Be A Goal Digger

Using archery as a metaphor for a goal digging business process, what is your target? You'll understand this metaphor better once you watch the video of the week.





How is your inner state? Your mental strength, body strength and control, muscle strength? Good archers both cardio and strength train several times per week. My secret sauce was to use visualization and mental training techniques prior to a big competition. The team would withdraw to a quiet place, and our coach, who was the Danish National Team Coach and my dad Gynther Brügmann, would guide us through a visualization, where we worked through the perfect shot; the prefect hitting our goal - from mental inner states, to which muscles we used to pull the string on the bow, our focused eye on the target, how we released the string - the full movement is highly important from start to finish, how you move and hold your arm and hand after the release as a movement is in context and can play a huge role in the direction of your arrow. Following the arrow with your eye all the way to the target as you see the arrow plant itself at the absolute center. Every single movement and mental state is of high importance for an overall successful result. I still use both visualization and mental training techniques for performance and business. It works. Try it out if you haven't.

How are your energy management skills? An archery competition takes an entire weekend divide over 2 days of 6 hours each. You need to manage your energy over time. Observe yourself. Are you wasting your energy on small talk with draining people between shoots? Are you ensuring good mental practices, good food and hydration practises between rounds of shooting? Are you using food as both body and brain fuel throughout the competition? Did you get rest and good sleep the night before? What did you eat the days leading up to the competition? How is your psychological and emotional states? What are you doing to manage these to set yourself up for success? Developing good habits everyday ensures good practices when it counts.

If we switch archery out with business - which inner and outer factors play important roles in you reaching your desired business goal? Identify those. Write them down. Be aware of them. What is your skill level regarding each of these areas that can stand in your way of reaching your goal? Where do you need to grow? Set yourself up for the most successful outcome to reach your goal.

Be a goal digger. Take responsibility for the process. Small steps. Not perfection. Go big!

F*** It - bring out your bitchitude

Developing brands worth following :: Interview JyskeBankTV

Thomas Kolster, CEO of Goodvertising Agency and Sandja Brügmann, CEO Refresh Agency created a workshop/playshop speak at this year's Social Media Week in Copenhagen where they and the audience explored aspects to create follow-worthy brands using two approaches rational/mind vs Passion/heart.

Jyskebank.tv interviewed the two after the session - listen in above. In Danish.

Taking Responsibility for your Happiness is an Act of Personal Power

Your happiness and fulfillment is your responsibility. 

Wouldn't it be freeing if you could get yourself out of victim stage, and take full responsibility for creating the passionate & purpose-filled business and life that will rock your world! (Short video talk). 

What do you think of my suggested way to relate to happiness and fulfillment?

Do you experience any ....   '..but so and so is so irritating and is the reason I am not happy...' or 'I cannot create the business and life I want, because I don't have the time, money, skills .... ' or because your mom looked at you with mean piercing eyes when you were 5, and you made it mean that you were dumb, and should shut up - and that is still the underlying belief that unconsciously runs your life.

Stepping out of blame and into personal responsibility is not necessarily easy. You have to be ready to let go of blame everywhere in your life. It might require deep healing around certain very painful experiences, and I am here as a personal example. It IS doable. And it is so FREEING.

When we are fully the cause of our life, and how we react to everything that shows up, because life is life and with it come experiences of all sorts that we cannot control. But you can control your happiness by how you create your life, who you let into it, where you place your priorities, and how you show up on the one side; and on the other hand, how you relate to what happens around you, and the MEANING you give it.

2015 Take Flight Plan

How do you plan on taking flight in 2015? 

'And the day came when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom'~ Anais Nin

As a culture, we love to set New Year’s intentions at the marking of a new year. I think this is a wonderful tradition, and the truth is every moment is an opportunity for us to set new intentions and new standards for ourselves. Giving us the opportunity to create the lives we want to live.

But for a moment, let’s play along with the New Year’s intention…

Take inventory of 2014 

Taking a quick inventory of the year past can work wonders and bring awareness to both what we do not want more of in our lives, and therefore can leave behind in 2014, as well as what we do want more of.

What do you want to leave behind in 2014? 

Take out pen and paper, and make a list. This can be specific projects, or tasks in a project, which drain you, rather than uplift you. It can be people, who you are feeling drained by, or who brings conflict rather than creation and good energy. It can be less than self-caring eating habits. A needed change or fine-tuning of exercise routines, or trying a new and more self-nurturing way to stay fit. Psychological ways of being that is no longer serving you. States of mind that self-sabotage. Decisions you make, which do not bring you happiness.

2015 Intentions

Make a list of what you want more of in 2015. What worked for you in 2014? This can be the kind of people, who really make a difference in your life – what are the concrete personality traits that make these people so desirable to you? (Ex. visionary, kind, creative, open-minded, supportive, stable, reliable, positive and so forth). Which activities make you feel expanded and automatically drawn to? Which projects do you really like working on, and what are the concrete tasks and responsibilities you thrive on? What wasn’t present at all for you in 2014 that you really want in your life this year?

Once you have created your two lists. Close your eyes. Take a few deep breaths and then visualize that with your exhale you release all the items you want to leave behind. Let them disintegrate. Make the choice to not let these things take any more of your thoughts and time. It can truly be this simple.

Then, read over your list of 2015 Intentions again. The key to your successful 2015 is to place all your focus, energy and time on all the great, desirable, passionate, kind and loving things you want to bring more into life in 2015. Schedule these priorities into your day. Place high importance on these items, so you can create them in your life. It will only happen if you take new action.

Under each point on your 2015 intentions list, write the concrete action you will take to give yourself the life you want in 2015! 

Happy creating.