Blog Posts

The World Can Wait

— The artist’s task is not complicated. The artist’s task is but this: To CREATE. But not to create casually. Nor to create only when it’s easy or when it’s convenient. Much less when it’s convenient to everyone else. The artist’s task is nothing less than this: a steadfast and dedicated commitment to the creative […]

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Interview with Pro Photographer Colby Files

— Providing a wealth of high-res professional model photography for both AWAKE and KAIZEN, the Arizona-based professional model photographer known by the enigmatic name “The Colby Files” has been a delight to work with, especially with regard to the awesome value he brings as part of my new KAIZEN Design Team. His photography has proven […]

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Interview with Artist Cheryl Tarrant

— This is the first in a series of interviews I’ll be conducting with the brilliantly talented artists and photographers constituting my “KAIZEN Team” of elite creatives, who produce content each month for my “KAIZEN Group” (an exclusive sub-set of the AWAKE Group). We lead off the series with Cheryl Tarrant, the immensely skilled photographer, […]

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ONE Thing. Right Now.

— “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” – Stephen Covey. I think it was around my second cup of coffee and over 45 minutes into my 200 mile per hour dissertation on everything I had mapped, drafted, and planned out in my notebooks (all color-coded, with diagrams no less!) […]

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Pause and Marvel

— When was the last time you MARVELED at something? Or put better: when was the last time you truly marveled at something that most people would completely take for granted? I was working on some new Photoshop content this morning, and as always I wanted to have music playing, so I was running through […]

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