Writing
Practical philosophy for creative, soulful entrepreneurs
The Return of the Seeker
This is the final part of a short series introducing three archetypes that underpin our work as entrepreneurs, freelancers and professionals—The Artist, the Merchant and the Seeker. (They are also the subject of my book, coming out in June.) In part one I talked about the Artist, and how so many of us have our […]
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Navigating Life’s Turning Points
There are those moments that happen, periods in our lives, when we reach a fork in the road. The wheel of life has revolved, and we’re faced with a choice. A momentous choice perhaps. We feel it, like a beckoning from the future, or an intolerance...
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The Egoic Nature of Growth
We want to change. It’s built into our nature, the very substance of life. We want to realize the vision that we see in our mind’s eye. We want to fulfil the potential we feel in our soul. We’re told it’s possible, just a decision away. We want it...
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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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