mydeco counter-cyclical start-up

“It's time to wipe your feet and come on in ... mydeco the place that makes it easier and much more fun to make your home more you.”

mydeco brings together the widest possible range of products from high street stores to niche retailers, thousands of inspiring looks to fit your budget, expert designers on hand for advice, and simple 3D tools to help you plan your room before you even open a tin of paint.

mydeco
{it's leaping, vaulting, nothing's impossible ambition}
mydeco
{it's exceptional, professional and passionately progressive}
mydeco
{it's collaborative, responsive and totally committed}

Thinking behind the idea ...

Counter-cyclical start-up theory:

“When the big players retrench, the opportunities to innovate increase. Going against the grain is where entrepreneurs win.”

mydeco founder Brent Hoberman (of Lastminute.com) is Executive Chairman of mydeco, non-executive Chairman of WAYN (a travel and leisure social network with over 9 million members), a non-executive board director of Guardian Media Group and also acts as Governor of University of the Arts College, London. mydeco employs 35 people based in Victoria, London.

"We’ve got a passionate and talented founding team on board, with experience ranging from Community-building and 3D Design to Interior Designers and Architects."

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Only Those Who Do It Can Teach You How

Ricardo Bellino the Brazilian Entrepreneur has a new book out.

“You Have 3 Mintutes ... Is it really possible to learn something from a book like this ...”

Extracts from Richard Bellino ... These are professionals whose examples inspire me and continue to inspire me. Being able to live with these mentors has provided me with an invaluable learning experience. With them I was able to learn what is not taught in school; practical lessons in life and work that showed me how to overcome obstacles and succeed. Donald Trump was one of those people. When I looked him up to sell him my idea about building a real estate venture in Brazil, I was given a true lesson in how to negotiate. This lesson, incidentally, was motivation I put to good use when I wrote a book called You Have 3 Minutes! Learn the Secrets of the Pitch from Trump's Original Apprentice. When Trump speaks about things like thinking big or being passionate about what you do, skeptics rush to accuse him of creating a list of obvious ideas. The fact of the matter is, there is no secret and bombastic ingredient capable of making someone an instant success. From this perspective, the greatest revelation in Trump’s book is to show that the ingredients for success are always the same: determination, passion, enthusiasm, effort, and hard work. How to manipulate them and use them in your favor, with utmost efficiency, is what really makes the difference. And that is something only those who do it can teach.

Source: Trump University, read full article

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Brainstorming Step 2

Give yourselves a time limit. Around 25 minutes, but experience will show how much time is required. Larger groups may need more time to get everyone's ideas out. Alternatively, give yourself an idea limit.

“At minimum, push for 50 ideas. But 100 ideas is even better ...”

Once the brainstorming starts, participants shout out solutions to the problem while the facilitator writes them down – usually on a white board or flip-chart for all to see. There must be absolutely no criticizing of ideas. No matter how daft, how impossible or how silly an idea is, it must be written down. Laughing is to be encouraged. Criticism is not.

Once your time is up, select the five ideas which you like best. Make sure everyone involved in the brainstorming session is in agreement.

Write down about five criteria for judging which ideas best solve your problem. Criteria should start with the word "should", for example, "it should be cost effective", "it should be legal", "it should be possible to finish before July 15", etc

Give each idea a score of 0 to 5 points depending on how well it meets each criterion. Once all of the ideas have been scored for each criterion, add up the scores.

The idea with the highest score will best solve your problem. But you should keep a record of all of your best ideas and their scores in case your best idea turns out not to be workable.

Brainstorming Step 1-6

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Kleenex lets it out

Kleenex has refreshed it image, its goodbye to stiff upper lip and yes to emotionally connecting with customers ... When was the last time you laughed so hard you cried ...

Music: 'Let it Out' by Starrfadu on Myspace

http://www.kleenex.com/Home.aspx

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Brainstorming Step 1

State your challenge correctly. In order to get the right ideas, you need to ensure that you are giving the brainstorm session participants the right challenge.

“Otherwise you could end up with a lot of ideas which do not actually solve your problem.”

Define your problem or issue as a creative challenge. Creative challenges typically start with: "In what ways might we...?" or "How could we...?" Your creative challenge should be concise, to the point and exclude any information other than the challenge itself. For example: "In what ways might we improve product X?" or "How could we encourage more ... ?"

Do's and Dont's

1. Avoid squelching or criticism someone elses idea


2. Encourage mixed participants to get combined creativity


3. Be an enthusiastic facilitator


4. Have a well stated challenge


5. Choose good environment free from disturbances

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Motivation Life Plan

Motivation Life Plan - Your memory tells you how great you feel, and that motivates you more. Everything is at our fingertips in our life, but do you want to stay in your comfort zone and put up with your lot, or are you ready to get up and get out and enjoy your one life. Do you watch TV more than picking up a book and reading. As you get into a pattern and a system, your plan goes by the wayside ...
If you can put so much effort into planning a wedding like if your life depends on it, then your life plan is no different, be committed to yourself.
First 30 minutes and last 30 minutes of the our day our minds is most susceptible. One of the best things to do when you fall asleep is dreaming, thinking about our goals. It really crucial that we do positive things to keep the momentum flowing. Uber Coach best advice is - to have an elastic band and get into the habit of not tolerating negative thinking by pulling it, that way you get to associate negative thinking with pain.

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What are you in business for?

Are you clear about what you are in business for. Is it about profit, to create opportunities, deliver value! If you were to face the person next to you, eye-ball-to-eye start describing what your business product is and the type of services you provide in 2 minutes, then ask that person what they learned about you.

If you work at inspiring others to seek their full potential. Let someone you meet today inspire you.

