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To Anyone Who Thinks They're Falling Behind In Life

To Anyone Who Thinks They're Falling Behind In Life
You don’t need more motivation. You don’t need to be inspired to action. You don’t need to read any more lists and posts about how you’re not doing enough. We act as if we can read enough articles and enough little Pinterest quotes and suddenly the little switch in our brain will put us into action. But, honestly, here’s the thing that nobody really talks about when it comes to success and motivation and willpower and goals and productivity and all those little buzzwords that have come into popularity: you are as you are until you’re not. You change when you want to change. And what I think we all need more than anything is this: permission to be wherever the fuck we are when we’re there. You’re not a robot. You don’t get to control everything. “If it’s not the time, it’s just not the fucking time. Sometimes the novel is not ready to be written because you haven’t met the inspiration for your main character yet. We all know this: Our experience cannot always be manipulated. Related:  ArtLifestyle, behaviour

Le bonhomme OSBD pour apprendre la CNV (parents et enfants) La communication non-violente est un langage créé par Marshall B. Rosenberg. Les moteurs de la CNV sont la bienveillance et l’empathie. C’est pourquoi elle trouve parfaitement sa place dans l’éducation positive et dans la communication positive en général. Les 4 étapes de la CNV La CNV s’articule autour de 4 étapes réunies sous l’acronyme : OSBD : Observation (O) : décrire la situation sans jugerSentiment (S) : exprimer les sentiments et attitudes suscités dans cette situation en employant le « je »Besoin (B) : identifier et exprimer les besoins (un besoin insatisfait = émotion désagréable) ,Demande (D) : faire une demande respectant les critères suivants : réalisable, concrète, précise et formulée positivement. Le bonhomme « OSBD » Le bonhomme « OSBD » aide à fixer les idées et à retenir la méthode : La phrase complète : Face une situation, voici ce que vous pourriez dire façon CNV : Les outils : Pour débuter, on peut retenir ces 9 besoins fondamentaux : Mise en application : STOP !

Temple of the Seven Golden Camels: What Makes A Good Story Portfolio/Story Artist? In the comments for my last post, J. Kelley asked in the comments if I could write about what makes a good story portfolio. I thought that was a good suggestion for a blog post, because people e-mail and ask me that from time to time. As I wrote down some thoughts, the post got longer and longer (sorry about that) and suffered from a bit of "scope creep". First, some disclaimers: I am not representing the Disney company in any way in this post. I also want to point out that I've never worked at Pixar, or DreamWorks, or Blue Sky or anywhere else. Furthermore, it is worth setting context for this post by pointing out that most of my colleagues at work would say that I am way too hard on portfolios. Clarity This is extremely important. The whole point of looking at a story portfolio is to see how that person handles the telling of a story. The other way to get perspective on your work and see if it's clear is to simply take a break and come back to it. Here is an example: TV Boards Appeal

The Creative Force Behind the Land of Nod Photo by Christopher Sturman A 17-year veteran of the retail world, Michelle Kohanzo started at the Land of Nod as a customer-service representative. She now heads the children’s-decor company, overseeing operations, product development, and partnerships with other retailers and more than 200 independent artists. Q. Where did your artsiness come from? Q. Q. Q. Q. Q. Q. Comment avoir confiance en soi La confiance en soi, c'est la capacité à relever des défis, à se projeter, à aller au bout de ses rêves. En manquer, c'est vivre avec la sensation d'être brimé, ligoté, entravé. L'individu est écartelé entre plusieurs morceaux de lui-même : l'un qui veut, l'autre qui n'ose pas, un autre qui sabote... Dès lors, il s'agit de retrouver un sentiment d'unité et d'harmonie. Exercice n°1. Remémorez-vous un état de confiance maximum, dans une tâche passée, et connectez à cette sensation de puissance déjà vécue un geste facile à rééditer : claquement de doigt, main ramassant les cheveux etc. Résultat : une sécurité intérieure immédiatement retrouvée dans la difficulté >> Lire aussi : Cinq questions décalées à (se) poser pour connaître ses points forts Exercice n°2. Traitez-vous avec bienveillance. Résultat : la restauration de son image, en dissociant ce qu'on pense de soi en négatif et la réalité. Exercice n°3. Repérez en vous la partie qui juge (A) et celle qui encourage (B). Exercice n°4.

