“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” – Nietzsche – He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. – Nietzsche Click To Tweet...
“Mistrust any invitation to a life of ease.” – Lassal – “Mistrust any invitation to a life of ease.” – Lassal – Click To Tweet...
“A worthy purpose leads with challenge. Always.” – Lassal – Next Step: You cannot force anyone to think, but you can offer to lead them. If you want people to follow you, there has to be trust. No trust will be found without respect. Thus, respect those...
“You cannot teach am man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.” – Galileo – Next Step: You cannot force anyone to think, but you can offer to lead them. If you want people to follow you, there has to be trust. No trust will be found...
“Struggle is the seed of growth.” – Lassal – Next Step: Embrace it. But do so intelligently. Struggle for struggle's sake is not the point. Have a plan. If you were a plant, you'd aim for the sun. What are you aiming for? Struggle is the seed of growth. –...
“Limitations merely force you to come up with a better solution.” – Lassal – Next Step: Accept the challenge as a motivational factor. Go beyond the low-hanging fruit to find great achievements. ...
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – Next Step: Start NOW! ...
“You don't have to be great to start but you have to start to become great.” – Zig Ziglar – Next Step: Start NOW! ...
“Either you run your day or your day runs you.” –Jim Rohn – Next Step: Start NOW! ...
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius – Let's add another one: “Even if you're on the right track, You'll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers – ...
“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” – Stephen Covey – Stephen Covey calls his priorities his “first things”. And he has a very visual way of showing you the ISSUE most of us experience every...
“Think big. Act small. Fail fast. Learn rapidly.” – Anonymous – Or, put differently: 1. Don't let small thoughts keep you small. 2. Climb the mountain one step at a time. (I like elephants and refuse to eat them.) 3. If there needs to be a certain amount...
“Too many of us are not living our dreams – because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown – Because, hey, it's a choice!...
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” – Paulo Coelho – The world out there, as you see it, is really just one reality out of many possible realities. How is that? Because your brain stands between the world...
“If you really want to impact the world you need to be both a maker and a marketer.” – Stu McLaren – Regardless if your idea is the most revolutionary, word-changing, amazing, genial or if your idea is simply something that will improve the life of a small...
“If you have no tolerance for failure, you will not create anything new.” – Brené Brown – If fear of failure holds you back, look at the action from a different angle. Take the pressure out by giving it a different name. Call it doodling. Call it training....
“80% of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen – If you decide to face it – despite not feeling ready – you're better than most already. Because, let's face it: none of us are ever ready. The game is played by those who step onto the field. The rest are...
“People often say that motivation does not last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar – I love this quote – it is so incredibly spot on! The endless automatic motivation is just as much a myth as the ever present,...
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain – The best time to make a change was yesterday. The second best would be RIGHT NOW! Do not wait for the elusive “better timing”. There will always be something standing in your way....
Don't wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and MAKE it perfect! – UNKNOWN– That's what makes a winner. While the rest of the world waits and complains about their less than perfect situation, their lack of time, their lack of resources, there will always be...
“If your path gets too crowded, try changing the lane” –LASSAL– It is scary, sure. It feels so much more secure to follow the step-by-step recipes given to thousands before you. The question is: do these people succeed? 99,9999999% do not. While I advise...
If you want to move and arrive faster, change to a less crowded level. – Lassal – I always played by this, regardless of the market. Works. [fbcomments count="off" num="3" countmsg="wonderful...
Eintragen & Mitmachen! Fühlst Du Dich beim Gedanken an Preisverhandlungen unwohl? Hast Du insgeheim Angst davor, auf einen angemessenen Preis für Deine Arbeiten zu bestehen, und dadurch Deinen Kunden zu verlieren? Hast Du schon Illustrations-Anfragen bekommen, die mit...
This post will be expanded upon – it is an ongoing collection. So check back on it once in a while. Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky In a letter to his lifelong benefactress, Nadezhda von Meck (1877) HONOURED NADEJDA FILARETOVNA, In spite of obstinate denials on the part of a...
How come some people hussle and fight for years to find clients for their products and services, while others seem to manage to make clients flock to their products as if effortlessly – even though their products and services don’t seem to be any “better”? Maybe they...
This site was offline for a couple of days. I apologize. While my former WordPress theme was great for its main purposes (portfolio, clientlist & contact), it did not allow for much else. It is easy enough to change a WordPress theme, though. A couple of clicks,...
