This is a reaction on the blogposting by Marco van Velthuisen on Ecademy by Sibren vd Burgt on 2-Jan-10 9:18pm

Being happy with yourself and having a healthy self-image is the most powerfull tool to help others.

When I thought about this discovery I made an appointment with myself: Focus on things I get energy from (and earn money by it also). Creativity is a keyword for me.

During the journey I read the a dutch book of Marines Knoope, called “De creatiespiraal” and found the key of gaining spiritual energy. The spiral is based on several phases of creation. I discovered that the last part of the spiral was missing in my habits: receiving, appreciating, relaxing.

So I decided to learn to enjoy recieving compliments and doing things to get more compliments. And the funny thing is, it worked. I grew and grew and raised the impact of the effort at the start and realisation of creative proces.

And the most wonderfull thing is: I put all energy back to people in a later stage of starting-up and creating or supporting. This giving-getting system opened my eyes and gives me a “rich feeling” and maybe you can call it a form of happyness.

In this stage I explore even more “energyzing” fields in the direction of Flow. To me it contains many elements of the journey to higher energy and cross-thinking. All this started with learning to enjoy my own successes (small ánd big).

Today I made the first very, very small start with a new website containing this”flow-thing” and hope to evolve it with others by sharing, involving and inspiring… All good things do start with an idea

Groeten / Regards, Sibren

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Source: Business Advice from Thomas Power

Herewith my answer to the nice question of Thomas Power on Ecademy. See the original posting on ecademy.com here. Thomas is the owner of Ecademy and an expert on social media.

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The golden rule wil stay permanent

Likes (0) by Sibren van der Burgt on 20-Nov-09 9:59pm

I think nobody knows, I think that’s why your question is challenging.

When I think about marketing (as a designer), I look at the reason why Marketing is invented and how it evolved.

Here some thoughts and scenario:
Marketing is an opportunity to be more successful in a commercial market. The invention a few decades back gave many jobs to quite some creative people. And that’s a very important point: creativity.

Succesfull entrepreneurs embrace creative thinking: an attitude to explore new possibilities. At first conversation via blogs is innovative and profitable. But you have to be disitctive. Innovative companies (early adaptors) know their uniqueness and will be visible. But the “mainstream” have more difficulties to show there values.

Since the Marketing-environment has much creativity “onboard”, they will reïnvent a new role to serve the general needs: helping with distinction and speeding-up the dialogue.
So the services of marketing will be completely diferent.

I think the current golden rule wil stay permanent: The more clutter and lack of distinction, the more you have to compensate with marketing…

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