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The Accidental Creative
5 Ways To Shake Up Your Creative Process
5 Ways To Shake Up Your Creative Process

5 Ways To Shake Up Your Creative Process

Over time, this pressure to produce every day can cause us to fossilize around bad habits. We get into a rhythm – the bad kind – that causes us to move mindlessly through our days without much thought for our process. On this episode we share five places where you might be experiencing “fossilization”, and some remedies for dealing with them.

The Accidental Creative
Podcast: How To Stay Creatively Inspired With a Study Plan
Podcast: How To Stay Creatively Inspired With a Study Plan

Podcast: How To Stay Creatively Inspired With a Study Plan

What you put in your head often determines the quality of your ideas. However, many creative pros are less than purposeful about the kinds of stimuli they allow into their mind, and are not intentionally seeking new ideas by playing with ideas and trying to conenct dots. In this episode, I share three steps to putting together a study plan, and using it to help you generate great ideas for your business and clients.

The Accidental Creative
Podcast: 3 Leadership Skills You Need To Develop Now
Podcast: 3 Leadership Skills You Need To Develop Now

Podcast: 3 Leadership Skills You Need To Develop Now

Whether you lead a team or you aspire to, there are certain skills that you need to learn in order to succeed. However, some of those skills are not so intuitive. Today, I share three specific, though not-so-intuitive skills that everyone should develop whether they lead a team or simply have to collaborate with others.

Process
A Simple Question That Will Keep You Inspired
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.

Motivation
How Much Noise Is In Your Life?

How Much Noise Is In Your Life?

In sound recording there is something known as the "noise floor". This is the amount of constant ambient noise in the recording environment or that results as a function of the method of recording. The goal for any recording engineer is to maximize the amount of signal recorded in comparison to the amount of noise. The more noise is present, the more difficult it is to discern the signal, or the subject of the recording [...]