When you want your project to be successful, you might be tempted to travel the same path as all the previously popular projects. It’s a well-worn trail littered with all the footprints of those who’ve gone before. It’s a safe and smooth path with all the bumps worn down and the potholes patched. It is […]
Everyday you add links to your chain. Not in the Jacob Marley’s Ghost kind of way where you are weighted down by your regrets and bad decisions — but in a more positive way where each time you practice a skill or take action on an idea or try something new, you’re actually forging a […]
Some times you might want to some make creative waves, other times you might want to ride the waves. Making waves is a lot harder than spotting a sweet wave and riding it instead. Making waves relies on you starting with ripples and kicking up enough turbulence to create a tsunami. Most people will be […]
Concept and ideas seem to come in cycles; three movies about robots taking over the world hit the theaters within a week of each other, young-adult books about wizards from six different authors hit stores in the same month, four different wood-fire pizza places open in your town within days of each other, and every […]
I was listening to a recent podcast where the host shared a listener’s comment about how he felt that he could no longer be as discerning about the projects he took on because of the current economic situation. He specifically mentioned that he was torn between refusing some projects based on his personal principles and […]
While the ideal situation is to practice creativity on a regular basis so that you have ideas (or at least a habit of thinking creatively) when you need it, most people (and the industries in which they work) seem to always wait until the skies are deluging them with torrents of rain, sleet, and hail […]
Stop talking. When you don’t know what to say — just say nothing. When you run out of things to say or have reached an impasse in the negotiations, nothing says you have to keep talking. In these times where personal philosophies and political beliefs have seemed to divide even those closest of friends and […]