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Here's how to prepare for (networking) meetings and make the most of them!

If this is true, you could be missing huge opportunities. Online networking has become easier with the advent of social media and many digital opportunities and means "less effort" than external networking meetings. Another big advantage of online networking is that you have no travel time and your investment in time and costs are much lower. Still, I also go to at least one external meeting every month, where

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Leadership and freedom in your life and business 

"Always be seeking, connecting, solving, asserting, believing, seeing and testing. The other way to read this is: always be wrong. Well, not always. Sometimes, you'll be right. But most of the time, you'll be wrong. That's okay." Seth Godin Do you "happen" to have something to learn? Coincidence doesn't exist? Whether there is, I'll leave that in the middle. What I do know and experience is that there are things on my

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The career switch after burnout and starting your own business.

Starting your own coaching business from your medical profession

During my weekly Women & Leadership LinkedIn Live, I struck up a conversation with Sandra Dobbelsteen, founder of "Wakeup to Life." Where Sandra shared her inspiring career switch from nurse to energy coach and health consultant. Her story of her personal transformation, resilience and pursuit of a life of meaning and fulfillment. How she started using her medical profession differently and leveraging her expertise ne potential to create her own

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From hourly rate to package price , here's how to do it

Setting your own course

The only way to learn the right way is to first understand the wrong way. And then what is the right way? The right way there is no such thing, because the way is different for all of us. We all have our own way of achieving our goals. But can it be smarter, more strategic, faster, more profitable ... ? Absolutely, always. You want to get somewhere, this is your destination,

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Success, win, enjoy

Success is a choice

Success in your life depends greatly on the degree of focus you have in your actions and in your thoughts. Your approach determines success. But what is that best approach? What is a good strategy and what actions should you do at the right time on your success? And whether it's more success in your life, in your sports or in your

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Framework thinking for greater success

Framework Thinking is the superpower of the 21st century

" Strategic Design Thinking: Framework Thinking is the superpower of the 21st century." - Gerdi Hulsink Strategy, systems, structuring ... many pull away white and stop reading now. But you don't, because you know it's going to help you achieve your goals though. I hear it so often. Working from flow, in your zone of genius and it should all come easy and come flying. Yes that

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Focus on asking the right questions, not answers

The greatest discoveries in life come not from finding the right answers, but from asking the right questions. Searching for the right answers and not being able to find them. At least not the answers you want to hear, the answers that will help you move forward. But then do you know exactly what you are looking for and what your need is. What are you looking for, what do you really want? Are you asking the

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collect

Collecting can be learned

Are you letting yourself off the hook or standing strong on your leadership position? Entrepreneurship is personal development 3.0. The challenges, the bloopers, the successes, the misses, they come and go. And have given me so many more new insights, lessons and growth in my own business over the past few years than in the 20 years of corporate business. Regardless of - or perhaps in part because of - specific challenges facing the

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take your leadership position

Leading Position: From unseen to noticed 

How can you strengthen your leading position and presentation online and attract the attention of your target audience? Without having to unpleasantly "expose" yourself, put everything out on the street and subject yourself to all the perfect strategies that don't suit you at all. Because you will be dizzy with options and must-haves and must-do's for building, scaling and growing your business. And

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Your personal BRAND has never been more important

Your personal BRAND has never been more important

Your personal BRAND position has never been more important. But are you showing yourself? Who you are, what you do and what you have to offer? And importantly, do you see and feel it? Because only you can do what you do best, your genius and energy. In your own way you can serve and help others. Put yourself

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