Are You Balancing Work And Life?
While balance is especially difficult for freelance workers, it’s not impossible
Being busy is tantamount to being successful in our culture. The expectation of 24/7 accessibility is considered normal. News flash: it’s not.
Success is defined by so much more than just a full calendar. In fact, many people with jam-packed schedules are often not in control of their own determination of success.
I am my business’ primary client. Sure, I technically don’t generate any revenue. However, if I overwork myself, break down, fall apart, or burn out, then I won’t be able to work at all. Then, all the revenue falls off the map.
Instead, I consider my needs just as important as my clients. If I need to take a morning to run errands, I take the morning. I don’t block the time in my calendar, but if it helps you feel productive, then go for it. Your time and self-care are worth the pause.
Regardless of how you work (freelance or employee), you are the most important asset you possess. Don’t push self-care to the back-burner. Find the steps necessary to ensure you remain happy, healthy, and at your best.
What self-care steps do you take to maintain a healthy work/life balance?
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Finding Unconventional Growth Opportunities
Living our best lives requires continual refinement, growth, and education. How are you investing in yourself?
Improve Your Writing by Celebrating the Dead
This Week In Writing, we celebrate Day of the Dead by learning from writers and ideas no longer with us. How do past writers inspire you?
Long-Haul Writing and The Art of Patience
Are you a long-haul writer, or does low engagement scare you into immediate action? Writing requires dicipline and willpower to stick around.
Give Yourself a Cookie
Freelancing is hard. Sometimes we make easily preventable mistakes, like forgetting to save before closing. When that happens, have a cookie.
Writing Is A Means Of Peace
This Week in Writing we celebrate International Day of Peace and explore how to explore other cultures and experiences in our writing.
What is Fairy Bread?
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There Is No Perfect Choice
Trying to choose the perfect anything is often a way to procrastinate and avoid making a choice.
Do You Write Across Generations?
📝 This Week’s Goal: Consider your audience and write for them.
Why It's Important To Support Each Other
Just like buildings, people need support. We need others who prop us up and hold us together. Here’s how you and I can support each other.
Do You Have A Four-Legged Writing Partner?
📝 This Week’s Goal: Check Out Medium’s Writing Contest
How Are You Taking Care Of Yourself These Days?
What do Simone Biles, Naomi Osaka, and ice cream sandwiches all have in common? I’ll give you a hint: it has to do with mental health.
The Hustle Life Is Not What You Think It Is
If looking out for your time and asking for details before taking a meeting makes me a hustler, then I’ll accept the mantle.
Reflect On The Past To Enhance Your Creativity
Reflect on three questions to focus your memories, retain details, and take your creative projects from good to extraordinary.
Am I The Nosy Neighbor?
Is being nosy that much different than being creative?
Do You Write With Your Head Down?
📝 This Week’s Goal: Find ways to trigger a deep state of flow while writing.
Ready For An Entrepreneurial Bet?
When you are your own boss, going “all in” is often necessary.
Where Do You Find Inspiration?
📝 This Week’s Goal: Don’t dismiss the power of the muse.
Ready for a blast from the past?
Everything is fun and games until someone adds you to a reunion group.
Failure To Try Is Holding You Back
Take a cue from Nike and just do it
Are You Balancing Work And Life?
While balance is especially difficult for freelance workers, it’s not impossible
The Cure For Procrastination
Hint: it’s easy when there’s an incentive on the line
Many Orlando Residents Face Food Insecurity
The Christian Service Center aims to alleviate food insecurity across Central Florida through the Daily Bread program.
We Go Together…
Combining two passions into one amazing opportunity
What Itadakimasu Means
The Japanese word can impact the way we all eat
Are You Writing For An Audience Or Authenticity?
What Emily Dickinson’s fictitious life teaches about fame