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A chess player looking lost. Don’t beat yourself up when you lose focus

Don’t Beat Yourself Up When You Lose Focus

October 21, 2025

Don’t Beat Yourself Up When You Lose Focus Because you will lose focus from time to time. Photo by Michal Vrba on Unsplash Even the most dedicated, target-locked creative loses focus sometimes. There are a vast number of reasons for this. The first is obligations. We all have homes to maintain, relationships to spend time with, emails to answer, and so on. Everyone who is a functioning adult in our society has things they must

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Blurred people putting up branding and marketing ideas. Branding, marketing, and sales are part of creativity.

Branding, Marketing, and Sales, Oh My!

October 14, 2025

Branding, Marketing, and Sales, Oh My! Follow the (hopefully) golden-brick road. Photo by Brands&People on Unsplash It’s one thing to do your art as a hobby. The amateur does art for their edification, and maybe also a small fanbase of friends, family, and craft fair appreciators. When you turn pro, you now have to consider other matters beyond art for art’s sake. The writer, painter, sculptor, or other type of creator must also take into

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A man in front of a couple of laptops and a monitor. Why did the creative life choose me?

Why Did The Creative Life Choose Me?

October 7, 2025

Why Did The Creative Life Choose Me? Whatever the reason, I’m deeply grateful and exploring that here. Photo by Kit (formerly ConvertKit) on Unsplash I have some amazingly creative friends. My wife can crochet and knit anything she sets her mind to. I’m on a Discord with a group of talented sci-fi authors. One friend does amazing leather work. Another friend does beautiful papercut art. I have friends who make gorgeous glasswork, pottery, clothing, calligraphed

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Forgotten Fodder Book 5 - Turncoat's Gambit Audiobook Cover. My new novel

New Novel Release Day!

September 30, 2025

New Novel Release Day! Today, my newest novel goes live. Photo by Elisa Calvet B. on Unsplash As the pandemic locked the world down all too briefly, my employment ended. Fortunately, I used this time to take my writing path to the next level. At the time, I’d been working on a sci-fi series for about 5 years. It would be named Void Incursion, and I started publishing it in 2020. However, before completing it,

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Being Your Authentic Self Is Everything

September 23, 2025

Being Your Authentic Self Is Everything Especially when reconciling who you desire to be. Photo by Şahin Sezer Dinçer on Unsplash I tend to be a people pleaser. It’s important to me to be liked, recognized as a good person, respected, and generally accepted. This is not a problem. That is, until my perception picks up on a lack of being liked, being judged, being disrespected, and thinking I’m being shunned. That can then lead

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Messy paint on paper. It’s okay to find and/or create joy, even now.

It’s Okay to Find and Create Joy – Even Now

September 16, 2025

It’s Okay to Find and Create Joy – Even Now The doom and gloom need pushback. Photo by Dragos Gontariu on Unsplash Unless you’re living under a rock – and if you’re reading this, I know that you’re not – you see a lot of doom and gloom all around you. Even if, like me, you don’t actively read or watch the news, you can’t miss it. Between idiotic economic and social policies, insane world

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I post here twice weekly about my work with Positivity, Mindfulness, and Conscious Reality Creation. I’ve been blogging every week, without fail, since the beginning of 2012.

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