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Two weeks ago I wrote about purchasing and using new photographic software. At that time I used a few commands in the new software that I had used in the older version so I didn\u2019t use any new commands or learn anything new.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Earlier this week I worked on this week\u2019s challenge image and thought that I would try something I had never done before. The image showed the cards of a Royal Flush in poker but the cards were not in numerical value order. I wanted to change that and put the cards in order from highest to lowest value.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n I started by using some of the commands that I had used before, adding new layers, selecting, picking and moving the individual cards. <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Nothing worked to move the cards where I wanted them without covering up the cards that were already in that corresponding position and making it impossible to move the previous cards. <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n I kept trying new ways of using those previously used commands but it wasn\u2019t working. <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n It turned out that I was making the entire process more complicated than it needed to be!<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n When I successfully moved the first card where I wanted it and could still move the card it was replacing I realized that to accomplish that I had used commands that I had used before and (this was the trick) I used them in a way that I had used them before. <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Nothing new. No new commands or ways of using them. Same old, same old!<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n How often do we do the same thing in life? <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n How often do we think that to do something new we must forget everything we already know how to do?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n How often do we make life more complicated than it needs to be?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Many years ago I used to sign my emails with the following statement:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n All I want is a simple life, but life is not simple.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n I actually said that out loud this past week!<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Maybe life would be more simple if we stopped making things more complicated than they need to be. <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n