Dear Freelancer
Dear Freelancer, You get up each day and hit the grind without a boss to guide you. You set goals, chase them down like cat chasing a squirrel, and never let up until you reach them. You know yourself...
View ArticleThe Wanderer
A traveler without a destination is a wanderer. Wanderers waste effort and time and resources in their quest to go…somewhere. They are the most inefficient travelers in existence. No one decides to be...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Purpose?
The next most important thing to having a goal is to have a purpose. Why do you do the things you do? What drives you to make the choices you make? How are you wired? What is the reason for all of the...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Freelancer
On Ecuador’s Mt. Chimborazo, there is only one ice miner left. We works alone. He works hard. He works because it’s what he was born to do. Watch Baltazar Ushca’s story. As a freelancer, I appreciated...
View ArticleA Temporary Refocus of Energy
I talk a lot about how we have a limited amount of time, money and energy. The truth is, I write these posts using the remaining scraps of my time and energy after logging tons of client work each day....
View ArticleThoughts on My Social Hiatus
In my own imagination, my absence from social media has been as pronounced as Kiera Knightly’s lower jaw, but in reality I think I’ve barely been missed. No worries, though. I’ve done this before and...
View ArticleA Man Divided
I blog in two places. I run multiple websites covering the many projects that I have live and active on the web. I wear many hats — too many, perhaps — and it’s all starting to take its toll on me. I...
View ArticleButter and Time
I quit a lot of things in the last few months, and I want to tell you why. Earlier in the Spring, I quit producing the Read & Trust Magazine. This summer I stopped posting daily...
View ArticleJust Stop Playing
When we think of “playing” during work, most of us might think of games. Maybe you have a thing for World of Warcraft and you let your game time bleed into your work time. That’s the obvious thing we...
View ArticleReferrals From Unlikely Places
Thoughts on how treating those clients that drive you crazy can help grow your freelance business.
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