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DAILY CREATIVE PODCAST
What you do every day matters most .
Listen to a few episodes below, or follow the show wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Wouldn’t it be great if you didn’t have to do anything at all, yet all your work showed up completed each day, in a neat, organized pile, ready for your manager or client to review? Actually, no. That would be terrible. It seems like it would be wonderful, but the reality is that you need …
Imagine you’re walking across a rope bridge that you’ve walked across a hundred times. Suddenly, the planks shift and fall. What you do next is incredibly important: Will you panic and fall? Will you freeze and perish? Or can you find a path forward? How do you get moving again? You have to tell yourself …
If you really, really wanted to ensure that something happened on a particular day, what would you do? Would you simply try really hard to remember to do it? Would you write it on a Post-it and hope that you’d see it at some point that day? No, of course not. You would put it …
You have a finite amount of attention to spend on behalf of your daily work. How you allocate that finite attention is critical to your success. However, there are any number of distractions that can arise and pull you out of focus. There is a dynamic that I like to call “the ping.” It’s a …
Some creative pros are so afraid of making a mistake that they’d rather freeze in place until they can figure out the right path forward. The one thing they are absolutely certain about is that everyone around them has it all figured out—that they are surely the only ones who are treading water. After all, …
When was the last time you failed? I don’t mean you struggled at making a new dish for dinner or couldn’t complete a crossword puzzle. When was the last time you took a risk, you really tried, you gave it your all, and you came up short? (Bonus points if it was in public.) For …
Urgency and diligence are the foundation of hustle. If you want to succeed in your life and work, you will need to work very, very hard and in a focused way. However, there’s a difference between hard work and desperate work. Hard work is sourced in intent and is focused and resourced. Desperate work expends …
Creative Day There were several key moments in my career when I needed a clear next direction. In fact, this has happened in the wake of the release of every one of my books, when I’m very busy talking about my past work but uncertain about what my next thing should be. In those moments, …
It’s tempting to squeeze as much efficiency out of your days as possible, but in doing this, you risk forfeiting your best insights. Ideas rarely arrive just on time. It’s best to accommodate the unpredictability of the cre- ative process by allowing yourself some margin. If you think something will take an hour, give yourself …
Think back to a time when someone gave you a word of encouragement that lit your fire. What did they say? Why did it matter to you? How did it change your perspective or energy? Isn’t it strange how one comment at the right time can stick with you for years? One person speaking directly …
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