Penelope Trunk
JULY 28, 2011
This is the column I wrote for BNET. Usually I keep my best ideas for my blog, but after I posted this on BNET I thought: Hold it! This is a great idea! Everyone should be doing this to make their career great. So here's the post. If you want to make yourself stand out as a top candidate for almost any job, try this approach: start a company and then sell it for nothing.
Eat Your Career
JULY 20, 2011
If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you. – Arthur McAuliff. If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style. – Quentin Crisp. If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. – Author Unknown. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then give up. There’s no use in being a damn fool about it. – W.C.
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Lateral Action
JULY 25, 2011
Once upon a time, all art was mainstream art. Because materials were expensive and skilled artisans were relatively rare, and there was no mass media to boost profits via economies of scale, only the clergy and nobility could afford to commission artworks – and their tastes were pretty conservative. Walk around the medieval section of […].
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Penelope Trunk
JULY 12, 2011
I'm convinced that the biggest impact Generation Z will have on the workplace is in their schooling. They will be lifelong, self-learners, who take more personal responsibility for their ongoing education than any generation in history. I am not talking about graduate school here. I am talking about a more creative, independent way of learning that does not stop at college, but rather, picks up pace remarkably after college, when real experiential learning starts happening.
Penelope Trunk
JULY 19, 2011
When the pig litters came in January, the Farmer helped my son pick out pigs for his 4H project. They picked four, because you never know, really, how a pig will grow. So you start with four and pick two after a few months. My son woke up every morning and fed his pigs, for six months. And after three months, he walked with the pigs, around in a circle, twice a day, to train the pig for the show.
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Penelope Trunk
JULY 22, 2011
Melissa left yesterday. She moved back to Austin. She moved for a job that I think is totally stupid, but her future employer reads this blog, so I have to watch what I say. On the other hand, she ended up giving references the same day I posted about me worrying about her having an affair with the Farmer , so the woman interviewing her decided not to use me as a reference.
Penelope Trunk
JULY 14, 2011
I want to thank everyone who bought my book. I loved the process of selling the book, making it, and shipping it out. I learned so much. Melissa and I were so excited when the books arrived. But there was not a lot of pause for celebration because the books were literally three months late. You'd think, since we printed the books in China and then had them shipped on a boat, that the delay would be due to the Chinese.
Penelope Trunk
JULY 25, 2011
Jeanenne is my assistant. Of sorts. It was unclear what her job was when I hired her. She is sort of the nanny, but I don’t really need a nanny. I am with the kids almost 100% of the day. You might wonder how I can do that and still have a job. The answer is that I don’t do anything else. So, for example, the kids broke the flyswatter and I wanted one right away before I died from fly annoyance.
Penelope Trunk
JULY 31, 2011
I am not good at launching stuff. It stresses me out. I am not good at focusing on multiple things. Ryan Healy used to hate working with me because of this, and, frankly, I hate working with me because of this too. I need to divide everything into very little projects in order to ensure that one project does not ruin everything else around me. This is why, in the past, blog posts have been the perfect length for me, and having a startup has derailed my whole life.
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Eat Your Career
JULY 6, 2011
This article is the third in a 10-part series on the topic of overcoming career-limiting habits. Let me be honest: I’ve been putting off writing this article for a few days. Since we’re looking at the career-limiting habit of procrastination, I feel it’s appropriate that you know this. And let me also say that I don’t whole-heartedly think procrastination is a “bad” thing.
Eat Your Career
JULY 18, 2011
This article is the fourth in a 10-part series on the topic of overcoming career-limiting habits. I heard once that the Chinese character for the word “change” was a combination of two other characters: chaos and opportunity. Now, don’t quote me on this. I have no idea of if it’s correct. But in theory, it makes sense. When a recent study ranked “resistance to change” as number 4 in a list of the most common career-limiting habits, I immediately remembered this little piece of trivia.
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Eat Your Career
JULY 5, 2011
How would you feel if you had enough time to get everything done AND you still had time to relax and enjoy the company of friends and family? ??You’d feel AWESOME, right? ??What would you do with that extra time? Take a long, hot bath? Go hiking? Sit down and read to your kids? What if I could snap my fingers and give you an extra hour in your day? Or maybe a FEW extra hours?
Lateral Action
JULY 19, 2011
Creative people are terrible with money We’re dreamers, pie-in-the-sky merchants. We’re no good with numbers. We’re an accountant’s nightmare, turning up with a shoebox full of receipts – and half the receipts missing. We don’t have a head for business. So we end up working for peanuts. What money we do get, we let slip […].
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Lateral Action
JULY 14, 2011
You can’t buy creativity, any more than you can buy love. But if you ignore money matters, as we saw earlier this week, it can seriously hurt your creativity. The good news is that although money will never make you more creative, it can support your creativity indirectly. Here are four ways a little moolah […]. The post 4 Ways Money Can Support Your Creativity appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.
Lateral Action
JULY 11, 2011
Creative people have a love/hate relationship with money. We love it, because – well, who wouldn’t want it? But we also hate it, avoid dealing with it, and avoid even talking about it. Here are some of the reasons why. 1. We Think It’s Not Important And of course we’re right. There are more important […]. The post 7 Reasons Creative People Don’t Talk about Money appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.
Eat Your Career
JULY 8, 2011
In case you missed it, I held my free monthly coaching call yesterday. You can listen to the recorded version using the audio player below. If you’d like to participate in next month’s call, please register and submit a question by visiting this page. Download MP3 Here. Subscribe to the comments for this post? Share this on del.icio.us. Digg this!
Lateral Action
JULY 21, 2011
OK it’s time for some solutions to the artistic and financial conundrums we’ve been discussing in the Creativity and Money series. ?? Having talked about the reasons creative people don’t talk about money, the creative benefits of money, and 5 big money mistakes we’re prone to making, it’s time to give you some solid practical […].
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Lateral Action
JULY 5, 2011
I’d be very suspicious of any artist or creative who claimed they didn’t want an audience. Yes, we may start with the inner creative impulse, but we also want to connect, to share, to hear an echo coming back from the world. To reach an audience and know our work made a difference to them. […]. The post How to Find an Audience for Your Creative Work appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.
Penelope Trunk
JULY 15, 2011
Now that I’m not the CEO of Brazen Careerist , I don’t have to be the national cheerleader for Generation Y. I fantasized about this moment for years: the moment when I’d write the post titled, 10 Things I Hate about Generation Y. But it’s hard to hate people you hang out with all the time, and the truth is, I’ve spend the last ten years being a Gen Xer surrounded by Gen Yers.
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