When you make yourself accountable, things will change To make yourself accountable might be something you can agree on without any more in-depth discussions. We all have to act with a certain degree of responsibility in our daily life. But to make yourself accountable to yourself could change the approach in some way.  You might be accountable to your boss at work, but are you accountable to yourself? How often are you working until late, only to fulfill a promise to your boss? ...

How To Make Self Discipline A Habit Motivational speaker Jim Rohn once said that self discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment, and that`s exactly what it is. No matter what goals you wish to achieve, you WILL need some degree of self discipline. Very often, self discipline will mean doing what you need to do even if you don`t feel like it. While motivation can get you started, after a while it will dissipate and the pursuit of your goals ...

Hello Everyone, I hope you have had a good week?  Today I wanted to write about watercolour, what I have learn’t so far.  I have been playing around with them on and off and for adding colour and paint mediums they are the most efficient for me.  I think it’s because of the ‘impressionistic’ feel they have. I have read and watched tutorials on watercolours to get some tips however the best thing I have found is to experiment with them and ...

Every one of us is seeking answers to several questions throughout our lifetime. The saying is true, living is a lifetime of learning. With Obscura, I refer to photography, which plays an important part in my life. I tell you later why is it so.I don't know how are you with this, but I have spent many many years living in a way that despite all the good happened, still left me with some uncertain feeling that I could be ...

Are you tired of the limited perks that come with your current job? Do you find yourself unhappy with your present job and want a way out? Then, it's time to find alternative sources of income to meet personal needs and for fulfillment in life. There are a variety of business and freelance ideas you can try to become financially self-reliant. With technology advancement and a growing online presence, you can now work from anywhere and escape daily boredom. Here are some ...

Hello Everyone, This week I wanted to discuss how to challenge your art skills, specifically with the ABC challenge.  This is where each day you take a letter of the alphabet and draw something that starts with that letter. Experimentation What I have discovered already and today is the day for the letter J is that it has led me to further my experimentation.  I have used watercolours, pencil, ink pen and markers so far in the last 10 days!  This experimentation if ...

Hello Everyone, It’s been a couple of weeks since I last wrote a blog post and I took a much needed break. I used the time to re-charge my batteries and to re-assess what I wanted to do with my art for this coming year. What to do when you have lots of art ideas? This was the question that popped into my head. Although I have improved my drawing skills a lot since March 2020 when I decided to start doing ...

This year you will make your 2021 resolution rock!  To make your 2021 resolution rock could be something to achieve more easily this year. The chaos, turbulence, or whatever label you would like to put on the pandemic is literally changing the game. What earlier was something obvious is no longer something to take for granted. As humans, we now appreciate things and happenings differently. A new year is rolling out, and if you have a plan in place with the five ...

Change your new year's resolution 2021 to a success story  New year's resolution 2021 can be an overwhelming thing this year. The pandemic, and everything around it, is changing absolutely everything in your life. Setting a new year's resolution will follow the same path. The impact of the turbulence around Covid-19 will definitely influence a lot on how you will design your new year's resolution 2021. At the same time that you notice that 2020 has been a challenging year, you will also ...

Do the right questions to Santa Claus and you'll get the correct answers  The questions to Santa Claus have always been a curious entertainment. There are tons of awesome questions to Santa Claus made by children all over the world. As parents, we see this more like an entertaining and fun spectacle while our kids still believe in Santa. This old tradition will always survive as a joyful cultural element in society. With the turbulence and all drama the pandemic is producing, ...

Hello Everyone, Still exploring and drawing faces this week.  I was not sure what I was going to write about this week as not much has happened since last week other than I have been focusing on faces again. References I have been diving into reference images on Pinterest and using them to really focus on how I use them and to understand further the places and angles of the face. I wanted to push beyond the full on, three quarter and side ...

Miracles might happen when you leverage your passion! To leverage your passion happens when you jump into your sneakers and start running at 5 AM? What motivates a guy to go out and run 30km on Sunday morning instead of staying in bed and resting? How come that a 62 years person quits his corporate job to start his own business? All this type of questions boils down to one single word: Passion! So far, so good, but what is passion? How do you define ...

The working mom is accused of not being a good mom because she leaves her child in the care of others, so she is selfish. The housewife mom is considered too pushy and lazy; the anxious mom is wrong; the mom who lets her child explore things is accused of raising a wild kid. All mothers are blamed continuously, belittled, and emotionally humiliated. Why? Find out here: https://livingmydigitallife.com/2020/12/07/we-live-in-a-society-that-wants-to-crush-the-maternal-instinct/  

Hello Everyone, Well I did my first pencil coloured drawing in over 20 years this week!!! I decided to use an image I found on Pinterest to draw of some pink hair as I just wanted to work out myself how to build it up. Selecting my own colours following the light and shade areas and then once I had mapped it out I just went with the flow. What I Learnt What was interesting was how many times I changed the colours ...

This post is intended to assist readers interested in Elysium's Passage blogs to rapidly find and access over 100 posts on this site. Section A lists the majority of topics without regard to subject or posted dates. Section B lists the first four chapters of Elysium's Passage: The Ascent and Series Prologue.  Section C relates to personal profiles. Section D has a number of my photos, including pictures of my mountain climbing adventures and my cabin retreat in the foothills SW of Calgary. Section E is a list of ...

To access more Elysium's Passage blog postings:https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-postsor https://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakens                                                                     Carl Jung                                                              ...

For more Elysium''s Passage Blog Posts, go to  https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts for over 125 links orhttps://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage for the host site _______________________________________________ REALITY: WHAT A CONCEPT You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing                                                                    ...

For more Elysium''s Passage Blog Posts, go to  https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts for over 130 post links orhttps://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage for the host site January 17, 2021 REALITY: WHAT A CONCEPT  Often materialist and physicalists (not to be confused with 'physicists') hate this kind of talk about spirit. One of my best friends, an engineer, but educated as a physicist, was always taking swipes at Heisenberg and Superstring theorists. Recently he, or at least his body, died, and so now I'm dying... to find what his perspectives on spirit and ...

For more Elysium''s Passage Blog Posts, go to  https://digitalbloggers.com/arts-and-entertainment/ep-blog-posts for over 130 links orhttps://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage for the host site FREE SPEECH VS CENSORSHIP 'Emancipate yourself from mental slavery'  Bob Marley .We are experiencing a time of censorship like never before in this world where the powerful corporations and governments control ideology and the flow of information. We are all familiar with Big Tech's propensity to eliminate what doesn't fit their narrative. Even on the local level, many are afraid to express their opinion when they hold ...

For more blog postings https://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassageFor the URL listings, go to https://digitalbloggers.com/articles/elysiumspassage     Man is what he believes.     Anton Chekhov So which is it: I'll believe it when I see it.... or I'll see it when I believe it? And yet, is not each perspective a legitimate choice? The skeptic tends to believe what they see, whereas the believer often believes what they wish to see; what they wish to manifest. A believer might say that belief is more than just what they wish to see, ...