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December 17, 2014 By Andy Traub

Why You're Still An Artist

Every child is an artist. They’re not an artist simply in title, but in practice. Children are artists because we expect them and then equip them to be artists. Somewhere along the way our children, our artists, stop becoming artists.

You can change this for your children and for yourself.

Click here to watch Why You’re An Artist

Is There Art In Math?

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Filed Under: family, parenting, Uncategorized Tagged With: art, education, identity, math, parenting, Permission

November 16, 2014 By Andy Traub

Please stop chasing your dream

I know it was hard for you to stop working today. There’s so much work left to do.

You checked your email in the car on the way home.

You walked in the door and wanted to go open your laptop.

There are emails that you want to answer. OK, maybe you don’t want to answer them but you feel like you should answer them. You’re thinking about them while you’re with us.

daddy home

After five minutes of being home you pull out your phone and your thumbs start flying around the screen. You feel a mild sensation of accomplishment as your inbox goes from 24 to 23. I’m waiting for you to finish. You open another email and I call your name again.

“Dad. Dad. Dad.”

You reply, “Yeah, I’m almost done.”

You’re never done. It’s in your pocket. It’s always there.

I won’t always be here. I won’t always want to play with you.

I’m glad you work so hard for us but right now I want to be with you.

Can they wait? I’ve been waiting all day.

[Tweet “Can they wait? I’ve been waiting all day.”]

Please stop chasing that dream. I’m not a dream. I’m real and I need you. I need all of you for a few days. For a few days I’m your job.

Stop chasing that dream dad. Please? It’ll be there Monday.

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May 8, 2014 By Andy Traub

The most productive button on your phone

Distraction is the enemy of productivity.
Distraction keeps us from reaching any level of depth that could produce thoughts worth sharing. Distraction prohibits us from reaching a level of creativity able to produce worthwhile art.

We choose to be distracted. We pay to be distracted. There has never been a device more destructive to the creative process than the cell phone.

[Tweet “We choose to be distracted. We pay to be distracted.”]

We use it at work.
We use it at the dinner table.
We use it when we arrive home from work.
We use it while driving.
We use it while we write.

Guy on cell phone TPMN

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Filed Under: family, How I work, Productivity, Uncategorized

December 27, 2013 By Andy Traub

Video Webinar: How to Finally Achieve Success in 2014! w/ Michael Hyatt

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Webinar Information

    What: Live video webinar
    Who: Michael Hyatt & Andy Traub
    When: December 30, 2013 at 1 PM CT
    Where: Register at TakePermission.com/Goals2014 [/gss-content-box]

    Questions we’ll answer

  1. Why is setting goals the key to achieving the life you want?
  2. Why do people that set goals so often fail to achieve them?
  3. What are the three metrics of healthy goals?
  4. Why should business and family goals mix?
  5. Why do we fear creating goals and how do we defeat that fear?

Hyatt Traub
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Filed Under: family, Leadership, Productivity, Uncategorized

November 19, 2013 By Andy Traub

If Your Dream Is Worth Something It Will Certainly Cost You Something

She mentioned she had been at the office since 4:20 a.m. She wasn’t trying to impress me. She went in early so she could spend time with her kids after school. She gets over a million page views a month.

I was just finishing lunch and she had already put in an eight hour work day.

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Filed Under: employment, family, Productivity, Solopreneur, Uncategorized

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