Do you have a creative approach to getting higher paying clients? We both laugh at the plainspokenness of it. M reinforces his statement Seriously, I should have standards for myself financially speaking. ———– There is no lack of instructions on bookshelves or online on how to not only make more money but to have a… Continue Reading
Creative Approaches To What You Have Been Thinking About
Category Archives: Career & Business
Inner & Outer Trash Transformed To Inner & Outer Art
There is no lack of trash in the world. It is astonishing. For every piece of good citizenry we do by snagging the swirling bag blowing in front of us there seems to be an unending number of bags and bottles and papers to replace the one you just got. It is a huge problem… Continue Reading
The Sabbath of Insecurity for Incompetent Idiots
Years ago I helped my friend Katherine kick heroin. I had never had any experience with the drug (or any drugs for that matter) and in the frightening process learned a tremendous amount about addiction, biology and the underground drug world. Signing on at the hospital as the one to have responsibility to make her… Continue Reading
Ideal Careers? Follow Your Bliss? Get beyond foolish first
When it comes to sorting out a life or a career in terms of which direction to go there are many sources to draw on. Pick your insightful book or thought leader or writer. They have loads to say on the matter. And while you may work to find the color of your parachute or… Continue Reading
Jesus was wrong: what those magazines on your coffee table really mean
In the Gospel of Thomas, one of the exiled books of the Gospels (highly suggested reading), Jesus said When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a… Continue Reading
Disrupting Stomach Pain, Disrupting the Road to Hell
The Western world is so backwards that a whole industry arose out of mitigating pain from intrinsically painful activities. Hey, I can understand aspirin but ergonomic wrist supports? Desk chairs that tilt or flex or destabilize? Why not just design things that aren’t going to induce repetitive stress injuries? Admittedly better design is happening. But… Continue Reading
Lawyers should be funny
L is ,by his own description, a “slightly overweight, out of shape, balding lawyer who is actually quite a good teacher.” It seems that L is a lawyer of some success but he also teaches law part time and he enjoys that more. He likes splitting his time between the two but the 70/30 split… Continue Reading
Your start up does not need your passion
“In this economy” is sad cliche of the last few years. Sad because the state of the economy has driven so many people into frustrating situations around employment, money and feelings of lack of stability. I am hardly immune. I started offering creative approaches because I was laid off from a consulting job. But the… Continue Reading
Hearing your own mysterious voice
You may recall the recent post that was written by my friend Padma Maxwell recounting her experience of me giving her a creative approach. Padma stuck around after we were done and ended up sharing creative approach duty with me. Shortly after I had my interaction with Padma a young author came named Arthur came… Continue Reading
The Grateful Day Laborer, The Thief and the Scrotum Bank
If you haven’t visited me in Union Square I often sit right by the fountain and the person who I talk with usually sits in the chair opposite from me. But D decided that he would sit on the steps. D was 19 years old and a day laborer in the construction industry. He basically… Continue Reading