If ya’ll get a chance, head on over to Nicholas Beckett’s Red Bubble store and snatch yourself something genius!
Love this dry wit, shape and colour.
Winning combination!
Here’s ‘Arm Chair’, you can purchase as a shirt or hoodie :)
Go.
Here’s a nice little something to start and possibly elongate your weekend!
Approx 3 hours
The colours!
Feel free to listen and get lost in this song by This Will Destroy You. Now you’re me!
Idealism to realism
making ideals tangible
giving existence to thoughts
creation from imagination
making true in form as it is in the mind
more than physical creation
philosophies
principles
the ideal character
the ideal outcome
the ideal person
Strive for perfection
Even if unattainable, we are in constant development
‘Idealism’ to ‘realism’
What makes Google such a great employer?
Photo: Tamara Voninski
According to BRW.com; it’s ability to recognise personal and professional worth.
You can read on BRW, why they came first on ‘the best place to work’. And this particular paragraph grabbed my attention:
Google Australia came out on top thanks largely to its workplace innovations, such as the 10 per cent of time its employees can spend pursuing their own projects. Recognition of employees’ personal and professional worth, a sense of community and pride in being associated with the company were also important factors.
Google isn’t so full of himself that he expects you to clock exactly 30 minutes for lunch. Google recognises the potential of the employee on a much more personal level.
Even the statement, ‘pursuing their own projects’ tells us the kinds of people working here. Google trusts these people aren’t slacking off. They’re moving. They’re thinkers. They’re constantly developing, striving, and being productive.
Where can we find more people like this?
How do you determine ‘success’?
What does it mean to be ‘successful’?
Throughout our lives we have this desire. To achieve and succeed.
Success is a term defined purely by what we say it is. Society may have it’s own definition for success. Perhaps wealth and ‘the American dream’. But maybe you’re success is something different. What if I told you; you could strive for your own success?
You are the judge of your own success. If you set your own benchmark to achieve what you want in life, you are the judge as to whether or not you’ve achieved it. Makes sense.
What is YOUR idea of ‘success’?
Try approaching this question by looking at your life as a whole.
Are you a successful mother? A successful brother? Are you a successful citizen? In order to know what success truly means to us, we need to dissect our own inner desires into what we are truly looking for in life.
And the key idea of this post is:
Personal success = Happiness
Your personal successes may just be more important to you than your career successes. And too often, when we think of ‘success’, we relate it to our careers or wealth. When, in fact, it means so much more than this.
How ‘success’ is determined
Setting yourself a benchmark of what you want to achieve in your life, and the person you want to be is key to your own success.
You could start this off by applying ideal models to each role you have in your life.
For example;
What kind of person do you imagine as an ideal employee?
What roles to you play in your life?
What is the ideal behaviour and mentality for someone in each of your roles? Do they reflect your principles?
Here are some examples of roles you could have:
- Father/Mother
- Sister/Brother
- Business man/woman
- Employer
- Employee
- Vegetarian
- Religious person
- Citizen
- Communicator
After considering your roles and defining what the ideal model, in your eyes would be, you have a plan for success and happiness.
The important thing, is to remember you are only as successful as you decide you are. You are your own judge. You set the benchmarks and you can achieve them if you are well enough committed.
I’ll attribute much of this post to Stephen R. Covey’s renowned book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. This is something I’ve read many times over and so glad I have.
Success is determined by so much more than making a checklist with things like ‘have a family by 28’.
True success is about the journey you take in life and achieving your personal goals. This is the key to attaining inner peace and happiness.
Isn’t this the most delicious architecture you’ve ever seen?
Saxo Bank HQ, Copenhagen was designed by 3xn. A trendy architectural design studio in Denmark.
I love the contrasting interior and exterior flow. Somehow, the inner cilrcular motions of levels compliments the angular and geometric structure and patterns of the outside.
And it’s just as beautiful when illuminated at night.
#Iwouldlivehere
Probably the greatest response to the “ridiculousness of skeuomorphic design” you will ever read.
LINK
Some of you may recognise Tim Flach’s photography.
Prepare for an appreciation post.
His work really brings out a sense of mystery to his subjects. Some half shown. Some replicating human behaviour, seeming familiar to us. And others so typically animal we are left to marvel in natures creation.
Flach captures each creature in it’s own unique light.
I think the pairs of bats are my favourite :)
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