Creative work can be isolating. No matter how much you collaborate with others, the bulk of your most important work must still be accomplished alone. However, your relationships are one of the key sources of inspiration, focus, and creative spark. In this episode, I share two tactics from my book The Accidental Creative that will help you leverage your relationships to stay creatively inspired.
Have you ever felt anxious about your job, but you don’t know why? Everything is going well, or at least according to plan, and there is nothing obvious that should be causing anxiety. Yet, when bedtime rolls around, you struggle to get to sleep, and you have a perpetual sense that you’re falling behind.
Falling behind? Behind what?
On today's episode, I share three ways in which you might be unknowingly keeping "score", and how they can affect your engagement, your collaboration, and your overall drive at work.
Maybe you think it's time for a job change. Maybe you're happy with where you are, but you want to make sure you stay sharp and are prepared for the next opportunity when it arises. Whatever your situation, today's interview with Jenny Blake, author of Pivot, will help you gain clarity around what to do every day to be ready for your next move.
Jane Chen is the co-founder of Embrace Innovations, a company that's created an innovative product called the Embrace Warmer. It helps mothers of pre-mature babies living in developing countries keep their baby warm at the fraction of the cost of a typical incubator, and it's a complete game changer.
Do you have a framework for making decisions in your life and work? A personal (or team) manifesto can guide your work and help you do work that is personally meaningful and uniquely valuable.
In this episode I introduce a brand new podcast called The Louder Than Words Bookcast. It will run for nine weeks, and will illustrate key points from my latest book Louder Than Words about how to uncover your productive passion, sharpen your vision, and master your days.
Consider a piece of work that truly stands out from the noise, whether it's a song, a book, or a business. What makes it so remarkable? Today's guest Srini Rao has interviewed hundreds of remarkable people, and he has compiled what he learned into a new book called Unmistakable. He shares how we can avoid the cluttered middle, and chart a course for unique impact with our work.
Where is technology headed, and how will it affect the everyday lives and work of creative pros over the coming decades? This is a question we all need to ask if we want to continue to stay productive and viable. Today's guest, Kevin Kelly, is one of the world's foremost thinkers on technology and the future, and he shares some of the key technological movements that creative pros need to be aware of with insights from his book The Inevitable.
Ever feel disconnected from your work, or wonder if you're making the right choices in your career and life? In today's episode we share a simple framework for identifying activities in your life and work that will make a difference, and how to navigate closer to your "sweet spot".
If you want to succeed in life and work, it's about more than talent and drive. You also need to cultivate the relational skills necessary to get your work into the world and attract allies for your cause. Today's guest Jordan Harbinger is the co-founder of The Art Of Charm and the host of the podcast by the same name. He's going to share with us how we can develop the relational skills necessary to succeed.
What you choose to do in that brief moment between what you experience and how you respond determines everything in your life and work. Today's guest, Peter Bregman, is going to help us learn how to respond more effectively with insights from his latest book Four Seconds.
The story you tell yourself about time might be the most important story in your life. There are three kinds of stories that might derail you if you're not careful, and today we discuss how to counter each of them and adopt a healthier perspective.
Author Ryan Holiday is back to share insights from his new book Ego Is The Enemy. He'll tell you how to avoid letting your ego derail you as you're building your career, when you've failed, or when you're on the verge of your greatest success.
Are you doing the work you're wired to do, or are you just moving through you days? If you want to figure out what you're wired for, and you want to create impact with your work, you need to cultvate six traits.
Have you ever been at a cocktail party, had someone ask you what you do for a living, and wished you could come up with something impressive-sounding to wow them? Adam Stelztner probably never experiences that. He's an engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who has worked on flight missions including Galileo, Cassini, and Mars Pathfinder, and the Mars Exploration Rover project. He has a lot to say about innovation and leadership.
How well do you see? I don't mean just what's there, but also what's not there? Amy Herman has spent years training people how to see patterns and nuance in works of art, and today she's going to help us improve our perception with tips from her new book Visual Intelligence.
Alan Siegel is a legend in the world of branding and design. He is the co-founder of Siegel + Gale, the founder of Siegelvision, and the co-author of the book Simple: Conquering The Crisis Of Complexity. In our conversation, Mr. Siegel shares practical tips for seeking simplicity in your work and cultivating empathy for the people you serve.
I often see people compromise their work and choices because they've made poor financial decisions that come back to haunt them later. Kim Palmer, Money Editor for US News, is here today to help us make better financial decisions that will give us freedom in our creative pursuits.
Success doesn't occur overnight, but neither does failure. Luck aside, both are typically the result of cumulative choices, and how well you position yourself to take advantage of opportunities. By implementing a handful of daily practices into your routine, you can better prepare yourself to deal with the pressures and constraints of your work, and ensure that you are spending your finite resources wisely. While there’s no formula for success, daily practices allow you to somewhat stack the deck in your favor.
Brilliant performers in any field often have rituals or practices that they fall back on to help them perform consistently at their peak. When you are charged with doing complex work every day, rituals can bring order to your world and help you focus more effectively. If you want to deliver a result consistently, you must systemize it, and that's precisely what a ritual does.