creative maverick

Here’s my conclusion about work as play:
When you are truly in play, when you are following the unfolding path of what provides you engagement, expression, excitement, and curiosity in the world, then your work is simply a natural expression of who you are and who you are becoming.
Work becomes a way of achieving the fullest [...]

Over at Creative Entrepreneurs Club, we are kicking off a series of monthly 30 day challenges to help Creative Entrepreneurs further their business.
Every month we pick a hot topic to get into action on - automating and outsourcing your least favourite tasks, making dreaded sales calls, writing compelling copy for your website, decluttering and streamlining your office [...]

Would you like to play all day and get paid - to do the creative, fun stuff you love doing, to have oodles of variety and freedom… and to make good money doing it?
If so, have a listen to my free audio class below.
I’ll explain why I think you need to switch from a worker [...]

…or what Columbo can teach you about discovering what you really want from life
I love the detective show Columbo. It’s the ultimate wind-down TV; while modern cop shows are neurologically over-stimulating with handheld cameras and 3 cuts a second, Columbo is slow-paced and charming.
The series has been running for over 30 years but my favourites are [...]

It might seem strange to bring death into a blog about doing what you love but in fact it is at the very heart of the topic.
When I was a 5 month old baby, my parents took my brother and I out in the family car to visit some relatives. Just a few minutes from our home, [...]

Quit being a worker and become a player.
A player is someone who:

Puts creativity, fun and fulfillment first
Goes where they feel drawn, rather than purely pursuing money
Plays with the environment around them and in relationship with others
Is in a life-long state of learning and organismic personal growth
Knows what interrupts their creativity and plays around it
Recognises what [...]

I took T. Harv Eker’s Millionaire Mind Intensive last weekend. Intensive was the word as we endured three 13 hour days in a hall in Excel Exhibition Centre in East London.
Harv has a mantra which is
How you do anything is how you do everything
He pointed out that how we approach the workshop is how we [...]

As I work on my proposal for a book on the themes of this blog, I’m starting to realise how important play is. To play all day and get paid sounds like the ultimate hedonism and while it should be fun, there is something more to this.
Why play?
When children play, they are learning about themselves [...]

Ever had a great idea for a website, book, product or business come to you in the bath or while you’re doing the washing up? What did you do with it?
Did you put it on the back burner, thinking something like…
“I’m sure someone else has already thought of it”
“Someone else is better placed than me [...]

Since taking the Lightning Process training, I reckon I’ve got the answer to that old secret-of-happiness question. Want to know it?
How to be happy
Think happy thoughts, recall happy memories, create happy visions of the future.
Er that’s it.
Michael Neill makes a great case in his book Feel Happy Now! that happiness is not dependent on external [...]