Finding a way to keep going to The Netherlands often.

Both my parents are not with me anymore. After a long struggle, mine not to be able to let go and economics' bad buyers market, I was able to sell my parents' house in September of 2015. It had become a burden. Every stay partly spent cleaning and repairing. From the beginning of the year 2015, I saw that I was trying to hang on to something that was not there anymore, and that was not coming back either. When I was in Zoetermeer, I longed to have my family with me and do the happy things we always did. But boys grow, and they have other things on their minds. I am lucky to have so many beautiful memories, beautiful feelings in my heart, a whole stock of short video's in my head which make me relive all of the good times whenever I want to. So, the chapter The Netherlands could be closed. I have no direct family anymore. Just a whole bunch of cousins twice around the corner, children of my father's  and mother's cousins. With a couple, I have great contact, we grew up together in Leeuwarden during the vacations when I stayed with my father's parents. And I also still have some friends. But I need something more, and I know I have found this in my activity with Ringana. Ringana, an Austrian network marketing company, that sends their health products thru all of Europe after being recommended by someone to someone else. Since April of 2013 I am active. I got to love the products after my friend Karin gifted me a facial cream for Christmas 2012, realizing I would never buy them to try them out. I am cheap. She had to push me to use it, I just left it on the bathroom untouched. She pressured me by underlining the fact that the product would not keep more than six months after production because it contained no preservatives. So, to pleasure her, I started using it. After three weeks I was hooked on the effect this cream had on my face. No more discolorings and pimples. I wanted to get involved myself that same evening of this revelation, eventhough I had been saying "NO!" to my friend Karin for over a year and a half. I had felt that she was trying to push me into something I did not want, not wanting to be the physiotherapist who 'sells stuff'. But the effect of the product had changed my mind. Getting enrolled was just a ten minute job online, and cost me a 29 euro entrance fee to have my 'office online'. I knew already what network marketing meant. I have always been very wary of the way of selling products. Snowball system, multi level marketing, time share. You name it, I can tell you why not to embark. Headstrong I have always scared off any sales person at my door. And now I am doing the same, more or less. No, I am not doing the same. Network marketing is different. It does not harm any person, it does not make the first people to go on board rich, it does not leave you with a hangar full of stuff you are never able to sell. It gives you a provision when you recommend a product. How often have you told a friend to go to a certain restaurant to eat? No restaurant owner ever called me up afterwards, said thank you and offered me a free coffee the next time you would be in the neighborhood. If you recommend a service or a product from any company or store, you never get a thanks and the big companies get richer, and never share their profits with the any of us. In network marketing, thru acquisition of clients and partners, one creates a big net of persons using and promoting the products you love. And instead of a big company getting having exaggerated profits they will just keep to grow, regular Jane's and Joe's have an extra income that will flow into the local economy where they live. It is for a reason that many economists see network marketing as the way of 'selling and earning' of the future. Would you rather see that your friend earns a bit more money to maybe take out her family for a nice diner and buy a present for her mother or that some hot shot buys another jet or penthouse? There are numerous books, articles and video's which explain that network marketing is okay and not a scam. And ofcourse you yourself have to use your brain and see if a company is a good deal or not. But to get back to the title of this piece, I am looking forward to finding more clients, who might even later on become friends and partners, in The Netherlands so I have the perfect reason to say to my family 'I am off for a couple of days, mixing business with pleasure'.

Are you curious about what I do besides working in my own physiotherapy practice? Have a look at my website www.zoversinnederland.com , and please follow me on Facebook 'Zo vers in Nederland' for products news,  information on the company (which by the way won the Austrian 2015 climate preservation award),  and my own thoughts about living healthier. As a Ringana partner, you can have(like me) clients and partners through out Europe. Do business while you are at work, out with friends, on vacation. Work when, where and as much as you want. There are no limits. Be your own boss. I always accompany my partners in whatever way I can.

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Back to blogging. Thanks to Rimke de Groot from Leeuwarden!

Thanks to Rimke from the Facebook-page 'Nederlandse ondernemers in het buitenland', here I am again. At least I will give it a go. I love to write, but I think I loved what I wrote and no one else. Just a diary maybe? To have more people to maybe read my words, I should ofcourse accept all requests of friendship in FB and Linkedin, but I do not want people everywhere in my life, just there where I want them. So, in one way or another this blog should go a bit more viral, with help of persons passing it on to each other maybe. Anyway, back to Rimke. She is a journalist, writer and has a her own business to help Dutch entrepreneurs abroad. She has published a book in February of 2013 called 'Emigratiewijzer', Uitgeverij Personalia. The book had vey good reviews. Rimke has written a book for Dutch people who want to emigrate, and that are loads, to give them a good overview of what they need to prepare before leaving, what they can expect, health insurance, etc. On Dutch television there are different shows of people 'going abroad'. Leaving their Dutch homes and jobs, and very often without any knowledge of the new countries' legislation, language and other important stuff. I will be sitting there and gaping at whatever disaster is unwinding. This book should be on top of the list of things to buy before even thinking about changing the home stead. And contacting her via her website www.emigratietaal.nl would definitely be a good idea. Rimke can help people and their activities abroad, to be more visible on the internet for example. And that is how she and I got in contact. First of all, on her FB-page a Belgian lady living in Hungary was looking  for vegan beauty products. And that is just my cup of tea since April of 2013. So this lady and I got in contact, and within a week she became a partner in the network markting company I work with, we recommend product for a healthy body inside and out (www.zoversinnederland.com and FB Zo vers in Nederland). And then Rimke made a shout out on her FB-page to have your website reviewed by her, and receiving tips about how, what and why. And I thought, let me get a review from a professional, it definitely cannot hurt. She said what I had already thought 'put on a video of yourself on your website explaining why you love the products so much that you recommend to others, and how you became involved in the business'. I am not photogenic. I have to see with my youngest son, who has some friends which are gifted film makers, what I can do. And I have to contact my webpage guy, who is almost unreachable. Also by her I was complimented on my writing on my FB page 'Zo vers in Nederland', and she said 'why not blog about Ringana'. So this made me think and say 'yes, I will start blogging again'. It will be like before, but I will expand my writings. Just blogging about my products will not be funny and interesting, it will be a mix. In Dutch we say 'van de hak op de tak'. That is how my mind is wired. Straying from one story to another, with their connections only known to me. My getting back to my blog with much energy and words to spill, has also to do with the fact that I have not been to The Netherlands since September last year and my oldest son going on a five day trip to Amsterdam with his girlfriend. And having different friends living in Ticino who went there in the past twelve months, coming back ever so blisfully excited about this small metropole. It made me ever so melancholic. I planned with my friends and son, and made suggestions about what to visit. Amsterdam, where I lived for many years. My lingering plan for my next trip to home, was put into action straight away, first thing this morning. Cousine Christine will make my bed for just after Easter, and then I will just go with the flow. I have many people to see, but I do not feel like planning to much, except for meeting my Belgian Ringana partner during her vacation in Antwerpen and stopping at cousine Astrid's house in Boulay on the way back for a night. I start to ramble, even I acknowlegde that. Enjoy an easy Sunday.

Happy days with my mother. Sadly our last visit to Amsterdam Novembre 2010.

She passed away August 2011.