Good Fortunes

You crack open a cookie and the fortune is good. We like that, right? What if the paper were blank? Would you write a good forecast for yourself? Would you let your saboteur predict gloom and doom? Clarifying your own good fortune is more than setting resolutions that...

Telltale Signs

Sailors watch the wind. It’s invisible, of course, so they watch the water.  By seeing the ripples, feeling their skin, listening to the air, the unseen is made apparent. Isn’t it the same when sailing your creative business? We need to see the unseen by looking for...

Anchoring Growth

What anchors you? When it comes to growing your creative entrepreneur-ship, it’s important to prepare. What will steady the voyage through times of change? People, processes and controls. In a recent MOOC (massive online open course) I completed about growing a small...

New Twist

I think we agree. The creative path is not linear. It folds, turns, and spirals around in ways we cannot see. Then why do we look for those linear connections? How come we get hooked on cause-effect thinking? We do marketing “Action A” and expect “Business B” to come...

Triple Down

How is going fishing good for creative entrepreneurs? Brain research now shows that downtime activities support creativity. You know that, right? Get stuck on a project, and you might take a walk to clear your mind. Set out in a boat on a quiet lake, even better. The...