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Here’s to the true creative heroes.

Here’s to the creative heroes – the people you admire and who reflect the best in you back.

The people who risk their comfort to make part of the world a little better.

The people who will not be hushed, squashed, or swept aside in service of their creative medicine.

The people who still work hard every day because they find value in real work and in the soul of craft.

Why business artists & creatives need to climb trees instead of ladders
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Why business artists & creatives need to climb trees instead of ladders

My unstoppable productivity can exhaust the best parts of my mind. My “optimized” studio – with standing desk and white board walls and the best digital equipment and the best books at my disposal – sometimes cheers on Captain Productivity a bit too enthusiastically. To snap the Captain out of his usual modus operandis, I…

The Art of Wandering for Writers & Business Artists
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The Art of Wandering for Writers & Business Artists

“I was cultivating stupidity.” That’s what Andre Dubus III said when he wrote his first memoir, Townie. The son of a prominent short story writer, Dubus had met success as a novelist, the least of his successes being that The House of Fog and Sand has membership in Oprah’s club. But when it came to…

Who holds the big picture for you and reflects it back?
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Who holds the big picture for you and reflects it back?

One of our greatest needs as business artists is for our best self to be seen and for a vision of that best self’s quest to be held and mirrored back to us. Earlier this week, a beloved client and Tracking Wonder enthusiast sent me a note that linked to this blog post by the…