creative jobs

You need to delegate what you think you are best at. You need to stand back, watch the work you used to once doing best, being done by someone else, and resist the urge to interfere. Results won't be exactly as you would like them to be, but soon you will have a company that can do more than you, and earn more than you alone. You graduate from... See more

You are the bottleneck. Your team progresses as fast you can. That means the bigger your team gets, the more you need to do to keep the moving forward. That math doesn't scale. Delegate your decision making power to free yourself from becoming the bottleneck of your own company.

Am I choosing this to avoid pain now? You might think working at a company gets you the experience you need to run your own. Truth is, you will never know what you need to learn until you begin. You can't learn how to swim while standing on the beach. Don't waste the best years of your life, your 20s or 30s working for someone else. Use that power... See more

The same is true about most businesses you admire. They might seem in order from the far but within, there's always a degree of chaos present. And that's ok. That's needed. It's part of the work. We all start out blind, hit a bunch of walls until we learn how to see. We learn to see which walls to avoid, which ones to go around and which ones to... See more

I believe it's easier to grow your business through relationships when your work is your passion. Talking about work doesn't become Sales, rather shared interest. And it works like a magnet, it connects you with like-minded people naturally.