One person can only remember so much information before they drop the ball. This is a great opportunity for you as a freelancer. 

“What’s your budget?”

“What’s your rate?” 

Most art can be enjoyed long after it’s created. Not so with food.

When I went to college, I didn’t want to go to college. I wanted to stay in my hometown and play music with my rock band.

Quantity time is quality time. The more time someone spends with you, the more value they’ll get.

Trying to motivate myself to lift weights is difficult. I get legalistic about it. I make bargains and cut deals with myself to do fewer reps, to lift less weight, and to stick to lifts I’m comfortable with. 

When you think you’re accurate, that’s when you neglect to double check your work, so you make a mistake. 

Is the level of success you’re able to achieve directly proportionate to the amount of pain you’re willing to endure?

I help artists get out of their own way so they can create every day. Daily lessons, daily creative prompts, a supportive community, and a proven system for consistent creativity that works with your real, busy life.

I saw a tweet recently joking that the very first books were audiobooks.

Doesn’t a clear sense of self sound nice? While we’re at it, why not strong goals, more new adventures, and good friends to go along with that? Let’s talk about how to achieve this. 

Temporal landmarks are beginnings and ends of arbitrary periods of time. A new year, the first of the month, Mondays.

There’s a lot of opportunity for freelancers to make money contracting to creative agencies, because interestingly enough, the freelancer has a real leverage in negotiations with agencies. 

You have to be aware of this. You have a different goal than the agency, and they have a different goal than the brand. The trickle-down of these goals can taint your workflow. 

We’ve all had needy clients who reach out too often with elementary questions. It’s mind-numbing.

The pit-in-your-stomach fear of looking stupid can be eliminated if you accept the fact that what you’re doing is public service. It’s closer to driving a bus than it is to shredding a guitar solo.

“When you talk crap about a rival, you’re reinforcing a sense of identity. You’re reinforcing who we are and who they are.” 

We hear perfectionism described a hundred different ways. Rarely do we hear it described as dangerous.

The nature of being on call is that while there isn’t necessarily work to be done all day long, there are constant interruptions when I try to do other work for extended periods of time.

To own a business that generates you many millions of dollars, you have to become a certain type of person. Is that worth it?