Almost every time I sit down to do some creative project—a logo design, a hand-drawn illustration, a painting, a piece of literary fiction—I come to what I like to call The Point of Despair. When my inner critic pipes up. You know what I’m talking about. You’ve heard the voice as well: “This is pointless.”…
Continue reading →A surefire way to drive any business or creative endeavor into the ground is by trying to be everything to everybody. We see this all the time in big corporations, as they gobble up and acquire wide varieties of smaller companies and start-ups in an effort to bolster their product offering to the world. “Hey…
Continue reading →Life is short. Deep down we know this. But often, we live as though we have all the time in the world. Because it feels safe. Thinking about the shortness of life, or dare I say even death, is scary. It is uncomfortable. It makes us feel uneasy. I turn 45 years old this year….
Continue reading →Honestly I am not sure if this fortune begs discussing the virtues of commercializing our creativity versus keeping personal projects private, or whether or not we believe in our ideas, or what. But I do think it is a good followup to my discussion on overcoming self doubt. Whenever I have an idea for a…
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Experts cite a wide variety of reasons for why new businesses fail within the first couple years. Some of these reasons include poor planning, underestimating real costs, bad management. But the primary factor that causes new businesses to crumble is under capitalization. In other words, not enough money. In particular, not enough reserves to ride…
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