Banksy was here!

While I wrote this post in 2012, it still holds true today.

For the last 35 years I’ve been exploring the concept of creative visualization through the teachings of Yoga, Mind Dynamics and Nuro-Linguistic Programming. These schools of thought share a common belief: that you are what you believe yourself to be. And if you aren’t what you want to be – you can get there one dream at a time. Until recently I was more of a skeptic than a believer. Here’s why.

About six years ago one of my career paths came to an end. When I recovered from the initial shock that can accompany a significant loss I asked myself what I’d loved most about my professional journey so far, and what I’d gladly leave behind forever. Within hours of asking the compound question I dreamed a seemingly hopeless, yet elegantly simple answer.

I would like to parachute into a market, solve a client’s problem, and then return home.

Between the moment I had the dream, and believed the dream three years went by. But because it was the right dream, one that resonated with me at the intellectual, emotional and spiritual levels, my subconscious inched me forward towards that dream despite the hurdles I and life put before me.

My father became ill and then passed away. During that time I spent a lot of time supporting him and my mother. After he died my wife and I moved from Toronto to Winnipeg to care for her father who was dying. We stayed there for 1 1/2 years until he too passed  away. A year ago we returned to Toronto to be with my mother (91) and pick up where we left off.

While we were in Winnipeg I started supporting a small agency with a dream similar to mine. Now we help each other. Each day I go to my office in Toronto and do a mental commute to Winnipeg where I spend the day online, on the phone and on my own, solving problems creatively using my many years of agency experience.

While some days are a nightmare – it really is a dream come true.

I invite you to dream your way into a better reality too!

Banksy is here!

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My grandfather fought in WW1 from 1914-1918. Life in Germany after WW1 was never the same. My father fought in WW2 from 1939-1945. Life in Germany after WW2 was never the same. He came to Canada in 1954 (rather than the U.S.) because Canada didn’t draft soldiers - so his four sons would not be pulled into the Vietnam War (1955-1975). In high-school I had two teachers who were “draft- dodgers”. Life in America after that war was never the same. So now we have the Global Covid-19 epidemic. Around the Globe epidemiologists, economists and political leaders all have different perspectives. But all agree life will never be the same. 

Instead of lamenting the past, maybe we should prepare to embrace and explore the future because this is a rare, once in a generation chance to REALLY step back and away from the numbers you typically run your business with and develop a multi-dimensional perspective on a new way forward using your whole team to look at things from a broader perspective to identify what (still) makes sense, what needs work, what has to go and what needs to be replaced. 

We all have a choice: defend the status quo, or explore new paths that are better suited to the post-CV-19 era. 

• How does that affect how you look at the world around you? 
• What kind of products and services are thriving? Which ones are history? 
• How do these trends affect you personally and professionally? 
• How about your current job and your job description? 
• How about the team dynamics: how and where you work with others. 
• How about your company culture and brand values? 
• How about the way you + your Co. can prepare for and embrace the brand-new post CV-19 era? 

You, dear reader, fall into one of these three groups: 

You make things happen, watch what’s happening or wonder what happened. 

Only those in the 1st group - the ones with a bias for action who make things happen, embrace these turbulent times because “where there’s turmoil, there’s also opportunity.”

Enjoy your day + your journey - Frank Wehrmann 

Post Script:

I wrote this article to challenge myself and my readers to act insightfully, rather than react emotionally to the turmoil brought on by the Global Covid Pandemic – after which the world wasn’t the same.

In hindsight I can add three more major global game changing events that will change the way you navigate 2026 and beyond; Chinease and American Large Language Models, the Canadian \ U.S. trade war, the American revolution directed by D. Trump.

Change is the constant.