want to go from here? What do you think? Questions I will answer in this week’s blog!

​Growing up as a kid I tried various different sports, like almost every kid does. My impulsiveness took me to many different roads, from skating for a week to going to exactly 3 judo classes before being bored and quitting it. But most of my childhood years I spend on a hockey field, playing field hockey. For 8 years I loved this sport and everything that it had to do with it. However, after I moved to London for my internship a few years ago, my perspective changed 180 degrees. I found out something that caught my fascination; boxing. 2,5 years later I fell in love with boxing and even got a little taste of Mixed Martial Arts; which tasted god damn good! In this week’s blog I want to emphasize how I made this transition from a posh team sport to a martial art, why I fell in love with boxing and why I think people are overthinking it.

How do you manage your expectations? Do you have an expectation now about this blog? Or are you just curious? People tend to be biased all the time. We have opinions ready, even when nobody asks for them. We have high expectations about our new job, our new colleagues, our new car, basically our whole life. But why do we always have expectations? And how do we manage them? Having expectations, is it a bad thing? Or can it be used? In this week’s blog I will share my opinion  why I think it's crucial to manage your expectations and give you some tips!

We all feel down sometimes. Or frustrated. Maybe even irritated. We all have our moments of struggle, of unhappiness or doubt. Am I doing the things I should be doing? Should I do more? Should I do things differently? All sorts of questions pop into your mind, trying to influence you. It can result in you feeling lost, lazy and unmotivated. Your mind sometimes put you in the middle of the desert, after taking away your map, water and survival kit. How do you get out of that desert? What do you do when you get lost? What do you do when you feel like you can’t beat your negative mind? You go back to the basics and you do the one thing that has helped me over the course of the last weeks. Curious to know what that one thing is? Find it out below.