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We came across this excellent “docusoap” that takes Quantum Physics into our everyday lives and makes a pretty convincing case that we create our own reality. Enjoy >:)

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Which leaves no balance at the end of the day. So either use it up or loose it. Go see it for yourself

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An excellent post by Zenhabits. Have a look >:)

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The guys & girls over at trendwatching.com are doing an excellent job at distilling major trends from consumer behavior. For 2008 they have identified eight major trends:

1. Status Spheres.  A variety of lifestyles, activities and persuasions, which can be mixed and matched by consumers looking for recognition from various crowds and scenes.
2. Premiumization. According to trendwatching.com 2008 will be about the premiumization of everything and anything. In other words, no industry, no sector, no product will escape a premium version in the next 12 months.
3.  Snack Culture. This embodies the phenomenon of products, services and experiences becoming more temporary an transient; products that are being deconstructed in easier to digest, easier to afford bits, making it possible to collect even more experiences, as often as possible, in an even shorter timframe.
4. Online Oxygen. The idea that consumers need online access as much as they need oxygen.
5. Eco-Iconic. Over the past few years, the ECO trend has moved from Eco-Ugly (ugly, over-priced, low performance alternatives to shiny ‘traditional sphere’ products and services) to Eco-Chic (eco-friendly stuff that actually looks as nice and cool as the less responsible version) to Eco-Iconic in 2008: “Eco-friendly goods and services sporting bold, iconic design and markers, that help their eco-conscious owners to visibly tout their eco-credentials to peers”.
6. Brand Buttlers. Instead of stalking potential and existing customers (which is not very 2008), why not assist them in smart, relevant ways, making the most of your products and whatever it is your brand stands for? Remember, giving is the new taking.
7. Make It Yourself. With (in particular younger) consumers having come to expect to be able to create anything they want as long as it is digital, and to customize and personalize many physical goods, the next frontier will be digitally designing products from scratch, then having them turned into real physical goods as well.
8. Crowd Mining.  When co-creating, co-funding, co-buying, co-designing, co-managing *anything* with ‘crowds’, the emphasis in 2008 will move from just getting the masses in, to mining those crowds for the rough and polished diamonds. How to do that? Shower them with love, respect and heaps of money, of course.

The report over at trendwatching.com has excellent examples which illustrate these main trends. Have a look at them and be inspired >:)

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“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters” -Seneca

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….we all are geniuses. Over here at The New Inspirer we believe in being optimistic about the future and being a source of inspiration to ourselves and others. Optimism about the future leads us to being investors in the future. And what better place to invest in the future than the stock market.

It will come as no surprise that stock markets around the globe are currently under severe pressure. European indices shed more than 5% in Europe alone today and sentiment can be characterized as pretty lousy. It is generally under these circumstances that it’s good to remember why these markets are here in the first place. Markets are here to match ideas with resources (be it in the form of labor or capital).  When some of these wonderful ideas are on offer at a sharp discount, it’s time to go shopping!

We are putting some of our money to work in those businesses that we think are worth our while and in which we have faith that they’ll be able to provide value to the world going forward. And hopefully reap a handsome return on our money in the mean time >:)

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