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Wise Words From Joni Mitchell

June 8, 2013 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

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 other things which are not suited to the arts.

Joni Mitchell

How are you doing at balancing your creative child and your business shark?

Have you developed cunning & shrewdness?

Starting next month we are going to launch the July Challenge: 31 Days to Kick Start Your Creative Business.

Watch this space.

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