Work, family or social life
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From Austin Kleon: Work, children, or a social life. You may pick two at a time. (Nobody wants to hear this.) I choose work and family. My only social life currently is the runs that one or two people want to come on. That has meant large numbers of friends I no longer hang out…
Freelance Friday 010 – June 15 2018
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As I’m working on my next book called Finding Focus, I have some questions for you dear reader. If you’ll please help me out and answer these 6 questions so I can make sure the book covers topics that are relevant to you. Believe it or not, this week I started looking at Fiverr after…
Should I Read It 019 – The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F_ck
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Today we’re going to need to look past a bit of profanity and dive in to why Mark Manson says we care about way too much. Purchase The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F_ck on Amazon Written Look at The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F_ck This episode of Should I Read It…
More Hours is a Lie – The Amount of Work You Can Do is Constant
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Rather than scrambling to meet an impossible deadline, work to your normal pace. The amount of work you can do is constant — the only real question is which work to do. – Extreme Programming I had a coaching client who worked every weekend. He always felt like he couldn’t get ahead so kept spinning…
Content Mills are just like Upwork and Freelancer
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Maddy Osman has a great look at content mills. All the same points apply to freelance market places. It’s the pickiest clients for the lowest prices and you often can’t take the work outside the freelance job platform so you’re only building a portfolio on said platform. If they decide that you’re no longer wanted,…
More thoughts on alcohol excluding people from conferences and networking
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Further thoughts after this post. What if you’re at a place where you must be legal drinking age we are saying that the only people worth meeting are 21 (in some states). That’s hardly the truth. We are also excluding anyone that has struggled enough with alcohol in the past that they can’t be around…
Opting Out of WordCamp “after” because of alcohol
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Things I’ve realized in 45 days of not drinking Higher education runs on booze. It’s remarkable how many events involve free alcohol and how much socialising after other events involves alcohol I’d say similar things about the WordCamp’s and other tech conferences I’ve been to. I have nothing against drinking but I’m a 1 beer…
Since Yearly Goals Suck, Here is the Alternative
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If yearly goals suck, in that they’re way too long and you can’t stay motivated towards your goal for 12 months, what do you do? The alternative that I use, and my coaching clients use, to much better effect is quarterly goals focused on actions. Quarterly Plans Are Better than Yearly Goals A quarter is…
dad lists insult dad
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The insult to mums, of course, is the suggestion that dads should somehow be celebrated for achieving basic tasks when they get no such recognition. Yup I agree entirely. My wife and I talk about this at least weekly. People rave that I show up to figure skating and can name the jumps my kid…
Always on YouTube – of course we have breakdown
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YouTube’s burnout problem. Constant changes to the platform’s algorithm, unhealthy obsessions with remaining relevant in a rapidly growing field and social media pressures are making it almost impossible for top creators to continue creating at the pace both the platform and audience want — and that can have a detrimental effect on the very ecosystem…
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