Steven Pressfield
You and I as artists and writers have to have three brains.
Read MoreThis is the title of a chapter in The War of Art. But let me expand on it here, from recent experience …
Read MoreMy apologies, friends, for falling behind on these updates … a lot has been happening.
Read MoreMy friend Nick Murray is an advisor and guru to financial planners, i.e. the guys and gals who manage your investing portfolio if you’re lucky enough to have one.
Read MoreIf you and I had a great coach/mentor/spouse/guru who had our absolute best interests at heart, he or she would stand at our shoulder always … but particularly when we faced adversity (which means every day in almost every circumstance).
Read MoreI’m not sure where I saw this. It was a clip of Anthony Hopkins on some late-night talk show. The host asked, “If you had one piece of advice to give a young actor … or just a young person struggling these days, what would it be?”
Read MoreI started The War of Art with this thought:
Read MoreThe first critical hurdle in any home rebuild (I’m learning this now) is Debris Removal. In other words, getting rid of the mess that was your house. The way it seems to work is you can hire a private contractor and pay him … or the Army Corps of Engineers will do it for free. (If you have Debris Removal insurance, the Army Corps will be compensated by that.)
Read MoreWhen I first went to work as a neophyte copywriter in advertising, back in the Mad Men era, the thing that surprised me most was how much time was allocated (and required) by the agency for New Business.
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