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 […]
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 […]
What are you going to have for lunch today? Did you bring a classic sack lunch with PBJ, juicebox, and an apple? Perhaps you’re carrying your retro Star Wars metal lunchbox with a baloney sandwich, cheese crackers, and an applesauce cup. Or perhaps you’re more of a bento box person with all your veggies and […]
Ever try to tune a musical instrument? Take a guitar for example; there is a tuning peg for each of the six strings on a standard guitar — a half-turn of just one of those pegs in either direction and your jam sessions can go from perfect harmony to catastrophic cacophony. Every client meeting is […]
There is a huge sense of relief and accomplishment when you finish a project or attain a long-term goal, but don’t forget to celebrate the act of simply achieving the next step in the process. Each one of those deeds brings you closer to realizing the big goal as your end result — and you […]