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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Shape time to write.
In Search of Lost Time by bogenfreud, Flickr What if you could relate to time like art to sculpt instead of as a force to curse? I’ll make this quick because I know your clock time…
Renew Your Vows to Wonder
Myths About Writing Talent vs. The Writer’s Inner Game
Myth #1: Successful, gratified writers mostly have talent. Myth #2: Marketing & platform-building are the most important qualities for any writer to have a long-term career these days. A few years ago, a question troubled me. Among the many creatives…
Loners and Lovers: Advice for Creatives
In college, I ogled over a smoky black-and-white photograph of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. In their book-flooded study, Jean-Paul sits at his desk on one end of the room, and on the other side Simone sits at hers….
You only get one 2014. Make it your “Why not?” year.
Photo Credit: Danka Peter The Idea The idea started to congeal this past summer: In the past few years, I had offered a creative work flow series, an author’s mentorship program that sold out, and a…
Are You a Possibility Junkie?
Note to Readers: One joy of shifting from a DIY attitude to a DIT (Do It Together) mindset is that you get to work with talented people who lift you up. That’s my experience with Heidi Johnson. Heidi has trained…
