Creativity

You Won’t See Your Big Hit Ahead of Time

If you listen to the stories artists tell about their careers, you’ll often hear them admit that their hits were something they never saw coming. This cuts across artistic endeavors. I tweeted yesterday that How To Flourish: 17 Quotes on Living, Being, and Doing was going viral yet again with near 10k daily pageviews. That [...]

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How To Recover From 10 Types of Demotivation

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Cath Duncan from Agile Living and The Bottom-line Bookclub. Motivation is central to creativity, productivity and happiness. Motivation is what causes us to act, and when we act, we create movement, growth and change, we feel involved, masterful and significant, we feel powerful through experiencing how we [...]

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Harness Your Emotional Sweetspot

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Karl Staib of Work Happy Now. Many people think that they can just jump in and work on a project whenever they want to. They think they’ll just do a little planning and get started, but then something weird happens. They get an important call or email [...]

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A User’s Guide To Creative Tension

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Cath Duncan from Agile Living and The Bottom-line Bookclub In my last post here and a recent post on my blog, I spoke about creative tension and a bunch of people said they’d never heard of it and asked me to share more about what creative tension [...]

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If You Really Want It, It Doesn’t Matter What You Do To It

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Ken Robert from Mildly Creative. If you really want it, it doesn’t matter what you do to it. It doesn’t matter what you call it: your hobby, your work, your mission, your curse. Those are just words, and words can mean different things to different people and [...]

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Your Creativity Zoom Lens

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Ali Hale from Aliventures. When you’re working on a project, you can have a big picture overview, or you can home right in on details. On Day One, you’re zoomed out: with a high-level idea – perhaps a fuzzy one – of what you want to accomplish. [...]

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The Perfect Workspace For Doing Your Epic Work

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Cath Duncan from Agile Living and The Bottom-line Bookclub. So you’ve just started your creative or coaching business and you’re really excited and enthusiastic. It’s now your own business and you’ve got complete freedom to decide where and when and how you work, and of course you [...]

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Use The Two-Tab Rule To Stay Focused

How many tabbed windows do you have open right now? Can you remember what all those tabbed windows are about? In the early days of browsers, a perennial and annoying problem was only being able to have one window open at a time. Now, all major browsers give you the capability of opening windows in [...]

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Don’t Give Up On Your Great Work

[If you're reading this via email or RSS, you might need to click through to watch the video.] Great work can be hard, and it’s easy to get to the point where you want to quit. Please don’t. I’ll talk more about it in the video. The book I mentioned was Michael Bungay Stanier’s Do [...]

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