I have found that having no money makes me more agressive and creative when it comes to self promotion. In fact, some of my best and most succesful self promotion stories were done on a very limited budget. Never let a lack of funds be an excuse to stop you from doing creative self promotion….

Sometimes you are your own worst enemy. Nobody can sabotage your career as well as you can. Why do creative people often become career kamikazes who crash and burn? The right brainer is more suspectible to some of the pitfalls and problems that befall many people in business for themselves. It is important to be…

There are several reasons why the right brainer is suspectible to this disease. These include fear of success, fear of failure and fear that it won’t be perfect. There are many more reasons, but the bottom line in most of them is fear. There are ways to deal with fear. You don’t always have to…

How much money would it take to make you feel as though you had enough? Five hundred thousand euro or dollar? A million? What would you do if you had that kind of money? Would you still work? Would all problems be gone? Actually, having money will not solve all your problems. It will make…

If you don feel you deserve the money you make, you will find a way to sabotage your own success. If you don’t feel as though you’re making as much as you deserve, you’re just like all the rest of us. Ask for a raise. Increase your rates. Setting a value on your work is…

How is your financial health? Is it in critical condition (bankruptcy)? Intensive care (moving back in with Mom?? Burn unit (loaned money, ripped off).  Cancer (bad debt)? Just a common cold (too many payments)? Clean bill of health (savings are growing)? If you want to be wealthy (healthy), study self made wealthy people and the…

Negotiation is an area you’re likely to be very good at. At the same time you are likely to be very uncomfortable with it. Many creatives can use a professional to do the negotiating for them and in most cases that is a good idea. But if you are a freelancer, or a wage earner,…

Don’t decide you’re too good now to do the things that made you a success in the first place. How many opportunities could you be missing out on.  You don’t always have to be the star. You just have to make the most of the opportunities you have. Be nice to people on the way…

Lack of focus can make you feel like a loser. Everyone is disappointed because you have so much potential but you are all over the place. You are not a bad person if you like to juggle several things at once. it is not an excuse for bad behavior and never following through. It is…

Lack of focus can make you feel like a loser. Everyone is disappointed because you have so much potential but you are all over the place. You are not a bad person if you like to juggle several things at once. it is not an excuse for bad behavior and never following through. It is…

The only way to rise to the top is to defeat your weaknesses.  For many, that means doing the work and staying with it despite being distracted. Learn to love your work – even the pricky bits – and you won’t be so distractable, and self discipline will feel more like self indulgence, which is…

Perhaps the worst failing common to creative people – and the one that leads to many of the others – is dishonesty.  Not being honest with yourself. Face yourself. Recognize who you are. Understand who you want to be and why. That is the first, most vital step toward setting goals, and setting goals is…