Avoiding Burnout

The Weekly Briefly went on accidental hiatus as I’ve been spending all my time over the past month with the launch of the Focus Course. Now, on the heels of that launch, and a relatively busy year, I’m taking some time off to be with family and plan for the next season of the show. […]

I’m back from San Francisco and am glad to return to the podcast microphone. Yes, I hear you, I could have taken my podcast rig with me, but I went to SF to meet with friends and peers in the industry and drink delicious coffee and so I had very little time for “work” stuff. […]

On this week’s show I want to unpack the topic of money. I’ve been asking people what’s their biggest challenge is when it comes to doing work that matters. And a lot of people say money. As in, a lack of money. I wrote about this on shawnblanc.net this past Wednesday. Today I want to […]

Just a short note that there’s no real episode this week. Enjoy your weekend, and I’ll talk to you next time.

On today’s show I want to talk about doing your best creative work. What does that even mean? Here’s a picture of someone doing her best creative work: She shows up every day. When it’s easy and when it’s hard. It doesn’t matter. She is committed. This is something only she can do. Yet even […]

Today’s show I want to talk about “learning”. More accurately, I want to talk about how thirsty you are to do your best creative work. Because it takes more than just showing up every day to do our best creative work. And if we focus too much on just the output we are doing (without […]

The best musicians in the world practice every single day. For hours a day. And they don’t just practice their favorite songs and coolest licks — they practice the techniques and scales and fills that they’re bad at. I studied martial arts for over a decade, and we did the same stretches and basic moves […]

I began wearing a watch several years ago — maybe four years ago — because I was tired of constantly pulling my pone out of my pocket in order to check the time only to find myself suddenly checking email, Twitter, etc. I’ve had an iPhone since the beginning. It’s my favorite gadget of all […]

A short and sweet episode this week, with some food for thought regarding our choice to choose and why it’s so important.

Today I want to talk about the purpose of (and the science behind) lifestyle practices and daily habits. This topic is one of the most important issues of my life. I have a personal commitment to live with intentionality in as many areas of my life as I can. I want to be intentional in […]