SWOT Analysis – What It Is & Why It Works
Sometimes knowing what you don’t do is even more important than knowing what you do. Articulating what we don’t do can save endless hours of metaphorical torture. Engaging in a bit of reflective SWOT analysis can help a creative individual […]
The Lazy Way of Setting Goals
Goal Setting is always one of the first activities I introduce, whether I’m working with undergraduate students or seasoned creative professionals. Rarely do those I work with think about goals for the first time with me. We’re taught to think […]
Portfolio Careers in Action
In honor of Labor Day, we wanted to spend some time thinking about all the work creative individuals do to make a creative career successful. This is not the glamorous stuff. This is everything else. And of course, all month […]
Curiosity versus Fear
My daughter came home from school a few months ago and reported that a classmate’s mother “didn’t like her.” “[Classmate] said his mom doesn’t like me,” she said. I remember he words exactly, along with the puzzling expression she […]
Beautiful Distractions
Small confession: I was interrupted three times during the first paragraphs of Verena von Pfetten’s piece in the Times last month about—you guessed it—being distracted. Twice my daughter asked me to refill her water gun for an ongoing arms […]
June 2016 Tasks
Summer has arrived, in spirit if not in actuality, and this month, our clocks slow down as the mercury rises. We’re slowly approaching the longest day of the year, and yet, there never seem to be enough hours of daylight […]
“Rich Kids” Money Tips
Originally written by Elaine Grogan Luttrull for the Clark Hulings Fund‘s striving artist series (“The Financial Secrets of Rich Kids“) and re-posted with permission. “What are the rich kids doing that I’m not?” I paused for a long […]
If It Bleeds, It Leads
There’s an old newsroom trope that is generally thought to have originated in a 1989 cover story for New York Magazine by Eric Poole. The piece, “Grins, Gore, and Videotape: The Trouble with Local TV News,” was a sweeping critique […]
This is Not a Blog Post
This is not a blog post. This was going to be an insightful commentary on the challenges of the holiday season and the moments leading up to those challenges. But as I recover from my own holiday challenges, […]
December 2015 Tasks
There’s something powerful about light, isn’t there? This month we naturally start to crave more of it as our days shorten and the darkness lengthens. Light makes us feel hopeful, happy, and optimistic. It lightens our burdens and lifts […]
