ABSTRACT
The beginner’s mind is open, teachable and free of preconceived notions. Mindfulness promotes concentration, improves comprehension, enables insight, and guards against distraction. It reboots mental processes, heightens acuity, stimulates creativity and facilitates decision making. Trust between clients and creatives is developed through connection. Trust grows as clients and creatives communicate and feel secure enough to reveal vulnerabilities, hopes, aspirations, and desire for growth and improvement. And trust increases when creatives take responsibility for what they produce. There are three key ways that owning one’s work and mistakes can create a “relationship of trust” and make a person more respected, esteemed, and successful in the long run: accountability demonstrates responsibility, honesty shows integrity and being upfront reveals relatability. When projects fail, or clients grow frustrated from a lack of interest in revising/reworking to make things right, trust implodes.
