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Corporate Life by gapingvoid

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:45:45 -0400

Corporate Life by gapingvoid

kind over matter: always refuse to be forgotten

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:44:35 -0400

kind over matter: always refuse to be forgotten

It Was Either by gapingvoid

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:05:46 -0400

It Was Either by gapingvoid

by h.koppdelaney

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:21:46 -0400

by h.koppdelaney

Perfect Timing

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:56:45 -0400

Sometimes life has a way of throwing us curve balls. There is a delay in an outcome we are hoping to produce, or the timing doesn’t work out as we planned. We’re not where we think we should be, financially, socially, professionally, creatively, or romantically.

And yet even in this, there is perfection.

In other words, for those of you who think your time has passed, or it’s too late, or there is not enough time, I ask you: How do you know this? How do you know that in this moment, right now, you are not exactly where you are supposed to be?

That things are not working out for you, despite appearances?

I had a teacher who used to pose the question: “If everything is perfect exactly as it is, what is it that you are not seeing?”

In other words, what are you gaining from this situation that is perfect for your unfolding, right now; and how is this preparing you for the thing you desire? We are always afraid our ship is not going to come in, or if it does, it did already and left without us. Our ship may come and go, but there will be another one and another one and another one. And another one.

We are coming into our own in the timing we need. For each of us it will be different, but for each of us, it will also be perfect.

—Sonya Derian, “On Perfect Timing: When Things Aren’t Happening Fast Enough”

Non-Issues

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:53:45 -0400

Fact of the matter is, everything is a non-issue until someone decides otherwise.

via Notes from the Universe

Whining by gapingvoid

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:52:46 -0400

Whining by gapingvoid

What do you see?

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:51:45 -0400

To young souls, there are good folks & bad folks.

To mature souls there are only good folks, though some do bad things.

And old souls, only see themselves.

via Notes from the Universe

via yes and yes

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:50:49 -0400

via yes and yes

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-25)

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:42:14 -0400

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-25):

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Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:11:51 -0400

via Gala Darling & designed by Ben Crick

"Why Creatives Are Always Confused As you stroll the halls of an ad agency you often encounter..."

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:06:44 -0400

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Why Creatives Are Always Confused

As you stroll the halls of an ad agency you often encounter people wearing baseball caps, wandering aimlessly and muttering to themselves.

We call these people “creatives.” They are the ones who make the ads.

They are always confused. Here’s why.

They are pressured by their leaders to do “great” work. But when they do, they usually get reprimanded for not being “on strategy.”

They are encouraged to win awards. But when they do, they are dismissed as childish narcissists.

They are highly paid, but rarely listened to.

They are told that it’s “all about the work” but come to learn that it’s “all about the metrics” or “all about the relationship” or “all about the conversation” or “all about” whatever the cliche-of-the-month is.

When they say advertising is an art, their clients say it’s a business.

When they say it’s a business, their clients say it’s an art.

When they finally get something good produced, it fails.

When they produce mundane crap, it works.

When their friends like it, their clients hate it.

When their clients like it, their friends hate it.

They are encouraged to be collaborative. But the more people touch their work, the worse it gets.

They are counseled against becoming prima donnas. But they see that the people who get good jobs are often disagreeable monsters.

If they weren’t confused they’d be crazy.

”

- By and from adcontrarian. (via wordarific) (via 3rdmartini)

10 Reasons to Stop Apologizing for Your Online Life

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:04:48 -0400

It’s time to start living in 21st century reality: a reality that is both on- and offline. Acknowledge online life as real, and the Internet’s transformative potential opens up:

When you commit to being your real self online, you discover parts of yourself you never dared to share offline.

When you visualize the real person you’re about to e-mail or tweet, you bring human qualities of attention and empathy to your online communications.

When you take the idea of online presence literally, you can experience your online disembodiment as a journey into your mind rather than out of your body.

When you treat your Facebook connections as real friends instead of “friends”, you stop worrying about how many you have and focus on how well you treat them.

When you take your Flickr photos, YouTube videos and blog posts seriously as real art, you reclaim creative expression as your birthright.

