Hey there, as many of you know, only half of my speech got recorded at TEDx Rotterdam. So the second half is still the original, but I tried to recreate the first half, and I hope you enjoy it. The mic is over there. I'll take this one. The problem. Imagine you could wake up to a world where you have the freedom to pursue your passions and become the best you can be. What if I told you it's easier than you think and everyone can do it? But we live in a society where money rules are world, and this can have a profound effect on your life, so you might get out of college and get a job that pays the bills, rather than go for a job that feeds your soul. You might go out into the world and grab a partner that seems nice, but isn't the one for you, because you're afraid of being lonely. In our society, everything is available to you, so you might seek out to fill your holes with an overconsumption of food, gadgets, and information, and this makes you overstimulate it. What if I tell you that with a simple little idea, you can take the first step to design the life that you dream about and actually live it? About four to five years ago, I discovered something by looking for the commonalities between all of my successful mentors, and what I discovered changed the way I thought the world worked. And most of all, it changed the way I live and defined my life. The way I define life is actually very simple. There are three areas where you can put any and every problem into. Each area has an internal and an external component. The areas are health, wealth, and relationships. To give you an example, take relationships. The external is the one we see like our friends and family, and the internal is the relationship we have with ourselves. Do we appreciate who we are? Are we happy with what we've accomplished? What everyone seems to leave out is that everything is connected. Screw up one area in your life, and everything will go down slowly, but surely. Improve one area in your life, and everything will start going up slowly, but surely. Let's take building a three-legged table for a second. If you focus on building only one leg, the table won't stand. If you over-focus on one leg, the table will be slanted. So the key is to have a balanced focus while you're working on all three elements simultaneously. So the other day I was talking to a friend, and in the last couple of months he was over-focusing on building his fifth business, and he invested too much time and money into an idea that failed. And as he was going through that horrible process, he started neglecting the other areas in his life, his relationships, and his health, and his girlfriend of several years couldn't handle it anymore, and she left him. As I was talking to him, he became aware once again how the three areas are connected, and that his health could suffer next. And that by focusing on improving all three areas again, starting with wealth, by building an accountability in several tracking systems, it'll slowly, but surely balance him out again and give him an opportunity to focus on his health and relationships. And it's this idea that most of the people I talk to seems neglect. Everyone knows it exists, but not everyone actively pursues a balance in their life, which unfortunately results into many stories like my friend, or maybe you might know someone who neglects his or her health from relationships. Because here she might live in a society that is made to get as much performance out of us as possible to put into our jobs while neglecting the rest. But as I just mentioned, singling out one area in your life can result in the long-term collapse, while actively being aware and executing on the idea of having a balanced life with an optimal health, wealth, and relationships can result in the long-term success. I believe that this idea, everyone should know that this idea and his trackers and systems exist, because those are the key to unlocking freedom so that we can follow our passions and become the best we can be. That is why I believe this idea can make our lives a little bit better, and that's why I believe this is an idea worth sharing.