Painting Bad Feels So Good: How A Creative Lifestyle Drives Success in Business
Recently I took up painting, and I quickly realized that I am a bad painter. Maybe the worst of painters.
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Career
Why I’m Sick of Building My Personal Brand: And Two Solutions
If you’re an entrepreneur – whether that means you’re a strategist, designer, copywriter, journalist, musician, or whatever your particular hustle
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Experimentation is Everything: 5 Tips that Will Improve Your Writing and Help Find Your Voice
In an interview with the Paris Review, Henry Miller explained that didn’t find his voice until he wrote Tropic of
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Interview with Bad Yogi Owner and Instructor Erin Motz
Recently I decided to start bolstering my fitness routine with yoga, but between my hectic work schedule and constant travel, the
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A Brief Eulogy for Boxer, Poet, and Genuine Goddamn Human Muhammad Ali
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” “Wars of nations are fought to
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Finding Time to Write When You Have a Busy Life
Like many people, I’ve been calling myself a writer on and off for practically all my life. It’s one of
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Make People Care: How to Write About Your Life Without Boring Your Readers
At some point you’ve probably heard someone say it: “My life is so interesting that I ought to write a
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Brief Missive from the Trenches: Coping with Busyness, Business, and Change
In the past year I haven’t spent more than two months living in any one town, and usually significantly less
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You’re Pushing Yourself Too Hard: Signs that You’re Overtraining or Over-working and What to Do About it
People tend to want too much of a good thing. I hate to open by stating something that everyone knows,
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Interview with Pubslush Co-Founder Amanda Barbara
It’s time for another interview, this time with entrepreneur and Pubslush co-founder Amanda Barbara. In a nutshell, Pubslush is an
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I Reached Out to Tom Robbins and Look What Happened: the Benefits of Connecting With Someone You Haven’t in a While (or Never Have Before)
So I wrote a letter the other day. A real letter, on paper, albeit typed then printed. Into an envelope
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A Few Universal Life and Business Lessons I Learned When I Was In a Band
Every experience we have provides us with the opportunity to learn something new. Sometimes the slightest experience provides the most
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Romancing the Planet Interviewed Me, and Now I Ask You: What Do You Think It Takes to be a Writer?
Last year while I was living in Granada, Romancing the Planet had a few questions for me about traveling and
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Surprise! The World Isn’t Ending. Now What Are You Gonna Do?
Back when I was an angst-ridden teenager I was absolutely, positively, 100% sure that the world was going to end
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The Game is Rigged, So You Might as Well Set the Odds in Your Favor: the Art of Making Your Own Luck
“Opportunity is missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” —Thomas Edison Around the
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Taking the Plunge into Freelance Writing: How it Worked for Me and Can Work for You
My friends who were perched higher in the tree later told me that, when I fell, it reminded them of
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