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The Return of the Seeker
READ ARTICLE →: The Return of the SeekerThis 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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Feeling The True Desire Of Success
Read Article →: 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 Koestenbaum I’ve ruminated on that quote for well over…
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The 3 strategies I use to market my art
Read Article →: The 3 strategies I use to market my artI’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 own art. First though, a quick word…
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Who am I to…(insert presumptuousness here)
Read Article →: 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. She was transmitting. I couldn’t type fast enough…
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Choose Your Art, then Make It
Read Article →: Choose Your Art, then Make ItBecause 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 the world that is completely…
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Sweetheart, You Don’t Understand How Valuable You Are
Read Article →: Sweetheart, You Don’t Understand How Valuable You AreSweetheart, 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 went wrong. There’s a disease. Adyashanti says it’s an affliction of the…
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How to Heal our Allergies to Marketing
Read Article →: How to Heal our Allergies to MarketingSometimes 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, Lord Ewan, in my superior consciousness, and infinite generosity, I will impart…
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Launch Before You’re Ready
Read Article →: Launch Before You’re ReadyYou 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 want to make, or…
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The Eternal Mechanism of the Heart
Read Article →: The Eternal Mechanism of the HeartIt 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 appropriate. “Dude. C’mon You don’t even know her. You’re…
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The Sin of Our Times, Part 2: The Lost Technology of Spiritual Transformation
Read Article →: The Sin of Our Times, Part 2: The Lost Technology of Spiritual TransformationIn the first part of this article I talked about shame and how we’re carrying so much of it, and that it is the root of sin. Not in some old clichéd Catholic sense, where we come from some original bad stock. We’re ashamed because we’re struggling to find the courage to step out and…
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The Sin of Our Times, Part 1: The Anatomy of Shame
Read Article →: The Sin of Our Times, Part 1: The Anatomy of ShameWe’ve thrown out sin. It’s gone, along with religious guilt, dogma and other old dusty concepts that clash with our modern sense of freedom. It’s gone because it was a moral label from a by-gone past. Or at least, that’s what we think. But I’m going to tell you a story that I never expected to…
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Revealing the Masks we Wear
Read Article →: Revealing the Masks we WearI was reading Brené Brown again the other morning as I was eating scrambled eggs with avocado. Brené (I don’t actually know her so as to be on a first name basis, but like to pretend I do) was talking about barriers to vulnerability. She was talking about masks. The masks we wear. The things…
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The Beauty of Authentic Ignorance
Read Article →: The Beauty of Authentic IgnoranceI remember years ago, being in a room with a spiritual teacher. A friend and I had organized a workshop with him. He was a very wise man. Towards the end of our evening, a guy put up his hand to ask a question. “Terry, I wake up every morning, and I don’t really want…