2009: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2008: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2007: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
June 2009
- Dear Mr. Spammer: I have a comment policy now
- In other other news: New baby and Dutch blog
- Saints and ordinary people
May 2009
March 2009
- Watch Your Language
- Review of Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy
- On Blogging: A Living Memoir Of My Path
February 2009
January 2009
- The Audacity of Shamelessly Asking
- How to have fun with 10k (and become an expert in the meantime)
- Story of a plane crash and a limbless man
- Slave to the rhythm
November 2008
October 2008
- The Little Match Girl – Blog Action Day
- Biweekly review #1: Credit Crisis, Running, and the One Goal Mindset
- How to get to know yourself
September 2008
- Review week 39-2008; Goals, blog and productivity habits
- Seth Godin’s “The Dip” is in my Moleskine
- Review week 37-2008; Goals, blog and productivity habits
- Introducing new RSS feeds for How to be an Original
- Speak Eloquently Simple, Please!
- How to start with GTD
- Review week 35-2008; Goals, blog and productivity habits
August 2008
- New category structure, or how time catches up on procrastinating productivity bloggers eventually
- Review week 34-2008; Goals, blog and productivity habits
- A New Home
- Blog Action Day, Alltop and switching hosts
- Productivity Secrets
- Review week 32-2008; Goals, blog and productivity habits
- ZenToDoodlist
- Review week 31-2008; Goals, blog and productivity habits
July 2008
June 2008
- Review week 25-2008; Goals, blog and productivity habits
- Review week 24-2008; Goals, blog and productivity habits
- The Toddler’s Way of Getting Things Done
- Review week 23-2008; Goals, blog and productivity habits
- Develop The Internal Willpower To Succeed
- Review week 22-2008; Goals, blog and productivity habits
May 2008
- Getting Started and Learning As You Go – Guest Post at The Thirty Day Year
- Review week 21-2008; Goals, blog and productivity habits
- How To Get Unstuck
- Interviewed by Dave Navarro at Rock Your Day
- Are your goals really YOUR goals?
- Review week 20-2008; Goals, blog and productivity habits
- Golf balls, pebbles and mud that smells of beer
- Review week 19-2008; Goals, blog and productivity habits
- Injured By Ignorance
- Review week 18-2008; Goals, blog and productivity habits
- How To Ease Your Self-Imposed Restraints Into Results
April 2008
- Passionate People Make Passionate Blogs
- To Be Yourself
- Review week 17-2008; Goals, blog and productivity habits
- How Responsibility Is Holding You Back
- Review week 16-2008; Goals, blog and productivity habits
- Tweak your passwords to benefit from them
- Review week 15-2008; Goals, blog and productivity habits
- Birth of a Blogger
- Review week 14-2008; Goals, blog and productivity habits
- Track your goals and habits with Joe’s Goals
- 7 Little Timesaving Tips for the Workplace
March 2008
- Review week 13-2008; Goals, blog and productivity habits
- The secret ingredient of success
- The next step; on pitfalls, letting go and trust
- Life Lessons from a Dentist?
February 2008
- So where’s that review?
- Care to share your Personal Mission Statement?
- Overcoming Obstacles
- Review week 08-2008; Goals, blog and GTD
- Free C.A.S.H. can buy you 6 hours a day
- Review week 07-2008; Goals, blog and GTD
- Time Leadership for Bloggers – a case study
- Mind reading is dangerous
- Review week 06-2008; Goals, blog and GTD
- Review week 05-2008; Goals, blog and GTD
- How to say NO and have people respect you for it
January 2008
- How to get started (even when you don’t feel like it)
- Welcome Zen Habits readers!
- Review week 04-2008; Goals, blog and GTD
- Focus is Fragile: 10 Disturbances to Eliminate
- Review week 03-2008; Goals, blog and GTD
- Blink: The power of the first 2 seconds
- Lodewijkvdb.com domain has been abused by spammer
- Steve Jobs gets it: Authenticity
- Review week 02-2008; Goals, blog and GTD
- Techie goes analog again: comparison of paper based planners
- Review week 01-2008; Goals, blog and GTD
- The early bird challenge: 5 months later
December 2007
- Best of How to be an Original in 2007
- Review week 52; goals, blog and GTD
- Review week 51; goals, blog and GTD
- Interview yourself: Lodewijk
- Goal accomplished? Celebrate your success!
- Review week 50; goals, blog and GTD
- New Year’s Resolutions Link-O-Rama
- Review week 49; goals, blog and GTD
- Goal Setting Mistakes: 4. Moving Targets
- Goal Setting Mistakes: 3. Not Quantifying Enough
- Goal Setting Mistakes: 2. Colliding Deadlines
- Goal Setting Mistakes: 1. Too Many Goals
- Assorted reading in Litemind’s group writing project
- Review week 48; goals, blog and GTD
November 2007
- How adults are wasting words professionally
- Management lessons from a bird, a polar bear and a fox
- 5 reasons (not) to drink coffee
- Review week 47; goals, blog and GTD
- How to remember people’s names instantly
- Zen to Done: Changing habits to be productive
- Review week 46; goals, blog and GTD
- Richard Bandler’s 8 presuppositions of NLP
- The positive worth of the individual is held constant…
- The benefits of a clean desk and a tidy office
- New theme is live
- Review week 45; goals, blog and GTD
- Review week 44; goals, blog and GTD
- All distinctions human beings are able to make…
- There is a positive intention motivating every behavior
- The importance of adopting a bias for action
October 2007
- Review week 43; goals, blog and GTD
- Results of the cross-blog series – it was a success!
