When you are working on you personal vision, I got three important questions.
What makes you cry?
What makes you dream?
What gives you new energy?
Implement this in your personal vision and you can easier implement it in your life.
Gratitude
Working with the chapter in the book about Gratitude it´s important to remember some small things. How to build a story.
I am always trying to use this three keys:
1. A good story to get the readers interest and that they want to read more.
2. The main story
3. Summary and a wow ending
This will always make your reader happy and wanting more…
Young Enterprice Norway
This week I was a judge for Young Enterprice Norway, in Oslo. And their first contest for students and on university level.
There were 14 student companies, with names like «Babbfit» (a smart holder for kebab), «Gearlocks» (a new way of secure your ski at ski resorts) and «Innovation Corporation» (a new way of teaching methods in kindergarden and elementary school).
First there was a presentation from the stage and then all the judges went to become a supervisor for 4 companies.
The judges was to find a winner for Best Presentation and The Best Student Company i Oslo.
And in the end this were the winners:
1. Sørhus Andersen SB
winner of the Best Student in Oslo in 2010 had the absolute best business plan and displays professionalism at all levels. The business idea is certainly feasible. The company has a product range with the potential for growth jury considers that the market is willing to pay for. The company has also thought through what they want to do when they reach profitability. They produce healthy and good crackers and biscuits.
2. Lett& Mett SB
is a company that represents an alternative product in an attractive market. The company has a credible plan around the market orientation in urban areas. The company has, after the jury’s opinion the strongest team assembled in terms of expertise and associated networks. They offer a tasty diet weight loss program consisting of a subscription scheme for ready-made meals delivered home.
3. Innovation Corporation SB
is a company that showed a lot of flexibility to adapt to the individual customer. The jury sees a
big growth potential and it is a unique academic professionalism of the service. They have the potential to contribute to strengthening the academic content of school activities for years to come: Innovation Corporation SB from the University of Oslo, Department of Art. Through the concept they are working to strengthen arts and crafts subject’s position in school activities by providing personalized educational courses.
In September I mentored Innovation Corporation (No. 3 in Oslo) on their business plan (But I did not judge them in the competition).
Read more her oslo.ue.no/pls/apex32/f (in Norwegian)
Giving is better than receiving
Giving/Sharing/Generosity
It’s best to start the discipline of generosity when the amounts are small. It’s easy to give ten cents out of a dollar; it’s a little harder to give a hundred thousand out of a million.
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
Here’s what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: If you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times.
Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out, the more life will be able to pour in.
Somebody says, “Well, I can’t be concerned about other people. About the best I can do is to take care of myself.” Well, then you will always be poor.
What you give becomes an investment that will return to you multiplied at some point in the future.
Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.
«Vitamins for the Mind» is a weekly sampling of original quotes on a specific topic taken from The Treasury of Quotes by Jim Rohn.
Would you like to be a child again – Do you need to?
Learn to think like a kid again and unlock your hidden potential.
Have you heard about those fun offices where play is encouraged? They’re not just cubicle legend. Companies like Google and 3M have crafted colorful, dynamic workspaces where employees play with toys and video games, take nap breaks and go outside for recess. If it sounds a little childish, that’s exactly the point.
Over the past couple of decades, industry leaders have tapped into an idea that philosophers (like Nietzsche) and scientists (like Einstein) have long championed: that it is useful and sometimes necessary for people to think like children to achieve success as adults.
People tend to get stuck in mental ruts, approaching everything from their jobs to their marriages from the same tired perspective. But taking cues from children can jolt us out of complacency and view the world from a whole-new angle—if only for moments at a time. Officials at Google and 3M found fashioning offices akin to kindergarten classrooms resulted in creative, energetic environments where innovative ideas are born every day. “
When people start to think like a child, they begin to see things from a fresh perspective,” says Jack Uldrich, global futurist, business speaker and bestselling author. “They learn to step back and view problems, people and things from a completely different point of view.”
START BEEING A KID!!!
How to mind map
I am getting more and more fund of mind mapping and especially when I am reading new books. But also when you try to hold «a birds perspective» to a project.
Here are a few links to some of the mind-mapping resources that are available online:
Mind-Mapping.org – a list of over 200 resources!
Exploratree – web based “thinking guide”
Flying Logic – web based mind-mapping
Freemind – a free download that you can take with you
Good luck in becoming a super reader and a super user of mind mapping software.
Rotary
"Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you." —Jim Rohn
That is my key words when I am going to have a workshop at the Norwegian Rotary Organisation the 27. of september. And I will use mentoring as the great tool it is.
Read here for more information about AKersborg Rotary: www.akersborg.rotary.no/
If you happens to be in Norway and Oslo and wants to come, please join us at Grand Hotel, at the Limelight Bar. www.grand.no/no/Restauranter–Barer/Limelight-Bar/
Hope to see many people there at six o´clock, just after work.
Anthony Robbins
Last night I watched the first show Breakthrough with Anthony Robbins on NBC (http://www.nbc.com/breakthrough-with-tony-robbins/) and I am stunned.
It seems so easy, but it`s a lifechanger!
Look here: www.breakthroughinsider.com/
If you are in Oslo, Norway you can see the show at the Ballroom in Nedre Vollgate 11 in centrum, next wednesday 11/08-2010.
Fantastic, Go, Go Go…
Thank you inspirator.no/
Presentationsskills in The Norwegian Armed Force
Once again I would return to the Norwegian Armed Force for this to hold courses in presentation techniques. It would be a day course, 7 hours, including lunch Tuesday before the autumn holiday.
Not only were 16 representatives from across the country learn presentation techniques, but they will go back to their counties and keep the course self to others. They should therefore first learn to make presentations and speeches in a six-hour course, and then back to the county and hold this course. And this time they will keep it for up to 70 people over two hours. Impossible you say? No, the young soldiers looked only at this as a challenge.
Already 15 minutes into the course was the first presentation in time, up behind the pulpit and tell your name, where you came from (birthplace), where you served and finally the expectations of the course. When we had feedback after it emerged that several had stage fright.
We talked about the communication model, preparation, who is the audience, etc., etc. In addition, they had a total of 4 presentations with feedback at all times and at the same time was the difficulty level higher and higher.
Funniest was when they were going to make a speech on a night out, but was specific audience of me. The options were the girfriend/boyfriend, general, parents and
friends. It is quite obvious that they are professionals in adapting what they say to the person who will listen. This is knowledge they did not show, or thought of, that they had.
When they finally gave the last speech with self-chosen topics, it was all the senses sharpened, and it was a big difference from the same morning. And everyone, even those with stage fright before, showed clearly that this did they like. They had made their own speech, with its own theme based on a well proven model. At the same time noting all the audience down on a yellow note what they did well and what they should improve on.
Finally as we walked through how to put up a presentation skills course in two hours, with different exercises and Icebreakers. I look forward to hearing feedback on how this course was.
If you have any questions about the training or wish the same training for your company or organization take contact.
The Norwegian Armed Forces
This is the seconf time I am going to The Norwegian Armed Force (www.mil.no). This time it is a training in presentation skills on the agenda.
It would be a whole day for the training here in Oslo, Norway.
I am really looking forward to this, thank you for the opportunity.
More will come, with pictures and all.