Loving living, marketing, and selling
“The only way to compose myself and collect my thought is to set down at my table, place my diary before me, and take my pen into my hand. This apparatus takes off my attention from other objects. Pen, ink, and paper and a sitting posture are great helps to attention and thinking.” ~ John … Read more
Do we really need to listen to the success rubrics? 6 examples of why we do. I have spent a lot of time reading and listening to “gurus” and such, and it often seems like a lot of same old same old. Same old stories. Same old rubrics of success. You know why that is? … Read more
Do you remember the last time it happened to you? You had your eye on the ball, you knew exactly what your Main Thing was, and you knew what you needed to do to make it happen. You were in your groove. Things were actually going pretty darned well. Then it happened. Something distracted you. … Read more
I was miserable. Totally. Completely. Miserable. All my life, I had wanted just to do my art, to help a few people along the way, and to have some fun. What I was doing now felt like mud-wresting with a hippo. In the winter. “Salesman” was way down on the list of life paths I … Read more
Sometimes it sucks. It just does. No matter how hard you try to keep your fecal matter in one pile it just does not want to stay put. Each plan gets derailed. Creative juices run dry. Goals get stalled. Tempers flare. Yeah, it sucks. I admit that I don’t handle it as well as I’d … Read more