What’s up with the fish? For the first time in over fifteen years, I painted with paint and paper. The process wasn’t about creating great art, it was more about reclaiming a part of myself. The feel of a real brush is one thing you just can’t replicate digitally. Not better necessarily, just different. I [...] Click to continue reading »

I’ve been thinking a lot about the comments on my post, Learning from my business: About focus. Gary Woodill notes You start this post by saying that you thought that you have “a clear focus.” Then you go on to describe in detail how that focus disappears: “…the most effective intervention is the one that [...] Click to continue reading »

I decided I wanted to draw what the process of turning my business around felt like. This image of a snake popped into my mind, so I spent a day drawing it. The process of painting in all the patterns was slow and gave me plenty of time to reflect on why my mind chose [...] Click to continue reading »

Let’s just start with saying this is a difficult and confusing part of my business. I suspect if I could figure this out or come into some kind of right relationship with it, everything else could fall into place. This post won’t have answers, but perhaps by writing out the conflict someone will see a [...] Click to continue reading »

Brand is a whole bunch of smaller pieces There are a lot of opportunities to make mistakes in branding. And once you make one, you can easily make a pile of others on top of it. Then you get more invested in the whole thing, so you add more potentially problematic pieces. Pretty soon you [...] Click to continue reading »

Admitting my business is struggling has brought forth some wonderful support and great ideas. I’m sure there are also those who have been horrified and who are now running for the hills, but at least they are doing it quietly so far. One of our subscribers, Francois wrote us an email Yes, it’s possible to [...] Click to continue reading »