Creative Coach | Mark McGuinness
Coaching for Creative Professionals
‘Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day.’ This quote is often attributed to Mark Twain. Apparently there’s no hard evidence linking …
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I hope this finds you as well as can be. Here in the UK we’re bracing for what we are assured will be a large wave of Omicron. I know things may be very different for you, depending on where …
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Last night I was about to go to bed when I suddenly remembered an idea I’d had for an article a few months ago. Though I say so myself, it was a great idea, and I was keen to revisit it, so I opened …
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Michael Bungay Stanier is a leadership coach and bestselling author whose earlier work, The Coaching Habit, has sold over three quarters of a million copies and helped leaders use coaching to unleash …
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A lot of productivity advice tells us that we need to stop procrastinating, beat Resistance, and get things done. The Americans like to talk about ‘shipping’, meaning finished and sent out for …
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Krystal Lauk is the founder of Krystal Lauk Studios in San Francisco, where her illustrative work brings humanity and playfulness to tech interfaces for clients such as Google, Uber, Facebook and The …
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I’ve recently started taking one-to-one Japanese conversation lessons. It hasn’t been easy. In fact, it’s been a bit of a humbling experience. Between work and family responsibilities, I only have …
Cynthia Morris is a veteran creative coach and author of The Busy Woman’s Guide to Writing a World-Changing Book, with over two decades of experience helping writers and entrepreneurs bring their …
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If you think about overhearing something, you probably think of listening to someone else’s conversation, whether deliberately or accidentally, and picking up a titbit of information that you would …
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