- How to sabotage goals with 47 simple words
- Why does inspiration come from a bottle of red wine?
- Review week 42; goals, blog and GTD
- Review week 41; goals, blog and GTD
- Help the earth: Reduce, Renew and Remove
- Richard Branson at TED
- A letter to my son on his first birthday
- How to beat a learning plateau
- Best of the first six months
- Review week 40; goals, blog and GTD
- Formulate powerful goals using these 7 rules
- Why I blog (for six months already)
- Feedback vs. Failure
September 2007
- Review week 39; goals, blog and GTD
- Sketchcast #3: Effective vs. Efficient
- Because I create my own reality
- Why I chose to study NLP
- Review week 38; habits, blog and GTD
- The ability to change the process by which we experience reality is more often valuable than changing the content of our experience of reality
- Mastering productivity – a cross-blog series
- Detailing my mission statement into guidelines and goals
- Review week 37; habits, blog and GTD
- The resources individuals need in order to effect a change are already within them
- Review week 36; habits, blog and GTD
- A strategy to change your habits for the better
- Does your (personal) leadership suck?
- This is my mission statement
- Why and how I monetize my blog
- The meaning of the communication is the response you get
- My five personal core values and how I use them
- Ask the readers: What system do you use for contacts?
- Review week 35; habits, blog and GTD
- Early Bird Challenge: recap with lessons learned
August 2007
- 21 ways to tell you lost the attention of your audience
- Great resource: Personal development bloggers
- The map is not the territory
- Gtdfrk is getting things done
- Review week 34; habits, blog and GTD
- Let’s connect!
- Success is never an accident!
- I’m putting on a fight with the presuppositions in NLP
- Now I’m confused…how many NLP presuppositions are there?
- Sketchcast #2: Using the Eisenhower matrix
- Looking back on the fourth week of the Early Bird Challenge
- Review week 33; habits, blog and GTD
- A useful waste of time: video games
- There are flowers everywhere
- Looking back on the third week of the Early Bird Challenge
- 7 steps to unleash the power of the 80/20 rule
- Sketchcast #1: How I’ll be using sketchcasts
- I’m setting up a weekly blog routine
- Seven powerful ways how the Alchemist can change your life
- Looking back on the second week of the Early Bird Challenge
- Looking back on the first week of the Early Bird Challenge
- Back online; Power outage in datacenter
- How to use Google Reader to effectively track your Comment Marketing
July 2007
- Start of the Early Bird Challenge
- What my CPU taught me about productivity last night
- 21 more riddles to train lateral thinking
- Slowly getting back into the groove again
- Offline-mode: back in a week or two
- Experiential photography: Jesh de Rox
- BumpTop: an intuitive desktop
- Covey’s habits: summary of the series
- Covey’s habit 7: Sharpen the saw
- Night owl taking a shot at being an early bird
- Blog goals: Review June
June 2007
- Why hate airports when you can love them?
- Covey’s habit 6: Synergize
- Back online, and more work to do
- Possible downtime: Moving to Wordpress this weekend
- Covey’s habit 5: Seek first to understand and then to be understood
- Results of a month of speed reading
- Without vision you’re flying blind; guest post at Steven Aitchison
- Covey’s habit 4: Think Win-Win
- How to get the most out of spreeder.com
- Stumbling on Happiness – First Impression
- Why Backlogs Suck Big Time!
- Blog goals for June
- Covey’s habit 3: Put first things first
- Lessons from The Highly Controversial Big Donorshow
- List Extravaganza: 5000 tips on 100 lists
May 2007
- Covey’s Habits: 2. Begin with the end in mind
- Does your mind need to shut up while speed reading?
- Why I love the stories of Paulo Coelho
- Update on speedreading and some tools online
- Movie Review: “The Secret”
- 11 (not so imaginary) ways to burn your time
- Covey’s Habits: 1. Be proactive
- Improving speed reading skills
- Series on Covey’s 7 habits of highly effective people
- Do or do not…there is no try!
- Get inspired by: Richard Branson
- Battle your inbox: 11 habits to an empty inbox
- Tying it together: the why, what and how questions
- 21 riddles to train lateral thinking
- Book review: The 4-hour workweek
- My GTD setup
- Book review: What got you here, won’t get you there
- How hard can it be, to be me (6); depressurize societal pressure
April 2007
- A-maze-ing brain training
- Who are your female role models?
- How hard can it be, to be me (5); acceptance or rejection
- How complicating your life makes simplifying it worthwhile: Guest post at Zen Habits
- How hard can it be, to be me (4); test for authenticity
- Becoming an NLP Practitioner
- The tyranny of “must” and how to avoid it
- How hard can it be, to be me (3); hypothesize
- How my MBTI-type changed, and then changed some more
- How hard can it be, to be me (2); dissecting the authentic life
- Synthetic happiness?!
- Train your brain online
- How hard can it be, to be me (1)
- Not a copy or forgery
- You’ve mastered goal-setting already, and didn’t even know it
- Sidenotes to a quest for authenticity
- Born Sleepy
- How to write a bio…











