James Bay Chaos And The Calm Cd
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I want to start off by asking a great question. I have noticed as a coach, one thing I constantly refine is my ability to ask better questions. Although I believe you do not have to be the expert in a field of which you serve others, when you do have knowledge end experience you will find you ask better questions and have more empathy. This is when coaching is most effective, especially when complimented with great listening.
Have you ever noticed that you see a word, a car, hear an idea and then you see the same thing the next day and the next and the next and suddenly it feels like this is all a huge coincidence. Did you know there is actually a name for this?
What is more interesting, is not just the coincidence but all of the patterns that you do not register. We are only seeing the things we are looking out for. The more you prime your mind by reading and writing to see new patterns, the more reality will unfold in front of you.
In my life I have recently made the huge transition to leave the corporate life and leverage my business. I have a strong client base and I have established the foundations to make the decision this is the right time. But that has also meant life has felt chaotic and I feel I am desperately fighting daily to find the calm.
I have pondered this a lot because I know is is such an important part of the overall equation of living a happy and peaceful life. If I am calm I have clarity and when I have this I am creative and I react to situations from a grounded place. I want to consider myself as a calm person but when in a state of chaos I want to be measured and able to get back on the road to calm. This is vital for me in how I want to run my business and own my days.
I want you to take an area of your life when you feel life is chaotic. Be patient with yourself and know you are trying things out. When you can be aware and open to things not being always in your control strangely that is when you can find calm because you remove the pressure. You can start to internalise a state of calmness.
Start to think about how you can see the bigger picture and set the intention to preview what is coming in a manner that is measured. It is key to know that things are going to go wrong and it is going to be tough but when you take a step back and consider how you want to show up in that area of chaos, you can choose to respond in calm and not chaos. Chaos creates more chaos. We can choose to respond with calm.
Heighten your awareness to see the patterns in your life as only then can we consciously be aware of what we need to change and start to create new patterns of behaviour. Only then can we bring change to our lives.
As flames leapt across the interstate highway near their home and billows of smoke darkened the midday sky, the Brooks grabbed their go bags, along with pillows and stuffed toys to help keep 6-year-old daughter Annastyn calm amid the chaos of evacuating their community.
In 2014 my life was in absolute chaos, I didn't know why. I was struggling with ever increasing anxiety and depression and I had just been diagnosed with Dyslexia. Every aspect of my life was spinning around me and It felt impossible to get a grip of anything. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder also known as ADHD was later to be diagnosed and provide a logical reason to the storm that had quietly been building around me my whole life before deviating into a hurricane of emotion and upheaval that couldn't be contained any longer.
As someone who lived with ADHD for over two decades without knowing it was the cause for various struggles, situations and feelings, it felt like a blessing and a curse to be diagnosed. Adult ADHD was only officially recognised in 2008 and has often faced questions over whether it exists, overdiagnosis, underdiagnosis, misdiagnosis and every other slur under the sun. It still feels like ADHD has no 'home' due to it not being a mental illness nor being classed as a learning disability.
As a person with ADHD with co-morbid anxiety and depression, I often feel that ADHD is among the most stereotyped conditions today. Whilst it is a huge part of my existence and makes me the person I am for better or worse, I am often put off disclosing it in day to day conversation because of its complexities and people's preconceptions of ADHD. It has often been depicted in the past and even presently as a young boy hurtling through a classroom causing absolute bedlam.
ADHD for me has been waking up at 3am thinking about human existence, climate change or war. It has been having more thoughts before breakfast than the average person and needing a nap by 11am because it's exhausting. It has been repeatedly losing keys, cards and headphones all my life. It has been trying to blag my way through classes, exams, presentations through school, college and university. It has been exploding and smashing up a laptop or punching a wall out of pure frustration. No part of life is untouched by ADHD.
Whilst a huge amount of ADHD is negative and difficult to deal with for both myself and those around me, there is a number of pretty great positives or superhuman abilities, for example, the ability to see the bigger picture and all the tiny details, being able to focus on one thing for a sustained amount of time, which is also known as hyper-focus, the ability to create order from chaos, being the calm person in a crisis and having a unforgiving bullsh*t button. It almost always feels like I am a square trying to fit into a circle but I am constantly looking for ways to solve that problem.
I want you to know that ADHD is real. I was a very shy child who managed to tumble through the early years of life undiagnosed, I often think about how things may have been different if I was diagnosed but I'm more focused on improving perceptions, stamping out stigma and ensuring that anyone who has ADHD has a better experience than I have had in education and gets the support they need.
ADHD is complex and often brutal but it's not a life sentence, there is always a way to solve the problems it creates. Having ADHD allows me to see and experience the world in a definition that the average human could never even imagine. The way I see, hear, feel and live is something I am thankful for and makes me the person I am. Whilst it has caused me endless problems, I would never change my experiences, even if I have desperately wished my ADHD away many times in the past.
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Just a couple nights before I was watching the bonus documentaries with my wife. I noticed there were some great leaders and leadership lessons from this near tragedy. Hopefully these observations can help you in your leadership development.
Jim Lovell the commander of Apollo 13 and Gene Kranz the flight director of the mission individual demonstrated the importance of calm in chaos. One man was in space and the other man was at mission control. When the chaos struck both individuals led their teams by keeping calm and asking for the facts. When emotions run high the calm can lead much more effectively.
No matter what we do in life this is required in our leadership. As the three astronauts floated in space they communicated with mission control and trusted what they told them to do. They could not see nor did they have proof anything would work because NASA never experienced this, but they trusted the team which ultimately resulted in success.
Yesterday I was just leaving a good birding area in Korea, and, for my final shots, I climbed the small embankment of a reservoir. A calm golden-lit evening was producing warm reflections of the autumn reeds. I liked how these reflections calmed the chaos with their symmetry. Later I decided to add a further calm to the chaos, as shown in the second shot above.
Cropped a large pano for the best bits. Basic PS treatment and Topaz Sharpen - which dealt quite well with the softness caused by f8. Then added Vibrance and Saturation. For no 2, flipped and merged, trying different combinations and settling on this one.
Hi Mike, what a great subject in awesome light! The lines of the reeds really draw me in. I do prefer the more natural state of Image 1. I would recommend cloning out the reeds in the upper right and lower left corners. There is also a reed laying flat right along the bottom edge just left of center.
Fantastic image, great spacing in the reeds. I quite like the pattern more to the center of the mirrored image. I think that gets lost in the bigger version. Just a thought. Quick screenshot to illustrate the crop. Nice work!
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I like both images but prefer the 2nd one. It presents a more ordered view, with interesting visual symmetry and more shape definition. To me, it is both more interesting and tells a more interesting story than the first one.
Very interesting images. Like most posters I prefer the first one. The second is a bit too much chaos and too little calm for me.
Cropped to just a little more pano, there is no need to clone out anything anymore in the 1st image
I love the abstract and chaotic nature of this one. Then randomness of the reeds in shapes, lines, angles, etc. are brought in to some kind of order by the calmness of the water. The blue/gold combo is very effective here.
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