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Rooted Design website refresh
I’ve been helping my friend Missy give her business creating murals, paintings, and other awesome design work a home on the web. Check it out, it’s called Rooted Design at rooteddesignspace.com. She reached out to me last year because she needed a website, and that’s kind of up my alley, so together we’ve been steadily…
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What I learned from professional coaching
I highly recommend that everyone work with a professional coach no matter where they are in their life or career. Through my coaching experience, I’ve been able to discover things about myself that would have been either impossible or taken a really long time to discover on my own. In other words, working with a…
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Cooking creativity
I’ve gotten into this groove with cooking in the last month or so. I’m cooking dinner basically every night, while part-time working and full-time Dad-ing, and I’m not stressed about it. Not only that, I’m actually making (and I’m totally being objective here) good food. Like real food not from a box. I’m thinking that…
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Defer your decisions so there is more time to play
In a study cited by John Cleese in his short but sweet book Creativity, it’s said that there are two factors that separate the most creative architects from their less-creative peers. One of those factors is the ability to defer making a key decision until the last moment possible. Huh? Why would you want to…
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Work (and play) in spikes, not slogs
Since going part-time last year, my schedule has become more fragmented then ever. To an outsider it could certainly look like a nightmare of context switching. However, I’ve started to become more comfortable with my routine being very “on and off” and, instead of viewing it like a long slog, I view it like a…
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The importance of the daily log
Keeping a log of my days and weeks is one of the best habits I’ve ever started and one I wished I started years ago. I wrote about daily logging in how I organize with Notion and a notebook, but it doesn’t matter what tool or system you use (and there are a lot out…
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Trying out Björk, a blog and portfolio focused theme for WordPress
I’m finally at the third step of my mini-theme exploration that I promised to finish within one month but that has run for three months and counting. If you don’t know what a WordPress theme is you can catch up, or not. The main thing to know is that the site looks different than it…
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What’s your recipe for being your best?
One of my goals for doing professional coaching was to get some help identifying my “zone of genius”. Basically, I want to know how make better decisions about what new work I take on and choose work that lights me up vs wears me out. Past experience has taught me that it’s easy to confuse…
