David Nyeste

Writing Helps Clarify Your Thinking I started this blog in 2010. It was without any specific agenda or strategy. (Yeah, I used to do that :-) In my first post you can read about my humbling experience at the Ironman Spain in Lanzarote. I still like that article because that specific experience has forever changed the way I compete. If I would not have written that article, I might never have realized in all clarity why I love to compete. According to the statistics it has some hundred views. Judging merely by the lack of public interest one might suggest I should never have written that article. I am convinced that is a wrong conclusion.  Clarity of mind is invaluable. Up until a few weeks ago I was not seriously committed to blogging. It was a sporadic pastime I used to engage in whenever I felt like sharing something important or even trivial. It has been almost one year since I started writing on a daily basis. For the longest time I only wrote for myself in order to clear my th...

Own Your Digital Identity Yesterday I ended the post by making a point to shed your fear of change. Having put some thought into it, it turns out that I foster all kinds of fears myself. One fear I had for the longest time is that somebody might criticise me for the things I say and do publicly on the web. For safety reasons my standard procedure was to use fake names on my public profiles on blogs, streams or sports platforms. I started this blog back in 2010 with my real name, which was an exception to the general rule. The purpose of using my real name was mostly to occasionally tell some of my stories to friends and family and because I wanted people to be able to connect to my stories on a personal level. I am not sure this fear was justified or not, but it resulted in a set of measures for precaution.  In my view everybody who aspires or claims to be a leader needs to be visible and approachable to a certain degree. That is kind of the minimum requirement. I guess that explai...