Goals are not like New Year’s Resolutions, meant to be cast aside as soon as the hangover wears off. Goals come in many forms: Short term, mid term and long term.
I sat down with someone today who wanted to know my goals. Specifically she wanted to know the personal ones, but because I run my [...]

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I’ve written before about Naomi Dunford and IttyBiz. I think she’s the bees knees or the donkey’s unit or whatever.
Anyway, Naomi wants to give a workshop in the UK – live and in person, which is something she never does – before she heads back to Canada.
It has a typically Naomi-esque name: Fuck Realistic.
And if [...]

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Is there stuff that freelancers and work at home types just can’t live without? You betcha. The main one being coffee, of course. We mainline the stuff through an IV catheter in our kidneys. It’s what gives us our somewhat frightening ability to get stuff done while still being all ADD and interesting.
So I [...]

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I was in the bookstore the other day, picking up a copy of Robert Bly’s new book, 88 Money-Making Writing Jobs. I needed some new ideas on where to pitch my services, and the book has already proved useful in inspiring me to expand my search for clients.
Anyway, it was a Thursday afternoon around 2 [...]

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