If you’re a photographer, designer, developer, writer, freelancer or human, someone is going to ask you to work for free. They might ask for a favor. They might say you’ll get exposure. They might even try to guilt you into turning your “no” into a “yes.” What do you do in that moment? What if …
How old should a kid be before they get a smartphone?
I used to think my oldest daughter wouldn’t get a smartphone until she was about 25 years old. I imagined making a toast at her rehearsal dinner and saying, “I’m so excited about this wedding and I’ve got one more surprise! Sweetheart, here’s your first smartphone!” I exaggerate a smidge, as I am wont to …
5 legit reasons your spouse isn’t supporting your dream.
Marriage math is crazy. When two people are pushing in the same direction on a dream, 1 + 1 doesn’t equal 2. It equals approximately 19 million. What two people can get done together is exponentially bigger than two people who are at odds. Jenny and I have spent the last 12 years with our …
How to fall asleep when you’re stressed out.
Have you had a hard time falling asleep lately? That’s weird, I haven’t. I’ve had such peaceful, global pandemic sleep. My head hits the pillow and I enjoy eight, stress free hours of slumbertown. Or, I toss and turn, while trying to figure out what disastrous thing the news is going to tell me about …
The tweet that cost me a job.
“Don’t be an idiot online” might be the most valuable career advice I could ever give you. Why? Because no one told me that and I was in fact an idiot. And something I tweeted, cost me a job. In this video I tell that story and share what a CEO told me is going to …
How much did I get paid for my book?
Can you make a living chasing a dream full time? That’s a question I get a lot. I thought it would be fun to answer that with a look at the check I got for my first book last week. I’ll tell you what I got paid in 2010 when I signed the publishing deal …