QUICKSAND AND THE TUG — A Cautionary Tale for the Creative

In my second post, I take you on a little trip to the city of Quicksand and the city of Promise. Learn which city you find yourself in by reading my short story “Quicksand and the Tug”.


Welcome back Successful Creatives!

Many people don’t know that I was a life coach before I added skill-sets and became a business coach for Creatives. For the first 12 years of my career, I supported people to arrange their lives to be meaningful and fulfilling.

During that time, I discovered that there were only 5 things my clients actually needed to pay attention to, in order to craft a happy life.

Wanna know what they are?

Good! To make this fun, I’ve written a little story.

This story is FOR THOSE who are NOT DONE living. For those who wish to BE CHALLENGED AGAIN. For those who want to LEAVE A MARK without getting beat up in the process.

It’s for those LOOKING FOR INSPIRATION. For those who want endless WEALTH and ABUNDANCE.

It’s for those who are considering GIVING UP and for those ANGRY folk tired of tolerating mediocrity in their own lives and in the world.

It’s for those who want to feel DELIGHT and SURPRISE and PRIDE more often.

It’s for those who want to RECEIVE as much as they GIVE and to BE ABLE TO GIVE MORE OFTEN.

I think this story is probably FOR YOU! It reveals the 5 SECRETS TO TRUE, LASTING and DEEPLY REWARDING SUCCESS that I learned over and over again. I hope you’ll read QUICKSAND and THE TUG and watch the video. (Oh, and please share your comments with me afterwards and share the story if it touches you, as I hope it will.)


Watch the Video and Read the Story HERE

To your success,

Melissa McFarlane
Creative Successful Entrepreneurs
Riot for Joy!

P.S. Feeling you might be stuck in QUICKSAND? Wondering how to experience THE TUG? See our *FREE* Successful Living Assessment Chart to discover if how you are living is bound to make you truly happy. Click this link to view and/or print the chart: Successful Living Assessment Chart -pdf

The Successful Creative

Helping RIGHT-BRAIN thinkers make a LEFT-BRAIN living and Creative Mavericks to get their Big Ideas and Talent into the world so they can make a difference.

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Melissa is a coach with over 20 years of experience in executive, business, and personal coaching. She is the founder of Creative Successful Entrepreneurs.

The Successful Creative

Helping RIGHT-BRAIN thinkers make a LEFT-BRAIN living and Creative Mavericks to get their Big Ideas and Talent into the world so they can make a difference.

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