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The Walk: How To Get Out Of The Negativity Loop
Whether it is about Star Wars: The Acolyte, about politics or about faith: online debate seems to be stuck in a negativity loop that is hard to avoid nowadays.
Before you know it, you get sucked into the vortex of...
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The Walk: Creating a New Home For My Community
For months I have been working behind the scenes on creating a new home for my community on my own website.
I have finally started the process of bringing people over from Patreon to the new system, and I am ironing...
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The Walk: A Thousand Words Per Day
I am writing a new book about my method to create online content that reaches new people and forms community around my podcasts and videos. I have been developing this method for the past 20 years, from my early days...
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The Walk: Struggling With Your To-Do List? Try This Instead
Yoda’s famous words—“Do, or do not. There is no try”—resonate beyond the Star Wars universe. But in our daily lives, it’s not always easy to put into practice.
Join me as I explore the struggle between productivity...
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The Walk: About Hobbits, Gardeners and Architects
I often dream of living like a Hobbit. A life in which the only thing I have to worry about is which meal comes next, or in which I only have to follow a wizard and a bunch of dwarves on an adventure.
But in reality,...
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The Walk: What LEGO Taught Me About Pentecost
After the first LEGO movie came out, I was so inspired that I created a short animated video with Lego minifigures in which I explained the meaning of Pentecost. It was an instant hit and was viewed hundreds of...
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The Walk: How Intermittent Fasting Helps Me Become a Storm Trooper
I share my personal journey of joining the 501st Star Wars cosplay group, along with my commitment to becoming a healthier individual. I share how intermittent fasting not only helps me lose weight, but also reminds...
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The Walk: How a Zoo Visit Made Me Rethink My Workflow
On Monday, I got a tour behind the scenes of the Tropical Reef Aquarium of Burger's Zoo in Arnhem. It was a fascinating experience. Our guide explained how the zoo makes its own, high quality sea water, eight million...
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The Walk: How To Have Engaging Conversations With Total Strangers
Last weekend I spent two full days at the biggest fantasy and costuming festival in Europe: Elfia. In this episode of the Walk, I share how over the years, I have managed to overcome my social restraints and how I'm...
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The Walk: Masking and Unmasking
I recently discovered why social activities often wear me out: in many situations, I feel that I have to 'put on my happy face' instead of being fully myself. It is an ingrained habit of 'masking', and I have noticed...
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The Walk: How to 'sit' with your emotions
I was staring at the shelves of my fridge. What would I eat? I couldn't decide, and for a reason: I had just had dinner an hour before. And yet, I had felt this urge to grab a snack even though I wasn't hungry at all....
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The Walk: Exciting Steps Forward
In this first episode of The Walk of the second quarter of the year, I look back on all the developments of my online ministry since the start of 2024 and I share with you the exciting next steps I am taking to...
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