There are tricks to every trade. Not so much a short cut, as a hand up.Mistakes others have made that give you a glimpse at the road ahead. But, sometimes the road less traveled…isn’t a road at all. You have to be both a path finder and a trail blazer. And those 10,000 hours it […]

No matter how much passion you bring to your creativity, it won’t become a wildfire. Unless you’re a cult leader.Don’t be cult leader. Don’t join a cult.Art can be appreciated across time. Once it’s done, it can live in the minds of those who have seen it, or dance across the dreams of those who

Everybody’s got to have a little squirrel in them. A stash that they keep and build on.Sure, you lose track of it from time to time, and every once in a while…yes, it gets raided.But it’s there. Somewhere.Those “I Owe Yous” are chits. Whether you owe one, or you are owed by someone, they are

Beck and Call There aren’t set hours to be creative. There can’t be. It isn’t something you just turn on or off, or clock in and out from.For me. I know I have something if it keeps me awake. If it won’t let me forget about it. If it’s constantly biting at the back of

The fact of the matter is…the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. It is. And it looks that way because you’re sitting there looking at it.What you aren’t seeing is all the work that goes into mowing, weeding, trimming, and nurturing that very same grass you think would look even better

Sometimes the hardest part about being creative…is appreciating the fact that you get to be creative. It isn’t coal mining. You’re not digging tunnels in a war-torn country.Yes, you can be creative while doing those jobs, but it isn’t your job to be creative.As an artist, no matter your craft, if you had a chance

Every artist wants to create like a master. To have the perfection and the grandeur of a timeless piece.But there isn’t a cult of masters.They don’t sit around and drink their own Kool-Aid.They craft, they fume, they tantrum…they destroy.Leonardo’s clay model horse was used as target practice by French archers until it was nothing but

How’s that New Year’s Resolution?How’s that dream comin’?It’s hard to climb a mountain without watching where your feet go. Those small steps matter.When I used to run marathon’s, I hated the idea of running a marathon. I couldn’t quite wrap my mind around it, and focusing on the length was like staring at a clock. It

Being crafty can be good. Success can be good. However, it can also be bad.It can be used to deceive and to manipulate as much as it can to create.The ends do not justify the means.If you are going to ponder something. If you are in your foxhole noodling on a way to live up

If you want to be good at something, don’t act surprised when you do that one specific thing.If you want to be arrogant, I’m not your mom, be arrogant.  As long as you can back it up when it matters, that’s between you, your team, and whoever writes your checks.It drives me absolutely crazy to