You have still time to avoid these regrets:
On January - 7 - 2012
Top Five Regrets of the Dying
by Bronnie Ware
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying
With thanks to Tanja Ries who sent me the Link (http://www.tanjaries.de/)
And Again: A Happy New Year to All my Readers!
On January - 3 - 2012
I am back. 2011 was a year I had to concentrate on my activities in Germany as I founded together with my colleague Laura Ritthaler the FLOW AKADEMIE in Berlin (http://flowakademie.de). We transfer our experience and knowledge about FLOW and Positive Psychology to coaches and trainers who want to specialize in that field. It is a blending learning institution. We started with an one day workshop on 3rd of December. Now our participants take part in our Online Program and we shall meet to another (4 days) workshop at the end of April.
Developing this program and starting it made it necessary to postpone the start of ISSBE (Online training of entrepreneurial thinking). This international program will – so I hope – start soon too.
At least I start now activating my English blog. Today with a link to a talk of Prof. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi at TED.
Wish you lots of FLOW EXPERIENCES in 2012!!
Gerhard
Prof. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ph. D.talking about life and flow
THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP MANIFESTO 2011 – published –
On November - 8 - 2010
A HAPPY NEW YEAR YEAR TO MY READERS!!!
And finally here it is:
THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP MANIFESTO 2011
– and also in a few days: I open ISSBE – THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL FOR SMALL BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP WWW.ISSBE.COM
It was almost completed in November but then a complete new software was published “KAJABI” –
I tested it for 30 days and then I decided to put my 18 months of work into the trash and start new with KAJABI. You will soon see how fantastic this piece of software and cloud computing is.
Welcome to ISSBE soon.
Wish you 365 days of FLOW!
Your FlowDoc Gerhard Huhn
Vivek Wadhwa about the risks of entrepreneurship
On October - 19 - 2010
It is a reflexion about the situation in Japan, but has outspoken comparisons with India, Germany and other countries in which entrepreneurs are confronted with high legal risks. A very important lesson!!!!
To Fix Your Economy, Honor Your Failed Entrepreneurs
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Colin Wilson – What men and women seek . . .
On August - 23 - 2010
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Paul Newman reviews the career of the writer Colin Wilson:
Colin Wilson
“So Wilson is saying, despite different paths, the goal is identical. Men and women, in order to fulfil the destiny implicit in being here, seek new intensities of being. They long to open the door in the wall, the window in the mind, the gate that leads to the farthermost shore. They want their lives to stay permanently open to spiritual and physical possibilities. In a sense he is a modern religious visionary, seeking to draw heaven down to earth and to re-unite sensation and spirit. But this is a highfalutin way of describing a philosophy that is pre-eminently practical, a method of grasping and configuring the reality with which each of us is confronted”
Creativity – and the “Gatekeeper’s Dilemma”
On August - 3 - 2010
How do you tell good ideas from bad?
By Paddy Miller and Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg
On the day after New Year’s Eve, 1962, the nervous young band members and their manager entered the Decca Records studio to do an audition for a record contract. The manager had great confidence in the band’s potential, but he had trouble convincing the record labels to offer them a contract. In fact, the labels wouldn’t even give them an audition. He had only managed to get that day’s audition with Decca because he had privately contacted the record label and, without the band’s knowledge, offered to pay the cost of the audition out of his own pocket.
The tape that the band recorded that day, containing 15 songs, was sent to one of the record label’s producers, Dick Rowe. Rowe, an experienced professional with more than 20 years in the business, was known as a great talent spotter, and spent most of his time searching for new bands. After he had listened to the recording, Rowe contacted the manager, bringing bad news. Rowe was sorry; he did not think the band had commercial potential, and Decca would under no circumstances offer them a recording contract. He then made the statement that would become his public epitaph: “Guitar groups are on the way out, Mr. Epstein.”
If Brian Epstein hadn’t entered his life on that day in January, Dick Rowe would still be known to the world as a great and talented record producer. But after a fateful day, based on one rapid judgment call, all that was forgotten. After that day, Dick Rowe would forevermore be known as only one thing: the man who said no to The Beatles.
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If you are a professional gatekeeper for ideas, your worst nightmare is not that you will never find a breakthrough idea. The worst nightmare is that you will find it, but fail to recognise it. And when gatekeepers fear that, it is not without reason, because it has happened countless times that companies have been sitting with a golden goose in their hands, only to let it slip through their fingers. The Beatles were not just rejected by Dick Rowe, but also by almost every major British record label. Executives at Hewlett-Packard and Atari turned down Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak’s ideas for a personal computer. J.K. Rowling, in her efforts to get the first Harry Potter book published, was initially dismissed by editors at eight different publishing houses. The list of errant gatekeepers now rotating in their graves is so long that if you put a spool of copper wire round their coffins, you could generate enough electricity to power the state of California.
Barbara Fredrickson – Copenhagen Conference on Positive Psychology
On July - 8 - 2010
Barbara Fredrickson:
You have — within you — the fuel to thrive and to flourish,
and to leave this world in better shape than you found it.
Sometimes you tap into this fuel – other times you don’t.
But the sad fact is that most people have no idea
how to tap into this fuel or even recognize it when they do.
Where is this fuel within you?
You tap into it whenever you feel energized and excited by new ideas.
You tap into it whenever you feel at one with your surroundings, at peace.
You tap into it whenever you feel playful, creative, or silly.
You tap into it whenever you feel your soul stirred by the sheer beauty of existence.
You tap into it whenever you feel connected to others and loved.
In short, you tap into it whenever positive emotions resonate within you.
(Keys notes from the Copenhagen Conference on Positive Psychology 2010)
ISSBE im Übergang von der Beta zur 1.0 Version
On July - 4 - 2010
I would not have imagined in January that it takes until July just to overcome all the technical hurdles to finish the WordPress basics for ISSBE-”THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL FOR SMALL BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP”. It is done – and I am in FLOW! Now I can concentrate full on creating content – and marketing. Three first three training audios are in the pipeline. As soon as that is done ISSBE will be published to the public. (Until now only a small selection of friends and people who specially asked for have access). I will let you know this and I hope it doesn’t take until Christmas;-).
But today I can offer you something very special in advance: ISSBE has started an affiliate cooperation with a young and very successful Australian company that offers an unique software “Market Samurai”. We use it since January 2009 and are very enthusiastic about it. You can get access to a free trial version just by clicking at the banner below.
This is something like a “be happy pill” for all Internet marketing people. It saves you hours and often DAYS of time. It makes you happy as you find within minutes what you are searching for. This is a FIRST CLASS Marketing Tool you absolutely need if you are doing business on the Internet. I must say that these guys from Australia have done an excellent job. And what I like most: They add features and optimization details almost every month without asking for additional money. It functions and never left me alone – even as I am the exact opposite of a software nerd. Great tutorial videos, easy to handle everything. No more recommendation from my side. Let the experts explain to you by themselves what they have developed. Have a look and you will understand my enthusiasm (and the enthusiasm of the other more than 150.000 users who have joined that program during the last two years):
Click the banner and you are immediately connected to the “Market Samurai” people:
The INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL FOR SMALLBUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
On February - 13 - 2010
