Putting together a personal philosophy can be helpful for focussing your energy. Keep it as a daily reminder in your journal, calendar or hang them somewhere you regularly see them.

Below are a few examples of personal philosophies. There are many more to choose from. You will notice recurring themes …

PMI stands for Plus, Minus, Interesting. It is an analysis tool for ranking between different options to find the one that may be best among the available alternatives at this point in time.

This is a tool I came across not too long ago. It can be used in discursive meditation.

The tool takes seven questions and combines them with seven concepts. So, if you have no clue on how to approach a subject, concept, text, image or other object to meditate on …

Mindmap of ERE

• why is it important to me?
  • freedom to persue my interests
  • takes money out of the decision making process
  • gets me out of the rat race
• resources
  • Jacob Lund Fisker's blog
  • ERE Forum
• insights
  • having no expenses means you don't need an income and you can immediately …

Contemplate on the notion that our global economy is alive and can be likened to an animal.

Key insights:

• alive:
  • requires at least a constant flow of energy to sustain itself
  • emergent behaviour from a large number of smaller elements
  • arises, persists over a period of time, fades away / dies …

This is part of the design for a food forest in Nuenen.

This year we did a new PASTE survey. The data was gathered on 2020-07-06. See also the previous PASTE survey.

In this section we list the available plants, animals, structures, tools and events we have observed directly or …

Starting from 2018-09-01, Ina and I have rented an allotment at an association nearby. This survey lists the different species discovered in June 2020. For comparison, at two years ago I did the same thing.

This list is part of the ongoing design for the allotment garden.

The feedback on this page talks about the workshop Design Your Life.

Contemplate the following saying by Lao Tzu:

Sow a thought, reap a word;

Sow a word, reap an action;

Sow an action, reap a habit;

Sow a habit, reap a character;

Sow a character, reap a destiny.

Key insights:

• thoughts and words are predictions (mental formations about the future)
• habits …

This workshop is in response to a question from Ana and Gábor for help with finding direction in their lives. The outline below is based on the process I followed for the design of my own life with additional resources from books, websites and blog posts I have read and …