About Us
In April 2024, I decided to begin making a community where people can grow together and create a sustainable, optimistic, and encouraged lifestyle. For Norskiwi and its community, lifestyle is our primary focus. Here, we define lifestyle as: How one chooses how they will live, i.e. ‘A style of life!’
The aim is to create long-term habits that help people live positively and to demonstrate to others how to do the same. We are exploring the power of positivity and long-term habits for a better life journey.
In the early stages this will be through inspiring change, fostering growth, and spreading fun, joy, optimism, and encouragement through our newsletters, clothing print designs, and photography on social media platforms. These mediums aim to help you discover a new well within yourself that you can apply and enjoy in your everyday life.
As the company grows, this will grow into new and exciting areas, so watch this space!
The important thing here is that what we share is not something to just try for a period of time, then go back to what you were doing before. It’s a series of long-term habits that will benefit your life, create a positive outlook, and are optimistic that these can act as a preventative for common later-life ailments.
Values
The values at Norskiwi are based on principles we use to serve our community, as well as embody in our everyday lives:
We work in synergy: Working together effectively, as well as self-improvement to learn, grow, and apply different skills that complement and improve other areas of work and life.
We are supportive: We strive to offer genuine and amazing products and services to the community and each other. We aim to create a space where people can talk and help each other grow to live a longer, healthier, and happier lifestyle.
We are optimistic: The ability to acknowledge the reality of a circumstance, accept it, then find the positive things that can be learned from it. Also includes the hopefulness and confidence of a positive outcome for future events.
We are Innovators and Problem Solvers: We actively hunt for new ideas, analyse information critically, and find strategic solutions to help this community grow and become the best version of themselves.
Mission:
Empowering and equipping others through our products and services to inspire purpose, growth, and optimism as a sustainable lifestyle.
The Big Picture:
For Norskiwi, we aim to develop and share effective resources and tools to improve the overall quality-of-life for our community. We use a ‘growth mindset’ where we believe that skills can be learned and improved upon with time and practice. We want to see a growing community of people who want to continuously learn; are equipped with practical, positive lifestyle habits, and have an optimistic, purpose-filled view of life. Join our community of self-improvement by subscribing to the newsletter and engaging with our social media on Instagram, Facebook, and X, where we grow, learn, and promote a positive lifestyle together that fosters resilience and optimism. We want to hear and see how people apply what we deliver, and how it can be more effective. We believe that through this, we will be promoting and creating long-term, positive lifestyle, and you are welcome to be a part of this journey with us!
The ‘Why?’ - Why do all of this?
What I noticed is that there were so many resources that now there is too much information, I knew something had to be done. People are getting so overwhelmed by the amount of choice that they feel stuck and rarely try anything new or out of their comfort zone to improve their lifestyles. The main reason: there is always contradictory information. Alongside this issue, while I can’t pinpoint the origin, there has been some sort of ‘disconnect’ that I am sure many people across varying age groups can relate to: so many feel ‘unequipped’ to deal with life’s challenges and feel as if they have to stumble around until they find something themselves.
So, I decided that this needs to change. Norskiwi is going to be a place that dives head-first into these resources. By using analysis, critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity, and some experimentation; we will gather and sift through the information. We will collect material from: scientific articles, interviews, case studies, and anecdotes; review them, then write it in an easy-to-understand, and applicable format for others that want to improve themselves to be able to use. Some of these will be mindfulness-based tools, such as learning to use gratitude, and how to be more optimistic. Other aspects will include looking into much more hands-on, practical areas such as investing, creating and achieving feasible goals, as well as how to do and consistently use a budget.
Current goals
Create an active community where people are learning to grow their positive lifestyle habits, be heard, and able to bounce stories, and ideas off each other to help others grow. This will mainly be through social media.
Once a specific milestone has been reached, begin a YouTube channel to further grow the community.
Future Endeavours
Find a way to use a private discord server for members to actively discuss the tools used at Norskiwi in real time.
Once the YouTube channel and at least 10 videos have been created, start to invite collaborators and make time to interview them so that we can learn more habits from them as well.