Introduction: Creativity Has a New Canvas For centuries, artists have expressed creativity through brushes, instruments, chisels, and words. Today, there’s a new canvas: the prompt. Every time you write a prompt—whether it’s a single line or a structured sequence—you are making a creative choice. You’re shaping possibility. You’re saying: “This is the world I want [...]
If you’ve been feeling “stuck,” bored of frameworks, and secretly craving the thrill of making something only you could make—this is for you. TL;DR (but read it anyway, you’re a creator 😉) The Creative Ambush argues that real creativity isn’t summoned by sticky notes, frameworks, or polite meetings. It’s born when you take radical responsibility, [...]
Freedom is not addition — it is mastery over desire We often say: “I want more.” More income. More followers. More comfort. More ease. But what we rarely admit is this: if we cannot resist the pull of any desire in us, then we are not free — we are owned by what we desire. [...]
If I choose the wide road, I’ll learn to love its noise.If I choose the narrow path, I’ll feel the hush of trees.If I choose to wait, the moment will choose me.If I choose wrongly, the wrong may ripen into right.If I don’t choose at all, perhaps life has already chosen. If I wander off [...]
Introduction: Why Be a Blue Whale, Not a Unicorn? In today’s business world, unicorns get all the hype—start-ups that rocket to billion-dollar valuations overnight. But for most creators, consultants, coaches, and solopreneurs, that path isn’t just unlikely—it’s unsustainable. Phil Teasdale’s The Blue Whale Plan offers a different vision. Instead of trying to be a mythical [...]
Introduction: The AI Revolution Is Real—But Most Get Stuck We’ve all seen the headlines: “AI Side Hustle Earns $1,579 a Day” “This AI Will Replace Designers” “The End of Software Engineers?” For creators, consultants, coaches, and solopreneurs, it’s tempting to believe the hype. But as Tobias Zwingmann reveals in his book The Profitable AI Advantage, [...]
1. Tuning In System Principle: Ideas arrive like radio signals; your job is to tune your “antenna.” Practices: Create open mental space (silence, meditation, walks). Capture fleeting thoughts quickly (voice notes, jot in Notion). Stay sensitive to synchronicities — treat them as creative prompts. IMMachines tie-in: Quote To Action turns a random “signal” (quote, overheard [...]
The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both. The ability to look deeply is the root of creativity. To see past the ordinary and mundane and get to what might otherwise be invisible. No matter what tools you use to create, the true instrument is you. And [...]
A Stoic framework for creators, consultants, coaches, and solopreneurs Introduction: Chaos vs. Control You launch a product. Crickets.You post content. Tumbleweeds.You plan a week of work—and then life throws in a sick child, a delayed payment, or a platform algorithm change. If you’ve ever felt that running a solopreneur business is like trying to control [...]
Introduction: Why Reading People is the Superpower You Didn’t Know You Needed Business isn’t about algorithms. It isn’t about funnels. It isn’t even about offers. At its core, business is about people. Yet most of us were never taught how to really read people. We were taught to listen to words. But as Alan Watts [...]
