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On this page, you can scroll back through the archives and view every post I’ve ever written.
I won’t lie, there are a lot. Many of them likely won’t be relevant to you.
But my hope is that by poking around and reading through a few of them, you’ll come across an idea that sparks something for you, makes you think about a problem in a new light.
Or, if you’d rather browse through a curated selection, feel free to start with one of the lists below.
Happy reading 🙂
Best Of The Blog
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Getting the Job Done vs. Changing People
Photo by Claudio Hirschberger on UnsplashWe have a couple of options when we set out to create the work that matters to us.We can aim to create a solid product that gets the job done, or we can aim higher and shoot to create something that changes the people who...
Leadership in Times of Crisis
Photo by CoWomen on UnsplashMany entrepreneurs, content creators, and subject matter experts want to be seen as leaders in their niches, industries, even the world, and much of the work they do on a daily basis is aimed at elevating their status as leaders.They work...
Why Marketing Hacks Won’t Work for You
Photo by Stephen Dawson on UnsplashIt’s easy to listen to your favourite marketing expert talk about the newest, strategy, tactic, or hack and the results it’s gotten for them, and think that it’s the missing piece of your own marketing puzzle.All you need to do is...
What Does Perfect Look Like?
Photo by Jonathan Hoxmark on UnsplashAs entrepreneurs, creators and marketers, we live in a world where the dominant narrative we’re confronted with often contains some version of, “You will fail.”Maybe it’s softened up to the more nuanced “You will most likely fail,”...
Break the Streak
Photo by Jon Tyson on UnsplashBuilding habits is essential to creating a system of living that ensures that you’re continually moving in the direction of achieving your goals.Building and tracking streaks is one of the best methods of enforcing the habits you want to...
Worry Wisely
Photo by niklas_hamann on UnsplashLike most things in life, we have a lot more agency than we think when it comes to what we choose to worry about.We can choose to worry at an instinctual level, giving credence to every negative thought that enters our brain,...
Stuck? Time to Ask a Different Question
Photo by Camylla Battani on UnsplashWe’re all trying to level up.Whether it’s our client list, podcast download numbers, page views, revenue, quality of work or all of the above and more, we each have some goal hovering just beyond our reach.The question we most often...
Don’t Bank on Being the Outlier
At some point in your journey as a creator, you’ve probably had the experience of watching a competitor with objectively lesser talent, quality, and utility gain more traction and garner more attention than your higher quality offering. It’s easy to throw your hands...
Creating Remarkable Work
Creating work that spreads requires creating work worth talking about. Creating work worth talking about requires creating something remarkable. Remarkable is not just something sprinkled on top of an otherwise complete product. Remarkable is baked into the core of...
What’s Really Slowing Your Progress?
Photo by Aubrey Rose Odom on UnsplashThe next time you find yourself stuck procrastinating on a big project, it might be worth scheduling half an hour to simply work through why you’re not taking action.You probably run into these holdups all the time on projects that...
Creating Inevitable Outcomes
The word “Inevitable” seems to most often be used to describe some slow backward slide toward a negative outcome. “It was inevitable they would get divorced at some point.” “With his work ethic, it was inevitable that he would be one of the first to be laid off.” “The...
Hold Your Gaze Steady
Photo by Noah Buscher on UnsplashThere’s a decisive moment each and every time we catch the eye of another.Whether it’s with our partner, best friend, parent, boss, student, or random person on the street, there’s the moment in which we must mutually decide where to...
This Will Do, For Now
Nothing you ever create will be as good as you know it could be. You might not possess the expertise, vision or resources to improve the work yourself further than it’s current state, but you — even if no one else is — are aware of the still-rough edges, the gaps, the...
Best in the World?
There’s can only be one best in the world, and it had better be you. Whether it’s your business, your podcast, your book, or anything else, if you’re not competing to be the single best in the world at what you do, why are you trying? Of course, that’s a lot of...
Some Lessons You Have to Earn
Photo by chuttersnap on UnsplashMoney can buy you a lot of knowledge.Books, university tuition, online courses, coaching and consulting can all help you level up your expertise, add to your knowledge of almost any topic you can imagine and, almost always, cost...
Belief Is Not Enough to Succeed
There’s a pernicious bit of advice that floats around the world of creative business. You commonly hear it in blogs, on podcast interviews with successful creative business owners, and from the stage at conferences. It’s used to address podcasters, designers,...
Is Your Work Really Good Enough?
Photo by Jessica Sysengrath on UnsplashYou might have heard the rule that you need to put equal time into promoting and marketing your work as you do creating it.Unless some incredible stroke of luck befalls you, no matter how good your work, podcast, book, or...
Find Your First Ten Fans
You have a big goal, a vision for how to make life better for a specific group of people. That vision might be a refinement or improvement on the way things are currently done or a complete uprooting of the existing systems, structures, and beliefs of the people...
Maintaining Motivation
Photo by Allie Smith on UnsplashIf your goals are of sufficient depth and scale, measuring our progress towards them on a daily, weekly or even monthly basis can be difficult.As a result, even if you are moving slowly, steadily, consistently forward, it can feel as...
Care More
Photo by Matheus Ferrero on UnsplashThere are days when you feel like giving up.Days when the pain of caring so much about the work you do, work that isn’t landing, isn’t connecting, isn’t making a difference, leaves you wanting to care less.You feel that the hard...
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