Sean D. Francis

September, by whatever agency decrees these things, is self-improvement month.  Really.  I looked it up and everything. Last week, in response to one of my standard mopey Tweets, a friend chided me in a very direct fashion.  Then a few days later I received a call from my sister who responded to my similar mopey [...]

You are the most important person in all of human history. That isn’t a hyperbole used for the sake of using a hyperbole. Consider for a moment who can be you right now. No one. You are the only you there is. And yes, I already know ‘you’ is going to be overused in this [...]

The absolute worst thing for creativity is repetition. Repetition is wonderful for developing skills, learning how to do something really well, but it kills creativity. Repetition allows the creative parts of the mind to shut down. It sort of kicks back, flips on the TV, and watches five hours of Singing and Dancing Chef Models [...]

An interesting confluence of events led me to this concept.  First, I’ve been reinvigorated with the spirit of the Romans by listening to Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History. Second, I had a rare opportunity to have a conversation with a young creator, and when I say young, I mean a kid writing and drawing a deep [...]

I woke up on time, started making coffee, laid back down while the machine did it’s magical mystical marvelous job and accidentally fell back asleep. In my second effort to get up I decided to check out Twitter and see what has been happening in the world at 140 characters at a time. I caught [...]

Everywhere I read, I see people writing about their resolutions for 2011. Weight-loss, stop smoking, and a variety of self-improvement steps are all resolved. I know a lot of people have jumped on the anti-resolution bandwagon. They decry resolutions as a tool of procrastination. Don’t put off ’til tomorrow what you can do today. There [...]