The Promise and the Reality Twelve months ago, I committed to daily journaling with the enthusiasm of someone who had just discovered fire. Armed with […]
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The Unfinished Story: What a Year of Journaling Actually Taught Me
The Promise and the Reality Twelve months ago, I committed to daily journaling with the enthusiasm of someone who had just discovered fire. Armed with […]
Continue readingWhy Your Quarterly Goals Are Probably Too Small (And Mine Were Too)
The Comfortable Lie We Tell Ourselves About “Realistic” Goals For three years, I dutifully set quarterly goals that felt perfectly reasonable. Learn Spanish for 20 […]
Continue readingWhy Your Quarterly Goals Are Probably Too Small (And Mine Were Too)
The Comfortable Lie We Tell Ourselves About “Realistic” Goals For three years, I set quarterly goals that felt perfectly reasonable. Learn Spanish for 20 minutes […]
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Why I Tell Everyone to Read “Designing Your Life” (Even Though I Hate Most Career Books)
The Career Book I Actually Finished I’m going to be honest with you: I’ve started approximately seventeen career books in the past five years and […]
Continue readingYour Creative Experiments Don’t Have to Work (And That’s the Whole Point)
The Myth of the Perfect Creative Process Here’s what nobody tells you about creative experiments: most of them are supposed to fail. I’ve spent the […]
Continue readingThe Career Pivot That Almost Broke Me (And What Actually Happened Next)
January: The Confident Leap That Wasn’t I quit my marketing director job on a Tuesday in January with the kind of confidence that only comes […]
Continue readingThe Projects That Didn’t Make It: A Creative’s Real Year in Review
The Graveyard of Good Intentions Let me start with what didn’t happen this year. The novel that stalled at 23,000 words when I realized I […]
Continue readingThe Ceramic Bowl I Made Seventeen Times (And What Version Twelve Taught Me About Getting Better)
The Bowl That Wouldn’t Cooperate I have a ceramic bowl sitting on my kitchen counter that looks unremarkable. It holds fruit badly—too shallow—and the glaze […]
Continue readingThe Projects That Didn’t Make It: A Creative’s Real Year in Review
The Graveyard of Good Intentions Let me start with what didn’t happen this year. The novel that stalled at 23,000 words when I realized I […]
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The Messy Middle Between Planning and Winging It
The Schedule That Worked Until It Didn’t I used to be obsessed with time-blocking. Every Tuesday at 2 PM was for client emails. Thursdays from […]
Continue readingWhy I Stopped Calling Myself a “Real Artist”
The moment I knew I was lying to myself I was sitting in a coffee shop last month, laptop open to a half-finished illustration, when […]
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