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Finding Your “Sweet Spot”
If you’ve ever played golf, tennis or baseball, you’ve probably heard the phrase “sweet spot”. If you hit a ball with the sweet spot of your club, racket, or bat, it will travel a far greater distance...
View ArticleWhy We Resist Creative Change (with Jennifer Mueller)
Ever tried to get your manager to go along with a great idea, but faced resistance on every front? You’re not alone. In fact, today’s guest Jennifer Mueller argues that most of us are actually...
View ArticleShooting For The Three
Is the thing you think you’re trying to do with your work really what you’re doing? What if the entire system is set up to get you to do something else, but you don’t even realize it? On today’s...
View ArticleAvoiding The Hustle Trap
Yes, work hard. Of course you need to put your full effort into whatever you’re doing at any given time. However, be careful not to fall into the hustle trap. You might find you’re only sprinting on a...
View ArticleThe Art Of Selective Attention
Every day we are flooded with information. Some of that information might be helpful in serving our clients or organization, but because there is so much of it we are often unable to step back and look...
View ArticleWhy You Should Cluster Your Work
The constant shift back and forth from creative work to administrative work throughout your day carries a high price. You pay a task switching penalty each time you try to make this transition. On...
View ArticleGain Focus With These Three Questions
If you want to accomplish much of anything, you need to focus. You have a finite amount of attention to allocate to problems that matter. However, many creative pros struggle with questions about what...
View Article3 Strategies For Reclaiming Margin
Feeling overwhelmed? Yeah, join the club. So many creative pros feel as if they are swimming upstream every day; like they go to bed at night a little farther behind than they were when they woke up...
View Article5 Ways To Shake Up Your Creative Process
Over time, this pressure to produce every day can cause us to fossilize around bad habits. We get into a rhythm – the bad kind – that causes us to move mindlessly through our days without much thought...
View ArticleHow To Plan Your Day In 10 Minutes
If you were going to purchase a house or a car, you would probably step back and consider how you’re going to re-organize your finances to ensure that you’re preparing yourself properly and will use...
View ArticleHow To Plan Your Days For Max Creativity
How you spend your time is how you spend your life. As a creative pro, you’re not accountable for “showing up”, you’re accountable for the value you produce. On this episode, I share a method for...
View ArticleDigital Minimalism (with Cal Newport)
Technology is an extension of your capacity to accomplish your will. So, it gives you a “longer lever” when you want to move big rocks. However, we are finding that technology is encroaching upon us in...
View ArticleOrganize Your World With a Weekly Checkpoint
Many creative pros charge through their work over days and weeks without ever stopping to assess whether they’re on the right course. In this episode, I share a simple method for instilling a...
View Article3 Ways To Gain Creative Focus
You have a finite amount of attention to spend on behalf of the creative problems you’re solving. How you allocate that attention will often determine your success or failure. On this episode, I share...
View ArticleDistractions (Squirrel!)
Distractions are a baked-in part of the modern workplace. Wouldn’t it be great if we could eliminate them and just focus on our important work? Well… on this episode we share six strategies for dealing...
View ArticleColor Filter Theory
The story you believe becomes your experience of reality, because it’s your filter for all of your experiences. If you filter your life through the lens of anxiety, everything will feel like a threat....
View ArticleFocus, Function, Fire
What exactly does a great leader do? There are three key things that an effective leader of creative people provides for the team consistently and well. On this episode, I share the importance of...
View ArticleA Five-Part Daily Planning Process
Your life is composed of days, and how you spend those days is how you spend your life. On this episode, I share a simple five-part daily planning process that will help you stay on-course, engaged,...
View ArticleThe Career Investments Every Creative Pro Should Make
I am frequently asked for career advice, and I very, very rarely offer it. Why? First, because I only intimately know my own path and those of a few others. Second, because all advice is local. What...
View ArticleThe Self-Reliant Entrepreneur (with John Jantsch)
Being an entrepreneur requires not only technical sense and business savvy, but also the right mindset. On this episode, John Jantsch shares mindset principles for entrepreneurs from his book The...
View ArticleBecoming Indistractable (with Nir Eyal)
Our world is full of distractions, both good and bad. How do you choose what to allocate your finite focus to each day? On this episode, Nir Eyal shares how to become indistractable with tips from his...
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Protecting Your Mindset During This Season
The biggest challenge that we’re facing right now as creative pros is not necessarily economic or physical, it’s psychological. I believe that those who come through this season not only having...
View ArticleHow To Channel Your Attention
Focus is the most valuable tool you have as a creative professional. How you define problems, and then allocate attention to them, will often determine your success or failure. However, many...
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Do You Know Your “Red Zone” Activities?
In American football, the red zone is the area on each end of the field inside the twenty yard line. What happens in this area is a key determining factor in a team’s success or failure. Teams that...
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Dealing With Covid Overwhelm
Have we worn out the phrase “unprecedented times” yet? OK, let’s just say that we are continuing to wrestle with the uncertainty of our systems, our expectations, our relationships, our team dynamics,...
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