Showing posts with label applying. Show all posts
Showing posts with label applying. Show all posts
Sunday, April 9, 2017
Applying the Diamond Hour
Applying the Diamond Hour
I love letters. I dont have to think of the subject for today, which might be "cheating." Id rather just take a look at what people would like me to look at, look at it, and allow you guys to tell me if my perception is awake today. Im applying the "Diamond Hour" concept more precisely, and asking for areas of interest:
Hi Steve,
One thing that often occurs to me as I think about the structures that you present is that sometimes I would like to hear what you have to say about balancing between creative, but not financially rewarding, work and the work that supports us -- which may in itself be satisfying but not fulfill some self-expression needs. I wonder what advice you have to people in that situation.
Rachel
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I would suggest that two different basic approaches can help such a person.
1) My general pattern is to use Vin diagrams. In “A” are the projects I’d like to write. In “B” are the projects I believe can sell. Where the circles overlap, that’s where I write. So...I don’t write the things that won’t sell (generally) and I don’t write the things that could sell, but I have no interest in writing. In terms of the “Ancient Child” meditation, this is lining up the interests of the “Child” and the “Adult” personalities, harnessing the “Child’s” creative energy while still respecting her emotions.
2) But there is another approach. And that is that you spend some time creating something sheerly for the love, contribution, practice, or self-expression of it. With no thought or consideration for financial reward. This means that the Adult or “responsible/productive/financial” part of your personality might have to work just for working, with less “fun” or intrinsic satisfaction involved--you are getting your “fun” separately. Balance. Play HERE, work THERE. In terms of the Ancient Child, this is letting the “kid” run off and play, while the “Adult” goes to work later or earlier in the day.
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In terms of the Diamond Hour, you could easily dedicate ½ hour a day to pure self-expression artistic form, going deeply into flow for thirty minutes of painting, composing, writing, sculpting, drawing or whatever. It may not seem like much, but over the course of a year, that’s over 150 solid hours of pure pleasure invested in something moving your life forward, or deepening your sense of self expression.
Now...if you also spend 15 minutes a day researching marketing, making connections, sending brainstorming emails to other artists and so forth, you can make serious progress, over time. The last 15 minutes should be your physical time: the Five Tibetans, FlowFit, etc. 15 minutes of “planning” time, and 30 minutes of “Flow” make for a great way to edge your way further toward your dream life: where body, mind, and emotions….or “child” and “adult” aspects of yourself are aligned together.
More questions, please!
Steve
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Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Applying Themes to Eclipse
Applying Themes to Eclipse
by Guest Contributor Bill Mote
--> Skip to the How-To
Im new to event driven development. I stopped coding back when VB was in its infancy. I did pickup classic ASP and do enough scripting in interpreted languages to kindle the desire, but it was not until the release of Android that I genuinely got on fire about coding again.
What did I find? A lot of barriers. You wouldnt think thats true given the open and free nature of Android. Greg, aka Android Code Monkey, has put together an idiot proof tutorial on setting up the development environment. That was my first hurdle. Check. I moved on to his Hello Android tutorial. Check. Next I tried the Android Developers NotepadCodeLab tutorial. Easy enough I thought. This time you just "open the AndroidCodeLab folder" as instructed and youre moving right along.
Open it how? I tried various imports. I tried opening the source and various .xml files. All I did was build my frustration, but Im not giving up. Instead I purchased "Head First Java." The book is awesome. It focuses on teaching Java and avoiding the IDE hurdles but I decided to code the examples in Notepad++ and Eclipse so I could be 1 step ahead when I finished. The leap from C++ to Java isnt that great and things seemed to make sense so Im moving right along.
One thing I noticed about the Eclipse environment is how absolutely blinding it is! During the day its tough enough, but at night, when I get most of my keyboard cycles for development, the open IDE is exhausting on my eyes. Another hurdle ...
Cut to the chase already ...
When Greg asked me to be a guest contributor I couldnt wait to get this information posted. I want to remove as many barriers as I can for new developers like myself!
When Greg asked me to be a guest contributor I couldnt wait to get this information posted. I want to remove as many barriers as I can for new developers like myself!
My first searches for Eclipse and Themes didnt produce much and the information that was available was, or at least seemed, convoluted and complicated. Turns out changing the themes in Eclipse is very, very easy!
There are 2 files used to display the themes:
Colors are managed in this file: org.eclipse.jdt.ui.prefs
Text Editors are managed in this file: org.eclipse.ui.editors.prefs
Those files can be found below your Eclipse workspace folder which can be found here:
Windows -- .metadata.pluginsorg.eclipse.core.runtime.settings
Linux/MAC -- .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/
I found an archive file with 6 different themes including the "default" to easily undo any of your changes. Heres what they look like:
Inkpot
Sula
Vibrant Ink
Wombat
Zenburn
The archive contains the 6 images and 6 folders; 1 for each theme. In each folder youll find the 2 aforementioned files. Simply extract the 2 files from your desired theme into the appropriate Eclipse folder as described above and launch Eclipse!
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Friday, February 17, 2017
Applying Makeup To Match Your Hair Color
Applying Makeup To Match Your Hair Color
Find the palette makeup suitable to your hair color. Those advices could help you enhance your beauty, creating a perfect harmony between your makeup and your hair color.
Makeup for blonde hair:
Blondes are more beautiful in soft pastel colors which complete the clarity of their hair. The dark tones create a crude contrast and give a stern look.
Eyes: choose eye shadow in ivory, ash-colored or light pink and dark brown eyeliner.
Cheeks: choose a blush pale rose or nectar.
Lips: Choose light colors in medium pink or peach.
Makeup for light brown hair:
The light brown hair tends to be dull, we must illuminate it with neutral colors and lively tones (some highlights will also make a nice effect).
Eyes: Try an eye shadow in ivory and gray-taupe with mahogany eyeliner.
Cheeks: Choose pale pink or sand pink, accented with a blush in tawny tones.
The lips: try lipsticks in rosy brown, soft pink tones or a raspberry color.
Makeup for brown hair:
Brown hair tend in give the skin a monochromatic appearance, For more beautiful look: create subtle contrasts with neutral colors and lively tones.
Eyes: try ivory, beige and gray eye shadow, and brown eyeliner.
Cheeks: choose blush in pale rose, fuchsia, pink or brown tones.
Lips: Choose rosy brown, red and glossy pink lipstick.
Makeup for dark brown hair :
Hair in dark brown can give you a pale look; the beauty tip is to add color to your face to balance this effect.
Eyes: Take a shade of ivory, brown or mocha, and dark brown or gray eyeliner.
Cheeks: for blush, try a rosy red tint, pink verging on brown or rosy brown.
Lips: choose a lipstick in brown, rosy brown or a plum purple.
Makeup for red hair :
The amber tone of your hair warms your glow. For a perfect harmony between your makeup and your hair color, you must play by the complementarities.
Eyes: choose eye shadows in ivory, taupe or moss green; for eyeliner, go for reddish to dark brown.
The cheeks: for blush, try a brown, rosy brown or apricot.
Lips: choose a lipstick in peach, light brown, rosy brown or red.
Makeup for gray / white hair :
Gray hair can absorb the color of your face, that seems so bleached. You will restore vitality by using bright colors in cool tones.
Eyes: If you have blue eyes, choose a white or gray eye shadow and eyeliner in slate blue or navy blue.
The cheeks: for blush, try soft pink or coral.
Lips: choose a lipstick in natural color like pink, lively rose, coral, red or anything that can enhance your face.
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