a clever mix
Originally uploaded by st_photos

Thought to ponder for the day:
When you say, “I don’t have time”, you are really saying, “I don’t want to do it right now”.
Besides the obviousness of it all, the subtle difference is that racing around complaining “I don’t have enough time” means that someone or something else is dictating [...]

california
Originally uploaded by celine nadeau

Talking with my dad yesterday, after our Sunday morning yoga class, I started thinking about the other paradigm that needs significant shifting in our emerging economy: government and participation.
Perhaps Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat is getting under my fingernails (I’m on CD #8 out of 22) but the more [...]

How do we love all children of all species for all time?
This was on of the early slides in William McDonough’s talk, author of Cradle to Cradle, at UC Santa Barbara last evening. (Yes, I got to go!) While it was a very similar talk to the one I heard (and posted on in April) [...]

double eye
Originally uploaded by st_photos

Large bodies of water make this Scorpio happy. After living by the Pacific Ocean for years and years, you’d think I’d have all kinds of photos. Not the case. Maybe because I wasn’t all macro-styled out like now with the Nikon 5700.
Since so many of my images now are super [...]

Yogurt freak
Originally uploaded by Dan4th

I presented the suite of office org strategies to the Santa Barbara Association of Realtors today: Zapping, Organizing by Zones and Frontloading… with some systems creation thrown in for a full overview.
We started out with the life cycle of a container of yogurt guided skit. Brilliant little metaphor that. It [...]

Happy Happy Cookie
Originally uploaded by CarbonNYC

Asking for help can seem to go against the grain. Our little egos (all right, call it like it is and use the proper pronoun!) MY little ego says, “You can do that! Look how far you’ve already come on your own!” The frugal part of me says, “You’re going [...]

This article was originally published in The Simplifier #4.1.
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Making the Most of Your Week with Planning & Review
by Shawn Tuttle
"I’ve watched enough Discovery channel – it’s my turn!"
That’s the last thing you remember thinking before being pushed out of a plane over the Amazon jungle with a parachute strapped to your back.
Whether trying to increase [...]