Heute mal nur auf Deutsch. Seid Ihr professionell künstlerisch tätig und habt ein online Portfolio? Oder vielleicht auch mehrere? Habt Ihr Bücher illustriert? Illustrationen in Magazinen veröffentlicht? Dann wisst Ihr sicher auch, wie man genau kontrolliert,...
An inspiring speech, a freeing thought to take with you into the weekend (and hopefully further). Shawn Achor is the CEO of Good Think Inc., where he researches and teaches about positive psychology. And one of the points that he is trying to make is that woking...
Learn the business you are in (or entering). Protect your work – be it writing, photography, illustration, Art. Learn contracts and copyright. Do not sign anything that you don’t 100% understand. Don't take anybody's word for it, like “yeah, the contract gives...
No one has a gun to your head. Realize that you have chosen the path you are walking. You have chosen to be here – no one is forcing you. You are here by choice and you choose you conditions. That means that you either create the conditions that you want, or that you...
Freedom is really just the ability to control your situation. People choose to leave their jobs and become an entrepreneur to gain freedom, only to get caught up in the daily grind and hustle and end up feeling in a 24/7 prison without air to breathe and time to live....
Beliefs * (Strategy + Execution) * Time = Results Looks simple enough. The devil is in the detail – Just think it through. Frei übersetzt: Glaube * (Strategie + Ausführung) * Zeit = Ergebnisse Sieht einfach aus, aber der Teufel steckt, wie immer, im Detail....
Problems that are procrastinated are always amplified! For illustrators on assignment: Waiting always makes deadlines worse. Frei übersetzt Aufgeschobene Probleme tun länger weh. Und speziell für Illustratoren: Je länger man wartet, desto unangenehmer werden...
… is ONE. I was trying to find who actually said this, but couldn't. Anyway, it's true: ONE Customer ONE Product ONE Sales Channel Try for THREE of the above as soon as possible. Also, if you work on very tight schedules: ONE email provider ONE internet provider...
(this is to be amended as soon as I find the correct quote and who said it) If you believe that you can achieve something, or if you believe that you will fail, you will probably turn out to be right. Frei übersetzt Egal ob Du glaubst, etwas erreichen zu können...
Would you be willing to do something that you really do NOT want to do in order to get what you really DO want to get? – Andy Andrews Like: would you be willing to talk sales with clients in order to make a living as an artist? Frei übersetzt: Bist Du...
A successful business makes a profit – to make a profit, you need a plan. ~ James Scott Bell, bestselleing author And you? Do you have such a plan for your creative business? And if not, what is holding you back? Frei übersetzt: Ein erfolgreiches Unternehmen...
If you do what you do only for clapping, then you give your audience the power to tell you when to stop. Why are you doing what you are doing? Frei übersetzt: Wenn Du etwas nur für den Applaus machst, gibst Du anderen die Macht, Dich aufzuhalten. Wofür...
I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me. Today, I am more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter. Life is short. A stupid idea (that works) will eat up your time just as a good idea (that works) will. What do you want to spend...
It's no secret that I am a huge Gaiman fan. I have the collected Sandman books here. The whole shelfload! And let's just say that I did not buy them for the quality of their illustrations. I also own most of the rest of what Neil Gaiman wrote. Including all of the...
Don't make people buy something you want to sell; Sell people something they want to buy. Frei übersetzt: Statt den Menschen das anzubieten, was du verkaufen willst, biete den Menschen das an, was sie kaufen wollen. ...
… or similar. I was on the phone with an American customer today. We were discussing a specific hue that he wanted for a product. Pink, he said. But a bit darker than the pink that his daughter likes, and with a touch of yellow and gray. This helped him pick the exact...
I get asked all the time how I went about finding my agency clients in the shortest time back during that really bad period of the dot-com crisis. So I did prepare an 8-step cheat-sheet for you. It does not matter if you are an illustrator, photographer, writer...
“Leider können wir deine Rechnung erst zahlen, wenn unser Kunde gezahlt hat. Das wirst du ja sicher verstehen.” Ehrlich gesagt, verstehe ich es nicht. Das ist ungefähr so, als würde ich dem Finanzamt erklären wollen, dass sie ihre Steuervorauszahlung erst...
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher Frei übersetzt: Mut kommt nicht immer mit Gebrüll. Manchmal ist Mut die leise Stimme am Ende des Tages, die...
