Creativity

No vs. Not Now

I’ve had to take a lot of my own medicine over the last couple of months. I’ve always had a bigger vision than Productive Flourishing, the website, as much as I’m proud of what we’ve built thus far. Here recently, a piece of my broader vision has taken hold something fierce. It’s woken me up [...]

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The Power Of Pause

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Todd Henry of Accidental Creative. Several years ago my media consumption habits were turned upside down when a friend introduced me to the wonders of the DVR. Though it seems almost laughable now, up to that point if I wanted to watch a television show, movie or [...]

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Build From the Red Line, Not The Deadline

Imagine that during a normal week, you set goals and deadlines that assume you’ll be able to do, say, 10 units of creative work. And that, during a normal week, you actually get 4 units of creative work done. Imagine that during light weeks, you set goals and deadlines that you’ll be able to do, [...]

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Are You the Root of Your Own Resistance?

Be careful about how much power you give to the concept of “Resistance.” I appreciate how Steven Pressfield writes about it and uses it, but an overuse sets up the situation in which anytime we don’t want to do something, it’s Resistance at fault. Understanding Resistance as an external force obscures the fact that we, [...]

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On Blogs Being Dead

Blogs aren’t dead, but the way in which they sit in the web of content is different than it was a mere year ago. The new technological options are just that, and it’s our use of them that we need to be more aware of.

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The Two Legs of the Relevancy Journey

The journey of relevancy is split between becoming relevant and remaining relevant. What are you going to do to remain relevant?

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Don’t Let Your Hyper-Creativity Stifle Your Business

One of the chief competitive advantages of small creative businesses is that we can quickly create new business opportunities and innovations. We can turn on a dime and accelerate to 60 in seconds, as opposed to much larger business that get stuck in managerial bloat, review processes, and shareholder concerns. Small businesses that aren’t leveraging [...]

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Two Reasons Why Systems Give Some People The Hives

[Note: if you're reading this via email or RSS, you might need to click through to watch the video.] I was on a call for the Havi’s Kitchen Table yesterday and someone mentioned that systems gave them the hives. I gave a longer discussion about this yesterday, but I’ve been thinking about it for a [...]

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How To Be Creative And Productive In Every Stage Of A Project

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Cath Duncan from Agile Living and The Bottom-line Bookclub Every project is also a change on some level. The phenomenon of change within individuals and bigger systems has been studied widely and it’s been found that change isn’t as chaotic and random as it often feels. There [...]

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