Habits & Best Practices

The Biggest Mistake Creators Make

Written by Dave Morrow
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Complexity kills creativity.

Complexity gives you an excuse not to do the work that matters most because you’re too busy making the perfect plans for it.

Complexity keeps you from just starting & figuring things out on the fly.

You get the same dopamine rush from thinking about completing a project, as you actually would from completing the project in real life.

Planning always feels good. It tricks the brain to think it’s actually creating something that matters. This is addicting.

How to Be a Prolific Creator & Double Your Work Output

Written by Dave Morrow
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Deep Work Sprints are a technique that I created to produce the optimal environment and mindset for improving and getting things done on a daily basis.

This simple method doubled the amount of creative and business work I get done each year.

You can apply this technique to any type of work; creative, business, or personal.

It will help you to be more productive & improve quickly at anything you’re working on.
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For Creators: How to Build a Profitable Business in the Internet Age

Written by Dave Morrow
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I get a lot of questions about quitting a 9-5 job and starting an online business built around, photography, video, or any other creative endeavor.

Most of these questions tie a big creative idea the person has to the money or lifestyle they think the idea will produce.

After the initial idea, they have no clue how to start or where to aim their energy. For this reason, they take a guess, try something, it fails short term, then they quit.

My goal is to teach you a simple framework that I’ve been using and improving upon over the past 8 years of running an online business.

Power Multipliers – How to Get Ahead of the Pack & Stay There

Written by Dave Morrow
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Each day, there are 1,000 different tasks seeking to grab your attention.

You have to choose something or stay in bed.

Every single decision puts you one step closer, or farther away, from where you want to be.

Power multipliers allow you to complete 1 task which automatically takes care of 1 or more others, without any added work from you.

Doing so allows you to spend your life working on things that interest you, instead of constantly struggling to stay above water.
The hard part is determining what is a power multiplier and what is a bad choice, disguised as a good one.

Those who become successful in life, in their own terms, are experts at seeing and executing on power multipliers.