Category: Links of Interest
Rebecca Renner on 6-months of freelance writing
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I think the first 2 paragraphs open this up on the right tone: I’ve always wanted to be a writer, but all of my life, people told me it wasn’t a feasible career. Man, I love proving people wrong. It does take some of that boldness to run your own business. If you’re not willing
Embrace the pigeonhole
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I just finished Steve’s book and it’s great. If you want to here him talk about niching down and why it’s important not to be a penguin, listen to this podcast.
Austin Kleon on Writing with Kids around
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This is my favourite quote from the post: Lower your standards for what counts and progress, and you will be less paralyzed. – Adam Grant You don’t need to have kids to do this lowering of your standards for progress. As I’ve done more on YouTube I’m happy if I’m properly in focus and the
Are you going to put 3-years in?
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I’ve been following Matt for a while now and this short excerpt from his podcast hit me last night. If you’re going to try something new, as I’m trying out YouTube, are you willing to put 3-years into it before you judge it? You start not even knowing what you don’t know. Then you get
A Bullet Journal is like The One Ring
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Jamie Todd Rubin on his Bullet Journal: Almost at once, I saw exactly where a Bullet Journal would fill a desperately needed gap: the One Book to Rule Them All. Jamie gives us a history of his notebook usage before showing us how a Bullet Journal fills the holes he kept finding in his day.
“Ugly” Bullet Journalling
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Rebecca Renner writing for Book Riot: Ugly bullet journals are a wonderful thing. They exist. It’s just that a lot of them are hiding, ashamed to show their pages amongst their more Insagrammable peers. But that’s ridiculous, because it seems to me that, contrary to the perfectly measured and color-coded reputation bullet journals have garnered,
Cory Miller on Friendship
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Cory writes: If you want my “friendship” in order to compare and compete on stuff like money, status, or material things … uncheck the friend box please. The more successful you are the more often people call it friendship when it is anything but that. Don’t do this please.
Ryder Caroll one Notebook Migration
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Yup this is for last year, but the process is the same according to Ryder. My favourite quote is: “Maybe it’s not you that is bad at sticking to your goals, it’s your goals that are bad at sticking to you”. This idea is echoed in Atomic Habits (review coming) when James Clear says that
Cheri Baker and 8 Months without Facebook
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Cheri says: Do you know what the best part of being off Facebook is? I thought it would be having more privacy, or feeling less addicted to checking social media, but what I love most is something else entirely. Now that I’m off Facebook, when I’m with my friends, I’m actually with my friends. This
Darius Foroux recommends some books
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Find the whole post here. A few of these were added to my list, but I’m going to have to object strongly with Jordan B. Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life as a recommendation. Yes, I agree that the rules themselves are good and I would stand behind many of them. I’ve told my coaching clients