Ikigai asks what you're good at, what you love, what you're paid for, and what the world needs. Comparison convinces you that three out of four will have to do. What if it's wrong?

A friend once asked me who invented carpet. I still don't have an answer. But the question itself taught me something about the power of simply staying curious.

Jack Canfield's Event + Response = Outcome sounds simple. Except your response may already have been decided for you, by a playbook your brain wrote years before today.

Seth Godin was recently on The Diary of a CEO talking about quitting, resistance and the Gordian Knot. It got me thinking about the word 'but', and the promises we quietly break to ourselves.

The premise of 'action, impact, energy, technique' is simple. What do you do, how does it make you (and others) feel, what is the cost and reward... is there a better way?

Good selfish means putting yourself first for the right reasons. Here's what the research on wellbeing, burnout and boundaries actually says about it.

Entertainment coach John Blackburn introduced me to the Practitioner and Producer mindset. One masters the doing. The other builds the space for it. Which one are you avoiding becoming?

Sociologist Diane Vaughan coined the phrase after the 1986 Challenger disaster. The gradual erosion of standards, repeated without consequence, until normal no longer means what it once did.

Self-value, self-trust, and self-worth are the three most important currencies in your business. Here's how to check your exchange rate and start shifting it.

Following on from the Creative's Hierarchy of Needs, I've been playing with the idea that the hierarchy isn't a uni-directional ladder. The odd snake in the story might slide you back down a tier. Which got me thinking about Snakes & Ladders, and whether we can shift the odds in our favour. Turns out the more interesting question isn't about the snakes or the ladders at all. It's about which one you're secretly rolling for.

When Maslow built his Hierarchy of Needs in 1943, he wasn't thinking about creative business owners. Here's a hierarchy of needs designed specifically for people building something of their own.

If your creative business isn't growing the way it should, the problem might not be what you think. Discover why getting in your own way is more common than you realise – and what to do about it at a free live session on 28th April.