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The Creative Entrepreneur is business strategy designed especially for creative thinkers.
Most other books on developing a successful business focus on a selection of tactics that address outer solutions (such as: setting goals, how to write a business plan (ugh!), set aside time for marketing, or how to hire a rep). What they don’t address are [...]
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Spring fever anyone?
Want to start (and finish) a new project that will serve your creative process?
For the next 5 weeks, every Thursday in April, I’ll be walking you through one of my most favorite creative practices: making and using Mini-Journals.
Mini-journals are quick and easy to make, using supplies you likely already have in the house, [...]
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March 30 marks the end of the first quarter of 2010. This is a great time to assess where you are at with any new projects or plans initiated at the new year.
For several years now, I’ve been experimenting with month-end and week-end project briefs. This is a simple checks and balances process where I [...]
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Disorientation is the perfect word for my experience right now.
Before I go into why, I want to frame this conversation constructively.
How do we stay on track with our plans and goals and daily actions, when we have a series of setbacks? I know many of you have some great strategies for this, so I’m hoping [...]
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Recently I’ve gotten back into the habit of setting intentions on the new moon. It’s supposed to be time of strong energy for new beginnings.
The idea is that the intention you set at the new moon will come to fruition at the next new moon. So if you try this, and are working on your [...]
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A couple weeks ago, during a strategic planning review, I thought about setting a new, small daily action around creativity, which is one of my areas of focus.
The 1008 Paintings Project has been lurching along in fits and starts, and wondered if setting up some kind of daily action in this department would help smooth [...]
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Photo by Tamsim Slater.
In Part 1 of this series on Goal Setting for Creatives, I introduced the annual planning process I use to create and track my goals for the coming year. Out of this process, I create my own Strategic Planner, which is a portable, visual booklet that serves as a beautiful and practical [...]
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As I toil away on Part 4 of the Strategic Planner series on Goal Setting for Creatives, I keep thinking about how much it’s the small, seemingly insignificant things we do on a daily basis that are the most powerful in moving us forward toward our goals.
Or away, as the case may be.
So, because I [...]
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In Part 1 of this series on Goal Setting for Creatives, I introduced the annual planning process I use to create and track my goals for the coming year. Out of this planning, I create my own Strategic Planner, which is a portable, visual booklet that serves as a beautiful and practical reference of the [...]
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Pre-Flight Announcement
This post will make even more sense if you download the spreadsheet I’m referring to. Plus, the spreadsheet contains a bunch of specific details from my actual 2010 Strategic Planner. In case you want to know how much weight I’m planning to lose as a Health strategy….ugh. Or, if you’re curious how I’m going [...]
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Howdy! I’m Lisa Sonora Beam, author of The Creative Entrepreneur. I teach people how to get unstuck and use their creativity to make a living doing what they love. 
