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Just back from your vacation?
just return from your vacation? Is your inbox full, and are the meetings allready lined up one after another? Maybe it’s time to kick off the autumn with a new strategy to tackle busyness and …
Inner Peace In Outer Chaos through acceptance and surrender
Over the past year, after saying goodbye to the LEGO Group, I have been trying to figure out how to find inner peace in outer chaos—an issue I struggled with during an active career as …
Your imagination is a superpower – use it to your advantage!
Have you ever experienced that you hoped for the best but expected the worst? And what actually happened was the worst? Maybe you haven’t thought about it, but our subconscious mind is searching and looking …
Conversations to understanding the human experience
When in 2016 I had an experience that forever changed my view of myself and the world around me, I searched for literature and inspiration to understand what I had experienced in a flash of …
This too shall pass
“This too shall pass” For several years I have been interested in where our common customs, cultures and ways of thinking come from. Where our common understanding of what is right and wrong, good and …
The ability to let go
The ability to ‘let go’ can be difficult for most people to master. Very recently, I had to let go of something that was very dear to me. In fact, it felt like letting go …
To master oneself
Mastering oneself in stressful situations. Keeping a calm overview in a personal crisis. To be able to create inner peace despite external chaos. In the world we live in, these three abilities are a prerequisite …
Out of your head and into your body
A workshop on finding inner peace and strength in outer chaos Have you noticed this too? Often, we are our own worst enemy! Often, we convince ourselves that we are no good this and that …
A Podcast with Be My Eyes
A conversation with Will Butler, VP at Be My Eyes, which became a pretty deep conversation about how to adjust to difficult challenges in life. Many of the points are from the book Sentenced to …
Don’t wait for the future to come
“Despite blindness, I want to live a happy life and see its possibilities rather than its limitations.” In 2017, I defined this goal for my life. It started a process that resulted in the book …
How to STOP! SWAP-THOUGHTS through the crisis
I have long wanted to write this blog post, but something has held me back. My own inner voice whispering, “You can’t write about how to deal with change and uncertainty when you don’t handle …
The meditative state
In my book Sentenced to Blindness – Now What? A Journey from Hopelessness Street to Possibility Road I describe how meditation became a state that helped me change my thoughts and perspective on losing my …
A life-changing daily practice
A daily practice for me is meditation. Especially during this time when my everyday life and a time I had imagined should be completely different, suddenly took a 180 degree turn. In my book, I …
This may sound strange….
We must feel happy in order to find joy. We must love before we can be loved. We must feel wealthy before we can find wealth. We must feel strong before we can find strength. …
What I think, I become
In August of 2017, I started my project “Challenge Limitations”. It had dawned on me that I the last 14 years had lived my life in the shadow of an eye disease that slowly robs …
TEDx Odense here I come – When IMAGINATION becomes REALITY
It is over two and a half years since I started my experiment. An experiment that involved examining whether I could teach myself to see possibilities rather than limitations despite an eye disorder that is …
What does gratitude do?
Something I have discovered is that we become what we think. The thoughts we consciously and unconsciously think create emotions that cause us to act accordingly. Repetition of thoughts defines the life we get and …
STOP-SWAP-THOUGHT!
Fuck I hate ……. HEY! STOP-SWAP-THOUGHT To be perfectly honest…. I hate having lost my freedom! BOOM – now it’s out. Slowly losing sight is F__CKED UP! I can no longer move freely as I …
A talk with LEGO CPO and Head of Corporate Affairs, Loren I. Shuster
Listen to my talk with LEGO CPO and Head of Corporate Affairs, Loren I. Shuster in this podcast about Leadin Self. It was a great opportunity for me to meet Loren but also a great …
Do you have the courage to be you?
Do you have the courage to be you? Do you allow space for your creativity or do you hide it away because it causes fear? Many people know me as the blind senior art director, …
BOOK-UPDATE#2
These days I go through my manuscript for the last time before I let go of it, and several thoughts have emerged. Things I didn’t quite see the first three times I worked through the …
How to become a master of your life
Have you ever imagined how your future could be? Have you thought the thought, “if I had just said yes to that opportunity which appeared that time in the past”. Have you had a feeling …
A podcast with You’ve Got 5 Options
Listen to my talk with Anna and Marta from the radio show You’ve Got 5 Options https://episodes.castos.com/youvegot5options/How-to-find-the-essence-of-who-you-really-are-when-you-re-losing-your-sight.mp3
The awareness that knows
It is some time ago since this dawned on me. I guess we humans have to go through life and experience things for ourselves. We then get wiser and wiser, and more aware of the …
Do you say YES or NO to opportunities?
Experiences and impressions hits us all the time, and many of them at times when we are not aware of their importance. When I was introduced to mindfulness for the first time, as part …
Our reality
What a summer! In fact, one of the most beautiful I can remember. The weather has been breathtaking and the summer holiday has offered peace and space for thought. Especially when Mette broke her poor …
I do this every day. You should try
The last year I have done this every day.
Five minutes before the talk…
That was that. Now I’m really at the other side of the four challenges I gave myself in the summer of 2017. A mission that would challenge entrenched limiting beliefs. Last night I gave talk …
When you finally can say “ahhhh”
Three days to go! Then it’s time to give my very personal talk SENTENCED TO BLINDNESS – THEN WHAT? in front of a public audience in Almind Forsamlingshus. It’s not new for me to give …
IBOS interview with Morten Bonde
“Actually it wasn’t my visual impairment that was my challenge. It was really my way of dealing with it”. For many years Morten Bonde was hiding how bad his vision was, as he feared losing …
The inner voice
In my talk “SENTENCED TO BLINDNESS – THEN WHAT?, I speak about our inner critical voice. The inner voice, which often seems to put an end to the ambitions and wishes we have for ourselves …
What I think, I become
In August of 2017, I started my project “Challenge Limitations”. It had dawned on me that I the last 14 years had lived my life in the shadow of an eye disease that slowly robs …