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Note from Gillian: Future Forward

We as a species have resolved to allow ourselves a specified day to review our past, possibly analyze the wins and losses, learn from our challenges, admire our successes, and decide goals for our future. Some take this day to define resolutions for self-improvement or business betterment.

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Note from Gillian: Breakthrough: Changing Challenges to Champions

There are times that life can seem daunting, weaving what seems like insurmountable challenges into one’s daily life. Memories of the good ol’ days, getting lost in a good book or favorite movie or avoiding the ‘news’,

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Note from Gillian: Changing Up

We accept change daily, in a multitude of ways. With the change of the seasons, we see our green garbed silvan woods change to red and yellow; the days shortening and the weather cooling. We stop by our favorite coffee shop and our summer cold brews are now decorated with pumpkin spiced froth.

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Note from Gillian: Where Inspiration Flows

Photo Credit: Gillian Christie 2023

My annual sojourn last week to Walden Pond refreshed my soul, inspired my scripting new poetry, reset priorities, and reconnected me with those who appreciated the simple beauty that abounds in the forest and in the human connection.

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Note from Gillian: We CAN all Get Along

As a brand philosopher, critical decisions must be based on observation, research, analytical and emotional trend analysis, our evolving understanding of the human experience and yes, a dose of futurism.

Humans, as a life form,

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Note from Gillian: Who Owns the Future?

On a recent mountain trail run, where I had the freedom, space, and self-generated motion to ponder life’s mysteries, an observation of the trail ahead offered a clear explanation of the essence of the nebulous concept: What is the future and who owns it?

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Note from Gillian: The Freedom to Connect

There is magic in the freedom to connect. Through this connection stories are shared. Challenges viewed and resolved. Curiosities fulfilled. Deals made. Friendships built.

It’s incredible to see the innovation that continues to enable greater connection transcending distance and time,

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Note from Gillian: The Wonders of Working

I have pondered since the term first surfaced… one’s work/life balance and its implication that these two concepts cannot and do not co-exist harmoniously. The current thrust is that one’s work is merely the revenue necessary to support all activities outside one’s professional activities.

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Note from Gillian: It’s a Fact: We Need Truth

A quick spin through the world of media, infomercials, celebrity endorsements, Wall Street double-talk, scientific ‘discoveries,’ packaging, and even education has the majority of us scratching our cerebral universes striving to decipher fact from fiction.

From the most recent miracle cleanse to weight loss statements for a mis-utilized drug,

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Note from Gillian: From Dream to Mainstream

Like the subject of love, the concept of dreams has been woven throughout literature, music, religion, entertainment, sports and now business, for millennia. From Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, “Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men,” to Eleanor Roosevelt,

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