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Just Begin
One of the most frustrating things about being someone who creates things for a living is that pressure to constantly be reinventing yourself and improving on your work. It is very easy to get caught...
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To Slay a Dragon
To create something of any type is much like the task of a brave knight that chooses to face down the dragon that stands between him and his prize. The dragon taunts our hero, whispering in a voice...
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Your Perception Will Define Your Reality
One of the most frustrating things that you will encounter as an entrepreneur or as someone who is working towards the realization of your dreams is the inevitable failures that you’ll run into along...
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Create Something to Benefit Everyone
The way I see it, there are two types of people in the world. Those who endlessly produce new things and those who endlessly consume new things. As an artist and a writer, I do my best to stick to...
View ArticleHow to Remove the WordPress Gallery Image Border
I searched for this for a long time before finally coming across this simple, but wonderful line of code. If you’re hosting your own WordPress site and can’t stand those grey borders around images in...
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Creating Winning Relationships – Step 1: Acknowledge Their Potential
In the game of life and especially in the business world, one thing that everyone could work on improving is the way in which they deal with people. Learning how to cultivate healthy relationships is...
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Creating Winning Relationships: Step 2 – Eye Contact
Have you ever been in a conversation with someone when it was clear that your conversation seemed to rank in the septic tank on their importance scale? What about those conversations when the person...
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Conquer Mediocrity
There exists within the heart of every man, woman and child that has ever been born a subconscious awareness that they were born to be conquerors. The world we are born into does everything that it...
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The Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword
Writing is one of the most powerful forces in the world — with the stroke of the pen, entire kingdoms and empires have been overthrown overnight. Destructive mindsets and manipulative lies have been...
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Creating Winning Relationships: Step 3 – Treat People Like Human Beings, Not...
The situation is familiar. You’re at a networking event, a bar, or a business lunch, and you meet someone new. You don’t even break a sweat because you’ve done this so many times before. It’s just...
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Creating Winning Relationships: Step 4 – Undivided Attention
Okay there, champ. This one might sting a little, especially in our hyper-connected-but-not-really-all-that-connected world. If you really want to step it up a notch in your relationship-building...
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Q&A for the Aspiring Entrepreneur
This is from an interview that I did recently with someone who was writing a paper on entrepreneurs and starting a business. The questions and answers are very basic but yet unfortunately so few people...
View Article4 Ways to Improve Morale & Inspire Change
One of the most difficult things for a group of people to do is to change and move forward. You’re the kind of person that wants to see legitimate growth and advancement, but you’re probably stuck...
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How to Break Out of a Creative Rut Infographic
Ever feel like you’re stuck and can’t create? Check out this awesome infographic from the people over at Copyblogger.com for tips and tricks on how to break free of that blockage! “Think you need to be...
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Custom CSS Code for Disqus Comment System
There are tons of bloggers around the world who make use of the Disqus Comment System. It is very easy to use and it allows users from multiple platforms (Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc.) to converse...
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How to Become a Better Writer
Would you like to be a better writer? Who wouldn’t? Here’s ten easy steps that you can take to improve your writing skills. Thanks to the folks at Copyblogger for this one! The post How to Become a...
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The Thrill of Victory and the Struggle of Pain
I don’t like pain. In fact, I think if there was a way for me to entirely rid the world of all forms of pain, I would be the first to sign up. The problem with pain is that it’s just so…painful. We...
View ArticleBusiness, Relationships, and Trust
I wanted to take some time to write about something that I haven’t really seen much written about in the business/leadership arena…and that is the aspect of trust in the business relationship. Just so...
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Ignore & Quickly Forgive Your Critics
Seriously. Choose to forgive them and walk away from stupid arguments. I started a blog in 2009 that reached around half a million people from all over the world in the first few years of its...
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The Wisdom of Charlie Chaplin
designed by Ryan J. Rhoades of reformationdesigns.com As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I...
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This will have you seriously reconsider ever paying Facebook a dime for...
I recently came across the YouTube content-creator, Veritasium. The first video that I saw of his was one where he talked about how Facebook’s business plan is essentially really crappy towards...
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Why I Can’t Stand Crowdsourced Graphic Design Sites
It sounds like a great deal, doesn’t it? You’re a business owner in need of a logo, or a website, or some other creative thing. You’re not talented or skilled enough to produce it yourself, and you’re...
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Not All Who Wander Are Lost
Tolkien had it right when he said “Not all who wander are lost”. When you were younger, there’s a pretty good chance that you didn’t have a five-step plan for how you were going to explore your back...
View ArticleBook Review: Show Your Work by Austin Kleon
I decided to start sharing more of the behind-the-scenes and the things that inspire me as an artist and a business owner. Austin Kleon’s latest book, “Show Your Work!” is one that I can’t recommend...
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Just Breathe
Sometimes when I wake up in the morning, I have a hard time sticking to the schedule I have set for myself. Why? Because there’s almost always something that happens while I’m sleeping where a client...
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