There are millions of guitar players out there. How could anyone hope to breakthrough and make a living playing guitar? Not lead guitar in band, just straight up guitar?

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Do You Have What It Takes To Be Extraordinary?

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So, the tremendous conversation in the comments to Alison’s post about how what you wear impacts how others perceive you got me thinking.

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What’s Your Creative Modus Operandi?

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Google AdWords is Google’s advertising platform that allows advertisers to display text ads on Google’s search results. Advertisers can choose what keywords should trigger their ads, and how much they are willing to pay for each click on their ads

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6 Uses for Google AdWords You Had Never Considered

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Part of growing and evolving is intentionally testing the boundaries of an experience that’s perceived outwardly as success, but that’s begun to feel inwardly complacent. Doing that means taking a risk, both in ego and ease. It means going from being on top of your game (or, at least the perception) to potentially stumbling, falling down, not knowing which way is up.

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Taking Out The Thrash

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  FYI – The first picture was taken in Chelsea, NYC. The other three were taken in Santa Monica, CA. Funny how the vibe changes, huh?

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4 Signs You’ll Never See in Big Corporations

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Not long ago, I posted about the lament of a local optometrist and how taking a much broader view of that industry and the role the internet might play could redefine how he solved his customers problems and potentially reinvigorate his business. I’ve never stopped thinking about that example, because it was indicative of a wide swath of industries that sell a product bundled with either a personal service or need to “touch” that product before buying that are being redefined (read “hammered”) by the web. Recently, I came across another example at the convention center in Melbourne, Australia.

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Are You Wed To Your Market, Or Your Model?

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“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them… a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create — so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, their very breath is cut off… They must create, must pour out creation.

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55 Quotes To Inspire Creativity, Innovation and Action

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I’m writing this final dispatch from NYC, after very deliberating missing last week’s dispatch. There’s a reason for that… A while back I wrote post about how an increasing number of bands were getting pissed off at fans using their cell-phones to record and share their concerts in real-time .

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Bali Dispatch #5: Aussies, Freak-fests, Train-rides and Truths

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Today’s weekly guest contributor is my friend and go-to tech-genius, Glen Stansberry. Glen is the co-founder of the LifeRemix blog network (which I am incredibly grateful to be a part of), he writes about helping creative people create at LifeDev and Tweets regularly

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Why Entrepreneurs Need Community

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This week’s guest contributor is my friend, Alexis Neely . On the outside, Alexis is a driven mom entrepreneur who has built two million dollar plus businesses, trains lawyers, and appears frequently on television.

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Too Smart For Your Business?

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