Have you watched the Jackie Collins documentary, Lady Boss, on Netflix yet? Yes, THAT Jackie Collins, the internationally bestselling author of novels my friends stole from their mother’s bedside tables in the early eighties, highlighting the “good parts” and sharing surreptitiously in junior high. (How…
Category: The Business of Art
We’ve always traveled with too much stuff. We don’t just get one cooler; we get two or three. Who knows when you’ll need a cooler, and isn’t it better to get more than one? No. No, it is not. From experience, I say, “Just get…
Guest Post from Jana Van der Veer Growing up, I believed I was naturally good at some things and not others, and that nothing I did would make much difference. I could work a little harder at the things I did well (writing!), but I…
May ended up being a month of adjusting my focus. As I continued to pitch articles to expand my coaching audience and companies to develop my writing services, the silence rolled in like waves on the seashore. Oh! The utter quiet of modern rejection is…
Claiming your profession is great, but what do you do when you say “I am a fill-in-the-blank” and still feel like a fraud? Say it anyway. Frankly, this is one of those “chicken or egg,” “fake it til you make it” moments. You can’t be…
I’ve been feeling icky. Some little low-level bug won’t go away and any energy I find quickly drains away. I’ve been able to keep going, but just not feeling well. One of the things that kept me moving was knowing that one of my guest…
During March, the training for my replacement at my old office finally diminished to a point where I’m able to spend the majority of my time on my own practice. This is a great relief and a panic for me. I’m not getting the majority…
Where did the time go?! Even with the monthly reporting and all of the work I’ve been putting in, I feel like the first quarter slipped past me like a dog zipping across the kitchen for a bit of steak dropped on the floor. But,…