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!
Why I Can’t Have What You Have
"Luck is when opportunity meets preparation." Let's travel through time. This is the 60s and computers are still these big, room-sized machines. A young teenager finds them fascinating. He and his friend try to borrow time on mainframes. He is from a well-off family...
Sitting Still
For a lot of people, meditation is when you do nothing. I think they miss the point. Meditation is stillness. It is allowing the torrid rain of thought to fall unhindered. To test and to find purpose. Ideas are generated, nurtured and destroyed. All authority is...
On the Improvement of Self
Want to be a better person? The first thing we do is try to change ourselves. Change our habits. We start with the man in the mirror. Make promises. Resolutions. Commitments. Things start moving. A few days into it perhaps, you feel good about it. Then a small hiccup...
Your Desires Vs Your Duties. And the Winner is…
We sit at our usual table. I sit with my questions, he sits with a coke and a smile. I ask him about his plan of extended travel to the other side of the ocean. "I am almost ready. The tickets are on their way ," he says. He has been saving money for it for...
On Money, Communities and This Thing Called Life
Money If you can't answer, "where exactly will I spend this money", then that money is not worth working for. Try to trade the value you create for money (being self employed), instead of trading your time for money (doing a job). Money is the root of all evil? Your...
5 Short & Sweet Lessons from Einstein
Einstein really was an einstein at brevity. Conveying so much in so little. I saw these quotes by Einstein and wondered how they'd apply to me, and in turn, how they'd apply to you. Curiosity got me this far. 1. "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be...
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.
The New Language of Starting A Business
He was leaving the next day and I hadn't visited him yet. The night before his flight back to San Franscisco, I joined him at his aunt's house for dinner. My family and his family were there. Sitting around the dinner table. His mother wanted him married, he joked...
How to Never Have Problems Ever Again
Two types of people: those who say there is no opportunity out there, and those who say there are so many opportunities that it's hard to pick. Seeing opportunities is a skill. And an easy one. The pursuit of an opportunity, being persistent and showing up every day -...
The Pull of Work
I have been paying attention to my hobbies lately. This has seen me work like never before. For the very first time in my life, I have worked at one thing for this long. It is paying dividends in terms of happiness (for happiness is found only in progress), and I am...
Are you Paying Attention To Your Hobbies?
We are trained to pay a lot of attention to our “work”. Work is sacred. But here's an interesting experiment: look up the big events of the past and see if they were brought about by people working jobs, or by people who were doing what they were passionate about?...
Finding Giants
For my 3 year old daughter I'm a giant. At the zoo, when I lift her up and place her on my shoulders, her world literally changes. She sees what no 3 year old can possibly see on her own. And if there are a lot of people heckling the lion, she sees the lion and I...
3 Things to Do Before You Start Your Hobby Business
How do you take your hobby and turn it into a business? We have small cake business here in Lahore. I started this with my partner* last year in September. That business is a classic case-study on how to start a business based on the hobby of cooking. Looking closer,...