Monday, September 13, 2004

What shifts so I can be at ease? Recently I've been working intensively on my website and on getting going at eBay. I figured out how the website and eBay could synergize. I kept getting overwhelmed with all the details, though. I kept running into things I had to redo - again - and would lose patience. A few days ago something shifted, so I could work all day and into the evening without the frustraton. (OK, sometimes there was SOME frustration. I'm not a computer saint.) Something clicked into place and I just started calmly taking time to learn everything, a little bit at a time. If I needed to redo something 40 times, I just did it. Photos not right yet? Redo. Page not right yet? Redo. OK. It was wonderful to feel this shift. After it happened, I could see that part of the shift was accepting that I didn't know how to do a lot of stuff. I needed to take time to learn. Apparently at some level I'd been assuming I should already know how to do all these things. I should have all my photos already organized. I should...but it was all inexplciit so I couldn't see how silly it was. Whew. It feels much better to just do what needs to be done. This same shift happened last year when I was doing the photography so intensely. Overnight, I shifted into a mood of acceptance. "OK, I'll just do what it takes to learn this. Fifty rolls of film? Whatever it takes." It didn't take fifty rolls. And it didn't take THAT long to learn what I needed to learn to improve the website and set up shop at eBay. It was the "whatever it takes" attitude of acceptance that made everything pleasant and fun again. If I could just start out that way.... 10:53:40 PM    comment []

New leaf art painting at auction, plus more news  New auction at eBay - this small painting called "Trust Mystery." Bidding starts at $18. This is one of my favorite of my recent paintings. I've listed more new abstract paintings on my website, and opened an ebay store, Modern Abstract Art, that has the paintings and also some spontaneous "drawings of the inner spirit." I'll always have my best prices on my website, but ebay is the #1 most trusted internet shopping site. So you may prefer to browse through my artwork there. Also I have some prints there that aren't on the website yet. There are new articles on the site too. I'll be sending out a newsletter tomorrow to everyone who's subscribed to the weblog, so you'll get all the details and links. Meanwhile, if you're new to the weblog or can't wait till tomorrow (Tue.) morning, just browse through cjmorgan.com and enjoy. 10:00:13 PM    comment []