Yesterday, I sat and watched the domain name expire on a project I had been working on for over four years. In 2014, I co-founded a record label that I had grand visions for, from running club nights in Ibiza to having my tracks played on the radio, I had a clear goals in my head that I wanted to reach.

Although I met some amazing people in those four years and achieved some of the results I wanted, I felt a huge sigh of relief as I finally let go of the expectations I had placed on myself and the music. …

When I first took the leap and went freelance back in 2012, I was designing and building websites for small businesses. An average project was anywhere between one and three thousand pounds.

One day, I bumped into a previous client and asked them if everything was still ok with their website. “It’s great!” they said, “but the only thing is, we don’t seem to be getting any more enquiries”. At the time, I didn’t really know what to say, so I asked if they had invested any money into SEO, to which they replied “no we haven’t really got a budget for marketing”. …

At some point in our lives, we have all made decisions based on what other people think rather than what we feel is right. Worse than that, we’ve probably made a decision based on what we think other people think.

For me, I’ve experienced this most when I drink alcohol. I really suffer from hangovers to the point where I will have to spend the whole day in bed and still feel the negative effects for days afterwards. I lack energy and clarity in my thinking and often find it difficult to shake feelings of anxiety, guilt and sadness. …

Sometimes, when I sit down to write, a little voice inside my head says “why are you bothering to do this? …

You know those days where it feels like things just fall into place? Where you feel unstoppable and everything seems to go your way? That’s the power of momentum at work. It may feel like everything has just magically happened by coincidence, but really, that day was created by a series of events you created in the preceding weeks and months.

Over the past five years, I have work with lots of very talented freelancers and small business, who are brilliant at what they do, but despite this, often have quiet periods where the workflow stops. For years I couldn't understand why this was happening; they had a strong portfolio, they were ambitious and people referred work to them on a regular basis. …

The start of a new year presents us with the opportunity to reset and choose to be a better version of ourselves than we were the year before. It fills us with hope and a sense of progression, that is, until it gets to February and we realise that most of the goals we set out to achieve have fallen by the way side.

A research paper I read recently, found that, on average, 22% of people fail to achieve their goals after a week, 40% after a month, 50% after three months, 60% after six months, and 81% after twenty-four months (Norcross & Vangarelli, 1988, as cited by Koestner 2008, p. …

In 2015, I was sat on a beach in Thailand with my laptop, living the digital nomad lifestyle, when I suddenly realised I wasn’t totally clear on the problem I was helping my clients to solve.

At the time, I was running a small business, designing and building websites for people. …

Over the past few years, I have thought and written extensively, about the concept of authentic creativity. It’s a term that I stumbled upon when trying to describe a particular feeling that I experienced when I was doing certain types of creative work.

Often, it was work that put me in a flow state, and gave me a feeling of wholeness, connecting me to the world around me in a way that was difficult to articulate. I knew these feelings were significant, but I wanted to create something tangible which I could share and discuss with like-minded creatives.

In this article, my aim is to explore these feelings and encourage readers to share their thoughts with creative networks they belong to. …