Time and Priorities

I'm trying to do as much reading and learning as I can this winter/spring, while I have time before the wedding and portrait season heats up. Right now I'm midway through "7 Habits" by Stephen Covey and I came across this quote in a section about time management. Covey writes, "The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."
Now I love quotes, but I'm a little synical about them. I think most people read great quotes and ponder them for a moment, but then ten minutes later they've forgotten all about it. Even if the quote had something wonderful and powerful to teach, that person has gotten nothing from it except a deep moment.
The quote about priorities is really quite powerful, but only if you put it to use and constantly remind yourself of it. I'm going to add it to my screen saver.
So print it out and tape it up somewhere. Maybe over the front of your TV!

Cheers

Favorite Website

So at the moment I'm trying to teach myself how to do Flash web design with the hope being that I'll redesign my own website. Needless to say that while I'm learning I'm constantly looking around for inspiration and ideas. There was a website that was passed on to me a while back called
"Ashes and Snow" , and it's easily the coolest website I've ever seen. Check it out and navigate into the "Explore" section. It's so calming and relaxing; it's like it reaches out, grabs my shirt and drags me through the screen into the photos. I'm hopeing my website can be just half as incredible as that one. Enjoy!

The world has gone MAD!

I love reading about new technology and the ways that it's being put to use in our daily lives. It's amazing to me just how our lives have become so driven by information delivered by technology and how that changes our expectations and perceptions.

The past two days I've read articles about how GPS information will soon be widely delivered to cell phones. Starting yesterday, Starbucks launched a service where you can now send a text message with your current ZIP code to "MYSBUX" (697289) and receive a reply text with the three nearest Starbucks locations! (As if you really need a specific location. Just drive three blocks in any direction and you're likely to spot one.) Yesterday Nokia announced that it plans to roll out widespread GPS services in it's new cell phone models, not to mention the new iPhone which will have Google Maps built into it, and no doubt eventually a GPS chip.

I'm sure there are more pros than cons with the new technology, but the interesting thing to me is how we will come to expect a certain level of information at our fingertips, and how we probably take it for granted. We need to remind ourselves every so often that we live in truly amazing times. I try to think about that every time I'm shooting a Saturday wedding and I check the score of the Badger game on my phone. How crazy is that?!


Read the Starbucks article