If you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late.
The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.
Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.
You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist,...
I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.
Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions.
All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen.
Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn’t matter. The intent does.
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it’s unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.
Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.
One bad review doesn’t ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.
Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
Marketing is a contest for people’s attention.
Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.
If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!