Daily undaily

Variety of research shows that habits are build between 21 and 40 days. And if want the result but skip a step, you better start anew.

I’m aware and I go in and out of certain habits. Found out anxiety has been my main buddy throughout my life, so working on this (kind of toxic) relationship lets me deprive myself of doing what I like, want and really look forward to. Like this Daily Blog for example.

I think about it, think about you too. But also learning to allow myself to take time and observe myself, the patterns I carry and the reason I’m moving towards the goals I desire.

This is a simple note for you, for me, for us - the world won’t finish if you skip a step, if you slow dow, if you restart the game. Sometimes a daily practice is nonlinear, disorganised even passive. A daily practice is not also the desire to move forward, even while standing still but simply not giving up. Daily practice is also acknowledging how you feel, how much energy you have and that not all days you can be on 100%.

Don't grow up

Especially out of your curiosity and artistic play. That permanent state of exploration and trying all things we like when we’re going up simply disappears when the “seriousness” of adulthood becomes a default state.

Yet all great art expression is manly connected to that pure, curious state of mind where we allow ourselves to be and do by instinct, not by structure.

I’m guilty of living too much as grown up, self depriving myself of exploration and new potential work. I also have to remind myself to let go of expectations, to remove the describing social media full of other people’s life and let myself get into the zone, into creation, letting myself come back to myself.

It’s not too late and it will never be. Just come back to what you love doing and do it often. Grown up fast will always be there, but they don’t really fill your soul up.

Take more photos, thank me later

What is the first thing we reach towards when we want to bring back a record for a place, a situation, a state of being? What is the first thing we reach towards when we need to look into the past, the history, the memory of our life? What is the first thing we reach towards after we loose a person dear to us?

Photographs.

Use that smart phone in your pocket not only to screenshot information from the web or note something down. Create more meaningful photographs of yourself, your loved ones, the life you live. Yes, you do look good with messy hair and no make-up on, and no, the body weight is not a reason to deny your existence.

Take more meaningful photographs like we used to back in the days, before photography became the new pen and paper/sticky note/scrapbook pocket diary.

Take more meaningful photographs. Make a small summer album. Remember this time, it will never repeat again (for good or not).

If you only had 36 frames for your summer vacay, what would you use them on?

The more you look, the better it gets

Photography as any other craft demands repetitions. In order to create beautiful and interesting photographs, you have to learn to learn to see. And by learning I mean practice looking at life from different perspectives constantly.

At some point it becomes a habit that nurture your craft and expands your vision. You don’t see life in the same way and cannot I see it anymore. You become the craftsman who will never be an amateur again.

I’m not fully sure if it’s a 100% a fair trade, but it’s definitely worth the ride.

We like to touch

There is a reason we crave the physical representation of things, such as photographs, art, books… The experience we gain form form is something that the screens will never be able to provide us with.

Artefacts will never die because of this very fact - we like to touch with our skin, to see in person with out eyes, to have our body surrounded by. It’s a multidimensional experience that involves our senses, our emotions and our energy. That is irreplaceable.

Here comes the reason why we feels disconnected in a world with such fast, wide and immediate digital connection. It’s antinatural to our nature. Tools are great, innovation is awesome to have. However, what we need most remains the same - physically and energetically felt, part of a secure community to pay contribution and be acknowledged.