NO to Even Good Ideas

Steve Jobs believed it was important to say NO to even good ideas. Only one or two major initiatives going on at once.

I have no idea of the actual source for this but it was tweeted out tonight.  Regardless if Steve Jobs actually believed this, it’s advice that my mind could use.  Heck, it’s not even like I have good ideas but think they are for a moment in time long enough to purchase a domain.  Waves are made with focused intensity and that is something I’ve struggled with for a long time now.  I need to drop the need to try and prove I can have lots of good ideas. I need to drop the need to try and prove I can shoot any kind of photography, or do any kind of art, or do any kind of job.  Say NO to even the good ideas or to the things I know I could do (just to prove it to people I don’t know or like).  I have nothing to prove with good ideas. I don’t need to prove anything about myself in order to feel worthy.

I would much rather something great that proves the compassion in the human narrative and proves the sheer magnitude of human creativity.

Free-Writing to Free my Mind

Don’t worry, I promise not to post this kind of thing everyday.  I don’t use it everyday, but I plan to get back into it and see if I can beat my 30 consecutive day record.  The point is that freeform writing really helps my free my mind from certain thoughts. The act of writing gets the surface “stuff” out and lets the deeper creativity rise to the top. In freeform or free-writing, you just keep writing.  I pretty much do it for a lot of my blog posts too, unless it’s at nuwomb.com and I’m trying to write better.

If you are interested, the site I use is called 750words.com and it’s based around a book called The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. Julia encourages you to write 750 words each day. It’s not as easy as it sounds but amazing things can happen when you do this. Another author, Mark Levy, recommends this type of freeform writing as well. He wrote a book called The Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content. I’ve read parts of it.

Bottom line is that I was reminded, today, of how much it can help to free me from certain thoughts.

Now I can get on with my day!

PS. I noted in my last post about moving nuwomb.com to WP Engine and shared a screenshot. Well, if you were to go to nuwomb.com now, the page is a hint different. This means it’s now on the WP Engine server. I’m working through a few of the site niggles (I love that I learned this word via WooThemes) and the site will be up again tomorrow morning!

NUWOMB is Moving

I’ve changed the DNS and waiting for it to propagate. There will be a few things for me to go over once it’s loading NUWOMB on the WP Engine server but that will be gravy at that point.  I’m simply blown away by WP Engine and need to explain everything I have experienced thus far in a future post on nuwomb.com.

Time for a fast website! Time for a host that will handle the graphic nature of the site.

Check out WP Engine for yourself.

Shopping Cart Styles

I’ve modified the shopping cart widget that comes with WooCommerce and in the Merchant Commerce Theme.

Sexy Style for WooCommerce Shopping cart and Merchant Commerce

It’s something that I’ll possibly use on all my sites as they transition to the merchant theme for a brand consistency. Soon enough, I’m going to list some of my Instagram / iPhone photography for sale on Nuwomb.com. It seems like the most like the best place for it since there is a lot of that discussion there already. I’m looking to show photographers that they don’t have to depend on these 3rd party print sale type websites.

I may never sell a print, but I can try and lead by example.