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Time and priorities

Submitted by kairoer on Thu, 03/25/2010 - 00:19.

As the observant reader of this blog has noticed, I have not posted much the past month. Why? I will not bore you with such non-relevant matters.

What I will, is to rant about time. People in my part of the world constantly talk about time. How little time there is to do whatever it is they want to do. That time is running out, it is something that is limited and something they must treat with the utmost attention and care. Yet, they seem to be filled with a sense of time running out. 

In other cultures, time is not something that is limited, something that is running out. Some parts of Africa, for example, time is an endless resource that is coming towards you. There is plentiful. More than enough. You can even share your time with someone else. Like having a meal, or a party. There is no complaints about lack of time. 

Back here in Europe, we spend hours every day watching (wasting is more like it) TV soaps and sit-coms. Those hours, we do not complain. As a matter of fact, if we talk at all, we say "hey, hand me that remote". Or "Give me some chocolate too". By the end of the evening, we switch off the blue screen, crash in bed and wake up exhausted the next morning. And as we enter the office, we start the complaints again.

"I almost did not make it to kindergarden today."

"Too many meetings. I will not be able to workout today."

And my favorite one - I hear this all the time:

"We never talk anymore. We have no time between jobs, school, kindergarden and all the activities".

Again we head home, fetching the kids on the way, cooking some pre-made, tasteless meal. Hush the kids to bed (or where-ever they go in the evening), and drop down in front of the next episode of The Wire. Wasting another evening.

I challenge you.

Stop complaining until you do something about your life. Time is abundant. There is more than you will ever be able to use. Just stop wasting your life on meaningless activities. Follow your passion, and set out to do something! Something special! Something only YOU can do!

Imagine what a waste of life it is to just sit there on your fat bum and dream. Never pursuing your dream. Thinking "Oh, tomorrow will be the day when I change my life". Tell you something, my friend. Tomorrow never comes. Only today does. Only NOW matters.

Stop complaining, and start follow you passion!!! NOW! 

Interviewed about personal branding

Submitted by kairoer on Mon, 03/01/2010 - 13:13.

Today, you may read about how personal branding is important to gain a leverage in todays market space. I was interviewed by the Personal Branding Blog, a part of the 2010 JCI Baltic conference. 

You may read the interview here: http://www.jci.ee/bc2010/personalbrandprofile-kai-roer?c_tpl=1062 

Need YOUR help: European survey about mentoring

Submitted by kairoer on Mon, 03/01/2010 - 11:34.

Trainifique , the company inspiring leaders worldwide, is conducting a survey to see how mentoring is used to create success in Europe. The results from the research will be published in a book later this year. 
Thor-Erik Gulliksen , one of the founding partners of Trainifique, says that mentoring has been around for thousands of years, the first documented mentoring was in the story of Homer in the Odyssey. “We want to see how mentoring is used in 2010, how success is made by asking for advice and using someone who can guide you when you need some direction,” he continues. 
You may also participate, just by filling in the quick survey found here . It takes less than 10 minutes. 
“We are interested in all use of mentoring, you do not have to be in a leading position right now - you may have been earlier, or you may not have reached this position just yet. Perhaps you had a mentor when you studied, perhaps when you did a career transition. Or, you may have used a mentor to help you gain the success you always wanted. “ Gulliksen says that this is the first European wide survey about mentoring. “We aim to uncover the differences and the similarities of the use of mentoring throughout Europe.”
The results of the survey will be presented the fall 2010, at the Junior Chamber International World Congress 2010 in Osaka, Japan. 
You may participate in the survey by filling in the form here !

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