A Case For Ritual > Routine: Balancing Productivity and Pleasure
A summer in Montana — phone-free, grieving my papa, watching for shooting stars on the dock with my sister — left me asking: How do you actually live well? Is it possible to cultivate a creative practice where productivity and pleasure aren't at war?
An Artist’s Personal Constitution, Pt. II: 7 Principles for Cultivating Creativity, Simplicity, and Inner Calm
A few years after drafting my original Personal Constitution, I've evolved — less materialistic, more peaceful, free-flowing. Here are 7 working amendments for cultivating creativity, simplicity, and inner calm. (Note to self, and to you: Stay open to further edits, always.)
7 Habits of Highly Effective Artists, Pt. I: A Guide to Silence Imposter Syndrome
Inspired by Stephen Covey's classic, but rewritten for the artist who tends to reject "efficiency" on principle: Your habits are either a vehicle for creative acceleration or creative destruction. And imposter syndrome is hiding inside the small daily choices you don't think count. Here’s what to do about it.
Cancel Creator’s Block: 21 Ways to Get Creatively Motivated Right Now
Written a year into COVID, when stagnancy felt like a permanent state of being: Here are 21 tactical ways to break out of creator's block and back into momentum — from the abstract (artist affirmations) to the tangible (Airplane Mode).