Creativity requires structure. Rest takes work.
February 20, 2021
Last week we had a 3 day team retreat, and it was amazing and inspiring and difficult and challenging and we did things wrong and we did things right. As a team, we read the book Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar. (Side note: one of the best busines...
Listen to your gut...and dig deeper
February 12, 2021
“I just trust my gut”, you think. You hire someone you feel right about, and reject to the ones you don’t. A new prospect says and does a few things which feel dodgy, but seems like a nice guy (LINK), so you take him on as a client anyway. Many weeks or month...
"They're a really nice person, but...."
February 6, 2021
When you hear yourself (or someone else) say this phrase, it’s actually all over.
The supplier. The company you hired. The employee. The strategic partner. The accountant. The client. The advisor. The minister. The author. The influencer. The lecturer. The date. The....
No self sabotage: Go all the way to the end
January 30, 2021
This image is me. In every major achievement in my life, I’ve gotten cold feet or slowed down or hesitated or got sick or something, right before the end. Depending on how significant the achievement is, it might be a day or a week before I get there, or it might...
100 days, no shortcuts
January 23, 2021
Want to get better at something?
Do it every day for 100 days.
That’s it, that’s the Note.
Okay...you know me, that’s not completely it. Naturally I have more to say. But if you read nothing else, grasp that. If you’re going to get better at somethi...
Red lights, greenlights
January 14, 2021
When I was younger, in America, we used to play a game called “red light green light”. Everyone would line up at one end of the field, or the room, or a wide open space.
One person would stand at the front, staring ahead and not able to see those behind them, and s...
Are you off, or "off off"?
December 18, 2020
You’re exhausted. Some of you have literally taken only a few days’ holiday in the entire year (or since March anyway).
It’s time for a rest - a real one. An honest to goodness, don’t check emails or Slack or messages or even social media or your phone, rest.&n...
The creative child within (and the fears that go with them)
December 5, 2020
When you tap into the creativity within, you tap into the child you….and sometimes the fears and resistances which come along with them.
I was a guest on a podcast recently called “What’s your ‘and’?”. Everyone has an ‘and’, something they do or en...
Choose to give thanks. Always
November 28, 2020
This week is the American holiday of Thanksgiving. As a dual British-American citizen, it’s still a holiday I celebrate here in Scotland, and it really is one of my favourite holidays of all.
Because the premise is: things are (or have been) very hard, so you gather ...
Accountants, you are creative too.
November 7, 2020
I believe all humans are creative.
It’s a quality we all have - innately from being humans - no matter what our role or job or how we perceive our fit into society. I believe a creative God created humans, and we reflect that creativity and have these creative qualit...
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