White

Colour White on white is challenging. Why not have a go? Regardless of your skill level, this is a great learning experience that helps you understand light, shadow and reflection. Avoid overexposing. It’s that little bit of shadow that makes the white show up on the white.

...so I went with the bedroom light on white walls

I love this mask,  I know it doesn't completely fit the criteria. 

The paper lamp in the lounge room and the lounge room wall.

One doesn't realize how grubby the wall is around the curtain pull until one photographs white on white- or perhaps not so white.

Where I stand

This Moment Today look down and show us where you stand. This is a favorite CY365 prompt that we will repeat each month. It is inspired by my dear friend, Holly Clark’s Mug Chronicles project. Today she celebrates her 2,000 day of photographing where she stands! Yes, 2,000 days in a row. It makes 365 days seem easy! Grab a cup of coffee (or your favorite mugged beverage) and let’s celebrate with Holly!



I wanted to not only show where I stand but that it was Friday morning and I was home in my jammies! Happy dance.

SMILE! Amused, Joy, Silly

Have Fun With This
 Pay attention to what makes you smile and capture it today.

This is a really bad selfie but I took at the time of the incident that made me smile. In a kindergarten class/prep grade (I'm not going to call it Foundation!) a little boy walked up to me and said "I like the colour of your hair!" SMILE! Then a bit later from the depths of the hoard of kindergarteners on the rug (rug rats) a very clear loud voice said "Dear God!" Got my smiles for the day and it was only 9am.

Overlooked

Capture Your 365 is all about noticing your world around you. Don’t limit to just the big things - there are so many small details worthy of capturing as well! I love this charm bracelet, but I really love the little heart-shaped clasp as well. It’s not as obvious as the charms, but it is an aspect of it that makes me smile.


What little things do you love that are often overlooked? Find them and then honor them by photographing them!

My little Whipple bird- is not only overlooked but overshadowed- see the shadow- by Fat Boy my first Whipple bird.

Contemplate

Perfect timing for me- dinner at Ellen's Stardust Diner and Bridie was seriously contemplating this huge drink.

One word

The photo is taken from my seat in the plane on the way back to NYC.

Every year I select a word as my "through word". This year it is MIND

verb (used with object)
• to pay attention to.
• to heed or obey (a person, advice, instructions, etc.).
• to apply oneself or attend to: to mind one's own business.
• to look after; take care of; tend: to mind the baby.
• to be careful, cautious, or wary about: Mind what you say.
• to feel concern at; care about.
• to feel disturbed or inconvenienced by; object to (usually used in negative or interrogative constructions): Would you mind handing me that book?

verb (used without object)
• to pay attention.
• to obey.
• to take notice, observe, or understand (used chiefly in the Imperative) : Mind now, I want you home by twelve.
• to be careful or wary.
• to care, feel concern, or object (often used in negative or interrogative constructions): Mind if I go? Don't mind if I do.
• to regard a thing as concerning oneself or as mattering: You mustn't mind about their gossiping.
noun
• (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.:
• the processes of the human mind.
• Psychology. the totality of conscious and unconscious mental processes and activities.
• intellect or understanding, as distinguished from the faculties of feeling and willing; intelligence.
• a particular instance of the intellect or intelligence, as in a person.
• a person considered with reference to intellectual power: the greatest minds of the twentieth century.
• intellectual power or ability.
• reason, sanity, or sound mental condition: to lose one's mind.
Idioms
• bear /keep in mind, to remember: Bear in mind that the newspaper account may be in error.
• blow one's mind, Slang.
• to change one's perceptions, awareness, etc., as through the useof drugs or narcotics.
• to overwhelm a person with intense excitement, pleasure,astonishment, or dismay:
• Cool jazz really blows my mind.
• cross one's mind, to occur suddenly to one:
• A disturbing thought crossed her mind.
• give someone a piece of one's mind, Informal. to rebuke,reprimand, or scold sharply:
• I'll give him a piece of my mind for telling such a lie!
• have a good mind to, to feel tempted or inclined to:
• I have a good mind to leave you here all alone.
• have half a mind to, to be almost decided to; be inclined to.
• know one's own mind, to be firm in one's intentions, opinions, or plans; have assurance:

Plenty to help my stay focused on the moment really.

Big Rocks

A photograph to represent what this new year means.

If your week is seven buckets, and you go into each bucket without planning ahead, and you fill it up with little pebbles and grains of sand and whatever other debris comes your way … soon there will be no room for the Big Rocks. Your buckets fill up faster than you know it, and once your buckets are full, you’re done. You can’t get bigger buckets.

What you can do is put the Big Rocks in first, and fill in the pebbles and sand around them.

The Big Rocks are the major things you want to get done this week. A report, launching a new website, going to the gym, spending time with your spouse and kids, achieving your dreams. These Big Rocks get pushed back from week to week because we never have time to do them — our days fill up too quickly, and before we know it, weeks have passed and the Big Rocks are still sitting on the side, untouched.

Plan your week ahead of time, placing your Big Rocks first.

This is a similar concept to MITs, except on a weekly scale instead of a daily scale. Big Rocks are your MITs for the week.

Here’s how you do it (with the unavoidable list, of course!):

1. Make a list. At the beginning of the week — Sunday evening or Monday morning — write out the Big Rocks that you want to accomplish this week. These should be the important things — if you looked back on the week and said you did them, you would be proud of having done them. Be sure to include not only work stuff, but some of the tasks that will further along your life’s goals and dreams.
2. Keep it short. In the beginning, just have 4-6 … you don’t need to try to do 10 or more Big Rocks, especially not at first. Later, you may get better at judging how many Big Rocks you can do in a week, but for now, shoot for about one per day.
3. Place the Rocks. Look at your weekly schedule. If you don’t have one, write out the days of the week with one-hour blocks (or print out a schedule from an online calendar). Write out pre-existing appointments. Now take your Big Rocks, and put them in the schedule. Try to put them in a spot where you know you’ll get them done. Not a spot that’s traditionally too busy to concentrate, and not in a little half-hour window between meetings. Give yourself time to do it.
4. Leave space for the incoming pebbles. Don’t fill in the rest of the schedule if possible. Every morning, look at your schedule and commit yourself to doing the Big Rock(s) for that day. That’s your MIT for the day. If there are less important MITs, you can put them in the schedule, but don’t put too much. A tight schedule tends to bump into itself, pushing things back when other things inevitably take too long.
5. Do it early. If you can, place your Big Rocks first thing in the morning. Don’t schedule them for later in the day if possible, because by that time, a few fires have come up, and the Big Rock will get pushed back as always. Do it first, and then you’ve got the rest of the day for the busy-work.
6. Be Proud. When your week’s done, look back on it — if you got any (or all!) of the Big Rocks done, be proud of yourself and happy. It feels good!

How does this simple method make you more productive? Well, productivity isn’t about doing a lot of stuff. It’s about getting the important stuff done. But if you’re running around doing all the little stuff … sure, you did a lot and you were very busy, but how much did you really accomplish? Oftentimes we can look back on our week and say, “I didn’t get a lot done, but I sure was stressed doing it!”

This is a way of getting the important stuff done. Sure, you’ll still have to worry about the little stuff. But at the end of the week, you can look back and say that you’ve been productive. It makes a world of difference.

Source: Every Monday is Productivity & Organization Day at Zen Habits.