Everyone is busy these days (somethings never change), but it’s when you’re at your busiest that you’re in most need of a break. If you don’t have time for a break, how will you have time for a breakdown? Let me break it down for you You can’t run a car engine for an unlimited […]
My website went offline for a couple hours yesterday, and after consulting with the people who have my back when this sort of thing happens, they determined that the error came about because I was dangerously close to maxing out the space on my hosting account. I thought “Well, when you’ve been blogging for more […]
Although there are many times when you should go slowly, there are also times when you need to accelerate a project or situation more quickly. Ever been stuck behind someone driving way too slowly on the highway, or plodding along in the hallway of an office building? It’s agonizing. You just want to leap over […]
When you’re working on a project, planning a project, researching a project, and making decisions on how best to put that project into action, it’s like knocking an arrow into a bow and slowly drawing it back to your cheek — creating an extraordinary amount of tension in the bow string — harnessing all that […]
When I was a kid and wanted some new toy that my mother wouldn’t get for me, I probably pouted and stomped my feet for a bit. But, I didn’t let the fact I wasn’t getting my way stop me from getting what I wanted. I simply got creative. I recall one time that I […]
Clouds can be worrisome to some people. They keep their eyes on the sky searching for storm clouds coming to rain on their parade (which is not what I mean when I tell people to keep looking up). Other times they might be afraid of what the clouds are hiding when they obscure the picture […]
Something that creative people get told a lot is “you can’t do that”. Sometimes those words are accompanied by a reason (we tried that before, we’ve never done that before, there’s no budget, there’s no time, etc.). The reasons don’t matter any more than the the original statement — not for a creative person bent […]