Thoughts on Creativity: Lessons from the Journey

Reflecting on the last year of creativity after having quit my full time job in order to pursue some creative stuff that had become too lively to be confined to evenings and weekends, I have learned a few lessons: 1. It Takes Longer Than You Think Firstly, until I tried to give myself over to [...]

Are You Creative? Send Me Your Card!

I’m a sucker for business cards. Collecting them is like playing a grown-up game of swapsies. Even though we live in a digital age of networking, there’s still nothing quite like taking home a pretty little piece of card with someone’s details on it. So here’s a thing I’m going to do: If you are [...]

Creative Entrepreneur of the Month: Robyn Trainer of Floral Footsteps

Confucius say, “Make a living from what you love and you’ll never work another day in your life” and although this sounds lovely and has become something of a mantra for our times, anyone who has succeeded in making a living from something they love will be able to tell you there is a lot [...]

Mingling Business and Personal Stuff in Social Media

The question is, “to what extent should I keep my personal and business life separate when using twitter, facebook, and other social media?“ The answer is, “It’s up to you.” There are no rules and everyone works out their personal approach to this one, which is one of the beauties of the “Wild West” that [...]

Writers Wednesday: The High Calling of a Writer

To embark upon a lifelong commitment to making black marks on a white page is a high calling. After several months of jokingly answering the question, “what are you writing” with, “anything people will pay me to write”, it has dawned on me in a series of epiphanies that that is a complete denial of [...]

Opportunities vs. Temptations

“Opportunity knocks only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.” Can you tell the difference between an opportunity and a temptation? As a freelancing homeworker with a gazillion things clamouring for my attention and no-one telling me what to do from day to day and from hour to hour, it is really quite important that [...]

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