Writing
Practical philosophy for creative, soulful entrepreneurs
The Merchant’s Dilemma
This is part two of a three-part series leading up to the publishing of my first book—Artist, Merchant, Seeker. The book that will be released this Spring is about three archetypes, and how they form the basis of your work, no matter the profession or specialism you play in. These are very different archetypes, with […]
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What’s the Point of Your Work?
What’s the point? I don’t mean, in the self-deprecating fashion that we can be prone to. The one where the internal voice whines “oh, what is the point?” I mean, what’s the point - the sharpened statement that conveys the essence of what you do? Do...
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Feeling The True Desire Of Success
“We’ve reached such an incredible level of freedom that for the first time in history we have to manage our own mutation. It’s up to us to decide what it means to be a successful human being. That’s the philosophical task of the age.” – Peter...
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The 3 strategies I use to market my art
I’m writing an ebook. I thought it was finished, then I discovered it wasn’t. It will be out later this year, and it’s called How to Market Your Art. So, as a little teaser, here’s a very practical description of some of the main ways I market my...
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Who am I to…(insert presumptuousness here)
I was with a client recently. She’s an expert in her field. She’s been teaching her work for decades. And I was enquiring into the essential nature of her work, asking her what this work was really about, and how it moved people. She was in flow....
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Choose Your Art, then Make It
Because if you do, you will gift to the world expressions and stories that only you can give. And we want them. Need them even. You see beauty that no one else sees. You hear truth that no one else listens to. You have a belief in the goodness of...
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Sweetheart, You Don’t Understand How Valuable You Are
Sweetheart, you don’t get it. You don’t realize just how beautifully valuable you are. So very precious. So very special. Because you’re like me. You forget. You deny it. You disbelieve it. It’s not your fault. It’s not a pathology – something that...
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How to Heal our Allergies to Marketing
Sometimes when I sit down to write these more instructional posts – the one’s where I’m trying to teach you something that practically helps you – I assume a position. I hear myself with this haughty voice in an upper-class English accent. “I,...
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Launch Before You’re Ready
You probably have an idea that you haven’t made and shared yet. I don’t know exactly what it is, but if you think about it, you probably have a bunch of reasons why it’s not time to share it with the world yet. Maybe it’s an idea for a course you...
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The Eternal Mechanism of the Heart
It began to dawn on me, the innocence of my heart. I was biking home from a date with a woman. It was sweet. Surprising. Confronting. I’d fallen for something in her. And then I’d got a little burned. More than my rational mind said was...
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