In this week’s podcast episode, Don’t Wait for Perfect, I made a creative confession… I have been waiting for perfect when it comes to my sketchbook. The issue for me is two-fold… Number one (and this is the biggie) – It’ll be...
“Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.”Seth godin There are many ways we can get stuck creatively. We can burn out. We can hit a wall. We can fail. And we can wait for perfect.Perfection is obviously not real, and while we know...
As Shaunna and I were talking through The Creative Exponent and the potential readers we’re writing and talking to, the image of someone struggling with the idea that they are creative came to mind. I thought of someone like my mom…who plays guitar and...
Before we even had a proper name or a formulated idea for what The Creative Exponent would be (we called it “Marian & Shaunna Offering”), we knew it would involve courses. That’s where it started. We have both learned a lot in our 10+ years of...
As a creative, I long to be original, yet I always find myself looking to the past or to others…to what has been done or to what is currently being done, for inspiration. I fight that. I do. I look to nature, music, places, and my own imagination. But the...
