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New Year.... been a while

With the anticipation of all the new changes that 2012 will bring for me, I have made a list of tasks I can do to prep for a positive new year.

• Call all billing companies and set up automatic withdrawl and paperless: I like to procrastinate a bit. This will allow my stess level to be a bit more minimal. :)
  
  






• Back up computer: Save all those photos and documents that can easily disappear if they are not saved in another location.
  
  




• Sign up for a local farm delivery system: fresh and local fruits and veggies at my doorstep every week! Seriously look into it. So worth it.
  
  






• Buy a Juicer: start getting the pure nutrients of raw fruit and veggies! The best thing you could possibly do for your body!
  
  
  


• Buy a scale: numbers are a reality! Keep focused.
  
  What are some ways you will be starting the New Year to help you achieve your goals for a more positive life?

right on time.

If you know me personally, you know that I will do something when I set my mind to it and when the time is right FOR ME.

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It may be becoming a vegetarian at age 10, going back to school at 24, or even buying my own condo well, right before the market crashed down on us, or just even changing my hair from platinum blonde to the darkest shade of brown. I contemplate these ideas over and over. I mention them to people around me and take the criticism/support/love/jealousy/sassy remarks/. I center myself and do what I wanted to do from the beginning.

The things I want to do next in life, are exciting. I can't wait! But instead of allowing the delay of these to just sit and weigh on my mind, Im going to jump in!

The time is RIGHT.

NOW!

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What about you? How do you let your mind react to ideas or deams you have? I would love to hear any tips or stories from my readers.

Aj

house call

Have you ever had that call that you know you need to make, and you just put it off? Nothing intentional, just get caught up in other things and next thing you know its 1 month later and you STILL haven't called? Ugh. I do this way too often. Anyone else?Been thinking of my grandma for sometime now.

"I need to call her", "grandma would love this...", "I wonder how she's doing?", often cross my mind. So I did it today. I called her and in her voice I could tell she appreciated it. Just a call. Just a couple minutes out of my day.

How easy. But how special.

Who will you call to give someone a smile?

Aj

vaca?

Whoa, I totally took a vaca from this blog. I knew I have been missing something......

Lovin' me some summer here in Seattle.

Sunshine and water=heaven.

I have been taking minutes out of my day to really stop and take it all in. Breathe in the air and the heat. Smelling the flowers blossoming. Most of all soaking up the rays!

new project.

I appreciate all who follow this blog. It feels good to have people actually want to listen/read to what fills my mind on a daily basis. Its a nice outlet to have, that's for sure. I dont feel judged, I dont feel insecure, I just write what I am thinking about at the moment. I love it.

On that note, I have decided to add another blog onto my daily/weekly "to do" lists. This one is more of a professional blog to use as inspiration based on photo styling and the things I come across to push me towards a successful career in the industry that is so minimal, here in Seattle.

Please jump over to my new blog site at

WWW.HOUSEOF-JOSEPHINE.BLOGSPOT.com

to check it out. It's still very new so I apologize for any empty spaces.

Thank you for your support and I look forward to sharing my dreams and thoughts with you!

Adrian

what room?

I am reading this really great audio book (ok, listening to) called The Nine Rooms of Happiness by Lucy Danziger and Catherine Birndorf M.D. It really puts things in perspective when you think about the different elements of your life and the "rooms" you need to tidy up.

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Here is an excerpt from the book that I got off of their website. Go check it out and read more.

"The first step in figuring out your inner architecture is to draw your emotional house (or you can print out the sketch we've provided here). You can do this in your head, or with a pen and paper. We’ve always loved markers and sketch pads, so we encourage you to commit to a piece of paper for this project. (We promise it’ll be fun.) One note: over time, you may need to re-draw the walls, since as you evolve so will your house.

The most useful model may be a cross-section where all the rooms are exposed at once. We like to draw a three-story house with nine rooms. The basement and attic lie below and above the other rooms and on the first floor, you’ll find the family room, living room, kitchen and office since those are the most public spaces. Upstairs, lies the master bedroom, the bathroom, and the kid’s room, since those are more intimately connected.

Neither Catherine nor I live in houses with many stories and nine rooms. We live in New York City apartments, and you know how cramped those are! But trust us, you need a room for every area of your emotional life, and this drawing doesn’t reflect your actual abode.

Now make a list of all the rooms that will be in your house—include the basics, and your specifics, each corresponding to an area of your life. You may add or subtract a room, depending on your stage right now. So if you know you don’t want kids, the second bedroom could be a guest room or a place you sew, paint or write. Once you decide you are including a room, the relevant question is, how big should it be? And that is directly correlated to how much time and emotional energy you invest there, and how important that topic is to your overall happiness.

For me the bathroom was always large because I was preoccupied with weight, fitness and health in a way that took my attention from other thoughts, and even when I wasn’t in the bathroom these thoughts followed me into every other room. I would walk into a party and think, Do I look fat? Instead of, Oh, there is so-n-so I want to talk to!

Many women’s bathrooms are the largest in their house, since it’s where we scrutinize the number on the scale, the bags under our eyes, and all nature of self-criticism. It’s also where we need to love ourselves, and take care of ourselves (doing a mole check, indulging in a bubble bath, or remembering to floss). The bathroom connects to the bedroom, since feeling fat can torpedo libido faster than you can say, Not tonight honey! It connects to the kitchen, if you are dieting, and your kids’ room if you don’t like the way your tummy sags after popping out a couple of babies.

Meanwhile, you might think that my kitchen was tiny because I don’t cook much. (No domestic goddess here!) But most women’s kitchens are fairly large, whether they cook or not, because the kitchen isn’t just about meal prep or eating or dishes, it’s about all the household chores, responsibilities and upkeep, and we all have to divide up who does what, and if we are married and have families, there is usually a conversation about who will pick up the child at soccer, or take her to the dentist after or any number of other little details that you deal with in the course of a normal day. This is why the kitchen is a multi-purpose room, a place where you cook and clean, yes, but also discuss all the household matters at the kitchen table. It is literally the hub of the house.

For each room, think about the big issues you struggle with there, as well as the little ones. If you are constantly aggravated in one room, it has to be larger than the others because you will spend more time cleaning it up. A room can also be oversized if it brings you an enormous amount of joy, like that newborn in your kid’s room, or that career change you can’t stop thinking about --so your office is bigger than most. "

Happy reading/listening/making positive changes!

http://www.ninerooms.com/read-an-excerpt/