Having gratitude helps lower levels of stress and anxiety. According to the HeartMath Institute, “The greater your capacity for sincere appreciation, the deeper the connection to your heart, where intuition and unlimited inspiration and possibilities reside.” Here are a few tips the Institute recommends for practicing gratitude: Take a break and appreciate; try incorporating two…
Creativity Tip #101: Keep doing.
Fear of failure and busy lives can stop creativity in its tracks. Research has shown that you are more likely to arrive at a creative solution or produce original work if you just keep working. “Ideas and actions occur and interact as long as innovation is being pursued. Creativity continues as long as the action…
The Dilemma of the
Digital Strategist
Since 2001, I have been building devices designed to communicate using the Internet. I’m a digital strategist with a portfolio of websites and digital marketing campaigns. I have grown curious about the effects of my work, and the work of others like me, on people around the world. In an attempt to scratch this itch,…
Is there a conversation around ethics and
digital marketing happening today?
A dialogue about ethics practices in the field of digital marketing, while not completely non existent, is limited and lacking in substance. When the machines take over the world what part will marketers have played in the demise of of the human race? Unfortunately, we don’t know and won’t for a while. In my opinion…
Who and what do we trust?
We as a society are still placing trust in large brands and big names. Maybe that trust is wavering or changing a bit, but in a society where alternative facts and echo chambers are real, it is becoming increasingly difficult to recognize authority and know what to trust. When I googled the phrase “what makes…