Some artists create with color or code or clay. Others paint with people or pixels. Some artists work with words or wisdom or wonder. Others make with music or muscle or machines. Your medium doesn’t matter – only your passion, proficiency and perseverance.
Life’s too short to go through the motions. Whatever your profession or purpose, pour your creativity in your work. Make art.
Find your canvas. Tickle your muse. Share your art and yourself with the world.
One: Opportunities are fleeting. Like the shifting sands of a dune, opportunities are always moving. If you don’t take action on your ideas, their ideal moment will be swept away.
Two: Never confuse busy with productive. Work will expand to fill the time you give it. Schedule your vacation and actually take it. Being away from your computer screen and your office will fill your head with new ideas - just don’t forget to carry a notepad to capture all of your new brilliance.
Three: Drink deeply from the cup of life. Fill your senses with fresh inputs, new people, new places and challenging ideas. Then pour your whole self into every thing you choose to do. Breathe life and passion into your projects. Life’s too short to waste your talent on the unremarkable. Make it happen.
Often, a blank canvas can be a roadblock to creativity. Yet sometimes, our inner MacGyver kicks in when we’re faced with an insurmountable hurdle. Tap into a new stream of ideas buy adding altruistic constraints to your business goals.
Build your brand, grow your bottom line AND save the world. Sorry, Gordon Gekko. Greed may be good, but it will never be as good as selfish altruism.
Seven ways to kill an idea. By Scott Campbell. More great illustrations on his flickr page.
Hello, Hello. My name is Charlie. I'm a purveyor of attention.
I hang my hat at a marketing strategy, creative design and social technology firm called Curve Detroit. I'm the curator of TEDxDetroit and help run a social network in Detroit called Motor City Connect.
I love big ideas and big mountains and big sandwiches. I hate poorly designed billboards, speed limits and people who flick cigarette butts out the window. I know a thing or two about advertising, marketing and social media.
I'm on a mission to rekindle the fire in your belly.#makeithappen
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