Build a creative business you love without losing your mind

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You shouldn’t have to choose between your creative expression and your sanity

Most creatives are told they have to struggle to be successful. You have to work more. You have to work harder. You have to build your brand. You have to do this and that and this and …

People like you and me are constantly fighting against:

  • The Hustle Trap: Working way too many hours while AI eats our lunch. Social media craziness. Business crap. So much admin stuff.
  • Creative Block: Being too exhausted to actually create something special. Feeling stuck.
  • Instability: The anxiety of not knowing where the next paycheck is coming from.

If you don’t change the way you work, the inevitable burnout will first kill your creativity and then your career.

A better way to build your creative business

My point of view after more than 30 years of work: More hustle is not the solution. Instead, you need a better foundation and a plan that actually works.

The Happy Creator helps you to reclaim your time and energy. Together we’re building the “Happy Creator OS” with its three solid pillars:

  • Efficiency: Use the best tools and workflows to reduce friction and drudgery. Self organization. Project management. Make the basics fun!
  • Success: Financial stability and strategy to reduce anxiety. Setting and reaching goals. Defining your own success. Getting better clients.
  • Happiness: Mindset, resilience, and mental well-being to maintain joy in the midst of challenges, outside pressure, expectations.

I’ve been where you are

As a creative, I’ve spent more than three decades cycling between “hustle mode,” short bursts of happiness, and teetering at the brink of burnout. And although I put a ton of effort, energy, and love into my work, the struggle just never seemed to end.

I realized a few years ago that traditional career advice doesn’t cut it for creators. It’s like building house after house without ever laying a solid foundation and with a plan that is barely more than a sketch.

To do your best work, you need as much as energy as possible. For that, you need everything taken care of that distracts you. And you need the tools and habits that bring out the best in you.

The Happy Creator is about the strategies and systems that help people like you and me to thrive. Together, we will build sustainable, profitable businesses without sacrificing our mental health.

On this site and in the newsletter, I share with you what I’ve already learned and what I’m still working on.

It’s a journey I’m extremely excited about. I hope you will join me!

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