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7 minutes of clocktime - Creativity World Forum

Today I had 7 minutes of clocktime to speak for more than 1.200 people at the creativity world forum. People were invited to estimate 1 minute of clocktime and the first person was already sitting after 21 seconds ;-) Further I made the 7 minutes a bit more interactive by letting people share their way to get into the present. I got some nice reactions but don't know if everybody got the concept of now.
I presented in the pecha kucha way (20 slides - each 20 seconds) so that was really a big challenge. It was not that easy to stay into the now with this fixed time frame but it was a nice experience.

If there are some CWF-attendees who want to get some more background info about Time to NOW, please drop me a line and I'll send you some more info.

You'll find here some more pictures of the creativity forum.

Creativity World Forum

Very interesting news (at least for me ;-)), I will be one of the quick share presenters of the Creativity World Forum that will be held in Antwerp on November 19 and 20. More than 1.200 people will gather there for some very good speakers like John Cleese, Steve Wozniak, Tom Kelly, Dan Heath, ...
And I will give a pecha kucha (20 seconds - 20 slides) about the combination of my two passions: creativity and Time to NOW. Woehoe!

Going on a holiday in 2012 ...

On my trip back to the airport, I took the bus. It was really a great bus driver Anthony. Did I already mention that the people from Chicago are very friendly and ready to help. This guy told a bit about his past and visits to Europe for a previous job and I enjoyed his open and enthusiastic story. I had never had such a great talk with a bus driver. But one of the things that he told me astonished me, his next big holiday (to a friend in Europe) was probably in 2012 or 2013 because in the US it's normal that you don't take a lot of holiday. Partly due to the legal system but also it doesn't fit in their culture, to take long holidays.

There is even a community - take back your time to tackle this 'problem'. Take back your Time is a major U.S./Canadian initiative to challenge the epidemic of overwork, over-scheduling and time famine that now threatens our health, our families and relationships, our communities and our environment.