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Three for twenty
January 14, 2020
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) ”…our fear of losing always corresponds to our desire to have.” — Hannah Arendt For the last...
Solve meaningful problems
November 3, 2019
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) The ability to solve meaningful problems is a skill every creative pro must learn to master. To...
Your hidden discipline
October 13, 2019
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.” —David Whyte With every turn of event in...
Train, perform, recover
September 29, 2019
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) Some readers of this newsletter ask me why I publish on a two-season cycle. Instead of simply...
Serve somebody
June 30, 2019
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “You’re gonna have to serve somebody.” —Bob Dylan In 1927, a young physicist named Werner...
Roses and lemons
June 16, 2019
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “And I lift my glass to the awful truth Which you can’t reveal to the ears of youth Except to...
Praise of shadows
May 26, 2019
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “There are always apparent edges beyond which we can’t see…from within that bottomlessness is...
Choices and systems
May 12, 2019
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you think you are.” —James Clear...
No surprises
April 28, 2019
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “The ego is the false self, born out of fear and defensiveness.” —John O’Donnohue It takes no...
Slay your dragons
April 14, 2019
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “We define the entire outer scope of our outer experiences based on our inner problems. If you...
Rethinking growth
March 31, 2019
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “Growth does not equal prosperity.” —Chris Martenson (https://www.amazon.ca/Crash-Course-...
Nobody asks
March 17, 2019
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “Nobody asked for the internet.” —Marc Andreessen Back in the early 1990s, Marc Andreessen and...
Beware your senses
March 3, 2019
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “Don’t believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear.” –Lou Reed We judge what’s...
Rock, architect, drummer
February 17, 2019
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “Whatever you practice, you strengthen.” —Tara Brach As creative pros, we forget what we learn...
Money buys time and space
February 3, 2019
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” —Virginia Woolf...
Transmit or transform
January 20, 2019
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “How you live changes your brain.” —Milton Glaser Far too often, stories about creative people...
Three for nineteen
January 7, 2019
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.” ―John...
Technology is never the story
November 25, 2018
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “Nothing is so obvious that it’s obvious.” —Errol Morris As a kid, I was a fan of science...
Technology is never the story
November 25, 2018
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) Easy choices: hard life. Hard choices: easy life. — Jerzy Gregorek, weightlifter and coach...
How to not suck at presenting
November 11, 2018
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) Most presentations suck. They go on too long. The speaker’s compelling idea gets buried in a...
Expectations and tolerances
October 28, 2018
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “We human beings seem predisposed to formalize our behaviour. But we must be careful not to go...
Boneyard
October 14, 2018
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “Ask yourself at every moment: Is this necessary?” —Marcus Aurelius Being a creative pro is a...
Anger is diesel
September 30, 2018
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) There are six core emotions: happiness, sadness, surprise, fear, disgust and anger. Each is a...
Use the world well
September 16, 2018
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “To use the world well, to be able to stop wasting it and our time in it, we need to relearn...
Let go
June 17, 2018
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the...
Everywhere
June 3, 2018
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “Heaven and earth are only three feet apart, but in thin places that distance is even shorter.”...
Wellspring
May 20, 2018
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “If you do the work that you do from a loving heart, then you will always be able to make...
Bag rustling
May 6, 2018
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “The cause of anger lies in our thinking: in thoughts of blame and judgement.” —Marshall...
Invisible world
April 22, 2018
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in...
Ideas versus ways
April 8, 2018
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “It takes a special energy, over and above one’s creative potential, a special audacity or...
Cold shower
March 25, 2018
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) CreativeBoost masthead Easy choices: hard life. Hard choices: easy life. — Jerzy Gregorek,...
Principles, stacks and space
March 11, 2018
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “The problematic situations in your life are not chance or haphazard. They are specifically...
Four words
February 25, 2018
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) Here are four words that are going to influence how you work, where you are going to work and...
You are your habits
February 12, 2018
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “Perfection is not a prerequisite for anything but pain.” ―Tara Brach We are all creatures of...
Difficult peopleÂ
January 28, 2018
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are.” —Anaïs Nin “How do I best deal with...
Three for eighteen
January 14, 2018
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) In what’s become an annual tradition for me for the last (https://us4.campaign-...
It's never a wordsmithing problem
December 3, 2017
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) When someone calls their troubled project a wordsmithing problem, it is never a wordsmithing...
Name your teachers
November 20, 2017
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “We don’t learn balance until we are pushed off balance.” —Richard Dryer via the Project Camino...
Earth and Sun
November 5, 2017
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “It is difficulties that show what we are.” —Epictetus One of my favourite anecdotes about...
The favour you ask
October 22, 2017
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) Testimonials are still one of the best ways you can help your business grow. And yet so many...
Out of balance
October 8, 2017
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with...
First for nothing
September 24, 2017
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” —Gertrude...
Camino mind
September 10, 2017
|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT| View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) In this first issue of the new Fall season of CreativeBoost, I’m going to share something...
Carry less
June 25, 2017
View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “Go out into your heart, as onto a vast plain…” –Rainer Maria Wilke (Book of Hours II) With summer upon us, so...
Manage you
June 11, 2017
View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) I talk often in CreativeBoost about the importance of getting the self (http://us4.campaign-...
Tourist or traveller
May 28, 2017
View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “Those who travel the world hoping to get blinded by the light are often blind to the light that’s all around...
Payload
May 14, 2017
View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) Publishing is an expensive undertaking. If a document gets weighed down with wordy phrases or unclear language,...
Inside intel
April 30, 2017
View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) I’m going to share with you some inside information about this newsletter. CreativeBoost is responsible for more...
On gratitude and audience
April 16, 2017
View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) “The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.” —Epictetus...
Be uncertain
April 2, 2017
View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) Until you learn to get a handle on it, doubt can be a paralyzing force in life. It holds many of us back from...
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