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This summer the famous norwegian author lars Bertrand Larsen is launching his book hell week in the us. Erik Bertrand Larsen is a former “marinejeger” who went through a thuff marine time in the Norwegian army, and there is one scentence from his officer that he remembers the best “You are capable of so much more than you think! He realized that you can train your mind and that you can be capable of doing anything! After his military training he became a mental coach, helping people reach their highest goals, or even help find meaning in some peoples lived      

Dreams is important for us as people, and by dreaming in this case I don’t talk about dreaming at night in your sleep but the dreams you pursue, a dream of what you wanna do and a wish, maybe a goal that you want to reach. Following our dreams is something that is important for all of us. Your dream is typically your passion, and I wish everybody had a dream or a vision that makes you jump out of bed in the morning thinking, “This is my purpose!”  (((Rephrase))) We all need dreams in order to achieve and reach our highest vision. There is one story that Larsen often tells in his seminares. Bertrand had a different kind of superhero when he was a little boy, he didn’t care too much about superman, batman or any other hero, his biggest hero was his grandfather; he was kind and a goodhearted man who always encouraged Bertrand. Bertrand always looked up to his grandfather, but one day he started thinking about the stories from his grandfather and he questioned if he really was happy with his life. Bertrand encourages us to make sure that one day when we are laying on our deathbeds, we should be happy and proud of our stories. That’s why it is so important to live the life you want to. There is no way we were put on this planet to just work 9-5 in a job that we hate, counting down the hours to when your workday is over. You should get up in the morning with a smile on your face. -Whether its about being the best version of your self, being a kick-ass teacher or to become a millionaire - goals are important to us. They give life meaning and when you have a goal it's easier to make and find the path you want to walk in life. We are often asked what's the meaning of life; I think that the meaning with life is to be happy, not kinda, sorta' happy, but really, truly happy. I don't think we were put on this planet to just work 9-5 in a job that we hate, counting down the hours to when your workday is over. You should get up in the morning with a smile on your face. At least that is what I think.         

Through Erik Bertrand Larsens books, tv shows and seminars he is teaching people how you can achieve your dream and how to pursue your dreams.

One of Bertrands own dreams was to launch his book in the US, this summer he will launch his book “Helvetesuka” AKA “Hellweek” in New York, a big step from small Norway to us – all because he followed his dreams and didn’t give up. Self helping books is one of the toughest genras to reach through, it is the most competition in this genra, but as we now know: Bertrand is not one to back down.  He was 19 years old and he was about to go with special soldats, “fallskjermjegere”  (marine special soldat) for his survivalcourse in the military. “what did you feel like when going into the training, were you ready?” I’m wondering. He tells me “I was asking my self if I had taken water over my head, all the other contestants seemed so robust. I was scarred, really.” He futher on tells me how he was totally out of his own comfortsone, doubting himself. But there is one sentence from his officer that he remembers the best “You are capable of so much more than you think!

 It is no secret that there has been plenty of so called successadvisors, entrepreneurial minds that takes money for their courses and so on. §§§§ How to stand out, how to get your readers hooked and tie it up to our readings§§§§§§§§§ (((Rephrase))) Martin Luther King once said, Let us not wallow in the  valley of despair (Martin Luther King Speech) §§§§

"If you  have a dream today pursue it with all the strength you have, for your dreams hold the future of tomorrow. Bertrand is of the perception that having dreams are important for all people. They give us a sense of hope and motivation to achieve after something that we feel

would be impossible. §§§§Life achievements that it is important to explore them. Dreams keep us motivated and help us have a feeling of

accomplishment. By following our dreams, we can

not only help ourselves, but many others." §§§§ Example§§§§ Winston churchill§§§ Artifacts, web page, book§§§§

§§§§Dreams are the way to the future §§§§

Reflection paper draft

Reflection paper draft

In academic writing I have learned many new things. It can be from the smallest things like the oxford comma, (which we don’t have in Norway,) to using rhetoric. I realize that the grammar rules is not the same as in Norway, and some things we would see as wrong in our writing-language is right here. Which surprises me because the languages are actually very much alike. I learned how we could find genres in writing too, we looked at many cool videos and decided movie genres, music genres, and in the end I realized that it is just the same thing when it comes to writing. There are some pattern or a recipe when making different types of writing. I think the professional E-mail was really helpful, because when your are making a professional email it should be precise and short, and that can be a challenge.

Shitty first draft

Shitty first draft

So I actually had to reschedule my interview – again – because he didn’t have time after all this last week, but I will have  a new interview again next week and in the meantime I have contacted an author who is from Norway . – so lets see what I end up with. The good thing is that whoever I end up interviewing, they are both working  with the exact same thing, - business development and coaching. 