In Sunday Sketching, Christoph Niemann Tells the Brutal Truth About the Creative Process © 2016 Christoph Niemann For years, Christoph Niemann spent every Sunday conducting a drawing experiment. The artist, whose illustrations have appeared in dozens of publications, including WIRED, would sit down with a blank piece of paper and a random, everyday object. He never knew what he was going to draw—only that his drawing would include whatever object was in front of him. Niemann devised hundreds of these visual puns, and now he’s collected them—along with more work from his career—in his new monograph, Sunday Sketching.

fastcompany I recently got to work an hour early. I had one goal in mind: world-domination, early-morning productivity. I made coffee, opened my email inbox, and the next thing I knew . . . it was noon. After my lackluster morning, I decided to do some research and really figure out the right way to spend the first hour of my workday. [Related: 6 Successful Women Share Their Morning Routine] 1. Mark Twain once said that if the first thing you do in the morning is eat a live frog, you can go through the rest of the day knowing it can’t get any worse. [Related: 8 Things That May Be Decreasing Your Productivity At Work] 2. Productivity experts recommend that you not spend your morning reading and answering emails (as I learned firsthand, it can totally derail your good a.m. intentions). [Related: 22 Morning Routines That Will Inspire You To Get Out Of Bed] 3. 4. It’s small but mighty: Say hello to your colleagues in the morning. This article originally appeared on Levo and is reprinted with permission.

Que font les personnes positives pour fuir les énergies négatives ? – Nos Pensées Nous sommes entouré-e-s d’énergies négatives, de toutes parts. Où que nous allions, il y a des gens qui se plaignent, qui font des choses qui les abîment, eux et les autres, et qui essaient de nous miner le moral avec leurs critiques et leurs arguments limitants. Mais certaines personnes réussissent à conserver l’optimisme même dans les environnements les plus toxiques. Que font les personnes positives pour fuir des énergies négatives qui les entourent ? L’énergie négative qui se propage peut influer sur nos pensées et nos actions. Les personnes positives créent le bonheur de l’intérieur Les gens positifs ne cherchent pas le bonheur dans les stimulations extérieures. Les personnes positives cherchent des sources intérieures d’énergie positive. Les personnes positives évitent les personnes négatives Peut-être que c’est l’une des choses les plus importantes qu’une personne puisse faire pour maintenir l’énergie positive. Les personnes positives croient en elles-mêmes

Blow up your work: How to enlarge, expand and make giant graphics - FESPA Even the latest, highest resolution digital camera can’t capture enough pixels to give truly photo-quality results on something the size of a truck or even a ship. So, how do you get artwork, especially something that needs to look like a photograph, up to huge size? Over the years a lot of techniques have emerged. We talked to Austin Coates, studio manager of UK large format specialist PressOn, who said “most of what we print is for large viewing distances. Pixel boosting The techniques for increasing (or decreasing) pixel count are generally called interpolation or resampling. Naturally Photoshop had this from the start. For enlargements, which is what we’re mainly interested in here, there’s a choice of Preserve Details, or Bicubic Smoother. If you enlarge by 300% to 500% there’s a visible difference between the three options. There are third party pixel resamplers, of which probably the most well-known is On1 Software’s Perfect Resize. What to do about PDFs? Vector perfection

Imagining your future projects is holding you back. Do you have a big creative project in store? Do you lie awake sometimes, thinking about what might go into it, what the characters or environment might look like, how it will touch the audience in a whole new way? Do you imagine what it will feel like to have this project under your belt, and what kind of effect it will have on your life? Let me tell you about Forest Lords. Forest Lords is a series of ten fantasy novels, each a 1000-page brick, about the epic adventures of Greenleaf Barksley, elf proletarian, and his journeys to attain the Golden Leaf and save his homeland from the scourge of the Curse of the Titaness Denox. The thing is, none of this series exists—not even Forest Lords Volume One: The Elven Soul. But there is no book. *(As a matter of actual fact, there are no binders either. I got this term from Kazu Kibuishi when I interviewed him for Out on the Wire episode 7: Dark Forest. I try not to to look at what I’m going to do as this amazing great grand thing. If… Success!

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