Big Ideas & Books & Brands
You can transform your best ideas for a better world into a business, brand, book, podcast, and platform. This collection introduces you to ways to face and finesse – instead of fight or flee from – the inevitable challenges to do so.
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Buzzing stories versus your Brave Story
And I wrote every day. Because I had to. Because it burned in me. Because we just don’t have much time. Because the Waiting Room is not a place to live. Because the Waiting Room is a place where something…
No easy promises to write a brave new story
Easy promises to write a book actually can destroy your self-confidence.
Is Obsessive Genius Your Model for Mastery?
The models of mastery that show all-or-nothing obsession are, I think, incomplete, inaccurate, and not useful for most of us business artists. What we hunger after, what we find so captivating, I think, in these stories and images of obsessive…
Practicing excellence & flow is not a privilege
In this disrupted economy rich with entrepreneurial king and queen makers, it’s tempting to slip into some fantasy, really a siren’s call, of luxury and easy routes and comfort.
“The Eureka Factor” and Your Creative Brain
A creative insight can be as small as landing on an angle for a blog post or as big as discovering a fresh angle for a new book or business launch.
The moment you gain such an insight flashes like lightning…
Why entrepreneurs & creatives succumb to bedtime procrastination
Let’s root bedtime procrastination within another conversation, the one about how we work and how we spend our time and attention outside of work in nourishing ways. Let’s call “how we spend our time and attention outside of work in…
