Shakespeare, the Creative Entrepreneur

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In his blog The Shakespearean Guide to Entrepreneurship Mark McGuinnes outlines how William Shakespeare went from a hack for hire to a creative entrepreneur. It is a simple lesson all artists can emulate, providing a good framework for any person in a creative field.

The lovely image of writer sitting by a window looking over a lovely landscape waiting for inspiration to fly in on butterfly wings is certainly romantic but not entirely true. Some artists have the advantage of a beautiful scenery while others must find their creative juice on a subway.

Become creative about your business, as well as, your art. Take time to learn from the masters, like Shakespeare, who diversified, took chances and made a life that let him concentrate on his craft.

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Writing, writing, writing. I seemed to have forgotten to write. OK, let me correct that I did write for a client- five articles and three reviews- in one weekend. My goal in 2009 was to start my Internet radio program. I have four shows under my belt. My last show was with Lable Braun. He was engaging and informative. A friend and I listened to the show yesterday and we both laughed. I stuttered through the introduction, the interview, the ending. Nonetheless, my guest was kind and said I was a good interviewer. I can only hope it was true.

But this in not about that it is about using time in a different way.  In Salon.com, Cary Tennis writes about a scheduling conflict for a reader. In his response he asks us to look at the conflict in a new way by reframing how we use time.

“Which makes one realize that time, which is also in its pure state incompressible, does, like water, seem to contain many bubbles; that is how we learn to manage time, and how one person can do twice or three times as much as the next person in the same period of time: We find the bubbles.”

In my case it is how I use my time. I don’t make the right time to do the things that matter. In preparing for my shows I spend the time to get the guests but not the time to think more about my questions or practicing my introductions.

I understand some of this is a learning curve thing. There is will be some clarity about the right things I need to do with my show to make it better. The first shows will leave on in infamy for me to marvel over. But for now I created a bubble of time to write this post. Maybe later a poem bubble will form.

Take care.