Only effort can bring you results. Your results are not always equal your efforts. Sometimes you get 10X the results you expected from even the smallest amount of effort and other times you can pour all kinds of effort into a project and only see a trickle of results — but you have to put […]
With so many places still locked down because of the Coronavirus outbreak, it might be hard to imagine being able to escape to anywhere outside the walls of your home — but we should all have an escape plan for when things start to normalize again. We all have a favorite place where we like […]
Many creative people are “Drivers”, a personality type that is known for not suffering fools and getting things done. They don’t waste time, have no interest in small talk, and are all about the productivity. But what about those times when you can’t sit behind the wheel — can you be a happy passenger? The […]
In ancient Greece, those who needed great insight into their lives or wanted to know what the god had in store for them would travel to a sacred site in in the mountains and venture into the caverns to find a priestess of the god Apollo. This priestess sat above a chasm in the earth […]
Some days (especially these days) it can feel like Life is out to get you. It throws SO many things at you, that you feel like you spend all your time ducking, dodging, and diving to try and keep your balance. Here are a few ideas to help you keep your balance, remain upright, and […]
I’m a huge fan of the Side Hustle Nation podcast hosted by Nick Loper (I’ve even been a guest on the show 2 or 3 times). In a recent episode Nick spoke with Dustin Riechmann about new sales he created for an existing company in his city — a butcher shop selling a higher-end, clean-ingredient […]
When I think of idea generation and brainstorming, I think of adaptation and variation on concepts and themes. A single concept in a brainstorming session can lead to dozens of other ideas that splinter off the original concept through adapting the concept to other specific purposes and varying elements of the concept to alter the […]