Small Ideas = Big Changes

I’ve spent the better part of my life figuring out how to turn the things I’m passionate about into an actual life and a living. I’ve been a professional artist for more than 30 years, and along the way I’ve learned a lot—not just about performing, but about creating opportunities, navigating uncertainty, building things from scratch, and figuring out what to do when there isn’t a roadmap.

These days, one of the things I enjoy most is helping other people do the same thing. I work with artists, creatives, and entrepreneurs who have something they want to build but aren’t quite sure how to get there. I’m not interested in giving people a formula to follow. I’d rather help them find the pieces that make sense for their particular life.

If you’re wondering what it’s like to work with me, here’s a metaphor that might explain it better than anything else.

Imagine there’s a blender sitting on the kitchen counter.

It’s already going full speed—blades spinning, everything inside being chopped, mixed, and thrown around. And that blender is you.

Everything you’ve experienced, learned, struggled with, accomplished, and figured out is already in there, swirling around in the smoothie that is your life.

Now imagine a hand hovering just above the blender. It’s holding a single blueberry.

That blueberry is me.

Every time we spend some time together, I drop one little blueberry into the mix.

An idea. A piece of knowledge. A different way of looking at something. A suggestion. A question you hadn’t thought to ask.

And the second that blueberry hits the blender, it disappears.

It gets chopped into a thousand tiny pieces and blended into everything else you already have going on. If it weren’t for a few tiny dark-blue specks appearing against the glass, you might never even know the blueberry had been there.

And honestly, one blueberry isn’t going to change the taste of the smoothie.

So we get together again.

And I drop in another blueberry.

Then another.

And another.

Each time, the blueberry disappears into everything else. You probably won’t notice much of a difference. But little by little, those tiny dark-blue specks begin showing up in more and more places.

And then one day, you take a sip.

And for the first time, you taste the blueberry.

That’s how this works.

It takes time. It takes repetition. It takes enough little pieces of information, experience, and perspective getting mixed into everything you already know before you can actually recognize the difference they’re making.

I’m not here to replace what’s already in your blender, I’m here to drop blueberries of insight, strategy, and experience, into the mix. If youre ready to begin, check out my Patreon, and subscribe today.

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This is the kind of story I tell in Off Course On Purpose — get the book here.