When you focus on creating real meaning with your time online, your online footprint makes a deeper impression.

When you treat your online attention as a real resource, you invest your attention in the sites that reflect your values, helping those sites grow.

When you spend your online time on what really matters to you, you experience your time online as an authentic reflection of your values.

When you embrace online conversations as real, you imbue them with the power to change how you and others think and feel.

When you talk honestly about the real joys and frustrations of the Internet, you can stop apologizing for your life online.

—Alexandra Samuel, 10 Reasons To Stop Apologizing For Your Online Life

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Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:18:42 -0400

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mikuchu:

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Sun, 18 Jul 2010 02:17:44 -0400

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Alone in Paris

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:17:42 -0400

There is art everywhere in Paris; on the Metro, tired looking old men play haunting melodies on their accordions, lovers make out on park benches and there’s a monument to beauty every time you turn a corner. Wandering around Montmartre, which is certainly as confusing an area as London Bridge, wasn’t frightening or overwhelming because I didn’t really have anywhere to be; you can’t get lost when you don’t have a destination. Getting completely turned around and then finding my way out again was one of the experiences I loved and I found that the men and women who ran the local fresh fruit and vegetable stands that are so common in Montmartre were always willing to point me in the right direction – usually while gently correcting my shoddy French. Meals alone taken while listening to the animated prattle of French speakers at nearby tables while I dipped in and out of a book were some of my favorite moments, along with the rain that seemed to pour down every night muffling the sound of the church bells from nearby Sacre Coeur.

For me, the key to falling in love with Paris and consequently with travel, was that on my first visit I was alone. It was just me and the city. I am always surprised when I hear people say they hate Paris but I suspect their experience is so negative because they go with an agenda. Groups of people pile into Paris with itineraries – endless lists of things they must do and see within a tight schedule. It’s like a scavenger hunt for culture. And as anyone who has ever been lonely and single knows, the harder you look for connection and the more desperate you are to find something special, the more it tends to allude you. And so in their rush to see ‘everything’, they see nothing and they leave Paris wondering what all the fuss is about.

—Amy Thibodeau, Solo Travel: How Traveling to Paris Alone Changed My Life

Lovely article… makes me dreamy about traveling in Europe, solo, by train…

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Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:14:43 -0400

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7 principles for dealing with haters

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:18:42 -0400

1. It doesn’t matter how many people don’t get it. What matters is how many people do.

2. 10% of people will find a way to take anything personally. Expect it.

3. “Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.” — Colin Powell

4. “If you are really effective at what you do, 95% of the things said about you will be negative.” —Scott Boras

5. “If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.” —Epictetus

6. “Living well is the best revenge.” —George Herbert

7. Keep calm and carry on.

—Tim Ferriss, 7 Great Principles for Dealing with Haters (worth reading the whole article)

I would add as an offshot to #6: “May you always be happy… and your enemies know it.” That’s a favorite quote of mine!

On Not Believing in Hard Work

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:16:42 -0400

I don’t believe in hard work.

*Gasp!* How anti-American! How sexy, how beatnik, how totally rebellious. But I don’t mean it in a rebellious sort of way. In fact, I do believe in a lot of other things. I believe in attention, I believe in focus, I believe in fascination, and cultivated awareness and consciousness and presence. I believe in flow. But here is what I do not believe in: I do not believe in self-flagellation, or noses to grindstones. Poor noses! I do not believe in making yourself do something against your own will. What is that, anyway? It undermines your self-esteem and makes you feel powerless. Worse, I think that we have developed this idea in our collective psyche that “moar werk = bettar”. All that stuff out there, all that stuff we want, if we deserved it we would already have it, so maybe if we work really really hard, we’ll deserve it. Guess what — doing something that you don’t want to do is a lot of freakin’ work! And then amazingly, we find that foom, our lives are a whole lot work and struggle. It’s difficult to admit it, but we totally asked for it.

—Princess Butterfly, Work Schmirk

Far Off Rain by Walter Hawn

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:10:42 -0400

Far Off Rain by Walter Hawn