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

A good life is designed. Created. And this book is about living a better life through creativity.

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

If we keep listening to those hints and letting the tugs guide us, if we heed the call, we soon find that we’re walking our own path. No matter where we’re going, we’re exactly where we’re supposed to be.

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

Stop acting out someone else’s script and write your own: What do you want to make? More important, who do you want to be?

That’s the thing about creativity: You don’t need to see the whole path. You just have to take the next step. And the next. The path of every creator takes many unforeseen twists and turns. That’s its nature. The only way to “fail” at creativity is to stop walking the path altogether.

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

They achieve greatness not because they accept less than their best but because they have learned to recognize when they have reached the point of diminishing returns.

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