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How To Really Know What To Do As A Freelancer
These places are how I get my work done. Somewhere back in 2016, I made a firm choice to commit to only a few places, and this is how I really worked out what to do as a freelancer. I'd spend so much time looking at different blogs, videos and looking for the silver bullet. I went through a two-year space, trying to be the worlds best web copywriter, it was torture. My heart was set on it, and I could see how it would work, but it drained me. Every job was like finishing an essay for the cl
How To Make Your Reader or Client the Hero of Your Story and NOT You!
Why you need to make your reader the hero of your story and NOT you! Look I'm just so great at this story stuff! You will want to know how great I am, so just read on... DOES NOT make you want to read on. Because it is all about me and does not solve your problem, let alone spark interest. I certainly get a little vomit in my mouth when people describe themselves by boasting, bragging and telling people why you are the 'biggest', 'best', 'largest' or 'leading'. Maybe I'm just too paranoid,
My Seven Week Writing Experiment
My Little Writing Experiment So I’m always writing every day. But still have some odd aversion to hitting publish, and there is always an internal debate about what to post first. Then I massage my work and wonder if it is for this person or that person. Then I'll go and read a book about that type of blog, and then I read a blog about that type of book. After that, I’ll check the SEO for the main keyword my article was written about. Finally, I watch yet another Backlinko video to verify
Beating Writer's Block With Nelson Mandela
So There I was... I wander into the Mainyard meeting room playing with my phone and hear a cough in the corner. I look up, and Mandela is sitting in a chair in the corner of the room doodling in a notebook. Want to chat? He asks. Er, yes, I have not seen you for a while, I reply. It looked like you did not need us. Actually, I thought I did not, or rather I wanted to try it on my own for a bit. We are always here to listen, I know Gandhi and Montessori can be a bit tough at times, but theCTL ALT DEL - My 12 Week Year Reset
Where to begin? 2018 was the best year I have had for ages, but it was a year of reset, learning and working it out which was a new kind of pain for me. This blog is my way of kicking off my commitment to writing and sharing what I am working on and what I am learning in 2019. I was completely dithering around getting started so decided to eat my own dog food and ‘just do it’. Maybe you don’t know that I am part of a podcast about writing and have organised a weekly writing group in London f
How To Build Trust With Your Coworking Space Website
How Much Money Are You Leaving On The Table? I see this a lot. And don't worry it's not just you and it's not just the workspace industry. People dick around for ages looking for shortcuts, quick fixes and how 'to get in front of as many people as possible.' They hear how Richard Branson kicked off his empire with a magazine at school and now look for how to do the same trick for their coworking space. Even though they run a coworking space in 2018 and Richard was a 16 year old at a public s
How To Kill Writer's Block And Thrive
When you have to write a post, you'll want to do everything but write that blog post. It is much easier to think about stuff than writing it. The main reason only a few people do well at blogging comes down to just a few people execute and post stuff. Everyone else licks blogging wounds, looks for SEO tricks and talks about blogging, without doing much blogging. And that included me. I found it very hard to write and post stuff, but every time I ship a blog post a good thing happens. Someti
How To Get Big Changes In Just 12 Weeks
Big Changes So I have been around a lot of change over the last few weeks, in those few weeks I have been looking for a way to deal with it all. Or instead, accept it and work out what to do with it, change happens all the time, and I've got better and working out how to harness the energy and indecision that comes with it. It still affects me, but I can recognise the different types of emotions and energy coming towards me and either discard them or embrace them. This time I stalled out for
Why You Need Other People As A Freelancer
My Head Never Stops, So I Have To To function each week I need to seek a balance of solitude and connection, so I need time to both calm my head and time to connect with peers. Too much time alone and I live in my head, too much time with peers and I end up building a tower of ideas that go nowhere. A Typical Day For My Head Yesterday I read an Aeon magazine article about Nazi troopers being drunk while massacring people in towns on their quest for ethnic cleansing. When I woke up this mor
How To Get Ultimate Productivity Flow With Zenkit and NotePlan
Productivity Flow with Zenkit and NotePlan I have tried so many combinations of apps, and the one that has worked the best is using Zenkit for project planning and NotePlan for daily to-dos and calendar. (You can get the desktop version of NotePlan as part of Settapp with access to over 50 other Mac Apps, no ads or in-app purchases.) How does this work? I am going to give this a ten-year limit; I have been playing with gadgets for years so we could be here all day. Around 2009 I was early