Today is the first day of my new “unemployment”. Earlier this week I signed away the business I had been building since 2012. Chalk it up to the ol’ “incompatible business partners” with a little burnout thrown in, but the reality is that somewhere in the madness that is building a fast-growing, successful digital agency, …
I wasn’t planning on posting today, nor making this graphic, but Seth has a way of writing the right stuff for me at the right time. This feeling, a mix of frustration, apprehension, when one must go back to the drawing board, can be overwhelming. I needed to read this. I created this shareable in …
The biggest challenge of this path we have chosen is, without a doubt, the weight of starting over. No matter how much you’ve learned, worked, or fought for it, if you do creative work, you will be starting over. And over, again. Hasn’t happened to you yet? Get ready. When it comes, remember what you …
There’s something about these times –maybe it’s how easy it is to broadcast our messages, how easy it is to have a tribe to pay attention to them– that seems to be promoting the glorification of The Idea. From conferences to memes, ideas have it easy this time and age. And yet, I’ never known …
If you could have anything you want, a realistic opportunity (no fantasies) to get one thing, would you be ready to ask for exactly the thing you want? I wasn’t, and the realization I didn’t know what I wanted in that moment has opened my eyes, and woken a determination I didn’t know I had …
This town is chock-full of people with ideas. In fact, I’ve met people who have had great ideas for very many years. They still do. They tell everyone about it. They nurture their idea. They agonize over it. They fill with joy when it’s validated at a meetup or conference. I’m not sure any of …