My final paper is going to be about not only dreaming your dreams, but actually living them and how to reach your goals in life. What makes a business or a person successful

FINAL PAPERRRRR

Making an online portfolio

Brainstorm:

Following and shaping your dreams

How to stop dreaming your life but living it like you imagined

How to put an idea into real life

Taking the leap isn’t as scary as you might think

Tell about his story, from childhood, how he started his company, but not too much about him as a person, rather write about how to make success and what makes you success full, what are the key elements. What separates a winner from a looser? Is persistency and no quitting the answer?

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Why should you follow your dreams? 

Because they make life worth living. Whether its about being the best version of your self, being a kick-ass teacher or to become a millionaire - goals are important to us. They give life meaning and when you have a goal it's easier to make and find the path you want to walk in life. We are often asked what's the meaning of life; I think that the meaning with life is to be happy, not kinda, sorta' happy, but really, truly happy. I don't think we were put on this planet to just work 9-5 in a job that we hate, counting down the hours to when your workday is over. You should get up in the morning with a smile on your face. At least that is what I think.

And that is what Berteig Larsen is doing in his life. Early on in his life he knew that life was all about being happy with what you do. He didn't realise this before he started in the military, where he went trough "hell week" in Norway and wrote a book about it.

So what? Who Cares?"

This weeks reading was "So What? Who Cares?" - In the text the author tells us how we can catch our readers attention and basically how to make the reader feel what you write. 

It is about keeping your audience and how to make them not loose interest. - Which I think can be easy to do - (loose interest) Often when I'm reading long text I'm thinking "why did they even put this is the text?" or "what's the point?"  I dont like reading if I'm thinking that they really just filled in a lot of stuff that didn't really have to be there. 

I loved this weeks reading! It made me recognize that it is really important to care a little bit extra about what we read - after all, we want people to understand what we write so we should put some more effort in it. I want to be clear in my writing, and I also want to make it exciting and interesting for my readers. One way to do it can be to tie it up to real-life examples. It makes it easier for the reader to realate to. 

So what? Who Cares? Was really an important text to me!

Questions for my interview

Questions for my interview

1. Why are you so passionate about making other people succeed?

2. When did you start up your own business for the very first time?

3. What does your parents do for a living?

4. Did they support you in your career-decision?

5. What is the most important information you need from a company when helping them?

6. How many businesses do you have the capacity to help in the same time?

7. What is your biggest accomplishment 'til now?

8. What is your biggest vision?

9. -Highest dream?

10. -Biggest goal?

11. What makes a business successful?

12. What is the best advice you can give someone who just started up on their own?

Artifacts

I sent an email to a company in LA, and they asked me to visit them with their team at their office in downtown LA. I don't know -yet- if I can go there, but I will ask them questions via e-mail. The company is working on building up businesses and they are helping entrepreneurs. Before I go there I want to find good questions, and therefor I have to do some research before meeting with them. When building up a business there are many artifacts that we don't necessarily think about.  Building up a business is about marketing, networking and selling an idea to for example investors, there are so many things that comes with it. They also have to write strict contracts and work with legal issues as well.  

When their company is being hired in, it is most likely for a job as a consultant for a business-startup. They coach people in the business about networketing and marketing. When they collect data from the different companies they can make a marketing plan and for example tell how a business can have a increase of 10% over the next 6 months and how to do it step by step.

Business consultant can help in many ways and some of it is online, which is perfect for someone who lives far away and want help from the very best. This can be for all kinds of businesses, fashion, stock marketing, industrial, and so on. The businesses who gives out their information and datas regarding their company needs to feel safe and the coaching company write confidential contracts with their costumers.

When looking at artefacts we have to look at the culture. The questions I want to find more about is these: 

- What are their typical way of working (their culture)?

- How does the treatment of the informations and their technology change in the way the culture operate? For example how they can work from far away using the internet and coaching from there.

- What objects are frequently used for coaching and marketing?

Some of the artifacts I can look at are their Facebook page, their instagram account, their community group on FB and how they actually do the online coaching. Other artifacts are written analyses like marketing plans and contracts between the companies.

What I think is that when you work with business development there is much more to it than just coaching and "video-chatting" online. I think there is a lot of writing and analyzing making sure that they help out the businesses as good as they can.

When writing an e-mail

Hey all writ310'ers!

So this weeks assignment was about writing e-mails and how formal you should be. I think it was interesting to see how different texts can be and how different the "feeling" in an e-mail can be. When you send a mail to a professor it should be formal and there are many ways of making it look professional. You have to think about the length of the text, if what you are writing is informative and necessary to put in the text. I know that I sometimes write my emails too short and I will definitely start working on being more proffesional in my e-mails to my teachers!

Hope you are ready for a new week!
/ Athina