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| Appreciating the Business Story |
| Published on: Apr 12, 2010 by Nichola Burton
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| Last updated on: Apr 12, 2010 |
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| Categories: Work, Business & Livelihood
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Very successful, wealthy, high profile advertising guru and, up until this point, extremely fit andhealthy, my client, let’s call him Jack, found himself in an emergency ward at 2am one morning lastweek suffering chest pains. What events took this energetic self made man to this potentially lifethreatening situation?
Back in September 2009, Jack’s small five man agency landed ten major publicity campaignsscheduled for April and May delivery. Jack was busy dealing with normal day to day business andthe contracts were put to one side until January. Jack had been in this business for a decade andcould service these campaigns with his eyes closed. Talented with a natural instinct for marketing,Jack was a creative animal who never bothered...
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| Hello New Decade! Hello 2010! |
| Published on: Jan 23, 2010 by Nichola Burton
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| Last updated on: Jan 23, 2010 |
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| Categories: Self-help, Personal development & Spirituality, Work, Business & Livelihood
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Some perceive that this first decade of the 21st century quite the Hollywood blockbuster. Surviving the Y2K bug, we faced 911, Bali Bombings, Tsunami’s, Wars, Climate Change and a Global Financial Crisis that changed the face of our geopolitical landscape. Others perceive this first decade as a science fiction classic with technology advancing faster than our perception of time.
Think about it. In the stories of the first decade of the 20th century, families sat around the radio together each night to listen to the news of the world, we met our friends at the local Nickelodeon for the Saturday matinee, listened to Scott Joplin on the hand cranked victrola, ordered from a Sears Roebuck catalogue, grew our own vegies, navigated by the s...
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| The Creative Process |
| Published on: Dec 16, 2009 by Nichola Burton
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| Last updated on: Dec 16, 2009 |
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| Categories: Self-help, Personal development & Spirituality
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On my morning walks across the bridge to South Bank I marvel at the changing cityscape of Brisbane. In every direction there are projects in various stages of commencement or completion – almost done, half finished, just started, in need of repair or freshly completed and basking in its new magnificence. I wonder at the years invested in architectural projects such as the highly criticized Kurilpa Bridge where its inception quite possibly began a decade ago. I can imagine the passion, energy, blood, sweat and tears expressed by the creator and shake my head in amazement at the commitment it would take to hold the tension of this project and manage it right through to its completion.
Standing beside the river looking up at the half com...
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| Tis the Season |
| Published on: Dec 14, 2009 by Nichola Burton
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| Last updated on: Dec 14, 2009 |
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| Categories: Poetry, Story telling & Literature
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It’s hard to believe that there are only 12 days until it’s Christmas! For me, the middle of December has always been a magical time – everything looks, sounds, smells and feels different. There is this unspoken expectation hanging in the air that magic is about to happen – a creative tension of childlike wonder and joy – familiar and simply impossible to ignore.
Looking back now from January until December, I see an exquisite and intricate brightly colored quilt sewn and embroidered by the hands of those I have shared 2009 with. Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring have cycled through these months connecting, disconnecting and reconnecting a diverse catalogue of faces, hearts and souls. Standing from this seasonal vantage point, I feel o...
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| Terrestrial Intention |
| Published on: Mar 10, 2009 by Nichola Burton
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| Last updated on: Mar 10, 2009 |
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| Categories: Poetry, Story telling & Literature
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Silent sentinel I stand in a world that holds endless species of light.
I am Surya driving through the heavens.
You look up and imagine that you see a golden orb. This sun is merely your own reflection.
It is your own heart. It is your own light.
The light you seek is within you. The light you seek is within me.
The sky of the old order fell when a bird was knocked from his perch and the deluge destroyed the people of the wood.
The sky of the new world could only be raised by an act of sacrifice.
I was the cosmic sacrifice.
I am earth and air and water.
I am fire – I burn my own wood.
I am Yggdrasil and I am the axis between worlds.
A world clock ticking endlessly: sometimes my breath is ti...
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