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The Importance of Pictures…Together | 2013 in Pictures (Project 365) | An Exercise in Conscious Living

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The Importance of Pictures…Together
{Day 3 of 365}

My brother. My best friend.

Kindred spirits.

I have many wonderful memories of him, but this is the only picture of us together.

This picture is priceless. He has been gone for almost 20 years now, and we do not have anymore opportunities to take pictures together again. This is it.

Never, ever, ever, ever pass up an opportunity to take pictures with someone you love. Never. Ever. Ever.

And if you want to know how many is too many to have, there is no such thing as too many. You will never regret a picture taken, only the ones you didn’t.

This year make taking more pictures together a priority. Pictures capture you together forever.

Which pictures do you cherish? Which pictures do you want to take this year?

The Things That Matter | 2013 in Pictures (Project 365) | An Exercise in Conscious Living

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The Things That Matter
{Day 2 of 365}

The heart and soul of  of that with which we surround ourselves.

The print in this image is a picture that my son took on a day that we made a beautiful memory traveling to the beach together to take pictures.  The things that matter.

Does your home tell the story of who you are? What do you have in your home that holds special value?

I Want a New Life! Giveaway

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As we begin a new year, it is a perfect time to read one of my favorite books…I Want a New Life by Michele Poydence!

It is an inspiring story of three women who go on a kind of inner sojourn to transform their lives. They step out of their comfort zones and trust that the life they were meant to live is on the other side of it. Oh, how we need more novels like this! I did not want it to end and cannot wait to see more from this author. The message is so wonderful and inspiring. Truly inspiring. I am not sure how she did it, but I felt that there was a part of me that could relate to all three women, even though they are all so different. I honestly could not have loved this book more. I am still sad that it is over. but even though it’s over, I feel like it has left an imprint on my life. And now, here is your chance for it to leave an imprint on your life.

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An Exercise in Conscious Living – It’s Time to Create the Life I Want

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Create the Life I Want, Creating My Life - Live Life on PurposeAn Exercise in Conscious Living – It’s time to Create the Life I Want – Think of this as an exercise to dial in the focus of your life with the things that matter.

What if we saw our life through our images? What would you see? If your life were a movie trailer, how would it play?

Are you living the life you want? Are you doing the things you want to do? Are you eating the way you want to eat? Are you spending time with the people who are important to you? Maybe it’s time to say, I am going to create the life I want. It is time to live life on purpose.”

But where to start? Maybe with a close look at the life we are living.

I love that we all take so many images now with the affordability of digital cameras and with the ready availability of camera phones. But when we look back over our images, are they telling the story we want to live? Did we create the life we want? If we take a look around and look at the images, the family, friends, adventures, and spaces in our lives, are they telling the story we want to live? Are we creating the life we want to live?

Are the pictures that you are sharing on facebook representative of the life that you want to be living? Are you doing the things you want to be? Being the person you want to be? Spending time with the people who are important to you?

Are the pictures that you take of your home representative of the space in which you want to live?

What if I thought about pinterest as a way of having a picture of my life and what I love in my life and more of what I want in my life?

These places are a reflection of the life we are living. Is it the life that you want to be living?

An Exercise in Conscious Living – Create the Life I Want

I would like to propose an exercise in conscious living. An exercise where we peer through the looking glass at our lives and use this perspective to weed out the unimportant and focus more on what is important. It is when we document our lives, that we begin to see where we are focusing.

Grab your camera more this year and begin to document your life. Start a 365 project where you take a photo a day. Is what you are seeing in your images the life you mean to be living? It is when I am conscious of how I am living that I can see where I must make changes.

For 2013, I am taking the plunge and will be participating in Project 365. I am documenting my life one day at a time as an exercise in conscious living to create the life I want, focusing on the things that matter. Join me and let’s commit to conscious living.