Branding 6.4

How practice is changing at Wolff Olins

In this film, made in New York in September 2013, you’ll see four of the most experienced Wolff Olins people talking about how their practice has changed in the last 20 years.

They talk about three shifts:

• from a linear method, based on presentations to clients, to something more interactive, based on workshops

• from expressing a client’s strategy to driving its activities, a shift from ‘corporate identity’ to ‘brand’

• from designing communication items to connecting the dots in the client’s whole customer experience.

And at the end, they offer some radical thoughts on the future of brand consultancy. How far would you agree with their analysis?

10 Life Lessons to Excel in Your 30s

1. Start Saving for Retirement Now, Not Later

2. Start Taking Care of Your Health Now, Not Later

3. Don’t Spend Time with People Who Don’t Treat You Well

Choose who we hang out with. Choose what we do. 

“Stay away from miserable people… they will consume you, drain you.” (Gabriella, 43)

As one reader wisely said, “Selfishness and self-interest are two different things. Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind.”

“Don’t settle for mediocre friends, jobs, love, relationships and life.” (Sean, 43)

“Setting healthy boundaries is one of the most loving things you can do for yourself or another person.” (Kristen, 43)

4. Be Good to the People You Care About

5. 

“In a word: focus. You can simply get more done in life if you focus on one thing and do it really well. Focus more.” (Ericson, 49)

6. Don’t Be Afraid of Taking Risks, You Can Still Change

7. You Must Continue to Grow and Develop Yourself

8. Nobody (Still) Knows What They’re Doing, Get Used to It

stop obsessing about what is happening right now because it will change anyway, and get over the control issue about your life’s direction. 

9. Invest in Your Family; It’s Worth It

Children are the most fulfilling, challenging, and exhausting endeavor anyone can ever undertake. Ever.” (Rich, 44)

10. Be better to ourselves. Be kind to yourself, respect yourself

“Be a little selfish and do something for yourself every day, something different once a month and something spectacular every year.” (Nancy, 60)

“When I turned forty my father told me that I’d enjoy my forties because in your twenties you think you know what’s going on, in your thirties you realize you probably don’t, and in your forties you can relax and just accept things. I’m 58 and he was right.”

http://markmanson.net/10-life-lessons-excel-30s

NCC Service 16 February 2014

by @grace_abounding "NCC Service 16 February 2014

Second service - Pastor Prince

Part 1 

Last week, the sermon talked about no condemnation with Christ.  There are people who are for it and some against it. 

The gospel of John talks about Jesus miracle. There is a sign about the woman mentioned - the adulteress nation of Israel. Jesus gave her no condemnation to give her the power to sin no more.

But the church says go and sin no more first, then we forgive you. When you free someone from condemnation, you free them from their sinful lifestyle. When you fall in love with Jesus, you fall out of love with sins. 

When Jesus rescued the woman, he fulfilled the law. Jesus had to bear her condemnation. The sinless have to bear for the sinful. Shepherd feed the sheep and not beat the sheep.

Don't see the sinful as rebellious, see them as sheep without a shepherd.

The only way to stop addiction is to believe Jesus carried our sins and addiction on the cross. 

HABIT - take away the H, A, B... We still have it. The biggest problem is I. Remove I, we will have the cross and only Jesus can remove our undesirable habits." 

by @grace_abounding "NCC Service 16 February 2014

Second service - Pastor Prince

Part 2 

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.” Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?” Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.” Then they took up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple, going through the "midst" of them, and so passed by. (John 8:56-59 NKJV)

The moment we cannot see grace, we will miss the blessings under our nose.

Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her "in the midst", (John 8:3 NKJV)

Take a look at this website:) http://www.traditioninaction.org/religious/h010rp.LadyGrimston_Galitzin.html "Who sin?" is not a question to help the sinful. Why talk of the darkness when light abounds? Why talk about satan who hates you and not JESUS who loves you?

Jesus is what you need, healer when you are sick, provider when you are broke... The needs exist for the manifest of works of God.

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