CreativeMornings ™

We can call the muse, and we don't just have to wait for her.

I believe that my best creative sparks are the results of an empirical error. When it happens, it feels very different from conjuring or imagining."

Step away from the obvious and try something that’s foreign and different, just to see if it works.

All of the barriers that normally separate and divide us can be completely set aside in the context of a game.

Be gracious, be humble, be driven, and be passionate about what you do. That's where the real magic happens.

We learn more from those who don’t have than we do from those that do.

Do nothing out of guilt, do nothing for prestige, for money, status or approval alone

Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind

The more you are perceived as an expert, the more likely you'll be offered opportunities and jobs at your highest value.

Sh*t gets real when you embrace your inner weirdo

You're all weird, wonderful, and uniquely different.

When you prioritize something, you’re inherently deprioritizing everything else.

Sometimes software starts to feel like a person, and a pretty mean one. And I’m sure that that was not anybody’s intent.

I needed to lose that security blanket. I needed to step outside of the box.

Are you making small changes everyday to get to where you wanna go?

By sharing and being transparent you open yourself to a whole new tribe

Everyone has something invisible that we’re dealing with and every single time we interact with someone we are seeing one sliver of that person’s life. And we are getting feedback from all the rest of their life underneath that sliver.

You only live once, so, let’s spend more time on the work that matters.

If you let go of the assumption that someone expects you to say yes, it actually becomes significantly easier to say no.

The idea is to invent progress hacks that make your creative work as addictive as email or social media.

The biggest thing is helping others.

Whatever you’re doing, whoever you’re talking to, if you’re building a relationship, you should be sitting knee to knee.

We should be the parents of our future, rather than the offspring of our past.

Love is the thing in life that can cause you the most horrific, terrible pain, but it’s also the only thing on the planet that can heal you.

Is a better client somebody who nearly pays you more? or are you selling your soul and selling out your career by taking someone today who's gonna put you in the wrong box, vs choosing your own path to find the client who is capable of giving you the platform that you deserve?