Finding time to do your most creative work is hard. An optimal work-and-create flow is an extended period of time in which your mind and body are performing at their best when engaged in high-thinking and high-imagining tasks and projects. You sustain focus, your body’s fire stays stoked, your attitude flourishes, your imagination hangs from…
Every December, Tracking Wonder gathers a dynamic group of individuals for a free online program we call Quest: 12 days of collective envisioning with 12 inspiring influencers, providing instigations and insights for those on a quest to do business as unusual in the new year. Together, we seek meaning, integrity, and impact in life…
Every December, Tracking Wonder gathers a dynamic group of individuals for a free online program we call Quest: 12 days of collective envisioning with 12 inspiring influencers, providing instigations and insights for those on a quest to do business as unusual in the new year. Together, we seek meaning, integrity, and impact in…
In June 2014, I kept hearing a rumble underfoot. People were frustrated. Hard-working people. People stifled in Silicon Valley start-ups that perpetuate business-as-usual tactics in new guise. People in digital entrepreneurship turned off by get-rich-and-famous-quick promises that perpetuate more of the same on a new medium. I tuned in. I tuned in with what bothered…
Two Deaths The first death: William Deresiewicz of The Atlantic described the traditional artist’s death in his article from January 2015, “The Death of the Artist – and the Rise of the Creative Entrepreneur.” Deresiewicz confirms what we at Tracking Wonder Consultancy have been tuned into for a while – that the creative entrepreneur is…
In 1972, the post-Beatles music scene felt dour, pompous, overly earnest. Then, came Ziggy. Ziggy was a fictional character borne of David Bowie’s imagination, biography, and possibly his encounters with another musician obsessed with UFOs. Bowie and his alter ego gifted the music scene with elaborate performance art, social poetry and commentary about the rock…
Those dualities – mind/gut, heart/mind, head/body – don’t really make sense. Unfortunately, these well-intended admonitions can create civil wars within your mind. I’ve witnessed those wars over and over again in the people with whom I’ve worked and talked with.
We each have the capacity to enact the poetical science of business artistry ourselves. It just takes exponentially longer, is lonelier, and is potentially not as effective than if we created and innovated more spaces to collaborate and debate.
I’m listening to how shifts in the economy are changing our attitudes toward making art and making a living. Let’s get perspective. Whether you learn toward making art or making money, I want to challenge you with potent reframes.
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