Last week I suggested that if you’re serious about achieving your creative ambitions, you need to think in terms of projects, not tasks. Because if you get up every morning and ask yourself ‘What …
Video: Forget the Career Ladder – Start Creating Assets
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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Systems Can Set You Free
Today I want to persuade you that systems can set you free. You might not associate systems with freedom, but bear with me while I explain. This morning I’m writing this article for you. The …
Make the Most of Your Creative Assets
Back in 2016 I outlined a fundamental strategy for your career as a 21st century creative professional: forget the career ladder, start creating assets. The argument I made, and that I make …
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Be an Enterprising Creator
Today I want to talk about two types of entrepreneur. When you think of an entrepreneur, maybe you think of someone like Richard Branson or Mark Cuban or Elon Musk. Or going back further in time, …
The Freelance Way with Robert Vlach
This week's guest on The 21st Century Creative podcast is Robert Vlach, a business consultant who specializes in supporting independent professionals and business owners, and the author of a new book, …
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Peleg Top on Fear, Love, Money and Creativity
This week's guest on The 21st Century Creative podcast is Peleg Top, an artist, a writer, a speaker and an inspired guide who coaches creative professionals to succeed and become extraordinary leaders …
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Two Essential Factors in Signing the Right Clients for Your Creative Business
If you’re a creative service provider of any kind, then to sign the right kind of clients -- for the right kind of projects at the right kind of fees -- then you basically need to do two things. …
Forget the Career Ladder: Start Creating Assets
When you follow a creative path, you won't find any of the usual milestones of success. Unlike your friends who enter traditional jobs, with clear routes to promotion, finely calibrated pay grades …
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