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Bart Maes -once my managing director-, told me once; Werner, you're busy all day... -my nose shone quite a bit at the time! -... but are you also doing something? The glare was suddenly a little less bright. What is the practical and essential difference between being busy and doing?

Imagine... starting today, you will go to your mailbox in a completely different way; you open every letter, hold the advertisement, tear open packages, browse magazines, yawn at invoices sent and... put everything back in. Funny? That's what you do with your mailbox!

Chef: How far along are you with the Kakafonie project, Dimitri? You: Well, I'm waiting for information from Rudi Godot from our sales department. Chief: Have you reminded him yet? You: Chef twice already! Chef: You need to be a little bit more behind it, Dimitri, daily if necessary, until he gets tired of it. You: O.K. Chef... but you think otherwise because your experience shows something else...

Imagine... The first thing you do every day: open all windows & doors, lights and heating on everywhere, music on all over the house. Then you quickly walk around, so to speak, logically, but completely randomly, to shut everything off again. What does that sound like? However, this is how you deal with your mailbox!

You know it; you're sitting on the toilet, in the shower, on the road - train, tram, bus, bike, trottinette - or you've just shut down your computer and you're thinking again about something you shouldn't and shouldn't forget. How do you solve that easily and in one go?

“Gosh, where is that mail again? “I just lost it, I just don't remember where I filed it.” Then you're looking for a bump because you have to and will find it. Frustration! What is archiving wisdom and how do you always find everything quickly?

'I still have a good month left at the end of my paycheck, 'Rob - my boss of yesteryear - sometimes joked. Then he shouldn't have to spend that much, of course, the Dutch bon vivant! How do you prevent the same thing from happening with your time, if you still have work tasks left at the end of your day?

The leave period! Always fun. If it's yours. From the moment your colleague pleads, your phone is twice as glowing, the forwarded mailbox arrives at yours, your tray bends under the extra mail, etc. Pffffffhhhh! Solution: your colleague will never leave again?

Stress is never as big as the day right before your vacation! You rush through your files, still want to finish everything - whether your boss or customers want it -, you close your computer far too late, you rush home to pack your bags, and after leaving, you wonder if you've closed the side door. How do you prevent leave stress?

Unfortunately, no matter how clean leave can be, it ends somewhere! Back from vacation completely relaxed? Are the batteries properly charged? “Welcome back” is what you hear Chef Burns say with a grin! And what are you going to do first - after a chat and a coffee or tea, of course -? Your hundreds of emails... sigh...

The clock is ticking towards departure time at work and there is another one on your to-do list today - also stop by the store, quickly into the pharmacy... -. But you have to leave now! You arrive home as a zombie with ADHD... How to end your workday in a productive and motivating way?