Creative Coach | Mark McGuinness | Since 1996
Helping you thrive as a 21st Century Creative
Photo by lulemon athletica Let's face it. We all get out of creative shape from time to time. Just as an athlete quickly loses fitness without training, so your creative stamina will fade away …
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When you set out to earn a living from your creative talent, you will inevitably encounter obstacles. Over the past week, I've been hearing about plenty of these, from students in the process of …
Photo by Andrew Magill When Charles Schwab became President of Bethlehem Steel in 1903, he made an unusual offer to his consultant, Ivy Lee: Show my staff and me a way to get more done in less …
Creativity is exciting, but it's also scary. Whenever you set out to do something new, you never know how it's going to turn out - you can't predict it, plan it, or control it. Creativity is …
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You need to be tough to succeed in a creative career. Unless you're the exception to the rule, you will be criticised, rejected, ridiculed, cheated and disappointed - many times. So I wasn't …
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What? How can you get sued for not being yourself? Writing for Rolling Stone, music journalist Don McLeese explains: Neil Young is the only artist in the history of modern recording to be sued …
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If you ever feel stuck on a problem or overwhelmed by the challenges you face, here are five powerful tools that can help you get unstuck fast. I've tried and tested them with hundreds of coaching …
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OK it's time for some solutions to the artistic and financial conundrums we've been discussing in the Creativity and Money series. :-) Having talked about the reasons creative people don't talk …
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Creative people are terrible with money We're dreamers, pie-in-the-sky merchants. We're no good with numbers. We're an accountant's nightmare, turning up with a shoebox full of receipts - and …
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Of all the writers I know, I have learned the most about how to be a productive creative person from Mark. His tips are always realistic, accessible, and sticky. It’s not just talk, this is productivity advice that will change your life.
~ Jocelyn K. Glei, author, host of the Hurry Slowly podcast, and Founding Editor, 99U