The Path of Solitude vs Collaboration
To what extent do you shape time to be in solitude? And the corollary question, to what extent do you pursue right collaboration?
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Does Productivity Leave Enough Time for Creative Thinking?
Thinking as an entrepreneur or creative, we continually want to advance our best work. But there may be a danger in becoming so attached to productivity that we miss a core part of the creative process. Where is the balance…
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Where Do You Belong?
We often seek belonging by matching like with like. In a new group setting, our adaptive instincts seek “likes” (Is she like me? Do I have something in common with him?) instead of differences. Older boys used to heckle me when I was 6, 9, even 12 because I had long blond hair. I fought for my hair. Small-framed me, beat up boys bigger than me. Yep, my little fist on a bigger boy’s face. I was a peaceful kid until I wasn’t. I kept my hair long even if it meant I didn’t instantly belong.
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Tapping into Creative Collaboration
Collaboration, it turns out, is essential for creative productivity and innovation. The New York socialite Mabel Dodge knew something about putting talented, engaging people from different backgrounds and creative media in the same room. With the right atmosphere and combination…
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Content Marketing: Ideas for Shaping Your Brand Story
If you can make people feel something you can generally grab their attention. Your brand story matters because your why is the powerful driving force getting you out of bed even on the days you’d rather roll over, ignore what needs…
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Learning: The New ROI
Whatever it is you’re building, creating, or advancing, when you think of your return on investment, weigh it on what you learn in the process. This is often over looked or not calculated into the final ROI at all. Backstory…
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Use Writing to Discover Your Brand and Business
Whether you tag yourself “writer” or not, writing can feed the ideas you’re obsessed with and the questions you’re living and that your brand and business is delivering on. Writing can inform your brand’s integrity. And if you’re in transition…
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Persistent Sprints Build Books & Businesses
Are you time-strapped or focus-challenged, but keen on writing a book or have a business to build? It might seem counter-intuitive – even threatening to your cherished beliefs – to imagine writing a book or building your signature business Story 15,…
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12 Riffs to Help Boost Creativity & Shape Time
Creative professionals and practitioners are either Time Crunchers (pressed for our own time) or Time Stretchers (self-employed creatives who own their time). Both categories benefit from mastering the art of shaping time. Creativity is not about waiting for the muse to show up. Productive creativity is about shaping time to show up for the muse.
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How to Stop Fighting Time
We business artists are blessed and cursed with a generative mind – the ability to come up with lots of ideas. You may be feeling the effect of shifting cultural causes calling you to act. How do you find the time…
