by Joanna Pieters | May 15, 2018
This was me last Friday. Because this happened. I’ve been working with the book coach and publisher Alison Jones in a book proposal challenge. She spends two weeks with participants on our ideas, structure and presentation for a business book, providing feedback...
by Joanna Pieters | May 8, 2018
Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks were filled with drawings; ideas for flight, optics, weird engineering solutions. Extraordinarily prescient, yet most things came to nothing in his lifetime. They were just ideas. The other ideas that needed to go with them didn’t yet...
by Joanna Pieters | May 4, 2018
This is you. This is us. You have a hundred ideas in the shower. You continually see new ways of doing things, presenting ideas, making things better, changing the world. Your mind races and sings, always joining the dots that other people don’t see. You notice...
by Joanna Pieters | May 1, 2018
Recently I’ve been talking to people about an idea that’s been going around my head. And on one hand it seems so obvious that I can’t believe that no-one else is talking about it. On the other hand, there’s a niggling doubt that maybe I’m missing something… that it’s...
by Joanna Pieters | Apr 16, 2018
The knight probably didn’t ever look like this. Not really – not clad in gold armour (gold would be a terrible material for protection after all). But around 1465, Michael Pacher, a painter working at a church what is now Austria, decided that it had the...
by Joanna Pieters | Jan 24, 2018
I had such good intentions! 2018 would start with time to reflect, and write joyfully and positively here each week! So, ahem, here we are at 23 January, already, and I’m writing here for the first time. (Happy new year! I hope you had a joyous season, but if you...
I'm Joanna Pieters and I've helped hundreds of professional creatives and creative leaders get their work known, sold and successful. I've run multiple, multi-million-dollar creative businesses and creating the ground-breaking psychometric assessment Vitally Productive. MBA, coach, violinist, writer, and host of The Creative Life Show podcast. Let's talk! 