Helping Creative People Create

Ideas

Having more ideas isn’t a good thing. In fact, it can kill your business if left unchecked.

Articulating ideas is incredibly hard to do, yet it’s crucial its success. If nobody understands, nobody gets excited.

Knowing when to quit working on bad ideas is hard. Sometimes quitting is the best option.

There’s nothing to be ashamed of stealing creativity. Most Masters of their craft have inspirations too. As the proverb goes: “there’s nothing new under the sun”.

Exceptional dolphins know something that we humans often forget: Fortune favors the brave.

Letting go of and sharing your ideas is one of the best things that can happen to them.

Photo by jared I can’t even begin to count how many posts I jot down that I never finish. Some sit and rot in an ideas file for the rest of their life, and that’s as far as they get. Others get as far as a few paragraphs, even up to a nearly finished post ...

Image by MacQ As I’ve written before, I love sharing ideas, and think it’s a crucial aspect of developing a project. Yet oftentimes the people I share ideas with don’t like or understand them. They’ll let me know quickly if the idea is a stinker. But there are a few occasions when my friends won’t ...

Photo by zanzibar This is the first in a series of posts that showcase things I’ve learned during my recent honeymoon travels. My new wife and I decided to go on a Caribbean cruise for our honeymoon, and with the help of the most knowledgeable traveler I know, we booked an amazing week-long cruise. Lynn ...

Photo by macropoulos Being a writer, or in any creative profession, means you’re heavily reliant on a creative “something” to get you going, and give you the impetus you need to get working. Once the creative juices get flowing, you’re sailing through your work; when that creativity isn’t there, it can be hard to get ...

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