creative maverick

“Know thine enemy as completely as you know yourself and you will always be victorious.” Sun Tzu
The number one enemy of your creativity and happiness is your Top Dog. Every creativity exercise ever invented was designed to get past it.
Life Coach Pete Cohen says:
“The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your [...]

If you’re creatively blocked, if you can’t work out what you’d really like to do with your life, if others’ criticism cuts you to the bone, if you’re haunted by negative visions of the future, or if your mood takes a dive at the smallest trigger, there’s one culprit behind it all.
It’s the number one [...]

So now it’s 2009 have you been writing down your goals and plans for the year? Did you do the same thing last year? How did that turn out? If the result was a sense of failure and despondency, let’s do something different this year.
I tried a couple of times to work through the process [...]

So does the previous post (There is no plan) mean we should go do whatever we feel like doing? Is it true that you can “do what you love and the money will follow”?
There is a second point from Daniel Pink’s “Last career guide you’ll ever need” that’s important to introduce here.
The main character [...]

Daniel Pink is definitely a Creative Maverick. His new book “The adventures of Johnny Bunko (the last career guide you’ll ever need)” is a careers book in the form of a Manga (Japanese comic) novel.
In it, he covers “6 career secrets no one ever told you”. A couple of these really struck me. The first [...]

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 [...]