Posts Tagged ‘Inspiration’

Artists, Designers, Creatives…What is Their Deal??

All my life I’ve been con­fronted by these ques­tions in one form or another: Where does your cre­ativ­ity come from? What is your process? Why don’t I under­stand it? What is your deal dude!?!?!

Warning: Pinterest May be Habit Forming

In case you haven’t heard, Pin­ter­est, is a two-year-old social book­mark­ing site, that allows users to col­lect and share things about top­ics that inter­est them. I should say, obsess about. At the moment, for me this is about foods I will never pre­pare or ideas for wed­dings that may never hap­pen, or I could never afford. This wed­ding one is truly embar­rass­ing; I tell you it’s a sick­ness, an insid­i­ous sick­ness. And for that rea­son, I will be required to delete my daugh­ters from this Q-Clips distribution.

7 Things Highly Productive People Do

Hello Qclipers! We have been rush­ing to try and get one last issue out before the end of the year and as you can imag­ine it has not been easy given the “hol­i­day crunch”. Clients want to get many set­tled before the Christ­mas / New Years week and many of us at Quan­tum­Method take our vaca­tion time dur­ing that week as well. So, nee­dles to say it has been a chal­lenge. But, we did it!! I con­fess that I had a another topic in mind with more depth, but there is sim­ply no time for meet to write it, so I will save it for January.

Motivation and AP Holiday Style

I enjoy “fierce con­ver­sa­tions” with my QM col­leagues, and no more than at the Hol­i­days. We rarely change our opin­ions, but the fact that we can “go there” is both lib­er­at­ing and moti­vat­ing. Noth­ing like a good ver­bal tus­sle with the QM team to clear out the cob­webs and re-energize an after­noon. My col­leagues say that we are really argu­ing about the same thing in these ver­bal duels… I could argue about that…

Press On

I am not refer­ring to those fake nails or that thing you do with an iron—that thing I have pre­tended not to know how to do for decades. The slo­gan, “press on” said Calvin Coolidge, “has solved, and always will solve, the prob­lems of the human race.” Or if not the entire human race, per­haps at least those of us suf­fer­ing on the “left coast” from bad news over­load, dwin­dling bank bal­ances and polit­i­cal fatigue. Let’s face it, in this down– turned econ­omy, life can be overwhelming.