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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Are Your Goals S.M.A.R.T.?

Take a quick look at some of the goals you’ve made for yourself. A goal could be as broad as your bucket list or as narrow as your daily ToDo list. Are you setting yourself up for success when you’re making goals? One of the things that trips many of us up is that the [...]

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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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The 3Ps of Pricing: Positioning (Part 3)

Thus far in the series, we’ve discussed the considerations of Perception and Placebo. As you may recall, Perception was the pre-purchase consideration in pricing, whereas Placebo was the post-purchase consideration. Positioning is a consideration that’s at play both before the purchase and after the purchase. Because your product doesn’t exist in a vacuum, your potential [...]

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The 3Ps of Pricing: Placebo (Part 2)

How many free products have you acquired and not used? How many products in the sub-$30 range have you bought and intend to get around to using? Lastly, how many over-$100 products have you bought and not used? I’ll bet if you’re honest, you’ll notice that the more expensive the product, the more likely it [...]

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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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The Four Essential Drives That Every Creative Needs

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Cath Duncan from Mine Your Resources and The Bottom-line Bookclub. Creative folks figured out a long time ago that traditional carrot-and-stick motivation and productivity strategies don’t work for us, and the rest of the world is starting to catch on to this truth now, too. In his [...]

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Welcome, Thought Leaders!

I had the privilege of hanging out with a lot of great thought leaders this last weekend, and it was terrifying exciting to be in a room full of people who didn’t know who I was. I wanted to take a take a chance to give my new friends a shortcut to content that they [...]

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