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 Environmental pollution and overexploitation of natural resources are big headlines nowadays. Everybody is aware that we cannot just continue with doing business as usual, which means keeping our economy growing in the way we currently do: Take resources from the biosphere, turn them into products, consume them and throw them away. Scientists agree that we've already crossed the border between economic and uneconomic growth. The biosphere is not any longer able to regenerate and to reproduce what is taken away from it. Uneconomic growth means, that the benefit of the economic growth is less than the natural capital invested in the economy's development. Overall we are going to make a really bad deal by continuing business as usual. But let's be optimistic: Although this trend will not change overnight, at least sustainable economic growth is on the agenda of our politicians.

How about our own personal growth? Is it just mirroring the uneconomic trends outside? How do we treat our physical and mental resources? How many hours do we work overtime a week in order to achieve the next career step? How many night shifts take away necessary recreation time? How many old friendships are cut off from the jungle of our personal relationships in order to move forward? How many needs and desires are going to pollute our mental atmosphere keeping us away from doing what we really want to do? To what extend have our physical organs already been affected by the stress caused by the way we're doing business?

As it is up to the politicians to save the world, so it is up to us to change ourselves. But how to turn our personal growth into sustainable development? First insight: There is no infinite growth. What comes up, must come done. That's the rule of life. First of all, there is no infinitive growth. There is breathing in and breathing out on a daily, weekly, yearly and lifetime level. Clear personal rhythms help us to keep our inner balance. Secondly, life does not equal business. It's much more: it's partnership, family, neighbours, friends, social life, health, spirituality and hobbies. Those are the resources we are living of. Let's do not only cut it away, let's cultivate it in order to generate sustainable personal success! Wouldn't that be a good target for 2008? 

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Same Procedure As Every Year?

For all of you who missed the traditional performance of this great sketch on TV on Sylvester! Take the absurd and finally scary plot as a reminder not just to do everything in the same procedure as last year.