Genre Busters

How Does Your Garden Grow?

It’s been a rainy “Spring” here in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies. We’re just rearranging the flower gardens in our back yard, making room for a new garden shed. The rain is a blessing — it  means I don’t have to water them. But, in a couple of months, if we have our usual…

Are You Watering Your Creative Garden?

My best buddy is, among many other things, a writer and aspiring novelist. Like many would be novelists and other creative eclectics she does not currently ‘make her living’ doing her passion. What to I mean "doing her passion’? I mean actually making a living, paying the rent, financing her lifestyle, by working as a…

Join Me & Paula G. for "Living In Your Own Skin"

Howdy! Are you comfortable "Living in Your Own Skin?"  Please join me, Tuesday, May 22nd, at 4:00 p.m. MDT, for the 4th installment of the Genre Busters Podcast. The topic will be "Living in Your Own Skin" with guest coach and writer Paula Gregorowicz – Paula G. as she is known to her friends, colleagues,…

Zeal for the Job

A new series from Time magazine about new careers, new jobs — unconventional jobs for unconventional professionals. Via Barbara Winter

[CCU] #67 Going Sane

This issue: I explore the experience of Going Sane and share some ‘learnings’.   CREATIVE CAREERS UNLEASHED! The online Career/Life/Practice Development Newsletter For Creative, Eclectic, Multitalented Independents From Lyle T. Lachmuth The Unsticking Coach(TM)  Please forward this newsletter to creative, multitalented, and eclectic professionals in your network. Want to subscribe? Send a blank email to…

Are You A Rabble Rouser?

I read Seth Godin’s blog every day. This encouragement, today, hit a nerve: "We don’t need pilots. We need instigators and navigators, rabble rousers and innovators. People who can’t follow a checklist to save their life, but invent the future every day." A client of mine remarked recently that his challenges in getting hired were…

What Kind of Genius Are You?

Susan Fuller, of Unleash Your Creativity fame, sent this great link from Wired. It reports on research into creativity. Are you a quick and dramatic type? Or, a careful and quiet type? Read, ponder, decide.

Lunch With Andrea

In 2001 I joined a ‘little’, start-up, coaching organization called Coachville. I was attracted to the genius of it’s founder, Thomas Leonard. The price of membership was attractive: $ 79.00! Within months I was deeply enmeshed in the "love puddle" that was CV then. I was a member of several of T’s (as those who…

[CCU] Design and Conduct Research

In this issue: In order to seek and sustain Clarity you need to master the ability to design and conduct research. CREATIVE CAREERS UNLEASHED! The online Career/Life/Small Business Newsletter For Genre Busters(TM) From Lyle T. Lachmuth The Unsticking Coach(TM)    ============================================== THANKSGIVING HOT FLASH! If you attended last week’s "Successful Careers for Genre Busters(TM)" interview…

[CCU] Seek and Sustain Clarity

In this issue: To create the life and career of your dreams you need to master the ability to seek and sustain Clarity CREATIVE CAREERS UNLEASHED! The online Career/Life/Small Business Newsletter    For Genre Busters(TM) From Lyle T. Lachmuth  The Unsticking Coach(TM)  ============================================== TUNE IN FOR A HOT FLASH! If you attended this week’s "Successful…