Ready for the next step…towards the forest? I don’t mean literally going into the forest (even though going there in the dark alone…was surely a frightening experience…the fear?! It’s not logical!) Forest means in this case…any new thing you are trying to achieve that has the element of uncertainty and surely there is no specific manual / map on how to proceed. OR it could be a change from a habit (pattern of doing things) or erasing a belief to embrace change for the better….Continue Reading “LiOn – LieOn – LayOn”

The LIZARD brain…is the little voice that tells us…DON’T do this because: “A thousand reasons that seem to have a logic…but it is not logic.” What that voice is looking for…non action = not too much effort = easy! The voice or “self” will choose the “easiest” of routes…the one that is more comfortable and known to us, even if the SELF needs to reach another destination…the gut is saying “Changing the direction towards the SHINEland” A deepful talk by Mr. Seth Godin regarding the…Continue Reading “Listening to LIZARD BRAIN…Driving to FLAT MOUNTAIN”

The day we all celebrate…the birthday not the conceived day! It is not important when we where conceived but when we were born…but is this all true? Does it count when something is actually created or when and how it started? Being conceived does not necessarily means that a baby will grow and eventually being born…the same goes for animals and the same goes for ideas that become real businesses. In front of the “PARTY TIME” door, we get ready to ring the bell and…Continue Reading “Party Time…Open the DOOR”

“Arriving at the edge is one thing…acting on the edge is two things…enjoying it on the edge is three things so whatever you do…time will give you the power, clarity, experience to walk on the line with joy…have in mind that the line after time becomes a rock solid bridge and a place of revitalization”

After the AirPlanes were created, there was a need to build AirPorts. For the AirPlane to lift off the ground there was a need for a RunWay. If an AirPlane stays in an AirPort for too long…it gets a new name: ExAirPlane. An AirPlane that flies regularly gets less problems compared to the problems that arise whilst sitting still in the AirPort (except if the pilot loses focus to a passing eagle or to a grounding thought). It is the same with water that stays…Continue Reading “AirPort or AirPlane?”

Companies strive to give more to new customers versus their existing customers. They offer extra discounts, special deals and other “magneting-tricks” in order to have a better ROI = Return of Investment. In order to “earn” new customers a company invests time, money and to get the desired results they offer something more.  What they offer more is usually a better price for an existing service, product, solution. Occasionally there is an “upgraded” version offered at a normal price. New customers are welcome to receive…Continue Reading ““New customers welcome…existing customer doncome””

Learning is the act of adding information into the brain, body and soul. How can learning be achieved? Reading, listening, watching, doing, wondering, wandering and surely a humanistic method of learning is by EXPERIMENTING (by using our imagination / desire to create a newer / different version of a “product, service or solution” and then by using our or people’s senses to observe if a “new, better or worse version” is being born). Note: if we just learn by reading then computer can actually replace…Continue Reading “KnowLedge vs NoLedge”

YesExperience is an experience that ends with a YES! Many many things in life might be a bit blurry, scary or NOish at first. What we must do, is to think before trying…but sometimes thinking a lot might break down our engine or our drive to act upon what is right in front of us. Not all things end up how we want, even though wanting and getting shouldn’t always be aligned. In order to experience life we get “offered” many things and we skip…Continue Reading “YESexperience”

NO a magic word…in greek OH-E! In day life there are occasions that the obvious answer is NO but instead YES might be used as we don’t want to let down the others by sacrificing our selves. The same goes for business and especially when starting small. Small is irrelevant as the potential of a single person is not definable for the future…it might be for today though. In a meeting i had lately with a big company in Cyprus in order to discuss solutions…Continue Reading “Why should you say NO!”

Driving on the highway here in Cyprus it’s like you have a gun stuck on your head and you have to watch all the advertisements (billboards) along the road.  There is no possibility to avoid looking slightly right or left cause that is how our eyesight works (114 degrees is a humans field of view).  At the same time we have to overtake cars, look right or left so we are doomed one way or another to look at the billboards (“adverboards”). All these info…Continue Reading “What is that you are telling?”

So here i am…back to typing down a few thoughts that arise in my head…almost every single time i visit a shop, restaurant, bar…i think? “WHAT DOES THIS PLACE HAS TO OFFER ME or TO OTHER PEOPLE? WHAT CAN MAKE THIS BETTER…CHANGE, OFF COURSE” This post will be more business oriented but it can also be life oriented if you change the word PLACE from the above sentence into, PERSON! After visiting Bordeaux in France i found this amazing (literally) surf, motorbike, clothing shop called Mavericks…Continue Reading “How well do you treat your people?”

How can children get there? How can children open the door to dreamland? Ask them, they know better! What was surprising with every single birthday we had at SmileGames was the bridge that was created. Different every time. Not just “dif-ferent” but way “unique-ferent”. How could this be? Children were not pushed towards a certain direction…they were given various, abstract materials. They would also be allowed to enter the shed to find things that they would add on their bridge. The bridge is the structure…Continue Reading “The bridge from real to dreamland!”

Year: 1994 Another day begins…oh boy! I am full excited so i am out of bed quickly. Focused to the bone, wore my short trousers, stinky athletic shoes and a t-shirt. It was a Saturday and it was every Saturday that my mother helped out with my little project. We had a toast with jam (and cheese of course) and a bit of milk. My mother entered the lift and i went down the stairs like a menace. The car was fully loaded and we…Continue Reading “The soda can story…the garbage offers gifts”

WHY WHY WHY…a three letter word with transforming powers. I remember since young age i would just question everything. —– Why do i have to go to school?  (off course most of us did) Why do people need to work until they are 65 years old? (i just made this question up, frankly honest) Why does 1 + 1 = 2? (2 people in love are 1) Why if i jump out of the car will i spin in that speed? (glad i did not…Continue Reading “WHY is the WAY forward”