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 To-Do list. Are […]
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The Perfect Workspace For Doing Your Epic Work
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Cath Duncan from Creative Grief Studio and Remembering For Good. So you’ve just started your creative or coaching business and you’re really excited and enthusiastic. It’s now […]
Why You Should 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 […]
The 3Ps of Pricing: Positioning (Part 3)
Check out The 3Ps of Pricing: Perception (Part 1) and The 3Ps of Pricing: Placebo (Part 2). Thus far in the series, we’ve discussed the considerations of Perception and Placebo. As you may recall, Perception […]
The 3Ps of Pricing: Placebo (Part 2)
Read The 3Ps of Pricing: Perception (Part 1) 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 […]
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 […]
The Four Essential Drives That Every Creative Needs
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Cath Duncan from Creative Grief Studio and Remembering For Good. Creative folks figured out a long time ago that traditional carrot-and-stick motivation and productivity strategies don’t work […]
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 […]
The Missing Half of Productivity Advice: Why Women Need to Get Involved
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Ali Hale from Aliventures. I‘m a woman, and I care about productivity. So today I want to start reaching towards some answers to the […]
What Lift Off Was All About (For Me)
[This post contains a video that’s about 6 minutes long. If you’re reading this via email or RSS, you might have to click through to see it.] I mentioned in the March […]
Writing Posts The Easy Way With TextExpander
[If you’re reading this in via email or RSS, you’ll have to click through to watch the video.] I’m going to say it up front: this is a long screencast, even for […]
Ask Charlie: What Are The Different Types of Intelligence?
Note: In the “Ask Charlie” posts, I answer the questions I get from people via email or Twitter. I’m here to please! ;p This one comes from Hope Flanagan: Question/Suggestion: Write on […]
More Effective Blog Writing Starts with Being A More Effective Writer
If you want to start writing better blog posts, odds are, you need to become a better writer. That may sound obvious, I know, but there’s a surprising dearth of books on […]
The Creative Entrepreneur's Guide to Linchpin
I’d normally start a book review by talking about the book, but this time, I’d rather talk about the author. Seth Godin has been called a revolutionary thinker, a pioneer, and a […]
Why You’re Undervaluing Yourself (and How to Stop)
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Ali Luke of Aliventures. Do you feel uncomfortable charging for your creativity? Maybe you’re an illustrator – you draw because you love to, but […]
Effective Reading Strategies and The Bottom-Line Book Club
Want to learn more effective reading strategies? Check out this free podcast with me and Cath from the Bottom-line Bookclub.
The High Cost of Information
Seth wrote a post back in December that really touched a nerve on a ubiquitous problem that I see pop up nearly every day. His point was about the High Cost of […]
The Changes in Creative Work & Entrepreneurship
In the first post of this series on the Rebirth of Entpreneurialism, I showed why we’re going through a renaissance in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking. Whenever our economy changes, how we use our […]