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It’s possible you use social media to grow your business. Or to enhance your career. Or maybe it’s to find delight and joy. When you add up all the tikking, tokking, tweeting and clicking, what’s the return on that investment? Is your vacation more fun when you spend it taking photos for your Instagram followers?Continue reading “Free Work”

“If I took the Big Leap into my Zone of Genius, I might fail. What if I really opened up to my true genius and found that my genius wasn’t good enough? Better to keep the genie in the bottle and coast along in the Zone of Excellence.” -Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap “You’ve gotContinue reading “Your Zone Of Genius”

For the producer or anyone starting a project… No one will ever care more than you. Especially at the outset. Why should they? It’s your project. Their priority is not your priority. So, you have two choices. (1) Don’t care if they care. Have no expectations. Plan to do it all yourself. (Depending on theContinue reading “To Care Or Not To Care”

“If it’s important, you’ll find a way. If it’s not, you’ll find an excuse.” -Ryan Blair The only question to ask yourself: What’s the thing that you will do, no matter what? Find and start doing that. Once you do, everything else you need will show up. But until you do, nothing will show up.

The measure of a calling isn’t whether you get picked or it chooses you first. The measure is whether, despite everything…all the obstacles, all the disappointments, all the heartbreaks…you keep choosing it.

“Perhaps, if you’re fortunate, your job is in sync with your work. But most of the time, our work is something we have to fight for. It’s not something we’re given, or apply for. It’s what we choose to do. The change we seek to make, the people we seek to serve, the decisions weContinue reading “No Permission Necessary”

“Intentionality fuels the master’s journey. Every master is a master of vision.” -George Leonard “When you’re not intentional, life gets out of control. When you are intentional, life becomes manageable.” -John C. Maxwell “Be careful not to lose sight of the divine presence in any of your actions. Never undertake any work or activity withoutContinue reading “Be Intentional”

“There is an ongoing battle between algorithmic mass distraction and focus. Excellence requires winning it.” -Brad Stulberg, book The Way Of Excellence You may think you’re great at multitasking, but you’re not. No one is. We delude ourselves into thinking we are. Brad Stulberg cites several studies in his book The Way Of Excellence, whichContinue reading “Task-Switching Costs”

“A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play. -James P. Carse, book Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility “Games make us happy because they are hard work that we choose for ourselves, and it turns out thatContinue reading “The Game Of Life”

For the actor… As you’re working on the character, it’s important to fully explore both extremes. Go all the way to one pole and all the way to the other pole More often than not, that middle ground will be just right. Let yourself experience “too hot.” Let yourself experience “too cold.” Then, you willContinue reading “Just Right”