entreprenueralism

How to Make a Living Out of Your Obsession

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Jonathan Mead from Illuminated Mind. Most people resign to the fact that work and life should be separate. Distinct boundaries allocated so one doesn’t seep into and contaminate the other. The main reason for this compartmentalization is because most people don’t like their work very much. Actually, [...]

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Why Creative Entrepreneurs Don’t Need to Worry About Free

I’m going to join a conversation that I think has been moving way too quickly. Yes, it’s the whole Free conversation. So, a quick recap: Chris Anderson wrote Free: The Future of a Radical Price (amazon link), which showed how prices for digital goods tend to fall to zero. Businesses must adapt their marketing and [...]

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The Rebirth of Entrepreneurialism

There’s a movement happening around you that you may not see. Everyday, people are leaving their jobs not because they are laid off, but because they’re tired of working under the economic model they’ve been given. More and more people are seeing that we’ve reached a point in history in which we as individuals can [...]

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Do Epic Shit

[Pamela sent this picture to me. I love it when I can help people do their art.] This one will be a short one – as many of you know, I’m currently at SXSW. It’s awesome and intimidating and overwhelming all at once. One of the panels I went to the other day was “Try [...]

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Productive Flourishing is…Flourishing!!

Some of you may have noticed that I’ve been quiet on the posting front here at Productive Flourishing for the last few weeks. I’ll take a second and let you know what’s going on. I’ve been doing a lot of behind the scenes work to update this blog – I’ve learned that it’s best to [...]

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How Much is Your Creative Time Worth?

One of the biggest lessons I learned from reading a bunch of stuff on entrepreneurialism was not how to make money – it was how to put a price tag to my time. Honestly, the first book I read that made me think about that was The Four Hour Workweek, but for one reason or [...]

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Marketing 101: Learn to Make Money From Your Creativity

Most creatives I know would love to make money doing their thing if they could. In fact, I haven’t ran into anybody who has said “I love doing this creative thing, but I’d rather keep my day job.” Normally, the day job allows them to do their creative thing – but given the chance, they’d [...]

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When Email Messages Are Mini-Products

Something has always bugged me about the common advice about email correspondence. It was only when I was talking to Naomi yesterday that it really hit me: for many of us, email messages are a mini-product. They’re connective tasks that are also creative tasks. Not every email is like this, of course. Some fall within [...]

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How to Stifle A Good Idea

Or: Why You’re Probably Not Using the Productivity Planners (This post is a case study in how to stifle a good idea, using my own products as an example. It ends with a general take-away, so feel free just to skip to that.) Laurie, my good friend and neighbor, provided some of the best feedback [...]

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