the intersection of goodwill and profit

I find it incredibly hard to focus on profit-driven ventures. I mean, I can sit there and hammer things out for a little while, but lately I’ve found that my attention span for such things has grown shorter and shorter.

You’d think it would be easy to get up out of bed in the morning and go work on things that you know will be profitable. But then again, if it’s hard to focus on things like that, then perhaps that’s not really what your heart desires…

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what are you, really?

Finding your lot in life (and I don’t even like calling it your “lot”) is not something that is necessarily easy to do. You have to mix desires, emotions, needs, talents, and other stuff, and somehow, you’re supposed to emerge with a very clear perception of yourself and the path you should walk in life.

I don’t buy it.

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rising barometric pressure

Today is one of those days where I feel I have to be creative. I’ve been falling behind on all of my projects because I’m battling doing things I love versus doing things that I feel obligated to do. I’m constantly juggling the pressure of feeling as though I don’t want to let my friends (clients, friends, the terms are interchangeable, at least for me) down.

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