365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge

316 days into my 365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge: In this video, I share what I learned from the COVID-crisis about showing the real me. (Duration: 48 sec) https://youtu.be/S_VhBsEl4nM

315 days into my 365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge: When I have a plan for a new project, it may sound like building castles in the air. In that case, it's exactly right for me, as I love drawing the blueprints and transforming them into a real castle; a castle for you to live in so that I can go and build the next.

313 days into my 365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge: The route of today's walk is one I choose often. You might think it gets boring, but it doesn't: every time I discover new details. Today, this leaf was smiling at me.

312 days into my 365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge: Today, I saw a bee trying to land on a flower, but the petal broke off. He fell, but of course was able to fly to the next flower. When I land in a new place, I also have faith that I will cope whatever happens. I might not be able to fly, but I can stand up again.

311 days into my 365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge: Have you ever played Minesweeper? In this game, you have to find the hidden mines (🚩). Sometimes, when you click on a field, a whole new area without mines is cleared. This is how creativity feels to me: whilst being creative, suddenly a whole new area opens up.

310 days into my 365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge: On Day 296, I shared that there are many ways to say "thank you". This is also the case for "I love you". In this video, I explain the five languages someone can use to express love. Do you understand them all? (Duration 1:39 min) ➡️ https://youtu.be/4r1Y5nZBrMc

309 days into my 365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge: Where I live, it is common to put things that people don't need anymore but are still of good quality outside "zum Mitnehmen" (to take away for free). Here, you can see that someone is giving #love away ("I only love you"). How wonderful!

308 days into my 365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge: When I feel a strong headwind in life, it's a struggle to move forward. Although it's not always easy, I in that case take a leap of faith: I let myself be carried by the wind and take another route. So far, the alternative landscapes I passed were wonderful too.

306 days into my 365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge: Nature is good in leaving treasures behind. I've been looking for such treasures and am currently gathering them on a frame.

304 days into my 365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge: Today, I enjoyed the many different shades of green of some leaves (left photo) and was surprised by the result of the same picture with flashlight (right photo). It shows me how much nature has to offer when we put it in the right light. ❤️

303 days into my 365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge: I'm impressed by these ants, as they have upcycled a dead tree to their home. And there is more: ants work toward a common goal that benefits the group as a whole. Just like us living more sustainable. Thanks for your huge inspiration little creatures!

302 days into my 365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge: On Day 169, I shared that I've been invited to present at the International Conference on Global Warming & Climate Change 2020 (September 10th-11th, Bangkok). As it takes place and I planned to attend by video-conferencing, I'm glad that COVID-19 won't affect this.

301 days into my 365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge: It feels like I took off with a hot air balloon 301 days ago. And although I knew what the journey would involve, I didn't know what I'd see and experience on the way. Now, with landing coming closer, I'm also getting curious about the landscape in which I'll land.

299 days into my 365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge: As with water flowing down a river, an important constant in my life is change: I'm always moving, sometimes slow near the banks, sometimes fast in the middle of the stream. And I tend to smoothly flow around rocks. That's why I feel comfortable changing my habits.

298 days into my 365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge: Today, I went on a stay-at-home-adventure through my garden. In daily life, it's easy to run past details; by slowing down, I found a blooming rose, a berry ready to be eaten by birds, a little insect I've never seen before and an unripe strawberry. ❤️

297 days into my 365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge: I used to work as a penetrationtester. Even though finding security holes in computer software seems something completely different, it's very similar to my Challenge: instead of finding security holes in software, I find "sustainability holes" in my daily life.

296 days into my 365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge: I shared on Day 277 that I don't go for a promotion at work. This would be a form of appreciation, however, I got that in other ways in today's annual review. For example, I'm allowed to spend some of my working hours on my Challenge. I'm very grateful for that!

295 days into my 365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge: When your spouse/friend/etc. says "I love you". Would you rather hear him/her saying that because he/she at that moment 1) feels like this or 2) just thinks you want to hear this? I prefer 1). That's why I share how I feel instead of what I believe you want to hear.

294 days into my 365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge: Another thing I really love about my Challenge is that we're in this together, no matter where we live, how old we are, how we look like, etc. Thank you!

292 days into my 365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge: As I know what will happen after Day 365, I have time to prepare, keeping in mind that failing to prepare is preparing to fail. One thing I'll need is a digital drawing tablet. I'm very happy that it arrived and have started learning how to work with it immediately.

291 days into my 365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge: This year's topic of today's World Environment Day is biodiversity. By living more sustainable, I contribute to a healthy environment and thereby preserving biodiversity. That's also why I built the bug hotel / insect hotel. And good news: I've already spotted visitors!

290 days into my 365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge:  Last year, I started bullet journaling: in a notebook I write notes, lists, what I did during the day, to do's, how I felt etc. Today, I was curious what I wrote on Day 1. It says: I'm really excited as I started my Challenge! (I mixed up Dutch, German and English).

287 days into my 365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge: This weekend, I slept a lot to recharge my batteries. I pay attention to having enough sleep as it's crucial to me for being creative and thinking clearly. This in turn is crucial for finishing all my tasks, including my Challenge. That's why this is true for me: