Unleash Your Creativity With The Dailies
How daily practices unleash creative insights.
Unleash Your Creativity With The Dailies
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Optimizing 2021 (with Brian Johnson)
Optimizing 2021 (with Brian Johnson)
How to make the most of the coming year.
Why Rituals Matter In Life and Work
Why Rituals Matter In Life and Work
You make your rituals, then your rituals make you.
Three Life-Changing Daily Practices
Three Life-Changing Daily Practices
What you choose to do every day deeply matters.
Pursuing Your Creative Calling (with Chase Jarvis)
Pursuing Your Creative Calling (with Chase Jarvis)
How to build a daily creative practice.
How To Develop a Daily Writing Practice
How To Develop a Daily Writing Practice
Writing every day has tremendous benefits to your creativity, your emotional state, and your career. On this episode, I share some tactical tips for establishing a daily writing practice, including how to commit the resources, choose your tools, and find the right format to help you turn information into wisdom.
You Are A Badass Every Day (with Jen Sincero)
You Are A Badass Every Day (with Jen Sincero)
Your everday practices are what set you up for success. It's not the "every so often" mustering of your will, it's the things you choose to implement regularly that prepare you for those moments when you need to be brilliant. Today's guest is Jen Sincero, and she's...
Podcast: The Fierce Urgency Of Now
Podcast: The Fierce Urgency Of Now
When you're under pressure, it's easy to defer the little actions that you need to do in order to accomplish you work. However, each of those little choices to defer action accumulate and become big problems later. On this episode, I share three areas where you need to stay on top of your mindset and mechanics so that you don't pay a price later.
Podcast: Be More Focused With A Weekly Checkpoint
Podcast: Be More Focused With A Weekly Checkpoint
Many creative pros charge into their week like a bull and collapse over the finish line on Friday. Then, they may take a few days off and the cycle begins again. However, there is little consideration given to their rhythms, and how sustainable their work habits are. On today's episode, I share the importance of building a Weekly Checkpoint into your life so that you're regularly considering not just what you're doing, but also how you're doing it.
Podcast: Three Daily Habits That Will Change Your Life
Podcast: Three Daily Habits That Will Change Your Life
It’s not the big things that take out most leaders and creative pros, it’s the little ones. Over time, they forget to do the small things that position them to bring their best effort to the table every day. Everything might look fine to those around them, but the decay has already begun and they are on a path of slow decline.
Podcast: 5 Non-Obvious (But Effective) Habits
Podcast: 5 Non-Obvious (But Effective) Habits
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.
Podcast: Don’t Let Good Rituals Become Destructive Ruts
Podcast: Don’t Let Good Rituals Become Destructive Ruts
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.
Podcast: Brian Koppelman On Practices, Courage, and Gatekeepers
Podcast: Brian Koppelman On Practices, Courage, and Gatekeepers
Brian Koppelman, screenwriter (Rounders, Oceans Thirteen), producer (The Illusionist, The Lucky Ones), and director (Solitary Man), talks about his personal practices, compromise versus creative courage, and his new podcast The Moment.
Podcast: The Power Of A Morning Ritual
Podcast: The Power Of A Morning Ritual
What you do first thing in the morning often sets the tone for the rest of your day. On today's episode, I'll share the basics of how to establish a morning ritual, and some specific methods for starting each day strong.
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.
Don’t Allow Your Rituals To Become Ruts
Don’t Allow Your Rituals To Become Ruts
Simply changing your circumstances or your productivity system might inject a measure of energy into your work and give you a boost for a short while, but that increase in output will be short-lived if you aren’t committed to an outcome.
AC Podcast: Eliminating Creativity Drains
AC Podcast: Eliminating Creativity Drains
It's easy to suffocate the white space out of our lives by introducing too many once-useful, but now useless systems. In order to do your best work, you must eliminate these negative rituals and introduce new ones to re-claim margin and focus your energy.
Are You Too Comfortable?
Are You Too Comfortable?
Why hovering around our comfort zone can be a creative death sentence.
Increase Effectiveness With This Simple Morning Ritual
Increase Effectiveness With This Simple Morning Ritual
Start your day with this ritual to jump-start your productivity.
Increase Productivity By Clustering
Increase Productivity By Clustering
The three pockets of time that will unleash your best work.