Pixels

ph. by Ti.Mo

visualization-note-to-self.

from 2007!

graffiti ftw!

This was in my inbox today! I cannot stop smiling..

remember to be human

Spotify: The xx – Intro

the power of words

Aimee Mullins:

reading from the thesaurus: ”Disabled,” adjective: “crippled, helpless, useless, wrecked, stalled, maimed, wounded, mangled, lame, mutilated,rundown, worn-out, weakened, impotent, castrated, paralyzed, handicapped, senile, decrepit, laid-up, done-up, done-for, done-in cracked-up, counted-out; see also hurt, useless and weak. Antonyms, healthy, strong, capable.” I was reading this list out loud to a friend and at first was laughing, it was so ludicrous, but I just I’d just gotten past mangled, and my voice broke, and I had to stop and collect myselffrom the emotional shock and impact that the assault from these words unleashed.”

…”Implicit in this phrase of overcoming adversity, is the idea that success, or happiness, is about emerging on the other side of a challenging experience unscathed or unmarked by the experience, as if my successes in life have come about from an ability to sidestep or circumnavigate the presumed pitfalls of a life with prosthetics, or what other people perceive as my disability. But, in fact, we are changed. We are marked, of course, by a challenge, whether physically, emotionally or both. And I am going to suggest that this is a good thing. Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life. And I tend to think of it like my shadow. Sometimes I see a lot of it, sometimes there’s very little, but it’s always with me. And, certainly, I’m not trying to diminish the impact, the weight, of a person’s struggle.

There is adversity and challenge in life, and it’s all very real and relative to every single person, but the question isn’t whether or not you’re going to meet adversity, but how you’re going to meet it. So, our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity, but preparing them to meet it well.”

“Perhaps the existing model of only looking at what is broken in you and how do we fix it, serves to be more disabling to the individual than the pathology itself.

By not treating the wholeness of a person, by not acknowledging their potency, we are creating another ill on top of whatever natural struggle they might have. We are effectively grading someone’s worth to our community. So we need to see through the pathology and into the range of human capability. And, most importantly, there’s a partnership between those perceived deficienciesand our greatest creative ability. So it’s not about devaluing, or negating, these more trying times as something we want to avoid or sweep under the rug, but instead to find those opportunities wrapped in the adversity.”

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-And  it is a simple as that. Replace the belief that you are worth something with the impression that you have nothing to offer anyone, that you are without value to the people you work with or to your friends and you have a very hard time getting back to work. Even if you are clinically healthy. Labeling someone as sick enforces you to some degree to be living the tag.

how do you feel?

1. how do you feel right now?
2. do you have to do what you are doing?
3. do you want to do what you are doing?
4. how much of your attention are you employing?
5. what is the main focus of your attention?
6. how frequently are your attention changing?
7. in the last ten minutes how often have you been talking interacting with the people you’re with?
8. who are you talking interacting with?
9. on average, how do you feel when your talking to people?
10. When did you go to sleep last night? when did you get up in the morning?
11. how well did you sleep?

these are the most common questions I get, the question and the sequence of questions tend to differ based upon what I answer on the previous.

(photos are taken when I first started tracking.)

some results:I am the most happy when I get between 7-9 hours of sleep. -that doesn’t happen to often..

-I don’t mind being interrupted by this even if it does take a little time. I wont comment on  stats given after the survey is done, but other than that this is a great thing. It is even motivating me to rethink the need of doing what I’m doing when I dont really want to or feel less inspired. -leading to (the feeling of) better work flow.

/changing the way I think.

Things to learn

Though aimed at children, this works very well for me.

(Christian Borstlap: simple animated illustrations for Dutch children’s charity, Kinderpostzegels.)

Longevity & Happiness =60% overlap

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4282088n%253fsource=search_video

A longer and healthier life and why the mind and happiness is important.

“Unhappiness can take as much as 7 years of your life. -Thats as much as smoking!”

“Where people live the longest + where people are the happiest: and there is about 60% overlap. -The same things that let people be a healthy aged 90 also let them be so in a happy way.”

# blue zones