World's Smallest Bento Box: Lessons in Content Marketing & Mindfulness

Four artists (a watch maker, a chef, a surgeon and a diorama artist) collaborated to create the world's smallest bento that fits inside a wrist watch.

I watched in awe the video on how an entire bento was made to fit inside a watch so that a man can eat his lunch on the go.

This is actually an advertising campaign by Takii, a Japanese agriculture company focused on making high-quality seeds for nutritious fruits and vegetables.

The message is simple. The Takii Phyto Rich vegetables are so packed with nutrients that all you need is can be packed into a wrist watch!

Not only is it innovative, it communicates the message clearly.  It is so interesting that everyone wants to share it and talk about it!  That's how great content is!

Watch the "making of" and the video on the world's smallest bento in a wrist watch:

World's Smallest Bento Watch (Ad & Making of the Ad)

As I look at the Bento Watch, I am reminded of how many amazing elements can fit into a watch and how cleverly each element was selected to fit in.  That is how much we too can cram into our infinite brain.

Take only those elements that give you the nutrients and that's all you need - love, compassion, creativity, courage, etc. Let go of anything else that does not give you nutrition - stress, ego, fear, excessive logic, etc.
If we all had a beautiful mind in a watch, what would we want to put in there?

For your reading pleasure, here's the story as narrated by Johnny Strategy, a blogger on Japanese graphic design and art.
"A watchmaker, a surgeon, a chef and a diorama artist are sitting around together. Each is a master of their trade and together, they’re attempting to create the world’s smallest bento. One that fits inside a wristwatch yet is packed with all the vitamins and nutrients that a busy worker needs to get through the day.

The watchmaker designs the box and chopsticks for the bento. The surgeon slices the meats and vegetables. The chef prepares the food (note the adorable miniature wok at the 47 second mark). Finally, the diorama artist pulls it all together to create the bento watch: the world’s smallest bento.

Making a bento to fit into a wrist watch
Eating a bento from a watch

Time to clean out & let go

Take heart that you are not alone.  2016 February is a clean out month.  Everyone's true nature will be out and it's time to clean out and let go for the new to come.

In astrology, although mercury retrograde ends 25th January 1:50pm.  Its shadow period will last until 14th February.  We will continue to revisit our work, be clear of what we want to be, get organized and connect with key collaborators that support our goals. Jupiter is in retrograde from January until 9th May and its shadow will linger until 8th August. Jupiter signifies a time to hone our skills and connect with ourselves.

In Bazi, we enter the year of the Fire Monkey on 4th February at 17:48.  This is a fire sitting on a metal monkey year where fire will burn and melt the metal.  This creates conflicts so issues will surface but will melt away what does not serve us.  If we have the strength and courage to go through this fire, we will have our break throughs.  This is a time where we have to be like water, to go with the flow, to be gentle, flexible and creative to make a path for ourselves.

This Febuary, the theme is "Letting go".  We are asked to:

• spring clean our lives,
• assess what matters to us (to decide whether to live 3-D three dimensional lives or multi-dimentional beings that we are blessed to be)
• let go of things that do not add to our growth or resonate with our new vibration
• renew trust in ourselves (to connect with ourselves, especially our higher self, connect with our divine lineage, believe in our calling) to exciting new possibilities and opportunities
• hone our skills (learn, equip, focus on developing our gifts and talents)
• renew our attitudes (reflect on ourselves, the good bad and ugly, give vs take, be humble, appreciate, render servce)
• re-define ourselves (our vision, purpose, what we stand for, a new us)

Here are some examples of how people start to show their true nature and we realize we have not seen that side of themselves.

• Someone who felt insecure tried poison the minds of others against you
• Someone bit your hand that fed him
• Friends who showed their true nature in social bantering and self-serving cliques
• Someone whom you looked up to failed
• Someone you teamed up with forgot his commitment to you

This is also a time when we see a mirror reflection or how we react that show up our own ugly sides which we need to clean up. I learn these precious lessons.

• External opinions are just opinions, they should not affect me
• I do not need encouragement, praise and attention to feel good about what I do
• Trust in the divine to guide me to success despite the obstacles and ill-intentions by others

It would be nice to pause and count our blessings. I am grateful to be blessed in many ways:

• A family that is re-united
• Three lovely fur kids that remind me of a lion, bison and goat from my past lives
• Friends who understand and encourage me
• A new spiritual family that is on a similar journey
• Revealing of my divinity, royalty and lineage that is most powerful and sacred
• My continued growth to be my higher divine self
• Opportunity to share and render service to others, that they may be relieved of worldly issues and grow in their journey of self realization

So this is the time of testing, and we must continue our journeys. I resolve to...

• Continue my daily intention and affirmation and mediation
• Persevere to keep doing what I have been asked to do with unconditional love
• Know that everything will be accomplished in time
• Have patience, trust and belief in myself

Here is a good advice from Michelle K, "Financial wealth is created when we know in our hearts and our minds that our in present circumstances our needs and dreams are already fulfilled. When we are able to tap into our deepest resources and become aware of our true power and limitlessness, all that is ours by divine birthright can flow effortlessly to us."