“If you stay, we’ll start on that Classic Series right away. You’ll be in charge. I’ll talk to the CEO today.” My boss sat across from me in the tiny conference room. I had just told her that I’d launched my second business, and that I didn’t know where it would take me. “It
Speaking in public? Marketing your work? Cutting your incomes in half? Loss of status if you leave or downshift your current career? The risk of public failure? Investing time and money with no guarantees it will work? Discovering that you don’t have what it takes? Showing who you really are? Is there some part
“That’s the feeling I live for: The Kindergarten Factor. That experience of being so lost in what I’m doing, so into it, that I have no sense of time passing and I don’t even click away to check Facebook. I even forget to eat! That’s creativity.” Meet Laura Belgray, copywriter and one of the funniest
You probably have some quick answers on this one. For example a, you want to write a book, and b, you want it because you love writing. But let’s take a closer look. You want to write a book? What about it do you want? The actual day by day life of sitting down to
I had a crappy day yesterday, workwise. I worked for six hours and produced a few pages of text that I could not use and a bunch of ideas that I scrapped. Maybe I managed to answer an email or two, but that was about it. Those days are incredibly challenging for me. For
“Fear and action can exist in parallel. In fact they should. Fear and discomfort typically mean I’m moving in the right direction and that I need to keep going.” First one out in this interview series is one of my online favourites: writer, webdesigner and course creator Paul Jarvis. If you don’t know him already,
I am one of the tree people At my core, solid oak Sky and Earth meet in me My roots go deep but don’t keep me from reaching As I grow I stretch the very boundaries of this world Something breaks, when the wind rattles I never mind Something new grows instead Things always
I got a letter from one of my clients. “I’m really struggling right now. I don’t know if I can make this work, if it will be good enough – or even decent – this time. I doubt that anyone will ever want to read this. I just don’t know how to keep going.”
