I’m Josh – a father, entrepreneur, tattooer, artist, designer, and geek. I want to live life as a good person, help spread ideas and philosophy through art, and help people share their own ideas through their body art.
Check out my portfolio to see some of the stories I’ve helped people put on their skin.
Amateurs hold themselves and other people back. Professionals push themselves and other people forward. Which are you?
Your time here is precious. Remember that you'll die one day so you don't waste the most valuable resource you have.
Boredom isn’t a problem, but misery is. If you fall into a cycle of repetitive drudgery, it might be time for a change.
I wanted to share a story about surrounding yourself with people who support you and inspiring those people to grow with you.
I just wanted to say “Thank you” to a whole bunch of people. It’s the people around me who make me who I am, who help me grow and succeed. So I’m showing some gratitude. To the people who support me in my career… My friends, family, clients, coworkers, and my readers. Thank you for…
Have you ever thought about how you live your life and make decisions? Most people don’t! Create a personal philosophy to make living well easier.
I recently wrote an email about self-respect to my infant son that I hope he can comprehend by the time I hand him the password.
My life recently fell apart, and it started a domino effect that I couldn’t stop. Peter Drucker said it best in a nod to Murphy’s Law when he coined Drucker’s Law – “If one thing goes wrong, everything else will, and at the same time.”
How do we define what being successful is? If we are to rise so that we may be successful, what is successful?
My wife and I went skydiving! This is what it was like – with VIDEO!
Episode 8 of the JoshuaGraphic Experiment
Why would you passively want to find yourself when you can be more active and create yourself? I know which one I prefer.
Don’t complain about your problems, look for solutions and accept responsibility for them. Maybe then your life will start to improve.
My son, Maddix, is in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit for botulism – a very rare disease that has paralyzed him.
I learned a lot about traveling with an infant during a recent family vacation. Long drives and tiny, squishy humans don’t mix.
New Year’s Resolutions suck. They just don’t work! Plan out a SMART goal for the New Year to increase the odds of success.
Find a purpose and pursue it relentlessly. Having a purpose doesn’t mean being rich, it’s making a choice to live happily and make an impact.
Unfortunately, most people rely on the unreliable “skill” of willpower to make choices, and many people make bad choices because they lack the discipline to make the right ones.
I’ve managed to develop six habits which I consider to be keystone habits for myself. I’m not saying these will apply to everyone, but I’m sure they will help quite a few people.
You’ll start painting your masterpiece tomorrow. Or maybe you’ll write the first chapter to your novel next week. Or the week after. It’ll be a New Year’s resolution. But probably not…
It’s hard to develop habits that stick. They have a bad habit of not staying around.
14 questions to help you determine if freelancing is right for you.
A few ideas to defeat your own worst enemy and get rid of artist’s block forever.
Build a reference library to have a wealth of visual information on-hand when you create your own art.
If you can’t focus, then there’s no point in managing your time. All of the time management voodoo in the world isn’t going to save the soul without a priority.
Chronic stress is actually killing you. You can either avoid it or handle it like a pro, here’s how to do both.
Have you ever been so overwhelmed with random shit that you just can’t focus?
There’s too much information in the world. Too much to consume, too much to learn, too much to remember.
I am an idiot. I took a job that pays salary and demands upwards of 80 hours a week of my time. On a good week. I’m on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I can’t get through dinner with my fiance without my phone ringing. Yes…I’m an idiot. It’s time to…
