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Writing since 2010, I explore and share ideas around personal growth, creativity, design, branding, business, strategy and technology.
3 states of being you must master to win
Or what the Holy Trinity and The E-myth can teach us about being successful A few weeks ago while giving a personal update on my content and blog, I briefly alluded to Michael E Gerber's book 'The E-myth', and how it closely mirrors elements of the personal...
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6 things you must do to win the morning
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the incredible freedom of having a routine. In it, I explored how most creatives actually thrive when they have a routine to tame the chaos of life, and unleash their productivity. The path to success lies in putting the right...
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Use these 6 questions to become happier, successful and more resilient
“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the answer, I would spend the first 55 minutes figuring out the proper questions to ask. For if I knew the proper questions, I could solve the problem in less than 5 minutes.” Albert Einstein Questions are...
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Personal Update
Or where I'm at right now and what that means for my content. For the five or so of you who follow my blog, you would have noticed I have not been publishing at my usual pace. I have been coming up against a wall lately, when it comes to the blog. I tend to fall in...
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The surprising benefit of being super organized
In my previous post, I wrote about failure, and having the most unproductive week ever. I had an embarrassing fall off my high horse and my routine and suffered for it. But I bounced back. Because the art of success is really about how you respond to failure. There is...
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The skill of success is really in how you react to failure
It was honestly quite embarrassing. I had just written a piece about the importance of routines and how they have helped me be consistent with blogging and a better creative as a whole, and then the very next week, I go on to blow that routine to smithereens and have...
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The incredible freedom of having a routine
When you think about successful creatives or artists, you would probably conjure the image of weird people prone to flights of fancy, brilliant sure, but often capricious, unstable, or unreliable. You would imagine that they value large swatches of unstructured time...
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A bunch of thoughts
I don’t have anything to say. And yet, I must blog. I must write and publish something. Because I made the commitment to. And part of the journey towards success is respecting the process, when it is easy and when it is hard. So, I will write. And because...
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Mind the lag
Another meditation on the process and experience of getting things done. The last stretch of any serious project is usually the most grueling part of the whole ordeal. It is almost like birthing. The bulk of it has a lot of work sure – conceptualizing, designing...
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To unlock your true potential, you have to embrace leverage
For the past few weeks, I have been exploring the concept of potential, and how to maximize it. Each week, I have highlighted an idea that would help anyone do more and become more, tapping into what they are truly capable of. Things like demanding more of yourself,...
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