Podcast: 7 Essential Questions To Ask Yourself In 2015
As 2015 approaches, here are seven key questions you can ask to help you have your best and most productive year yet.
Podcast: 7 Essential Questions To Ask Yourself In 2015
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Are You Stealing From Yourself?
Are You Stealing From Yourself?
Don’t rob yourself, and stop trying to will yourself to do better. Instead, recognize that small actions of focus and discipline today is the best way to love your future self. Make investments today so that you can reap a return tomorrow.
AC Podcast: The Power of Small Actions
AC Podcast: The Power of Small Actions
Small things done well lead to big results. Small things done poorly eventually lead to failure. As a creative professional, you have three responsibilities to fulfill. In this episode, we address each of them and a few small practices to help you succeed in 2015.
AC Podcast: Mike Rohde on Sketchnoting
AC Podcast: Mike Rohde on Sketchnoting
Some people are naturally drawn to sketching ideas and concepts. Others fear it. Today's guest, Mike Rohde, will share how all of us can use sketching as a way to unlock ideas and new avenues of thought with tips from his new book The Sketchnote Workbook.
AC Podcast: Jocelyn Glei on Make Your Mark
AC Podcast: Jocelyn Glei on Make Your Mark
Jocelyn Glei, Director of 99u, returns to the podcast to share three big movements that are affecting creative pros and businesses, and to talk about the brand new book Make Your Mark.
AC Podcast: What To Do When You Aren’t Inspired
AC Podcast: What To Do When You Aren’t Inspired
It's great when inspiration strikes and you're deeply motivated to do your work, but what about when you simply can't muster the will to do your important work? Today we share three simple steps to getting moving, even when you don't feel the "fire in your belly".
AC Podcast: Tara Mohr on Playing Big
AC Podcast: Tara Mohr on Playing Big
Are you playing too small in life and work? Today's guest Tara Mohr is the author of the brand new book Playing Big, and she will challenge you to move past your perceived limits and fears in order to create impact.
Don’t Settle For The First Idea
Don’t Settle For The First Idea
In the effort to "ship fast" we often fail to lay a sturdy foundation for our work, and the results can be disastrous. Shipping early shouldn't be equivalent to thoughtlessness. You need to ensure that you are respecting the work by giving it your best mental effort.
AC Podcast: Alone With Your Thoughts
AC Podcast: Alone With Your Thoughts
Life is noisy, and it's only getting more so, which makes it difficult to stay focused and get in touch with your creative intuition. Is it possible in these hyper-connected times to actually get alone with your thoughts?
Why Does Criticism Sting?
Why Does Criticism Sting?
It’s often not the circumstances we learn from, but our response to them. Identifying limiting narratives or patterns of self-destruction can help us spot them when they crop up, then nip them before they cause us to implode or obsess needlessly over critique.
A Simple Question That Will Keep You Inspired
A Simple Question That Will Keep You Inspired
If you want to remain productive, and you want to have ideas when you need them most, then the kinds of stimuli you allow into your mind are important. Because creativity is essentially the combining of existing pieces of inspiration in your environment into something new, the quality and relevance of inputs will often directly affect your creative output, thus either propelling you forward or impeding your progress.
Use Time Chunks To Master Distraction
Use Time Chunks To Master Distraction
Many of us lack the kind of latitude over our schedule that we’d like to have, but all of us have some discretion about how we spend our time. The best way to prevent distractions and make steady progress on your most important work is to dedicate predictable time to it.
AC Podcast: The Dailies
AC Podcast: The Dailies
Do you have a set of practices that keep you steady and on-course? For years I've had a small group of daily activities that have helped me pursue my long-term goals, and today I'll share them with you and tell you how you can incorporate the same ideas into your own life and work.
AC Podcast: Lisa Congdon on Making a Living With Your Art
AC Podcast: Lisa Congdon on Making a Living With Your Art
Is it possible to make a good living making art you love? Lisa Congdon says "YES!", and she shares specific strategies for how to do so in her new book Art, Inc.
How To Receive Negative Feedback
How To Receive Negative Feedback
There's no delicate way to say this: many of us carry weapons. Not literal weapons (most likely), but figurative ones, and we get trigger happy the moment we experience something we don't like.
AC Podcast: Joshua Wolf Shenk on Powers of Two
AC Podcast: Joshua Wolf Shenk on Powers of Two
We're all familiar with the myth of the lone genius, which states that most creative work is performed in isolation by brilliant individuals. However, today's guest Joshua Wolf Shenk shares research from his new book about how the pair is actually the primary creative unit.
AC Podcast: Hendrix & The Monkees
AC Podcast: Hendrix & The Monkees
Did you know that Jimi Hendrix once toured as the opening act for The Monkees? Let's just say that the experiment didn't go so well. Here are some reflections on making art for the wrong crowd.
Run Your Race, Not Someone Else’s
Run Your Race, Not Someone Else’s
Run YOUR race. Execute YOUR plan. Do YOUR work, not someone else's. Don't allow envy, spite, ego, or greed to derail you or cause you to chase a phantom ideal that was never meant for you.
AC Podcast: Adaptive Rhythms
AC Podcast: Adaptive Rhythms
It's important to adapt your rhythms to the season you are in rather than expecting circumstances to conform to your systems. To perform at your best, you must structure your weekly activity by design, not default.
Why You Must Invest (Time) In Yourself
Why You Must Invest (Time) In Yourself
Anything of value that you wish to create will require a significant investment of time. Brilliant work is expensive.