Image by Rebecca One of the hardest things about what we do as creative entrepreneurs is that we don’t produce widgets. I’m sure there are some widget makers who care very deeply about their widgets, who put loads of effort into making the best widgets they can, who invest deeply of themselves into their widgets. […]
Wise Words From Joni Mitchell
You wonder about people who made a fortune, and you always think they drank it up or they stuck it up their nose. That’s not usually what brings on the decline. It’s usually the battle to keep your creative child alive while keeping the business shark alive, too. You have to develop cunning, shrewdness, and […]
David Gandy’s Perfectly Proportioned Plan
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Video 1 – Do It Now – Why You Can’t Wait to Be Creative
[vimeo 66902172 w=500 h=281] The Thriving Creative- Do it Now! from Steven Sparling on Vimeo.
Wise words from George Bernard Shaw
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing George Bernard Shaw Do you think it’s a coincidence that Shaw wasn’t frightened about making mistakes and also managed, in his lifetime, to write more than 60 plays, 5 novels, reams of music and literary […]
Idols, Mentors, Colleagues and Fans – It takes a village to support a Creative Entrepreneur
Welcome! We are trying something different this week. After an interesting lecture I attended about engaging different learning styles, and how much of our learning is actually visual, I have created the next blog post using PowerPoint. You can see it all below in the Slideshare. I highly recommend you use the ‘full screen’ viewing […]
Embrace the Gaping Void
Photo by Aka_lusi I’m taking a really great course now called Teach Now which I highly recommend for anyone who is interested in teaching. Registration is currently closed but it’s worth getting onto the mailing list to learn about it next time. The course is for current teachers and aspiring teachers. It deals with the nuts […]
Daring to Dance to a Different Beat
It’s tempting as we get older to think that we need to be on just one path. Or that when we make a decision we have to stick with it. Or even that our head knows best what to do – we talk ourselves into making decisions we think are ‘smart’ or ‘best’ without ever […]
J. S. Bach and the Value of Getting On With It
Last night I attended a very good performance of Bach’s St John Passion at The Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich. I find it terribly relaxing to sit for 2 hours just listening to music – my average day is so scattered and all over the place that the focus of two hours on music […]
Be Empty to Hear the Answers.
To survive, an individual must repetitively stop whatever it is doing to ask how it is doing, to think about where it needs to go, and to be empty to hear the answers. M Scott Peck I have long been a fan of M Scott Peck’s writing. The Road Less Travelled was a huge influence on […]