When it comes to business, planning is an ongoing and continued process. Wouldn’t it be great if planning and goal-setting were a one-and-done deal? If only we could plan every step just […]
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How to Refresh Your Branding When Your Work Evolves
Get more tips on keeping your business – and brand – fresh with Charlie Gilkey’s award-winning book Start Finishing. Order yours today! Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Shahrzad Arasteh. How […]
5 Great Strategies to Crush the First 30 Days at Your New Job
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Ryan McRae. The first day of your new job can be harrowing and exciting. It’s a fresh start. You made it through the resume olympics […]
How to Ease the Emotional Labor of Being a Creative Entrepreneur
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Lisa Robbin Young. Before I sat down to write this post, my home was spotless. I cleaned every dish, washed every article of clothing, swept […]
7 Ways to Start Writing to Improve Your Productivity
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Nancy Seibel. Even with the clearest of goals and intentions, I find that it’s all too easy to get distracted and end up accomplishing very […]
How Empathy Can Build Better Workplace Relationships
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Mike Ambassador Bruny. There is an interesting dynamic that can exist between leaders and those they lead. Many employees complain about their leaders, and many […]
How to Referee Your Project Cagematch (and Unveil Your Values and Priorities)
While most of us dream of some idealized time and place where we can work on just one project at a time, the persistent reality for most of us is that we’re continually […]
What Brexit Can Teach Us About Our Creative Work
The economist and social philosopher in me is fascinated by what’s going on with Brexit, but I’ll save those thoughts for an essay on another day. What I’d like to talk about […]
Take the Next Small Step and Build From There
Ever notice how quickly a small idea that we can work on today turns into a Big Thing that keeps us from doing something with the idea? An idea to explore turns […]
Choice Limits the Stress of Creative Work
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. – William James Many creatives actually love the creative work they do. It’s what they’d do for free […]
Fallow
You may have noticed that I’ve been especially quiet for a while. I thought I’d check in and let you know some of what’s been going on. At the end of August, […]
Is It Time to Get an Idea out of Your System?
Do you have one of those ideas that’s clamoring at your soul to work on? Novice creative knowledge-workers and creatives have the curse of too many ideas without enough experience to know […]
Why You Shouldn't Do Just One More Project
We often take on “one more project” because we think that we have some time in our schedule to handle a little bit more. “It’ll only take a little time,” we tell […]
Entrepreneurship and Business-Owning Aren’t for Everyone
When I talk about the fact that some people can be authentically happy having a job, many people are surprised because I’m such an advocate and champion for small business and entrepreneurship. […]
3 Ways to Deal with Copycats and Idea Thieves
One of our Lift Off alums recently asked how to deal with copycats and idea thieves. She’s been rocking it, getting great press, and things are taking off for her – and, […]
Clear the Deck Before You Deck the Halls
Managing yourself, your business, and the holidays can be a tricky balancing act. There’s only so much of you, at the same time that there are a lot of places you need […]
Steer Through the Skid
When you’re driving on ice and your vehicle starts slipping, one of the worst things you can do is slam on the brakes. The counter-intuitive but right course of action is to […]
Work-Life Balance: Waking Up To The Real Problem (Part II)
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Michael Van Osch of ThinkTankMen.com. In Part I of this series, I talked about the real issue behind what we commonly call a lack of work-life […]