Maarten leyts

Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that he will be taking a few months off to take care of his soon to be born baby girl. For Millennial parents, parental leave is a logical desicion. So why does the rest of the world react so surprised? “This is a very personal decision, and I’ve decided to take 2 months of paternity leave when our daughter arrives. Studies show that when working parents take time to be with their newborns, outcomes are better for the children and families. At Facebook we offer our US employees up to 4 months of paid maternity or paternity leave which they can take throughout the year. Every day things are getting a little more real for us, and we’re excited to start this next stage in our lives.” said Mark Zuckerberg in a Facebook post . Up untill now, childcare is a women thing (in a heterosexual relationship, that is). One of the critical factors for this situation is the existing inequality between maternity and paternity leave. In most Europe...

Blockchain is claimed to be the transparent system that will gain back Millennials’ trust in finance. Blockchain is the means to an end, gaining trust has everything to do with giving back control to the consumer. Do banks dare?   Blockchain is most known as the technology underlying Bitcoin. What makes it special is that it uses a public and fully distributed network of nodes and users to move any digitalized asset from peer to peer, that anyone can access the ledger and see the transactions which are validated without any intermediary. The transparency of the process even extends to the name itself: transactions are recorded in blocks which are cryptographically secured and sequentially chained together from the oldest to the newest, offering a non-refutable and unbreakable record of data . Big banks are now seeing its massive potential to make the existing financial system more efficient , and find cost savings in a landscape that is coming under i...

Fintech is about more than convenience. The sector has the opportunity to create social value, and that’s exactly what resonates with Millennials. Fintech is about more than convenience Aaah, Fintech. Making our Western-daily-lives even more easy and more efficient. We don’t need to go to our bank branch around to corner to pay our bills, and why bother leaving your house for some shopping when everything can be ordered and paid for online? Thank God, we’ve got Fintech. But Fintech is about much more than convenience and first world problems . The Indian government has used Fintech on a massive scale to make financial services available for the previously unbanked. Platforms and technology such as Aadhaar (digital identification), Jan Dhan Yojana (payment banks which hold money but don’t do lending) and India Stack (store and share personal data online) allow citizens to open bank accounts, transfer money instantly and lend wisely. By mid 2016, 27...

We all meaning, happiness, and want to live a fulfilling life. But to be honest … it’s not easy! Search our passions define our goal, and a full and rich life balance in many aspects of things … it takes work! In this course, university-level job and 2 decades product of thousands of lives, we are going to give you strategies, tools, and frameworks to create a meaningful life of your dreams . Fortunately, powerful, you can to discover the purpose of your life and achieve your dreams hands-on exercises It is not at all enthusiastic about the inspiration gun. It is a step-by-step action plan to help you …     Build the foundation of a happy and meaningful life     understand the science of happiness and how to implement it     The purpose of your life and discover missions – and chased them!     creating wellness and balance in all of the basic elements of life 8     Strategies for your true self knowledge a...

Fintech is about more than convenience. The sector has the opportunity to create social value, and that’s exactly what resonates with Millennials. Part I: Fintech is about more than convenience Aaah, Fintech. Making our Western-daily-lives even more easy and more efficient. We don’t need to go to our bank branch around to corner to pay our bills, and why bother leaving your house for some shopping when everything can be ordered and paid for online? Thank God, we’ve got Fintech. But Fintech is about much more than convenience and first world problems . The Indian government has used Fintech on a massive scale to make financial services available for the previously unbanked. Platforms and technology such as Aadhaar (digital identification), Jan Dhan Yojana (payment banks which hold money but don’t do lending) and India Stack (store and share personal data online) allow citizens to open bank accounts, transfer money instantly and lend wisely. By mid 2016, 270 m...

They’re worried about their finances, they crave control, they’re used to quantify their lives, and they love to learn. Add up these four elements, and you’ll understand why financial education for Millennials is a thing. One third (34%) of Millennials, queried by Bank of America last year, graded their overall understanding of personal finances a C, D or F, and 41% of Millennials confess they are “chronically stressed” about money.   Much of the stress has to do with the friction between wanting to become and stay financially healthy, and not knowing how to get there. Millennials have seen how their parents struggled when the economy went sour, and very much want to avoid that. Lots of youngsters refrain from credit cards , for instance, because they don’t want to endebt themselves. According to Bank of America, Millennials prioritize saving for the future over having enough money to live comfortably today (71% vs. 60%). But most Millennials simply ...

Human beings are like computers. We have our body, which is the hardware.We have our brain, which is the CPU, where all the action happens. We have our thoughts, which are our source code, the programming. We have our life experiences that are dictated by our source code, our thoughts. Let�s take this analogy one step further.  If you are on your computer looking at a web page and you see a typographical error, you can make a change on your screen and feel better instantly. This is a temporary change, however. As soon as you pull something else up on your screen, those changes disappear. When you return to that web page, you see the edits did not occur.  The real, permanent change comes when you go back to the source, the source code that creates what you see externally. Our lives are like the web page. It�s what we see and what others see.  Our lives are the reflection of our thoughts.  Thoughts become our reality. When someone says thoughts are things, that...