shot december of 2013 in santa cruz and san diego

These people threw nothing away !!! Sadly no real time to explore the gems in the house and the sun was to low down and some dodgy stairs , we wanted to reach the lakes

View On Black

Under that mental clutter lies a powerful new YOU!

Here’s an exercise I call “distraction resolution.” It helps

you stay focused on what’s important while heightening

your congruency between activities and values,

as well as goals.

Here’s how you do it:

•Make a list of every single thing that’s taking up space

time in your mind, whether it’s personal, business,

physical, or financial; anything you did and feel guilty

about; or something you need to do a day, week, month,

or year from now. Jot down anything that’s distracting you

from being present in the here and now.

Follow your stream of consciousness and clear it out

of your mind by writing it down.

*Once you’re done—not while you’re writing, but

after you’ve spent about ten minutes getting it all out—look

at the list you’ve created and see if there’s anything in there

that’s junk.

Ask yourself. Is there anything here that I can’t do anything about?

Is there anything in my head that I can just get rid of?

•Now consider if there’s anyone whom you can

delegate the remainder to.

Or are you holding yourself back because you haven’t

been exercising the skill of delegation (whether that’s

because you’re unskilled or you don’t think there’s anyone

who can handle this for you ?

•If there are things there for you to do

Tthings that you know would be best done by you, and

you know that you can do something about them—write

your initials beside them and assign a date for beginning

that item.

Be realistic,

and if it’s a long-term project, go ahead and chunk

it down into smaller pieces, and decide to delegate

or date those pieces for yourself.

The follow-up is simple:

Once you’ve noticed the things that can be dumped, it’s

easy to just “take them out” of your mind.

And if you find yourself thinking about them again, you can

remind yourself: Oh yeah, that was one of those things that

I’m not going to do anything about. Next!

Then you can delegate those items you’ve chosen to,

and you can integrate your own tasks and projects into

whatever scheduling system you already use.

Then you can forget about all those items and focus on

what’s important to do today.

This is the difference between efficiency and effectiveness:

Efficiency means getting everything done that needs

doing in a timely and professional manner,

effectiveness means

doing only those things that are important enough to get done.

You can have both if you

(1) -align your activities, values, and goals;

(2) -delegate everything that wouldn’t wisely be

done by you;

(3) -dump anything that’s just “junk.”

With this exercise, you identify distractions, dumps,

delegations, do’s, and dates. You clear your mind

and create congruency between your actions and dreams.

I'm doing a lite version of the Apt Therapy kitchen cure. . .lite since we're still working on the kitchen and a total organizational overhaul would tip me over the edge, but some things need to go.

Soon to be the Growcology Board Room

The only bad part of Rock Band!

Three long weekends and I've still not managed to clear my desk. Oh well, back to work tomorrow so it will have to wait until the weekend!

Books, Bills, Note Cards, Len Cleaner, DVD's and an unruly Bed.

don't know where to begin... :-)

This is my room before I came back to school. I literally could not walk in my room without stepping on something.

It's said to keep your compositions simple, so that nothing detracts from your subject.

this is a multiple exposure version of a kensington market storefront window; one of those stores that looks like a hoarder's garage sale except it's on every day between around ten am until about four.

three if it's nice out.

More discarded trash and abandoned books that didn't get moved from the corridors.

This was dad's house back in December. The blue coat hanging over the rocking chair indicates dad was still alive at this point. You can see that he liked music, art and random trinkety things.

Treasure Island, Florida

so much clutter: the result of emptying the junk drawer, cleaning off the top of the fridge, and admittedly the clutter that was already there

Birthday Party Clutter.

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/17079964@N00/] - 'Come Away With Me'

4 x 6" Mixed media drawing (framed)

From 'GIFTWRAPPED' group show, Clutter, NY- Sat 14 Dec, 2013. See Kelly's blog for much better quality pics of this and all other pieces for the show here: kellydenato.blogspot.com/2013/12/gift-wrapped.html?m=1

Taken at an abandoned factory... misc. equipment.

watercolour and ink

Just to show people the crazy shi'ite I listen to. I need more and better art on there, but for now this will do. Clutter is awesome, no?