NYEPI, the annual special silence day in Bali

Today March 3rd is the first day of the new Hindu year 1944.This does not coincide with the Gregorian calendar.This day called NYEPI marks a special event on the Hindu island of BaliOn the “New Year's Eve” preceding this is the OGOH-OGOH festival in which the evil spirits are chased away. There are parades with paper-mache monsters all over Bali, which are taken to the beach to be burned there afterward.The "New Year's Day" NYEPI is a day that is spent in silence by all residents of

Did I deserve a dedication badge?

This morning I was surprised that I received a WA message that I earned a dedication badge (6 months Premium). I was not aware of any outstanding performance that was recognized and rewarded with this badge. In fact, I felt a bit embarrassed, because I am constantly being harsh to myself that I do not commit enough to my training, growing, and socializing on this valuable platform. Oh, I have good excuses to progress slowly, even very slowly. I am a star in overloading my agenda and surround m

Unexpected indirect compliment for a struggling drop shipper

About ten months ago, I started a new eCommerce-dropshipping-store following a new(er) version of dropshipping-training of Aidan Booth and Steve Clayton. Three earlier attempts (since 2016) failed and, as we say with a (translated) Dutch verb, “stranded in beauty.”My dropshipping struggleWhat it brought me are experience and knowledge, knowledge about the weak points in the systems and course setup, and (more importantly) my weak points. Those were no real motivation, not investing

Email suffocation

A New Year always invites us to set goals and get rid of some bad habits like Quit smoking, Lose weight, Move more, etc. I do not have to do that. I quit smoking 13 years ago, I enjoyed a 5 years weight loss journey many years ago that brought me to the right BMI index. My fitness app tells me that my body age is 41 while in reality, it is my home for already 74 years. OK, maybe reduce my alcohol consumption. Also not a spectacular aim. A few days a week 1 bottle of beer or glass of wine isn't

Indexed by Google

As I understood from other posts it is a valuable milestone when your website is indexed by Google. Well, I just received the message that this happy moment has arrived. More quickly than the second article I want to post, which takes me more time than anticipated. And that will be true for subsequent articles/posts too. I only want to publish an article when it passed my own quality control. On average I need to spend more time and effort because my English is not my mother's language.

Earned my 1st certification badge

Well,13 December 2020, the day that I crossed the finish line of Level 1. The 10 lessons presented by Kyle were a kind of refreshment of what I learned in earlier followed courses. However the calming way Kyle (and others that contributed to this course material) present this material resonates with me. I like the structured way the theory is linked to the tasks to perform. It emphasizes the beauty of learning by doing practices. So in the end I not only have the necessary overview of how the p

Reaching out to the sky

Yes, today I made the decision to take the Premium membership of Wealthy Affiliates. I hesitated a few days and that was not because I doubted the value of Wealthy Affiliates. It is simply because I am overloaded with 2 other Affiliate Training Programs and some other business activities. So I just needed to be sure I can spend time enough to make my affiliate ambitions work. There are three reasons why I said YES today. The first one is the is extremely tempting and comprehensive amount of res