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Health

Is Busy A Marker Of Importance?

I used to be busy. All the time. I used to think that busy meant important. I couldn’t bear to look at the signs telling me that I had taken the wrong turn and that I was too busy. There was only one option for me, and that was that I had to be important […]

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Uncategorized

My Pain And Gain From A Life-Threatening Illness

You see that bit in the tagline on the blog header where it says “odes to life?” I want to tell you about my pain and gain. A brand new aspect of me that I have been in doubt about sharing with you all. I need to though. A new layer to me, one might […]

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Ideas

Using A Notebook As The First Step In Idea Mapping

The inspiration for this blog post came to me last night. At the time, I was attending a short seminar on Kickstarting 2015 with Mark Anthony. Mark is one of the finest motivational speakers in Denmark. It was a great night. Kickstarting 2015 is one of the first things I am doing to put myself […]

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Impact

Is Purpose The Best Currency?

We do like cold hard facts right in the business world, right? More than branding. More than purpose. It’s so interesting that we have this urge to collect a lot of data to validate our actions. And just when the data is collected, we forget about it. We write a strategy about it and then […]

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Ideas

What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a veterinarian. So badly, that I worked for a veterinarian for a week and then found out that I wasn’t going to be a veterinarian because I passed out a couple of times. Then I wanted to be a rockstar. My vision was to be sitting […]

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Creativity & Storytelling

The Worst Thing For Creativity

The worst thing for creativity is NOT silence, the stillness of body or mind, nor procrastination. The worst things for creativity are: Comparing yourself to other people and thinking that they have it all while you have not-as-much. Complaining and whining, coming from a place of lack of ideas. Thinking you’re not good enough and […]

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Substance

Purpose is the best currency

We do like cold hard facts right in the business world, right? More than branding. More than purpose. it’s so interesting that we, have this urge to collect a lot of data to find security in that our actions are the right ones. Then when the data is collected – we forget about it, or […]

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Spirituality

Make Space For Serendipity

Serendipity is when you find something you didn’t know you were looking for. In my previous life, as a digital guru, I always told my clients that the most powerful viral effects came from showing, telling, and informing people about things they didn’t know they wanted to know.  The “telling people about things they didn’t […]

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Impact Sustainability Sustainable Business

New Beginnings in Sustainability

This is my first article here since May 2014, how I’ve missed it. It is as if I’m back to when I was still embracing new beginnings. I’ve missed the WordPress backend. I’ve missed connecting with you.  Those of you who don’t know it yet, I have been ill for almost a year and I […]

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Activist Branding

Disruptive Thinking: Brand Development Before Money Gain

I had a link came through this morning from one of my Facebook friends about a Swedish media exec who was clearly disrupting the media world with her thinking and how she implemented things in her organization (link is in Swedish though, sorry rockers!). Disruptive thinking leads to disruptive actions, and disruptive actions change organizations. […]