Journal

Good Advice

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“Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.” 

– Jane Kenyon

The Ideal Life

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Lately, I’ve been thinking of the optimal lifestyle and how to get the best out of life.

How can I better my existence?

An ideal lifestyle is one you have to define for yourself. So if I wanted to focus on creativity and photography, I will need to build this up for myself. Surround myself with the proper tools and investing into this lifestyle. I currently have a great home office, but I need a studio in which to set up and host portraiture somehow. Something simple, minimal and easily accessible. For now, it isn’t feasible, but it is certainly a goal of mine. Truth be told, I really want to double down on this idea, but unsure of how to progress towards it.

I need to be active. To create, act, explore and this involves time outside my home office, whatever that looks like such as- on the streets, at the pub, hiking, road trips, etc. I am at my happiest when I am out and about with a camera, trying to maximize fitness at the same time. Everything improves for me with this, including more thinking, more problems-solving and more idea creations. The more mobile for me, the better.

Now and in the future, I need to invest in myself. I can invest in the future, but what about right now? What can I do to make my world better today? What can I attempt or pursue today that will pay off immediately, as well as the future?

I must become more focused on the self and prioritize my needs and wants before it is too late. I’ve been focused on pleasing others that I may be missing out. Time to make myself and my creativity a priority.

For years, I have been sharing and publishing my craft and my words to the WWW, with varying results. In the past, there was interaction and engagement but with the invention of social media, the interaction has been limited. Weird how that works – social media without the socializing. I need to find a way to bridge the gap and start interacting with others again. There are three ways I have created here that can do just that – subscribe to the newsletter (see below), subscribe to the RSS feed and email (say hello@chrisdenbow.website)

Extra Extra!

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This website has a newsletter subscription. Now you too can get infrequent, rambling and just a tad insightful commentary on anything I feel like sharing in your e-mail inbox.

What will not be shared is your personal information, privacy, or advertising. I detest these violating practices and promise not to violate your trust.

So why a newsletter and why now? An easy question gets an easy reply: I am not on social media or writing to other publishing firms like I have in the past and therefore need to expand my “reach.”

The newsletter is a first effort hosted through my website and server host so it is def on the cheap. There will be a lot of learning, tweaks and formatting along the way.

The invitation to receive a newsletter <— can be done by clicking that link, will be at the bottom of every post (see below), and on the page footer (see even further below.)

This is a third option in an effort to connect and communicate using the tried and true internet protocols: e-mail, RSS and newsletter. Thanks for your interest!

RSS feed: https://chrisdenbow.website/feed

E-mail:  hello@chrisdenbow.website

Overthink Before I Act

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Give yourself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

This website has seen a lot of documentation on tools, workflow, and productivity. I would rather not have a workflow, I don’t want to talk about it anymore and just do something rather than talk about the process or the tools used to achieve it. Less talking and more producing because I want to create.

Moreover, I, oscillate between digital and analog based on however I am feeling on any given day 1or hour, honestly Do I grab a digital camera and notate with Bear Notes or do I grab a film camera along with a pen and journal?

Of course, we all know that I will waffle and then proceed to discuss my tools, workflow, and productivity. This helps me understand the thought process when I look back through the Archives and to track progress.