I like these:

Share everything.

Play fair.

Don’t hit people.

Put things back where you found them.

Clean up your own mess.

Don’t take things that aren’t yours.

Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.

Wash your hands before your eat.

Flush.

Warm cookie and cold milk are good for you.

Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Take a nap every …

The following quote from “The Power Of Intention – Learning To Co-Create Your World Your Way” Dr. Wayne W. Dyer is worth meditating on:

“falling in love with what you are offering, and then selling your love … to potential customers.”

Do you love what you do?
What do you love most about what you do?
Do you love your customers?

E.piphanies - worth a look, and a think. Share yours!

For a refreshing and optimistic take on how we could evolve the concept of government, read Emma McCreary’s post The Next Paradigm of Government.

Wow!

Wikis are great for creating ad-hoc collaborative and infinitely extensible stores of information and knowledge. Especially when such information is so easily transmitted AND so easily lost in email black holes as pointed out by Robert Rath on his post Wikis Bring Light To The Black Hole of EMail.

Emails are easy to use and conceptually comfortable. I simply type and send. Unfortunately they are also notoriously …

The following quotes are from the article Consumer trends in three different worlds by Andy Hines, in The Futurist July – August 2008.

These are the top 20 trends affecting consumer life around the world:

Trend 1: ageing population. Non-retiring seniors … stay active. Companies … want to tap their valuable expertise and experience. Many seniors will insist on working on their terms, … working conditions … …

… about living life with more enjoyment and less pain.

Quote from a TED Talk by John Maeda: Simplicity patterns. Worth listening to.

Thanks to Jany Chau for the link.

Taking a page from Peter Drucker’s The 5 Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organisation which I posted about yesterday, here is my adaptation of the questions applied to your next marketing/corporate communications activity, be this an ad campaign or a new website:

What is the point of this activity? And how does it tie in with our mission?
Who are we speaking to?
What needs/desires/wants of theirs …

Peter Drucker has a book out at the moment entitled The 5 Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organisation.

Here are the five questions:

What is our mission?
Who is our customer?
What does the customer value?
What are our results?
What is our plan?

These apply equally well to you, ie your personal brand.

It may well be worth your while sitting down with a cup of coffee on a quiet morning …

“The future is not something hidden in a corner. The future is something we build in the present.” - Paulo Freire.

So what can you change today? Right now?