What’s that sound? Oh that’s just me banging my head against the wall. Sigh. Whether you’re a freelancer, business owner, or creative hobbyist: when you’re not making any progress with your creative work, life can feel rather frustrating. Frustrating almost to the point of making you want to quit. I’ve been there. […]
‘Just act more confident’ ‘If only I had more confidence…’ ‘How to get more confidence today!’ The ‘C’ word has always had a tendency to make me squirm. When confidence coaches tell us to puff our chests out, fake it until ya make it, lipsync to songs in the car and dance like no ones […]
Sometimes asking for accountability and sharing my goals and dreams cans feel somewhat… self-indulgent. Delusional. Like I’m showing off. For some of people, revealing their lofty goals (like a £500k year and to relocate to Bali) is totally easy. It amps them up. They have no problem in revealing whether it happened or not: and […]
Prefer to listen? Click here for the audio version (~10 mins long) Pema Chodron was a name I’ve been hearing pop up over and over - but for whatever reason I hadn’t picked up a book from her. It even came as a surprise to me that I was reading the words of a small, white […]
True story: a year ago this week I added a note to Evernote titled ‘What I Wish I Knew a Year Ago’ and set a reminder to go off in 12 months time. I had just set up this site, and had decided to start focussing more on helping fellow creatives with marketing and the business-end […]
Show of (virtual) hands please: Have you ever found yourself spending hours crafting the perfect email to a potential client or member of the press, only to get… NO reply? Maybe your email went straight to the spam folder. Maybe you made a typo and they’re sitting in their office right now, laughing at your mistake. […]
When I first took the plunge and began my freelance creative career (at the time as a web designer) I had just one goal: Make enough to pay my rent each month. Not exactly ambitious, but it was a start. Having more control over my time and actions than I’d ever had in my life, initially […]
Does working hard make you a better person? A more successful person? Well I’m of the belief (or at least training myself to believe) that we are all ‘enough’ as we are. We’re born ‘enough’. Hard work won’t make us anything more or better. Sure, hard work is (to an extent) necessary for our growth, development, creativity, contribution… […]
I still remember what my first attempt to show my work online looked like. Fortunately, the Wayback Machine only reveals my first WordPress hosted site - which was slightly more acceptable than the botched html I patched together. The internet never forgets… Anyway, that was before online portfolio - and shop - hosting had become […]
As much as us introverts like to think of ourselves as independent beings, happy enough (or ecstatic) to spend time alone: we are, as humans, pack animals. Feeling a sense of belonging; feeling heard, feeling seen: these are some of the basic needs pretty much all of us need - even some of us on […]
