Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life

It sounds simple, but it’s shockingly powerful: Deconstruct Emulate Analyze Repeat DEAR for short.

Imagine what you want to create—without limitation. Design a strategy to make your dream a new reality. Execute your strategy and smash through obstacles. Amplify your vision to create the impact you seek.

Most of us don’t have a coach standing over us telling us when it’s time to throw in the towel and when we need to stand our ground. Without a single-minded focus, even obsession, it can be hard to justify spending time in the studio when you have a new baby at home, a work emergency, or a bad cold. The problem is, once you start prioritizing other

Your future rests on three distinct premises: You are creative by nature, endowed with a near limitless capacity to make and grow new things. Accessing this capacity requires a kind of creative muscle that must be strengthened to achieve your full potential. By identifying as a creative person, accepting the world around you as your canvas, and man

Old-guard photographers told me I was “destroying the industry” by sharing “trade secrets.”

Eventually I came to realize that a calling is just that: a whisper in the distance.

Put bluntly, too many of us spend years, even decades, in pursuit of someone else’s plan for our one precious life.

If you’re willing to say that you are a creator, prepare to enter a world of possibility. There used to be a prescribed path for entering any particular career. This is no longer the case. Beyond a handful of professions, many of the most rewarding jobs today are intrinsically creative. They involve doing things that didn’t even exist when the peop

As a Resister, you are stubborn, pragmatic, rational. These are phenomenal attributes when facing down a creative challenge. Once you escape your limiting beliefs, there will be no stopping you.