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How Our Desires Can Blind Us

February 22, 2013 by Steven Sparling 7 Comments

Photo by poolski This has been a challenging couple of months for me on a professional front. Before Christmas I was offered an acting job (yay!) only to lose it because I couldn’t do the dates they needed me for (boo). Then I was thrilled to get another job offer – for something shiny and […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship, Planning Tagged With: creative career, Creative Entrepreneurship, Negotiating, planning

7 Ways to Still Be Productive When You Really Can’t be F*cked

January 31, 2013 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

I’m having one of those days today where I really just feel like shutting off the computer, fishing out the Love Film DVD’s which have been waiting to be watched, putting on my pj’s, making some tea and flaking on the sofa. A proper slobby day. Isn’t that what we think of actors doing a […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship Tagged With: Actor, Artist, creative, Creative entrepreneur, Creative Entrepreneurship, Persistence, planning

Great Video from Molly Gordon – 5 principles for creating spaciousness, ease and prosperity in 2013

January 11, 2013 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

Molly Gordon is a great American coach – I recommend checking out her website and signing up for her newsletter. This is a video which she has just posted which is a really nice, succinct group of personal pledges to make going into 2013. I especially like the fifth one, to Speak Up – let people […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship, Planning Tagged With: 2013, Creative entrepreneur, Molly Gordon, planning

Fruit Picking and Business Planning –

January 9, 2013 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

Start with the low hanging fruit Photo by Effervescing Elephant It’s January and the Christmas bills are starting to come in. Mother Hubbard’s cupboards are feeling a bit bare so as a freelancer it’s always the time of year where I start to worry about drumming up some more work. Sound familiar? My advice is […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship, Planning Tagged With: creative, Entrepreneur, marketing, planning

Why 90% of Resolutions Fail and the 10% Option That Actually Works

January 2, 2013 by Steven Sparling 2 Comments

Here we are on the second of January and I bet you, like me and millions of other people, have at some point over the last few days given some thought to your ‘New Years Resolutions.’ Photo from One Way Stock I bet that list looks pretty much like the list you have drawn up […]

Filed Under: Planning Tagged With: Creative Entrepreneurship, New Year, planning, Plans, Resolutions

Downward Facing Dog of Shame (Embarrassing Auditions Pt 1)

May 28, 2012 by Steven Sparling 1 Comment

Up and Down, a photo by Nicholas_T on Flickr. (That’s not me in the photo! Some random yogi off Flickr) Last week I had one of those classically embarrassing auditions. I squirmed in agony all weekend remembering butt-clenching details. I had been called to audition for a commercial for a major UK grocery chain. The […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship Tagged With: commercials, creative, embarrassing auditions, forgiveness, let it go, Persistence, planning, yoga

Budgeting for Creative Survival

May 25, 2012 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

There are many great things I took away from my MA in Creative Entrepreneurship from UEA (http://www.uea.ac.uk/hum/mace/courses/ma-creative-entrepreneurship). The  course leader, Ian Chance, is a charming man with a lifetime worth of experience in the field. He’s also wickedly funny. One of the things he taught us was to have our cabbages budget.  As well as […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship Tagged With: budgeting, creative, Creative Entrepreneurship, finance, financials, planning

Entrepreneurship Often Starts With Crazy Ideas

April 26, 2011 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

Entrepreneurship often starts with crazy ideas!

  I spent a recent weekend working on one of my essays for my MA in Creative Entrepreneurship. We had to write a proposal for a project, with a budget and identifying target sources of funding. I struggled for a long time about what to write about. Then I came up with the idea of doing […]

Filed Under: creative entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Tagged With: Creative entrepreneur, Creative Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, Ideas, planning

Sustainability: How taking time off can HELP your creative practice

April 17, 2011 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

Sustainability

One really hard lesson that I am trying to learn (rather unsuccessfully) is about sustainability and pacing. You see part of sustainable creativity is how do you pace yourself to avoid burnout. Sustainability and habits (especially bad ones) I have got into really bad habits of working seven days per week. This means that I don’t […]

Filed Under: Sustainable Creativity Tagged With: creative business, Creative Business Planning, Creative entrepreneur, Creative Entrepreneurship, planning, sustainability, sustainable, sustainable creativity, Time Off

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