by Elsemieke Havenga | Jan 15, 2025 | inspiration
Are you doing what you say? Words matter, look around you: it’s the words that take you or don’t take you. In political campaigns, they are crucial. Obama won the election with “Yes, we can. But then it starts: are we going to do it? Can you live up...
by Elsemieke Havenga | Jan 15, 2025 | inspiration
Just a little longer, and then she’ll be gone: Angela Merkel. Who would have thought that a smart girl from a simple family in the GDR would become Chancellor of Germany? That by staying very close to herself she would last so long? To put a picture on it: This...
by Elsemieke Havenga | Jan 15, 2025 | inspiration
When you are 18 years old and you have become world field hockey champion, you are convinced that the world is yours. And in a way, it is. You are the center of attention. And the media world makes you and your team world famous. “Don’t I know you from...
by Elsemieke Havenga | Jan 15, 2025 | inspiration, news
There was another Corona press conference and tomorrow there is another one. A new cabinet, a new Minister of Health; one who knows what he’s talking about. That’s very nice and that helps. But yes, did Mark Rutte and Ernst Kuipers do so much better and...