JOHN WILLIAMS’ PERSONAL BLOG ON CREATIVE LIVING
Here is the first Creative Maverick daily habit for you to try:
At the beginning of the day when you first wake up, ask these 2 questions:
ONE: “If I was set for life, didn’t need the money and was not already committed, would I choose to do what I am about to do today?”
Write down your [...]
There’s a problem with this incessant goal-setting that so many coaches are into.
It places a focus on the future and suggests relentless action and compromise in the present to get there. When you achieve that goal, you allow yourself a brief period of rejoicing and then set a new one. Urg, I feel a sense [...]
Many years back when I had my last job as a computer programmer, I knew I wanted something else but couldn’t work out what it was.
I realised the only way I was really going to work out what I wanted to do was to imagine that I could have anything I wanted in the world [...]
How would you like to take a year off? Let’s say the whole of 2009.
Sound appealing?
OK, I hereby give you my permission. Done.
Now, what is it you’re going to do in this precious year of total freedom?
Spend a year sitting on the beach, doing nothing? Or do you know that after the first couple of [...]
This is the personal blog of John Williams, author of "Screw work, let's play: How to do what you love & get paid for it" to be published by Pearson in June 2010.
Join my mission to play all day and get paid - to do whatever creative, fun stuff we feel like doing and make a good living out of it.