Have you ever wondered what you really need in life? There many different answers to that question. Enough money, good health, spending time with family and friends. For all the things we want in life we have to sacrifice something else. Hardly never we get a chance to get all we want at the same time.
What is the most important part of your life? The one thing you can’t do without? For me that’s the feeling that I’m achieving a perfect balance in the things I’m doing. Cause even if I would have money and I wouldn’t be in good health or wasn’t able to enjoy my spare time with family and friends, having money wouldn’t mean a whole lot to me.
Right now, I don’t have any money, I don’t have a home for myself and I definitely spent more hours working or thinking about work then I enjoy time with family and friends. It makes me feel a bit stressed from time to time. What really makes me do all this? What really drives me?
Funny enough I have trouble defining this myself. I think I just want to make a difference in this world. I don’t mind that other people have more money or that they enjoy life to the full. I feel that it’s my mission to make a difference.
From an early age I’ve found myself helping others. Setting up newsletters to communicate what was happening to the money we brought to school ever Monday for a village in Kenya, try to think of ways to save energy. Dreaming of how I could persuade others to stop doing harm to our planet.
However, I never came up with a truly good idea to balance time spent on those projects, doing my homework and make sure I had the money to continue.
Right now, I’m facing the same issues. I’m working three days a week for Play it Forward for a fee which is far from realistic when you consider the fact that I don’t have the money to rent a place myself. I’m also spending more time on developing ideas and concepts for Strandpunt that aren’t making money.
On the other hand: I certainly enjoy being with my girlfriend and I have a strong feeling that I’m getting closer and closer to doing those things that I wanna do and make some money along the way.
All in good time…
Posted by Maarten van Leeuwen 
