Fire Up Your Mojo.....Baby

It can be hard to keep your Mojo firing in today's fast paced multi-tasking and complicated world of business and personal commitments. The Fire Up Your Mojo session has become one of my most popular sessions for the year. It's a chance for you, your friends or your team to sit for a coupe of days and recharge. Based on my best-selling book Who Stole My Mojo? this is your chance to spend some personal time with me and not only plot out the year ahead but also recharge your batteries, refine your thinking, take back your Mojo, put your Fat Bastards to rest and put in place the ideas and plans required to have an outstanding 2012.

WHEN:            Tuesday 31 January + Wednesday 1 February 2012
VENUE:           The Ideas Vault, Building 14, The EQ, Moore Park, Sydney
TIME:              9am to 4pm on Tuesday and 9am to 2pm on Wednesday
COST:             $495 + gst

INCLUDES:       Delicious cafe style Single Origin coffee, morning & afternoon tea, a full healthy lunch, parking, a personal ideas journal, a copy of all 4 of Gary's books as well as a free download of Gary’s exclusive audio book, The Mojo Files.

TO BOOK YOUR PLACE PLEASE CONTACT: [email protected] OR CALL (02) 9356 4280

Contains Healthy Stuff

In the United States over 23 million people live in what they call 'food deserts'. These are low income areas where people have little or no access to healthy or affordable food within walking distance of their home. A brilliant initiative called Stock Box has taken the shipping container and turned them into small, mobile grocery stores where people living in food deserts have access to the healthy staples on a daily basis. Anyone who follow's The Espresso will know that we have been fascinated by what people can do and innovate around the humble shipping container. Universities, housing, retail stores, shopping centres and now a mini health supermarket. Stock Box is currently prototyping in the Delridge district in of Seattle. This is a great initiative that solves many problems and we particularly love it because it involves our favourite steel box.

Annoying Labels

We love our fruit here at The Espresso office but we have to admit we get tired of peeling off those annoying stickers off our apples. Once you have got them what the hell do you do with them? With all the toxins being used to grow the fruit you also have to wash your fruit. However New York designer and electrical engineer Scott Amron has come up with a brilliant idea to solve both problems. Amrons Vanishing Fruit Wash Labels dissolve into a cleansing produce soap when you wash and rub them with water which helps remove the wax, pesticides, dirt and bacteria from the apple while at the same time getting rid of the labels. If you don't want to wash it you can peel it off like a normal label but we have to say this is one person who looked at the apple differently and found a solution to the problem we all thought about but never did anything about.

Market

No doubt you have all left a restaurant that you have loved and probably took a box of matches or a business card with you so that when the need came about again for a good restaurant for you and your friend you could remember the place you have been. How often, months later you can't find the card or remember the name or who you were there with and the restaurant is gone forever. There is now a bookmarking app called Matchbook that helps you remember your favourite place. It uses location information from FourSquare or your iPhones GPS to help you remember bars, clubs, restaurants, cafe's or your favourite book shop. You can tag them and make notes about them. A very clever little app and sure to find a market. No doubt some of the bigger players will adopt this idea and use it for themselves in order to allow people to remember their location better. Naturally you can share locations with a friend via text or instantly send places from your computers web browser to the app.