The Sun And The Moon

June 23, 2021

I lost the client to another creative business.  The publication turned me down.  I was too expensive, too cheap.  If I go too far, all I will get is no.  My job is just to execute my client’s vision.  It is not about me or my firm. The Moon is wondrous and beautiful in its […]

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A Week Off

June 9, 2021

Like so many of us, this year has been a whirlwind so far.  I am going to catch my breath, take my own advice and be still for a week.  I will be back next week with a new post and will have my podcast up on Tuesday. But for this week, I am going […]

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Intuition

June 2, 2021

We all rely on our intuition to drive us forward.  Intuition is a function of experience, natural gifts, education and maybe even just age.  We use intuition to form opinions on just about everything — from who we choose to be with as a life partner to which toothpaste we will use. Marketing, of course, […]

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The Next Martha

May 26, 2021

There will never be another Martha Stewart.  First, Martha is Martha.  However, she is not a unicorn, just a function of her time.  Her trajectory from caterer to author to licensee extraordinaire to media mogul was all based on limited distribution and information flow available when she started.  Simply, everything she did was amplified so […]

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MacGyver Is Just A TV Show

May 19, 2021

It always feels good when you come up with a creative solution to a pressing issue.  MacGyver is a TV show about finding thinking alternatively about solving problems.  Awesome. Today, there are real issues that require MacGyvering.  Restaurants and hotels are having trouble finding staff, supplies are constricted for just about any creative business.  Finding […]

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Intentional Change

May 12, 2021

We are all faced with a new world order.  Post-Pandemic.  What does that exactly mean?  Whatever it might mean for you as a person and your realm of reality is profound in its own right.  Your creative business though?  You are confronted with so much.  For some, it is boundless opportunity.  For others, it is […]

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Paying The Bills Is Subterfuge

May 5, 2021

The United States’ Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen (beyond brilliant), earlier this weeks said that she might see the need for interest rates to rise (which only the Federal Reserve can do) to keep the economy from overheating.  Our economy is indeed surging back now that it looks like we might, might be nearing the end […]

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Craft vs. Creation

April 28, 2021

A wonderful conversation has been started discussing perfectionism, quality and profitability.  The catalyst is the story of Picasso destroying self-portraits months in the making that the gallery owner who was to buy them loved.  A florist remaking centerpieces because she was not happy with the result (again, client loved them).  Interior designer giving a client […]

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Practice Being Proactive

April 21, 2021

Following on from last week’s conversation begging you to not be a chameleon is a challenge to practice being proactive. If you appreciate your obligation to be the guide, to stand in your own light, to honor the challenge of transformative joy ahead, then you own your obligation to be proactive.  Proactive in the sense […]

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What Does It Mean To Be Purposeful?

April 14, 2021

Bernie Madoff died in prison yesterday.  Lest you forget, Bernie Madoff orchestrated probably the single biggest and longest running Ponzi scheme in history.  His fund bilked investors (most of whom were crazy sophisticated and extraordinarily wealthy) at the end of the day out of between seventeen and twenty four billion dollars over decades.  Despite at […]

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