Productive Flourishing is a community for the doers with the vision to see how the world could be, the smarts to figure out how to make it happen, and the grit to do the work. We call these doers Creative Giants and we’re currently over 56,000 strong.

We’re living through a sea change when it comes to the way we work. Traditional careers are gone, and those who thrive in Project World — the new world of work that’s divided into 3- to 5-year projects — learn to finish the stuff that matters and leverage it into the next best possibility our work has created.

People like us spend our days dancing in the void between who we are and who we could be. That gets us in a whole host of troubles, at the same time that it helps us co-create a better world for ourselves, our families, our communities, and the world at large.

Many Creative Giants gravitate toward entrepreneurship, freelancing, and other ways of being a self-sustaining professional creative, while others fall into leadership positions because of their talent and ability to get things done that others can’t. You’ll thus see content here that addresses a wide variety of ways that we can show up in the world – what our current job or project is is far less relevant than the root strengths and talents we cultivate or the weaknesses we strive to overcome throughout our lives.

The bedrock of our success is a combination of self-mastery and personal effectiveness, so a lot of what we share focuses on how to channel our time, energy, and attention into finishing the stuff that matters. Much like Lao Tzu said: “those who master the world are strong,  those who master themselves are truly powerful.”