Explore & Just Be!

My trip to The Netherlands and fun...

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Reflection: July-August

Just Be!

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July-August

I’m 50% complete with my outline, and wow I totally underestimated the effort to write all of my thoughts in book form. Still motivated and still going, continuing to make relationships as I build on my life and business. In one of those welcomed conversations, I was inspired to offer additional services: coaching. A change, I have somewhat ignored due to the chaos in my head. Nonetheless, I wrote an introduction to this, and while on my vacation in The Netherlands—more about that later. I held my breath, closed my eyes and hit enter. Outside of my postings here, that was one of the hardest things for me to do, being vulnerable on Linkedin—I’ll share that later as well.

Now let’s talk about how great this community is, as micro as we are, we still find time to show up for each other.

Colin Durrant

never forgets to remind me “How’s the writing bro?” or

Janet Goh

“Alright! You gotta write about your trip man! 💪” and everyone that continues to engage with my quote nature notes. And since we’re celebrating, I’ve finally gotten to 100 subscribers, and I’m thankful to all of you wonderful people.

Thank you ya’ll again 💎❤️, now about the trip:

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It was a loooong way to The Netherlands for me, about 9 hrs. I got some good rest and some bad neck-pain, I had not traveled that long in a while and forgot they gave you food. My taste buds were hoping for something great but look, it was just good enough to keep me alive. I was concerned about not knowing how to speak Dutch. I wondered, would be hard to communicate? I did no research—just showed up—so my mind continued to make up stories the entire trip and it was mostly negative and mostly about the airplane. 😏

Once we arrived at the airport pickup station, we couldn’t find the uber spot, then after we crossed that obstacle, things went smoothly to my friend's home. One of the first pictures I took was of the sunset, not sure why but probably because once I settled, I felt alive, I felt no judgement, and yeah people spoke english well lol.🤣 A sense of relief when you get to your destination, peacefully. See as a black man, I wake up already with concern, every step outside my doors. But there in Utrecht, I met and witnessed the most amount of diversity. Not like I didn’t know things, but it was a re-realization of how huge the world is. 🌍

When you visit a place for the first time you observe everything. I appreciated that many bars, restaurants and even homes had money tree plants, so I got some shots of that to look at later.👀 People were living on the lake, the streets were mostly concrete with native plants and bushes pushing up everywhere 😍 and the best part was, almost everyone rode a bike and I you know I had too as well.

I was a bit surprised by how small the items were sold at the grocery store were, especially the packaged meat. Most shoppers seem to visit often vs big bulk buys. I tried some local beer, amazed by the buildings and it so happened that a reggae festival was happening and one of my favs artists were there. All in all, a very great trip and a much needed change. You should go.

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About that hard thing, yeah it took all of me to do it. so here’s the post

I’m helping 100 people make progress towards their vision. view post

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