So in 2026, I can finally move forward with my plans and dreams.

After my Euro trip in 2024, where I truly tasted the freedom I aspire to, something shifted. I did not change my plans. I refined them. I sharpened the focus and committed harder to making them real, exactly the way I want them to be. And for that, I need to go into monk mode for a while.

That means working and saving with intent. Fuck status! This is about building real wealth and real freedom for myself. At 50, designing my future life matters more than ever. Let’s be honest. If money were not an issue, nobody would work. I wouldn’t either. But that is not the reality. So for now, I hustle with a clear vision, consciously and sustainably, to build the life I aspire to. Think freedom. Motorcycle adventures, Hikes, Traveling. Doing things that bring me joy, when I want, where I want, and for as long as I want.

It is ironic. I have to temporarily give up freedom to reboot freedom later.

That is where monk mode comes in. Focused. Quiet. No distractions. With a little help from AI, I even created an image to capture the feeling. So if you do not hear much from me for a while, now you know why.

When the plans move from vision to execution, I will document them on video. Until then, stay tuned.

Are you working on your future life?

HPPY TRVLS

When you travel the way I did, on a motorcycle and sleeping in a tent as often as possible, you start living at the most basic level of life. Where am I sleeping tonight. What am I going to eat. Do I have enough water. When will I wash my clothes. Simple questions, yet they shape your entire day. Not calendars, not notifications, not the constant noise we have normalized at home.

Modern life is built to remove friction. One tap and food arrives at your door. One button and your laundry disappears from your awareness. Convenience everywhere. Comfort everywhere. And without noticing, we lose touch with the value of simple actions.

On the road, that comfort fades. Cooking becomes a conscious act. You feel the ingredients, the heat, the time it takes. Washing clothes by hand is no longer a chore you outsource to a machine, but a moment of presence. Water matters. Time matters. Effort matters.

I noticed how these basic rituals brought me back to my core. There was clarity in repetition. Calm in simplicity. A quiet satisfaction in taking care of the fundamentals yourself. No rush. No shortcuts. Just doing what needs to be done.

That is the magic of basic living while traveling. It reminds you that happiness does not come from speed or abundance, but from awareness. From being involved in your own life again.

When everything is reduced to the essentials, you start to feel grounded. Alive. Connected. And you realize that the simple things were never small at all.

This experience was something I truly needed. It did not happen instantly. It took time, about three to four weeks, before I fully dropped into that rhythm. But once I did, it was gold. A real return to the foundation of who you are.

But the truth is, everything happens exactly when it is meant to. No sooner, no later.

I deeply value that I allowed myself the time to go through that process instead of rushing it. Even today, I still feel the calm it brought into my life. A lasting sense of inner quiet that stayed with me long after the journey continued.

Looking back, I could say I should have done this much earlier. But the truth is, everything happens exactly when it is meant to. No sooner, no later.

Disconnecting from the world, work, noise, and expectations and returning to the core is something I would recommend to anyone. Step away from it all. Strip life back to the basics. It will do real wonders.

HPPY TRVLS

That’s why taking the self actualization path to fully actualized as your true self meaning your most authentic self is one of the most difficult things you can do in a societal social engineered world; the prison planet.

So I don’t ascribe to any political parties, or groups, I don’t ascribe to any religious institutions. I don’t ascribe to any corporate career or whatever. I am being me my most most authentic me and I’m living my purpose and I’m not part of any groups of any sort. And I don’t agree with those things. I don’t agree with religion. I don’t agree with politics. I don’t agree with there being a hierarchy of masters and slaves in this world. I do my own thing, I am me.

My life’s work is living that out in my most authentic way, which requires a lot of study, a lot of building of my own skills, my own self mastery and so on.

But people get so riled up about this and be like what you have to be part of something. You have to be able to be labeled as something. I even had a heated discussion a while back, I said that I don’t associate like I don’t call myself Curaçao native or Dutch. They got so mad and they actually said to me, but you have to, you have to, and I was just like, I don’t have to pretend or confirm that I am.

We’re all from this place here. Like the lines we made and call them countries. That’s all make believe. That’s why things are called Make believe, because it makes you believe in something that is actually inherently not the case and not true.

You see even patriotism people get so obsessed with like, and again it’s game of I’m better than you’re less. I just don’t play those childish games with people and they can’t stand it.

They don’t know what to do with it. Because you’re socially engineered to think that that’s how things go. Everyone’s got to be in their groups. We’re just animalistic beings, right? And we’re just trying to find our groups and we want to compete with other people’s groups and that’s bollocks, lower consciousness way of thinking that you’ve been engineered into.

So I broke out of that by first awakening, which is the first step it’s just the beginning. And then going on to your conscious evolution journey to self actualize, which requires you to actually have a self to not be just in this hive mind group thing. It requires you to stand firm in truth and in your most authentic expression.

And for me travel is one of the best way to achieve that level of freedom and authenticity.

What’s your way to be your authentic self?

HPPY TRVLS