I have notebooks full of ideas. Notes in my phone. Screenshots. Voice memos. Things I've emailed to myself because apparently I don't trust any of the other places I've already saved them. Every so often I stumble across something from three years ago and think: now that's actually a really good idea. One I'd completely forgotten I had. So I don't have an idea problem. And if you're a creative person, I'm guessing you probably don't either. Here's what's really going on... Most creative...

What keeps a creative person going for twenty years? Thirty? Forty? Talent helps. Business skills help. Experience helps. But none of that protects you from life. Kids grow up. Relationships change. Bodies change. The industry changes. Technology changes about every six minutes. Sometimes the life you're living looks nothing like the one you thought you were building. And somehow, we keep making things anyway. Here's what's really going on... It's not just about how you spend your time. It's...

I was scrolling through my phone looking for an old receipt when I stumbled into a rabbit hole of old photos. And then I stopped. There was a picture of my son Tristan, who's almost sixteen now. He couldn't have been more than three or four years old in the photo. Missing a couple teeth, dirt on his face, that unmistakable smile that somehow took up his entire little face. Something hit me. While I was busy living those years, I never noticed we'd entered new seasons. Nobody announces it....