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Too Much?

I’m try­ing to spend more of my free time cre­at­ing. As part of this effort, I am work­ing on writ­ing and record­ing one song every month. This pace gives me a lit­tle breath­ing room to bal­ance life, while still forc­ing me to sit down and con­struct a melody, write lyrics, and com­plete a record­ing every […]

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The World Will Always Need Story Tellers

A few weeks ago I had the plea­sure of mak­ing a road trip to Athens, Ohio to present to The Ohio Uni­ver­sity Soci­ety for Pro­fes­sional Jour­nal­ists. I spoke about the poten­tial oppor­tu­nity for jour­nal­ism stu­dents to find hap­pi­ness, and maybe even a steady pay­check, in the field of mar­ket­ing. The pre­sen­ta­tion forced me to think […]

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odd man out

Look­ing for a fun exer­cise to get your cre­ative juices flow­ing.  Try Edward De Bono’s odd man out exer­cise.  It is sim­ple, fun, and as my friend Artie Isaac would say, it is a great way to “exer­cise your cre­ative pet.” Start by going to a ran­dom word gen­er­a­tor site like this one.  Take the first […]

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Surprisingly Simple Solution for Storing Surprises

Recently I wrote a post about a sim­ple tech­nique for enhanc­ing your cre­ativ­ity that I learned from read­ing the book Cre­ativ­ity by psy­chol­o­gist Mihaly Csik­szent­mi­ha­lyi.  In a nut­shell 1. Be sur­prised by some­thing every day, 2. Sur­prise some­one every­day, 3. Write both down and chron­i­cle them over time. I thought it might be wise to share […]

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What’s the big idea?

Recently some mem­bers of the Day­ton Mar­ket­ing Com­mu­nity met up for the 1st (of what will hope­fully be many) Big Idea Break­fast — some­thing I thought up a few days prior while writ­ing my morn­ing pages.   The con­cept for the event was as fol­lows: This meet­ing is part net­work­ing part inno­va­tion part caf­feina­tion part collaboration […]

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