Family: How to organise your digital and traditional photographs in a single system

How to organise your digital and traditional photographs in a single system

Written by Kesh Morjaria

Digital photography promises much. Store your photographs on your computer, print them when you want, email them to friends and family – share them to your heart’s content. Couldn’t be easier, could it? So how come that for most of us storing and sharing our photographs is a bit of a nightmare? The ease of using a digital camera is its very undoing. It’s easy to take some shots and then ‘work on them later’. The trouble is that ‘later’ doesn’t happen often enough and we build up a huge backlog of images that we have to sort and process. That’s where things start to get untidy. Very soon you won’t know what you’ve printed or you won’t be able to find repparttar

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Greek philosopher Hesiod put it nearly 3,000 years ago, “It is best to do things systematically and disorder is our worst enemy.” You need to plan a system for processing your photographs and be systematic in everything you do You probably remember that after repparttar 111267

thrill of your first digital camera, you began to realize some of its limitations. Without a computer or other digital device, it’s hard to share them with granny or repparttar 111268

cousins back home. You realize that you have to have traditional prints to pass around and share. So repparttar 111269

planning system you adopt must cater for both digital and physical prints – you need a single system that organizes both and ensures your precious memories are stored forever. Here’s a six point plan to establishing your own system. 1. Decide how you want to organise your photographs Without a system, you’ll just get a list of meaningless file names. The longer this goes on, repparttar 111270

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photos that you want. You’ve got to have a system – a way of organising – one that suits you. I choose to organise my photos by event – but you could do it by date, by family member or by whatever is meaningful to you. Under ‘My Pictures’ on my hard drive, I have four sub-folders – Family, Business, Holidays and ‘The Best’. The first three are self-explanatory; ‘The Best’ is where I keep images of which I’m particularly proud.

The Five Best Gifts to Give Your Family

Written by Margaret Paul, Ph.D.

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Title: The Five Best Gifts to Give Your Family Author: Margaret Paul, Ph.D. E-mail: mailto:margaret@innerbonding.com Copyright: © 2003 by Margaret Paul Web Address: http://www.innerbonding.com Word Count: 744 Category: Parenting, Relationships

THE FIVE BEST GIFTS TO GIVE YOUR FAMILY By Margaret Paul, Ph.D.

When we think of giving gifts, we usually think of things to buy for people. Yet if you think back on gifts you’ve been given, it might not be repparttar 111265 material gifts you received that are foremost in your mind – it might be repparttar 111266 kind of gifts that deeply touched your heart and soul. It might be various ways, other than material things, that people expressed their love to you.

There are five gifts of love that we can give to our families that can make a huge difference in their lives.

THE GIFT OF CARING AND COMPASSION

We all yearn to feel cared for, yet many of us withhold caring and compassion for others. A profound gift we can give to our loved ones is to listen with our heart, to understand and accept rather than to judge, and to stay open to learning rather than to protect against being hurt.

Think about repparttar 111267 last time someone actually listened to you and gave you understanding and acceptance. The feeling of being understood and accepted with caring and compassion is one of repparttar 111268 best feelings in repparttar 111269 world. Instead of focusing on getting this from others, why not focus on giving it to others? You might be surprised at how wonderful you feel in giving this gift to your family.

THE GIFT OF COURAGE

One of repparttar 111270 best gifts we can give our loved ones is our own courage. This means being having repparttar 111271 courage to stand in our truth, to be honest about what we want and don’t want, what we will do and won’t do, what is and what is not acceptable to us. It means having repparttar 111272 courage to take good care of ourselves, even if others don’t like it. It means not succumbing to our controlling behaviors that come from fear: anger, withdrawal, compliance, resistance, but instead being honest and above-board about ourselves. It means being willing to face conflict rather than give ourselves up to avoid it.

When we have repparttar 111273 courage to face conflict and tell repparttar 111274 truth, we not only provide our family with a role model for courage, but we provide opportunities for our loved ones to step up to repparttar 111275 plate in repparttar 111276 face of our truth and learn to be courageous too.

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