There are plenty of fitness influencers and intellectual influencers. There are plenty of classes and programs and institutions to help us develop a sound body or a vigorous mind. But what about developing character?

Good news: your mind is a master negotiator. The bad news? It’s only good at negotiating with you. You know what I’m talking about. You know the crafty promises it makes, when it convinces you to stay in bed for “just a few more minutes.”

“Stop allowing your mind to be a slave, to be jerked about by selfish impulses, to kick against fate and the present, and to mistrust the future.”

You want to post consistent social content. But the last time you made a video, it took more than an hour. Posting content every day of the week would take up a whole workday. Obviously that’s not worth it. 

You got ghosted by a client again. Let’s talk about why that might have happened. 

So many people claim to have a dream, but they aren’t sitting at the table. They don’t have a chance to win, even by a stroke of luck or genius or happenstance.

I’ve produced online courses for half a dozen different solo creators in the past. Full Time Filmmaker blows them out of the water. It has 10x more lessons than the biggest course I ever produced.

Someone told me recently that they’re working on a 30-minute video edit, but now the project has gotten so big, and it’s been so long, that they’re scared to open up the project file. They’ve lost velocity, and their momentum is dwindling.

I realized I had seven and a half years of hopes and expectations piled on this book release. Hours of daydreams, coloring the canvas of this experience. The real book launch looked nothing like my daydreams.

As Steven Pressfield shares in “The War of Art,” there’s always so much resistance to doing creative work. The resistance shows up in cunning, crafty ways to block us from the creativity we so desire.

How did you discover that views were down? Hopefully, by posting. I have a lot of respect for people who continue to put in the work, sharpen their sword, and stay in the game, even when the economy or the algorithm isn’t exactly in an optimal place.

To do something well, it needs to be boring.

What on earth is a production fee and how can you start charging one for your video or photo business? How do you explain a production fee to your clients? Won’t they get mad?

If you’re a freelancer or a creative, and you don’t know where to find new clients… I got you. Here’s a list of seven places you can find new clients.

Even after publishing over 700 articles on my website since 2018, writing 465 days in a row, and writing over a quarter of a million words…the resistance was still strong. The imposter syndrome was still there.

A few years ago I was in New York with friends, and they decided to see Hamilton on Broadway. They asked if I wanted to join. I said no. Why? Because Hamilton wasn’t cool to me.

You know the difference you can make for someone’s project in a day, or even just a few hours. Yet we have a hard time believing other creatives could do the same for us. This is walking. This is the left foot and the right foot of commanding larger budgets for your projects: invest in quality, then get more money.

Work is a battle. We face distraction and demotivation on all sides. When we encounter a block, the question arises...should I stop? Should I take a little break? Should I work on something else?

If you’ve been on Instagram for a few years, your followers are probably made up of people you know. Friends, family, acquaintances. This creates a strange scenario if you’re thinking about posting consistent content to grow your audience.

Business podcasters try to convince us to spend time with people who have more money than us. But if my wife and brothers and best friend aren’t millionaires, what am I supposed to do? Stop spending time with them?