The Digital Gem for January is a tool for developing your personal power through relaxation and rejuvenation.

Unlike most digital resources, there’s absolutely nothing to learn, and no charge whatsoever. All you need is a computer and a six minutes to enjoy this free guided meditation by Sally Canning, who is a catalyst for personal growth.

This is an easy way to snag a few minutes to your self and indulge in some self care. Perfect for beating the winter blues. Ideal for strengthening your personal power and confidence! Give it a go and let me know what you think?!

Extreme Self Care

A guide to owning your personal power. A lovely grounding few minutes of relaxation and recharging time to yourself.

Digital Gems features ideas for enjoying your digital life and brightening your digital landscape. The series showcases suggestions that connect with the energy of the season and focus is on bringing more ease and simplicity to your digital life.

Winter      inner life and restoration
Spring       planning and renewal
Summer   activity and completion
Autumn    harvest and gratitude

Feel free to share your thoughts! What are your biggest challenges in your digital life? Which are your suggestions for a simple, easy digital life?

Purple Grapes folder icons come in rich shades of purple, famous varieties of the finest cultivated grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Rioja, Syrah and Zinfandel. Perfectly  matched with shades of purple and russet in the abstract Golden Ratio Autumn Wallpaper or with the wild and dreamy Montage Wallpaper.

The series of Vintage Folder Icons is inspired by vintage textures, retro textiles and Technicolor films and bring a hint of nostalgia and glamour to your digital environment. Vintage Folder Icons go perfectly together with the popular series, Luminous Folder Icons and help you get stuff done by color coding your projects.

Purple icons on golden ratio autumn wallpaper

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The Complete Series of Vintage Folder Icons:

Seaside
A Walk in the Park
New Leaf

Why I Left Facebook

• I realised that Facebook wasn’t making me feel more connected, instead it was making me feel more disconnected.
• I’d rather put my time and efforts into maintaining deep relationships. Quality over quantity.
• I’d never “found my voice” for socialising on Facebook. In the context, I felt awkward about sharing anything personal enough to be interesting.
• Even if I didn’t use Facebook to communicate on a personal level, I would still have a nagging feeling that I ought to check in to make sure I wasn’t missing anything. More of an obligation than anything else.
• Finding focus and flow, space for creativity and slow life means making conscious decisions for which parts of the internet I want to keep in my daily life and which ones I can leave aside.

Paradox of Our Time

It’s a paradox of our time that we are at once hyperconnected, and can conveniently stay in touch with large numbers of people, but at once feel more lonely and lack close friendship. The ability to share everything instantly with a large group of people seems to dilute the personal value, trivialising it, so that broadcasting status updates strips away the intimacy that’s generated when sharing in one-to-one communication.

Status update: in the present. 

Related Reading

With friends like these … Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian

With 8 folder icons in vibrant shades of green, blue and yellow, New Leaf folder icons bring a touch of a green landscape with  blue skies and a minimalist vintage touch to your desktop. Works beautifully together with Daffodil Wallpaper.

The series of Vintage Folder Icons is inspired by vintage textures, retro textiles and Technicolor films and bring a hint of nostalgia and glamour to your digital environment. Vintage Folder Icons go perfectly together with the popular series, Luminous Folder Icons and help you get stuff done by color coding your projects.

New Leaf Icons on Daffodil Wallpaper

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The Complete Series of Vintage Folder Icons:

Seaside
A Walk in the Park
New Leaf

Introducing a simple, muted and minimalist range of icons to the collection of Luminous Folder Icons.

Inspired by a winter landscape in black and white. Greys, browns with patches of melting ice and snow. Ten icons in colours borrowed from winter: Black, Midnight, Coal, Graphite, Pencil, Thunder, Aluminum, Silver, Pearl and White.

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The Complete Series of Luminous Icons:

Luminous Blue Folder Icons
Luminous Ready Steady Go (red, yellow & green)
Luminous Greyscale Icons
Luminous Purple Folder Icons
Luminous Orange Folder Icons
Luminous Pink Folder Icons

Organizer Desktop Icons Updated

In connection with releasing a new set of icons, Process Desktop Icons, I also updated the collection of Organizer Desktop Icons with four new icons. The new icons are Dreaded Report, Report and Pen, Report with Chart and First Aid.

Customers who bought the icons before the update, get the updated collection free of charge, so keep your eye on your inbox and please do let me know if you’ve changed your e-mail address recently.

I’m happy to announce the release of Process Icons, a collection of thirteen stylish desktop icons that help you stay on target with ease. Icons to help you get things done by showing you where you are in your process.

The Collection of Process Icons do the job when you need to know at a quick glance what’s overdue or urgent, what needs to be done today, and which one is the final and approved version. When you need to quickly find your sketches and drafts, the projects you’re working on just now as well as the important files you keep safe.

This collection comes with a set of bonus calendar icons (with the days of the month from 1-31) that help you keep track of important dates and deadlines.

These icons are part of a series with four collections of Productive Icons that help you get unstuck and work with ease. Available collections: Process Icons, Workflow Icons, Organizer Icons and Creative Icons.

A Walk in the Park

With six folder icons in red, orange, grey, green, yellow and brown, A Walk in the Park folder icons bring the fresh breeze of the outdoors and a minimalist vintage touch to your desktop. Also available in red, blue and sand “Seaside”.

The series of Vintage Folder Icons is inspired by vintage textures, retro textiles and Technicolor films and bring a hint of nostalgia and glamour to your digital environment. Vintage Folder Icons go perfectly together with the popular series, Luminous Folder Icons and help you get stuff done by color coding your projects.

Vintage Folder Icons: A Walk in the Park

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