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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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Note from Gillian: AI vs OI

It seems today that AI is everywhere, controlling everything, from scripting our news to piloting our drones and standing in for humans in multiple industries from manufacturing to service. Like many ‘new’ technologies we praise today, their origination was decades ago,

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Note from Gillian: The Power of Enthusiasm

Sitting behind a row of 9-year-old boys at the local university basketball game this past week was such a great demonstration of unbridled enthusiasm. Their cheers were pure, simple, unrestricted and focused on each play, chanting loudly for the home team with no self-interest other than to see them win.

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Note from Gillian: 30 Years of Taking Dreams to Mainstream

1992.

A leap year. Designated as the International Space year by the United Nations. It was also the year Christie & Co was incorporated.

The last 30 years have seen truly incredible advancements,

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