The Did Ya Notice? Project

The Did Ya Notice? Project www.DidYaNotice.com Noticing is alert mindfulness. Notice small things and patterns that will enhance your life. The Noticer’s Guide to Living and Laughing

Noticing is the secret missing ingredient for work-life balance. Did Ya Notice that most people, even people who are trying hard to balance work and personal lives, hustle and bustle from thing to thing and place to place, and never notice what they can see? We talk about balancing or integrating work and personal life. But even if we succeed to a reasonable extent, something is still missing. We

are still hustling and bustling (H&B'ing) to get things done at work, and we are H&B’ing to get things done for our families, our communities, and ourselves. But with all this H&B, life is still passing us by --- if we don’t notice it! Noticing can make us happy. And noticing is the secret, missing ingredient for work-life balance! To Notice is To Live! Our Chief Noticing Officer is like the late Andy Rooney, but with neater eyebrows. She combines Rooney-like grumpiness with a dose of wide-eyed amazement and a dollop of laughter. She knows that To Notice is To Live and that this is the secret, missing ingredient to work-life balance. www.didyanotice.com

Gender inequality revealed at the foot!
04/15/2020

Gender inequality revealed at the foot!

I recently saw a page in the New York Times that made me realize that gender equality still has incredibly far to go. No, this wasn’t an article about the pay gap or glass ceiling or, simply, housework. This wasn’t an article at all. It was two ads on the same page. You

The best things are not an average; they are a little of this and a little of that.
04/15/2020

The best things are not an average; they are a little of this and a little of that.

Today I was lucky. I got to take a couple of lovely walks on a perfect fall day. (Yes, I live in a climate with four seasons.) I started to think the weather was quintessential in-between. In between summer and winter. But then I realized it wasn’t in-between at all. In the sun, i

Is that Humphrey Bogart on the train platform?
04/13/2020

Is that Humphrey Bogart on the train platform?

In my view, trains win, hands-down. I love trains! Trains are romantic. Think Orient Express. OMG - think Casablanca!! On a train trip, the time from here to there is still lengthy, but it passes pleasantly. I like to stare out the window. First I try for the umpteenth time to figure out the

David McCullough uses a manual typewriter to write his great books. I am a kindred spirit.
04/12/2020

David McCullough uses a manual typewriter to write his great books. I am a kindred spirit.

Right up front here I want to state that I am a Laggard. I feel disdain coming at me from all sides and I want to tell the world, right here and now, that I want to be loved. The dictionary defines a laggard as “a person who does not move as quickly as others”. Well, I&rs

5 rules for living
04/11/2020

5 rules for living

My brother dropped dead last week. I am sorry to start a Noticing in such a depressing way, but in fact, that is what happened. He had a sudden heart attack and was gone. So this blog post is probably the most presumptuous kind of writing you can read. Who am I to tell you how to live a life? Of

Keep your eye on the goal. Yes, but we also need to look in the rear view mirror sometimes so we can gauge how far we’ve...
04/11/2020

Keep your eye on the goal. Yes, but we also need to look in the rear view mirror sometimes so we can gauge how far we’ve come – and celebrate!

Isn’t this a cool photo? The clouds in back of the car are reflected in the rear view mirror and match the clouds in the sky in front of our moving car. It made me reflect on looking back and looking forward. And that is what we do a lot of in January of each year, don’t we?

I wish you a lopsided heart – a bigger side expanded by laughter and love; the smaller side contracted by inevitable sad...
04/09/2020

I wish you a lopsided heart – a bigger side expanded by laughter and love; the smaller side contracted by inevitable sadnesses.

I have been thinking about the heart lately. As I told you in my last post, How To Live a Life , my brother died of a sudden heart attack a month ago. (And thank you for all your lovely condolences. Each one is very much appreciated.) Coincidentally to this tragedy, I had been undergoing some

I do social media kicking and screaming. I would prefer communication with a quill and parchment, written in beautiful c...
04/08/2020

I do social media kicking and screaming. I would prefer communication with a quill and parchment, written in beautiful cursive.

Gee. I haven’t talked with you in a while. I wonder how you are.  But…how am I supposed to communicate with you? It seems I must be adaptable if I actually desire a response.   Well, if you are my good friend and we have been through lots together (this m

It is helpful to develop the ability to find our lack of abilities very funny.
04/07/2020

It is helpful to develop the ability to find our lack of abilities very funny.

Let’s get back to Human Idiosyn-Crazies ™. You remember what these are, right? I have a whole section in The Noticer’s Guide to Living and Laughing about them. They are the endearingly dumb things we all do. See this photo? I just wanted to get a piece of s

Noticing takes curiosity. It takes curiosity to notice them, to wonder about them, to make them part of your life.
04/07/2020

Noticing takes curiosity. It takes curiosity to notice them, to wonder about them, to make them part of your life.

Yes Noticing and curiosity are siblings. You must be curious in order to Notice. Otherwise, you see things all the time, but they don’t register. It takes curiosity to note them, to wonder about them, to make them part of your life. Consider two people walking down the street togeth

It might be worth your time to make two lists: Things I am Curious About and Things I Couldn’t Care Less About.
04/05/2020

It might be worth your time to make two lists: Things I am Curious About and Things I Couldn’t Care Less About.

Last week I wrote about how I am nosy and like to poke my big nose into things. That Noticing got me to thinking about what I am not nosy or curious about. There are, indeed, things that I don’t want to know anything about. How about you? It might be worth your time to make two lists &am

Radically amazing inventions: zipper, trashcan, overcoat, newspaper, and that bumpy rubber thingy that grips the cap of ...
04/04/2020

Radically amazing inventions: zipper, trashcan, overcoat, newspaper, and that bumpy rubber thingy that grips the cap of a bottle!

There is a section in The Noticer’s Guide to Living and Laughing , called Amazing Inventions Noticings. In that section I talk about the absolutely amazing zipper, trashcan, lettuce spinner, overcoat, and newspaper. There are so many more amazing inventions, but today I want to point out

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