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Inspiration in colour

Each and every one of us have days when you we can't wait to get out of bed, firing on all cylinders making our way to work, and then there are other days when you it raining, windy and you just wished yesterday was today ... hold that thought for one moment, so you're wet and the wind has given you a new hairstyle, in any case if each day was the same, how bored you would be. When you get home, kick off your shoes and just before you reach for the TV remote control go online and soak up some inspiration with Blaine Franger awesome photography, and say to yourself today was worthwhile, tomorrow another day.

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100 Ways to Succeed #82:

Tom Peters writes ...

Of Service!
Ask. Daily.

"What did I specifically do to be of service to my group? Was I fair & truly a 'servant'?"
Think on this (exactly!) for 5-10 minutes before you go to work.

As I reflect on the past 3, 6, 12 months, can I answer the following in a positive manner?* (*Be specific!) That is:
1. Do those served grow as persons?
2. Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants?

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Janet Love - Spiritual Awakening

At a time when women of a similar age were settling into wealth and comfort, Janet Love gave it up to struggle as a student and pursue her dream of a career change

“I remember the moment I made my decision,” Janet Love says, her finger tapping the edge of her ever-present cup of steaming green tea.

“It was shortly after my divorce, and I’d just had lunch in Harrogate with my sister-in-law. I told her that I was thinking of moving to London to retrain as a spiritual psychotherapist. Well, she looked at me, her eyes narrowed, and she said: 'Don’t be ridiculous. You’re far too old'."

Love’s passion for psychotherapy had been percolating for a decade, since she read The Road Less Travelled [Scott Peck’s seminal work on love and spiritual evolution] ­and this is the moment it boiled over. She moved to London that September and by January she’d started her course.

Love’s sister-in-law wasn’t the only one who thought her decision was bordering on the bonkers. As a well-established interior designer to the northern moneyed, she was leaving behind financial security (and a covetable ab-fab lifestyle) for the uncertainty (and probable long haul), of life as a student in the capital city.

“Now, after eight years of training, I won’t say it was easy,” Janet continues, “Financially it was really tough. I don’t think you can be prepared for doing without at a stage in life when you had hoped to feel secure. In a sense I “stepped off the ride” in life, and it cost me friends. There were people who didn’t get what I’d done.”

Now 58, Janet is well-known in London as an exponent of spiritual psychotherapy, spearheading the breakthrough fields of autogenic therapy (a drug-free method of tackling anxiety and stress) and family constellation therapy (which works on the controversial proposition that aftershocks of trauma are passed down through generations).

During her years of retraining, Janet’s son was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and the process of caring for him whilst developing her career as a spiritual psychotherapist has informed two further projects.

The first is a book, Does Someone You Love Have Psychosis? and a charity, Loving Someone in Psychosis, the first of its kind dedicated to family members of those diagnosed with psychosis.

“In a way, I also have my choice of study to thank for having made it through the past few years,” Janet says. “As part of the training to become a psychotherapist, you’re in therapy yourself ­ looking at everything in a new way, and your reaction to challenges in life.

“I began to understand, too, why being 50 had brought me to this place: with a yearning to focus on the internal, rather than the external. As young women, we’re all focused on external values: getting married, having friends, getting the house and a car, having children.

"But, after 45, our values begin to turn inwards, to move towards self-examination and questioning. I was very much, without knowing it at first, tuned in to Jung’s course of psychological maturation.”

As popular thought would paint it Love’s generation lived what Jung calls the external life, with unprecedented panache. The postwar baby-boomers tasted sexual liberation and smudged Mary Quant pan stick as teens, and rode on a wave of dirty cash as Thatcher’s 30-somethings in the Eighties.

“I won’t deny that I delighted in all that ­ getting excitable about new dresses and beautiful things,” says Janet. “But were we a “wild” generation of women? I’m not so sure. It was more about snogging someone at the bottom of the drive in an old VB, which is hardly liberation. As young women we were more repressed and prideful ­and we couldn’t be straight with each other, or let it be known that we were nervous about anything.”

But, as Janet puts it, there’s always time to embrace the life unlived. “It’s not just the middle age of women of my generation that turns their gaze inwards," says Love, "It’s also the shock of the modern world. We’re bombarded with white noise, ­ too much choice, too many options. 'Do I go on a short weekend in Berlin, or do I go to Bombay?'.

“It’s debilitating, and I really feel for women in their twenties now. What do you do when you can do it all? I think we’ll see much more of a trend towards rejecting all of this, and looking inwards for answers.”

Love’s advice for other women thinking of a lock-stock life change in their fifties is to go for it. She says: "It will be difficult, but there’s nothing different in doing it in your fifties than your twenties. Being judged externally means very little, and inside we’re fundamentally the same women we were at age 20. That’s the little secret we keep from the world, isn’t it?”

Does Someone You Love Have Psychosis? will be published by Karnac Books in 2008 (karnacbooks.com). For information on the new charity Loving Someone In Psychosis, visit www.lsip.org.uk.

Story extracted from Times Newspaper

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Motivational Quotes

Always make your future bigger than your past ...
Dan Sullivan & Catherine Nomura

Write & Review your Goals, good intentions is not enough ...
UberCoach

Do the things you never got around to doing, Do what you Love ...
Anonymous

There is a combination lock to success, only most people don't know how to unlock it, alot of people have clear intentions, but not many goals ...
Jack Canfield . 64 Principles of Success

Secret of Sucess is not Knowledge but the application of Knowledge ...
W. Clement Stone - Success System That Never Fails

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Martin Luther King, Jr., American Civil Rights Leader

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared
Buddha

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin, Author


Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot, Poet

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.
Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Author and Lyricist

We are Divine enough to ask, and we are important enough to receive.
Dr. Wayne Dyer, Author and Speaker

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
Robert Pirsig

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