Resources for the Disciplined Creative
The published writer scolds the erratic painter, “you should be more disciplined about your painting. You hardly finish any work, and move on to the next one. And you don’t even publish your art, how can you even call yourself an artist?”
This is the conversation I have with myself. I was a published writer (articles, books and a song!), but my “painting” was no where to be found. Yet I would doodle more than I’d write.
This section is a collection of resources that helped me, and now help countless other creators, on how to:
– find more discipline for their creations
– build a brand online, so their art gets “published” and is taken to the market!
I have almost 300 videos on YouTube around these two subjects. And countless articles. That’s a lot of content. So I have tried to put the guides, the tools, the workshops, the articles together on this page. Hope this helps, yes?
Most articles are in English, most videos are in Urdu.
These are hand-picked, proven, field-tested material that has been shown to work! I wish you all the best! Do join our community if you want regular updates when such content is added!
Productivity for Artists (Creatives, Creators)
How to structure your self to produce more of what you want to produce!
Your Bright, Compelling Future
Here's what I want you to do: imagine for a moment that you are exactly, and I mean exactly where you want to be. Are you reading this on your computer or your cell phone? Wherever you are, just imagine your biggest, most meaningful desire being fulfilled. It may be...
How to Set Goals – The Dreambreaker Method
I have always been a dreamer. Still am. I just know how to hide it better now, but I still dream seemingly impossible, idealistic, utopian dreams. And it makes sense to generally stay quite about my dreams till they are broken down. I sometimes pretend to be the dream...
Counting My Cups of Tea
I recently met a businessman from Kuwait. He is a LifeETC Community member and got in touch with me via email. We finally coordinated to meet here in Lahore. We had a good round of coffee and soup. We talked about business. We talked about community. We talked about...
Entrepreneurs and Adventurers
I am writing this sitting on a hill. Well, not a hill, a mountain. 8,400 feet above sea level in one of the most serene places in northern Pakistan. The internet here is dodgy but I have managed to upload a few pictures for those interested in seeing pictures of very...
Two Ways to be Passionate About Your Work
"Do what you love," "Do what you are truly passionate about." This type of advice gets thrown around a lot. But how on earth do you become passionate about something? Imagine a scenario where you love your work. When your work doesn't feel like work. When other people...
Finding Limits
"Know Your Limits. Then Ignore Them." Complacency should be treated as a sin. It has cost me years in lost time and hundreds of thousands in lost revenue. It doesn't matter, I say. But I say that because I am good at justifying things to myself. We all are. Your brain...
Building a Brand and a Business for Artists (Creatives, Creators)
Discover the fundamentals of brand building, how to go about creating your community of “1000 true fans” and building a meaningful, high-impact online business for yourself.
Journey of a Thousand Miles begins with THIS
Journey of a thousand miles… Someone somewhere is baking a cake for the first time. The cake comes out OK: it’s eatable. But it tastes funny. On a scale of 1 to 10, ten being the best and one being the worst, the cake is hovering between minus 3 and minus 2. A few...
Job, Career or a Calling
There are three ways to look at our work. Either we think it's a job, it's a career, or we think it is our calling. And at least one of these categories is very, very bad for us (no prizes for guessing which one though). +++ There was a study done by Dr Amy...
The Job and The Struggle
Recently we talked about identifying our job. We also saw how we can ritualize the work: show up everyday for our job. My job is to write. To design. To solve problems. Not necessarily in that order. I do it every day. I must. That's my decision. I have also outlined...
The Milk Distribution Case Study is now Live!
After weeks upon weeks of writing, the case study is now ready! Alhumdulillah. Click here to read the sales page (and if you can find this useful, I hope you will buy this). I started my own milk brand here in Lahore back in the early 2000's, when the "dairy farming...
Simple, Not Easy
I recently had a discussion with Yasir Nisar over a cup of warm tea and hot samosas. Yes, tea and samosa. Yasir is a professional photographer here in Pakistan. His pictures can sell upwards of 50,000 rupees each. Each. His calendar for the next few months, by his own...
A Word of Advice on Words of Advice
A lot of people share and keep sharing Steve Job's Commencement Speech at Stanford. The official video released by Stanford 6 years ago, has so far garnered 18 millions views. It's a great speech. If you haven't watched it, you must. A lot of people share that video...