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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 🙂
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I Don’t Feel Like…
I don’t feel like doing the work today. I’m tired. I’m stressed. I’m stretched past my limit. I don’t feel like creating today. No motivation. No inspiration. No determination. Simply consternation. I don’t feel like showing up today. My head hurts. My back is sore....
Tend Who You’re Becoming
We're all in a continual process of becoming. Each day, evolving or devolving a little further into the person we'll be tomorrow. The change is exquisitely subtle. Perhaps better measured on the timescale of glaciers. But as sure as the glaciers eventually reach and...
The Many Forms of Progress
It's easy to get caught thinking about progress in only one dimension. An axis along which we can move only forward or backward. This view has us focus on a limited number of tasks, milestones and goals that are generally accepted to signify "progress". While those...
Eating Through Your Ideas
One of the things my friends make fun of me for most is my love of mandarin oranges. When it comes to mandarins, my appetite knows no bounds. On a good day, I can eat through 10, 15, even 20 of them and wake up ready to do it again the next day. And the next day. And...
Unscripted Moments
We all know the best moments are the unscripted. The ones where we (or perhaps someone we aspire to be more like) breaks the spell of predictability and injects a spark of vitality into our ennui. It's a thrill to break script. Even a small moment of deviation...
Find the Equilibrium
Almost everything has a sweet spot. A point of tension in which opposing forces meet and hold each other in check. This is where the magic exists. Input and output create ideas. Accident and intention produce a novel offering. Fear and inspiration hone it and brings...
The Magic of Mundane Creativity
My absolute favourite smell in the world is the sweet aroma given off every spring by blossoming cherry trees. Or is it plum trees? Or lilacs? I’ve spent at least the past decade trying to determine the specific source of the smell and am still no closer to finding...
What Are You Saying “Yes” To?
It might be an obvious yes. Or it might be implied - to everyone but you perhaps. Maybe it's simply a failure to say no. Regardless, before long your "yeses" will ensnare you if you let them. Crowding out the work that matters in favour of other people's priorities....
Steering Away/Towards
Even when you know where you're going, the path to your destination can be long and the route to getting there isn't always clear. While it might not be possible to regularly live your absolute perfect day this week, month, or year, you can almost certainly take some...
What Pinky Toes Teach Us About Strong Foundations
When you think about your body as a whole, your pinky toes might not immediately feature as major players. Of course, they spend most of their time covered up under shoes and socks, not to mention they're wayyyyyy down about as far away from our eyes as can be while...
Say Something Small
Don't feel like you need to say something that changes the world. Few ever utter such words. And yet we feel like if we can't say something profound we're better off saying nothing at all. But this is not our only option. We can aim to simply say something small....
Do It To Do It
Don't do it for the success. Don't do it because it could be your ticket to fame and fortune. Instead, Do it for the experience. Because once you've done it once, you can do it better the next time. Or because the experience itself was worth it, even if you never do...
Questions To Ask Before Starting a New Project
It's tempting to jump into a new project the moment you feel inspiration strike and the excitement in running hot. After all, it's not hard to be excited when you only have a vague idea of what's really going to be involved. But before starting down a path that will...
Where You Need To Be
For better or worse, right or wrong, we are where we are on our creative journey. All we can do is make the most of it.
What Are You Measuring?
“What gets measured gets managed,” goes the saying. But often, it doesn’t end there. It also gets prioritized, optimized for, and sometimes even chased blindly. For better or worse, what you choose to measure dictates your focus, your choices, and your actions. This...
Creativity & Coral Reefs Both Need This to Flourish
A simple trick for crystallizing your creative ideas and avoiding the traps that keep you from making progress.
Better Is Better
We often resist investing in improving our skills because the promised change feels too insignificant. We could take a course on web design, or copywriting, or Facebook Ads, or any of a hundred other skills that we know would benefit us, both in the short and long...
Abstract Learning Requires Abstract Teachers
It’s hard to argue that continual learning is a bad thing. The relentless pursuit of heaping more onto our ever-growing mountain of knowledge is a core part of today’s entrepreneurial culture. And if we want to follow in the footsteps of those who have come before,...
Where Does the Time Go?
How many times have you made it to the end of the week and asked the question? You’ve worked exceedingly long hours on tasks that felt important in the moment. In hindsight, however, they appear to have been spent merely bailing water. When it comes to the things that...
Seek Change
Too often we end up creating only as a reflex. We have to fill that space on our content calendar with something after all. So we create with the end goal of filling that space. We maintain our production streak while failing to say anything worth saying. So if...
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