Loyalty is not fealty. It is not complacency and it is not obedience. Loyalty is willing and persistent support and belief. In order to gain the loyalty of your employees or even in a personal relationship, trust is paramount.
Regardless of your profession, the hardest thing to learn is how to take feedback. Either good or bad (but especially bad), it is hard to always know exactly what to do when it comes time to unpack commentary from your colleagues.
I recently heard this little idiom in passing, “Business is the enemy of spirituality.” I suppose its intention is that by occupying our time with frivolities or items of little substance, we don’t afford ourselves the time to consider something much larger than…
In the spirit of full disclosure, I and my partner eloped rather than have a “big wedding.” The reasons behind this decision were many and varied but chief among them was a shared distaste for what can only be described as the American Wedding Culture.
In some capacity, everyone, every day, must sell fiction. Whatever your job, from exotic dancer to graphic designer for an ad firm, you are selling a story to someone. Maybe a client, maybe a friend, maybe a customer.
It’s difficult, early in your career, to avoid feelings of jealousy, impostor syndrome, and anxiety when faced with the successes of your contemporaries. I found myself feeling distressed and out of place when attending conferences or watching my colleagues produce artwork that I saw as truly…
