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Love

Know what you love Do what you love Love what you do Spend time with what you love Spend time with who you love Spend time Loving Give Love There is too much hatred in the world. Give love and it will come to you. It is the most amazing thing in the world. Love

Writing, just because

I write children’s stories. I don’t know if I will ever publish one, but I write. I also keep a journal. Just a paragraph or two a day. I write this blog. It’s part of my process to push boundaries, to stretch limits … in this case creative limits. It’s a great way to start

Making a change to blog frequency

To my blog subscribers. I have been doing some research on blog satisfaction ratings, and also taking into consideration my response to blogs that I follow. As such, I have decided to post my blogs twice/week instead of three time/week. i will be posting on Mondays and Fridays. Please give me feedback! Hans

Amazing work by amazing people – Associação Saúde Criança

I just got back from Rio de Janeiro , working with the Ashoka NGO, Associação Saúde Criança (ASC), that I support. The progress we are making to scale from 20,000 families served to date is phenomenal. As the centerpiece of that effort, we have purchased a new headquarters which will serve more families as well

To live for mankind as i have heretofore lived for myself

Understanding our inspiration, how we want to define ourself comes through reflection. Reflection of what we have achieved, and what we want to achieve in our life. In our personal life, our business, in our spiritual life. Understanding the broader context of goals we want to set for ourselves requires allotting time to that quest;

Neil Young & Kris Kristofferson mashup

Better to burn out than rust out – Neil Young   Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose – Kris Kristofferson   Its cool to go places where working people are happy – Neil Young   You don’t paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it,

Guest Blog Morten Damgaard – Educating social imperatives

A few weeks ago my wife and I received an email from the Middle School Principal of United World College of South East Asia – East Campus in Singapore where our two boys attend grade 6 and grade 1 respectively. The email explained that as an introduction to the Humanities program, where the students participate

Kids remind us

The other day I again had the opportunity to read some of my children’s stories to some second grade classes at Norcrest Elementary. What a treat. There is nothing quite like the wide open honesty and emotions of children. They don’t laugh when we think they will laugh. They laugh whenever they feel like it.

People are amazing – just let them

People are amazing – just let them I was talking to my brother Tim, who works in the Customer Service industry. As so often happens, our conversation turned to Leadership and Customer Experience. Tim shared his thoughts about the correlation between an empowered work environment (Great Place to Work) and continuously improving the customer experience.

That twilight moment – tap into it

That precious moment when we first wake up and before our day really starts with emails, TV, children, phone calls. That precious moment when our mind has not yet been kickstarted with stimuli. I call it twilight time. Julia Cameron, in her book The Artist’s way, teaches us a technique to tap into our creative