You’ve been creating, making, doing and stressing, and STILL, the traction isn’t there. What is traction? Traction is when increasingly more people engage with your creative work. Traction is when people increasingly like, subscribe and comment on your work. Traction is when more and more people buy your products, and tell others about it enthusiastically. […]
Why are some of us seemingly more productive, driven, and efficient than others? My experience — and the ideas I’ve picked up from others — shows me that we take more efficient action when we are aware of four basic prompts: What matters? Why does it matter? When will it get done? How will it
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There’s this thing you’ve been avoiding… That thing you think of when you wake up in the morning. The thing you’ve been making excuses for so that you never have to come face to face with it. But, it eats away at you. Breathing down your neck. Like that sleeping dragon, Smaug. Out there; a
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I launched ‘Red Lemon Club’ in late 2009. I had written an ebook about what I’d learned promoting myself as a self-taught illustrator, called (deep breath): ‘10 Steps to Powerful Online Self-Promotion for Creatives.’ The blog was to be my main method for promoting the book, but I’ve kept it running for all these years,
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For thirty days… Reached out to someone to ask for help. Wrote a thousand words of total crap. Painted a picture and shared it online. Read fifty pages of a book. Quit watching porn. Did something that scared you. Wrote down twenty new ideas. Did fifty press-ups. Took and shared an interesting photograph. Made something
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E.L. Doctorow once said: “Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing, and learn as you go.” As my daily writing experiments have shown, he is right. Writing can reveal a lot about the world and ourselves. The sheer act of writing unlocks that which is deep within the dusty libraries of my mind. Until recently,
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You’ve got this thing you’re working on. That thing you really should do every day for maximum effect. That thing you talk about a lot. Writing blog posts; taking pictures; making art; practicing an instrument; contacting new people; reading books; learning languages and shooting videos. But little materializes, if at all. You love the idea
