I don’t know about you, but as a creative professional I need a certain amount of time alone. Personal time. Quiet time. Time to think, reflect, ponder, and dream. Time to recharge. My best creative ideas come from this space. Too often we spend our days in overdrive, constantly shaking and re-shaking the snow globe…
Continue reading →Do what you love and the money will follow. How many times have we heard that or something similar? Success pundits and self-help gurus are fond of linking passion and success. Partially because it is often true. More so because their followers desperately want to believe it. But how much credence do we give to…
Continue reading →Busy, busy, busy. Seems everyone nowadays is busier than ever. Constantly running around, shuttling kids here and there, tweeting this, posting that. A distracted life that, if we’re not careful, can end up resembling what Shakespeare penned, “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” I was almost that selfsame…
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To quote Napoleon Hill: “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” If the world ever learned to truly believe this, we would see the end of poverty, hunger, workplace discontent, broken relationships, and a host of other ills. But we don’t believe it. We doubt, we hesitate, we second-guess ourselves….
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One of the greatest gifts you can give to yourself as a working professional is learning how to manage client expectations. Because few things cause as much grief, heartache, and lost productivity to your workday as a disappointed client on the rampage. Disappointment can be defined as expectations unfulfilled. The client thinks it is one…
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