This document discusses paying attention to one's surroundings. It describes a bookstore with many unique details that the narrator had not noticed on previous visits, such as lamps hanging from the high ceiling, a corner with gourmet food items, and couches for reading. The document emphasizes that paying attention can lead to positive outcomes, like identifying opportunities or gaining new perspectives, even if it sometimes brings negative feelings. It concludes that being observant of one's environment is important and can enrich one's life.

2. Calm Customers
vintag friends & couples
Impulse items near cash
e register
browsing and
touching
merchandise
atmosphere that
makes you feel good
Colorful & warm
store High
ceiling..
you
Unique breath…
products
eco
Cash register
friendly
Packaging
Open doors you feel a smell that
welcomed a
takes you
doorknob never
away
noticed before…

3. Paying
attention
sometimes
has
Negative
feelings not
Free delivery never
felt before
noticed before..!!!

4. GREAT SMELL BUT… WHY
WHY
WHY so many
“delicious” flowers
in an so untidy and
disordered
store???
 the owner said
that he is going to
give up everything
and move to an
island...
Too slippery

5. In Greece in a cloudy and windy day…very few wash their car…why?
There is an OPPORTUNITY somewhere here…
In the store Impulse items
Employees are really bored or paid to be waiting… so I thought to wash mine…
By paying attention
and wondering… I got
the chance to wash my
car in a day that I
probably wouldn’t…
and identify an
opportunity…

6. A little bit of everything!...
WARNING: DO YOU REALLY WANT TO PAY ATTENTION ?
small and fully packed don’t go unless you have a need for something specific
with merchandise don’t go with your kids
don’t stay for long because you will get fat and it’s also
not good for your health

7. WARNING: DO OBSERVE DO PAY ATTENTION
One of my favorite stores and so many
The Store Window
things never noticed? How can it be?
Have a seat
and relax with
a book?
Where was
that?
An Art point?
You can have a tea while browsing
the endless variety of books
or while relaxing with a book.
Really?
16 round lamp lights Well, I had never asked before…
A corner of high quality
hanging from the ceiling gourmet organic products next to the cash register and never seen
before? Was I blind?

8. A yellow light hidden in a minimal modern construction
of natural reed
Let’s go to the first floor Two couches to read and relax
Was it yellow?
A palette that instead
of color has light!
A book shelve
display Little colorful puzzle tables
through the
whole stair
The view from above

9. …but apart from the nice atmosphere, the overall feeling that really keeps you
in this store and all the things noticed or not.. what makes the difference
in every business and every project are the people working there
and for me in this bookstore is Eftihia
Eftihia is a historian and an archeologist and she is always there for me
to ask her advice or opinion. She completes the image of the store and
maybe she is the reason why I never felt the need to observe all those things
that I should have of course, and that were so obvious around me in plain sight.

10. Paying attention and the effect on me
Paying attention and really seeing
must be a part of my everyday life, it
really gives food for thought.
No matter if what you observe will
give negative or positive feelings..,
the thing is that it will definitely
give you something.
Something for you to decide,
to think over, to laugh,
to reject, to remember, to innovate,
to excuse, to evaluate, to
recognize, to make your life more
interesting
to find a solution, to challenge
yourself, to uncover an
opportunity...
Thank you
Christina Tampourea