Sachmanns.dk

Letting out some steam after a long day.
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Had an evening all by myself.

Didn’t really plan for anything (as I forgot). So grabbed my bike – even though it was freezing and took a tour of the city with my camera.

Decided not to bring the tripod, because I didn’t really know how much time I would spend outside. However had fun a couple of hours by the harbour, construction sites and by H.C. Ørstedsværket. What a great place to shoot some photos.

Next time this would make a great trip with Flickr-friends…

Certified
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After having attended Manning Inspire education on life coaching and business coaching I got certified this weekend.

Many months of training by Sofia & Chris Manning and Mie Madsen. Apart from the seminar I attended with Anthony Robbins 1,5 years ago with Preben A. This is one of my best experiences so far – one of these that really sets life into perspective. These people are so cool!

It is always sad leaving all the people you have had so much fun, so much selfdevelopment , etc. with. However we will keep the network of coaches alive.

The tools I have got now are SO powerful and can make a big difference for clients, which I have seen during the education. Now I have to apply these in my daily work and have clients.

Anyone in need of coaching?

Just found an article on Dean Karnazes on Wired.com. WOW!

Many things in there I can really relate to. The article starts out like this:
“Dean Karnazes ran 50 marathons in 50 days. He does 200 miles just for fun. ”

Way to go!!

Still fighting with my running injury. Haven’t had the time to focus on this yet, other more important issues to be resolved have taken up my time.

This guy does ultra-marathons and multimarathons for breakfast and looks to be in excellent shape.

There is especially one quote worth remembering in the article:

“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!! What a ride!”

People might think that this guy is crazy – why is he willing to do so much damage to his body (not that he looks damaged). Thing is however that this is being said while most people are continueing damaging their own body and life with too much (unhealthy) food to themselfes and their families, living a life full of stress and unsatisfaction. A life I often see where the fundamental joy, love, a good health etc. have left their life and we seem to forget the values from which that we would really like to live our lifes.

Steven R. Covey (author of “7 habits”) describes in one of the seven steps, an exercise where you visualize your own burial and you are asked to think about, what people will remember about you and your life. For me, this is a very strong excercise and makes me think about if I am really doing what I want for myself.

Ask the questions:

Are you doing what you want for yourself? Are you happy with your life?

And if not – then remember that only one person can change this! You do have a choice on how you want to live this one life. And you are in charge!!

I have talked to people that really want to change things in their life. But a lot of times they do not even want to look at the consequences, if they changed what they really wanted to change. Looking at the consequences is a good thing that enables you to make a decision and have peace instead of letting things that are undecided destroy your life. It might just be that you are really doing the right thing when you have made up your decision. But don’t waste your life being afraid of consequences you might not even have faced.

I believe!
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Finally I got to meet some of my (until now) virtual friends from Flickr.

Me, Charlotte and Agent Angelo arranged for all of us to meet in Tivoli fully packed with photo gear.

Even though we had a very short time together it was great to meet and play around.

I got this shot of Me, Charlotte & Agent Angelo:

plus another of Voetmann in action:

Great fun!

Even though that these guys do not use real cameras (Canon), it is great to discover how much more is to be learned. I definitely do not master the D200, yet. Far from…..

The fun part was playing around with flash and slow shutter speeds.

Voetmann was the only one carrying a tripod. Next time I’ll have to bring my own.

Let’s play again soon!

What do you think they are talking about?
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Not all interactions and conversation go like you thought they would.

Some get very serious, some sad, some can be very life-changing. But even so – if you look very carefully you will always be able to find something positive in there. Some tiny little thing that will give you the energy to continue and still preserve your hope and belief that only the very best will come to you.

If you practice this in all things you will always be a winner.

Frederikkes new skill as of today….
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We all went to the traffic playground with our bikes this sunday and played around in the safe surroundings.

Learning to ride a bike is one thing. But riding a bike and stretching one arm to the side AT THE SAME TIME. That is almost equal to a very difficult circus act.

Frederikke was very proud of herself when she succeeded doing this.

The team
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Finally we succeeded meeting up with all the marathon runners from North Sea Beach Marathon and HC Andersen Marathon. This was great – hopefully we will be able to get together again soon.

Cafe Pixie offered great live music with the danish artist Jonas, what a great voice!! This was a pleasant surprise for the evening.

Gourmet Club – Thai Cooking
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We listed for the first Oracle gourmet club meeting. The subject of the day was Thai cooking – great fun. Hanne Holm who has written a few books on the subject was leading the battle and put together the menu we should alle work to put together.

I believe we all did pretty well. Everything was very delicious.

Definitely something to try at home.

We learned a lot.

Our Room
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The last couple of days we spend on Falsled Kro. A real treat!

Great food, excellent surroundings and magnificent rooms. So much peace around Falsled. We had only one night and could really have used a couple of days to enjoy all the great things in the area.

But we will have to go back some day…

Enjoying Copenhagen @ Gefion
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This weekend we really needed to relax after a long period with a lot of stress in our daily life.

We cancelled/declined all invitations for the weekend and just enjoyed life together. And we really needed it. Saturday we almost slept all day away – had breakfast/brunch around 3 and had a nice long walk in the city.

Sunday a nice long walk and relaxing/sleeling in the sun at Gefionspringvandet (Gefionfountain). Amazing that you can still enjoy the good weather in Copenhagen – beginning of october.

We will have to (at least try) taking better care of ourselfes and remove the elements creating too much stress in our daily life.