Creatives-in-progress

you are welcome here

This is for the business owner exploring ideas. The curious accountant asking ‘what if we…?’. People on the path to figuring things out.

ABOUT KAREN

My creative beginnings

My story began with a love of creativity and an accountant qualification. Together, they led to the creation and success of PF, the creative agency working exclusively for and with accountants.

My passion is for leading a team of creatives to help accountants realise they too are creative, and for collaboratively working with accountants in their marketing. Everything I learned in twenty years of helping accountants understand and love marketing formed the core content of my book, The Accountant Marketer.

I’m a qualified accountant (a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Arizona) and a dual British-American citizen living in Scotland. We are PF serves accountants anywhere on the globe, so I lead a team working from locations all over the world, including South Africa, Argentina, Hungary, UK, and the USA.

My two personal values, the ones that guide everything I do, are freedom and honesty.

My personal pillars include whisky, coffee, faith, walking, and magic.

Connect with me

“Why do I stand on my desk?”

“To feel taller?”

“No! I stand upon my desk to remind myself we must constantly look at things in a different way.” 

This is from one of my fave films, Dead Poets’ Society.

And today I’m taking that advice and sitting in a different place to give my brain room to think creatively, to see things in a different way. 

Happy Friday! 

{Day 6/100 Video Challenge}

#creativetoo #creativity #thinkdifferently #accountants #changeperspective
Since social media is about documenting the journey (not just the end), one of my journeys right now as a business owner is helping accountants look at their own Personal brand vs their firm’s business brand. 

And the fun part is, with your personal brand you get to answer things like:

What do YOU like? What resonates with you (or doesn’t)? What’s the journey look like for you today…and it’s okay if that shifts by tomorrow. 

Here’s day 3 of my 100 day video challenge. With thanks to @dobbieandrew of @madebrave for the reminder to share the journey! 

#sharethejourney #justkeepgoing #videochallenge #personalbrand #accountants #marketing #businessbrand #video
Ten seconds of creative headspace. 

Or listen and watch on repeat a few times. 

Happy Sunday. 

#creativeheadspace #rest #happysunday #breathe

Keep following Karen on her
journey on instagram

The journey so far

Journey so far for Karen Reyburn 2023
Karen Reyburn - you are creative too

You are creative too

Maybe you’re not much for drawing or painting or sketching or even writing. But when you think about problem solving and curiosity, it’s a little easier to believe in your own creativity.

You’re a creative person if you have a curious, open mind. Willing to ask questions and see things differently. It can be a bit of a mess, like a child with crayons just going all over the page and outside the lines and maybe even onto the table. (Or wall.) You try something, and maybe it works – and maybe it doesn’t. But you’re on the path to figuring it all out.

You don’t have to have

ALL THE ANSWERS

Start with a little hope and direction.

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ON THE GRAM

They call it addiction for a reason. 

And turns out Netflix (or similar) bingeable series (anything with repeating episodes) are absolutely a gateway drug for me. 

To lots of unhealthy behaviours and decisions. 

Eating more than I need of the kind of food that isn’t best for my body. Staying up later than my body needs or even wants to. Avoiding hard conversations in my head (processing hard stuff). And meaning I’m less present in person where I want to be. 

I don’t really want to do this, in some ways: it sort of sucks cos bingeable shows are a comfort things. And they’re literally CRAFTED on purpose to make me keep pressing next, keep pressing next, forever.  Netflix doesn’t care if I’m healthy; they only care if they’re making money, and the more screen time I log the happier their not-so-little accounts are. 

But Netflix doesn’t have to live my life: I do. 

So I pick me. 

I feel all motivated and inspired today but I am 200% confident this will fade at some point soon. Possibly in about an hour when I’d usually open up the screen.

So that’s why I’m sharing it. Because good and hard things shared like this means people know, and will ask, and so I don’t get to hide behind telling only myself. 

Because I know myself: and I guarantee that although today was super productive and I went swimming and made good choices, I’m going to need to say no over and over and over in order to keep making those good choices. 

Here’s to what this will do for me a year from now! Because I’ve done it already with takeaway (that was last year), and now that’s just the way I live life. 

Happy Monday to you. And to me! 

#justkeepgoing #100dayvideochallenge #video #onestepatatime #healthyhabits #healthyme #choosethegood
BLOOPERS! Please enjoy this small compilation (trust me there’s loads more) of times when I, apparently, am not able to speak. 

Or think. 

Or remember my own name. 

Anyone else? 😆😆

#bloopers #blooperreel #100dayvideochallenge #100daysofpractice #video #accountants #justkeepgoing
Being blue doesn’t have to be a low thing

Sometimes all the blues lift me right up. 

Blues of mountains and hills and water and sky. 

Happy Saturday 

#ontheferry #isleofmull #flowingwater #scotland #travelscotland #islands
If you’re tempted to beat yourself up for not doing the thing you meant to (like choosing sleep instead of a swim, like I did this morning), here’s three wise words to help you put it in perspective: 

“Both are good.”

Going for a swim is good. Sleeping is good. 

I don’t have to beat myself up for choosing one good. 

Day 13/100 Video Challenge 

#100dayvideochallenge #justkeepgoing #onestepatatime #atomichabits