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Intentional Living
Intentional living is a term that is often immediately linked to minimalism, but the two are actually quite different. With minimalism, the focus is on owning as little as possible, letting go of as much as you can. That’s not what intentional living is about. Intentional living is about making conscious choices. Getting rid of
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Berlin 2026
Day 1 – The Journey and First Impressions We travelled by train from Hengelo to Berlin. The journey went smoothly, and after arriving we took the bus to our hotel to drop off our bags. After that, we went for a short walk to explore the city a bit. We walked past the Fernsehturm Berlin,
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Hello World!
Hi, nice to have you here. This is my place on the internet where I write about intentional living. That might sound grand, but to me it’s mainly about making more conscious choices. Less on autopilot, a bit more pause to reflect on what I do and why. Sometimes that touches on minimalism, and sometimes
How it all started…
This blog didn’t come from some grand plan or a clear vision. I simply noticed that I increasingly needed space. Not necessarily to do less, but to do things more consciously, to make choices that weren’t just logical but that genuinely felt right. Sometimes that meant cutting things out, sometimes trying something new. And often it meant admitting that I didn’t know.
Writing turned out to be a way to bring more clarity to all of this. Not to formulate answers, but to ask better questions. About work, technology, rest, ambition, and what success actually means to me. Slowly, this blog became a place to put those thoughts down without having to immediately wrap them up or solve them.
At the same time, I was working on something very concrete: building. Writing code, making mistakes, starting over. My own app. Creating something that didn’t exist yet and discovering along the way what that did to me. I enjoy the technical side, but what interests me even more is everything around it: the doubt, the excitement, the frustration, and those small moments when something finally works.
So this blog isn’t a starting point with a clear destination. It is more a place to slow down, reflect, and occasionally think out loud, and from there simply keep moving forward.
@PIMOUDEVELDHUIS
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