Top tips for handling sick days as a self-employed professional and creative entrepreneur. Last year, I lost my voice almost overnight. Then, the doctors found a massive cyst on my vocal chords. It was all quite dramatic, really. They told me that if the steroids didn’t work, I’d need surgery, and that this surgery was […]
Do You Have An Unreasonable To-Do List? Here’s How To Fix It
Take the following steps if you are suffering from a to-do list that refuses to cooperate and threatens to strip away your sanity. I have 103 items on my to-do list this week. 32 of them are new. 71, I carried over from last week. I’ve been in this cycle for a while now, carrying […]
The Productivity Tip That Will Defeat Your To-Do List
If you’re looking to defeat your to-do list once and for all, here’s an approach that actually works. I’m a neurotic overachiever. If you’ve been reading this website for any length of time, this will not come as news to you. I read all the advice about self-care and setting boundaries and having a routine, […]
Find Work-Life Balance as a Writing Parent
I started thinking about work-life balance during my pregnancy. Here’s what I’ve learned in the years since then. In the years that I’ve been working with and talking to writing parents, I’ve never known a topic more fraught with emotion than work-life balance. And the guilt—the endless amount of guilt—that seems to hang over young […]
8 Ways Tracking Your Time Can Make You More Productive And Help Grow Your Business
For those of you who remain unconvinced of the merits of tracking your time, I offer the following benefits. In my first decade of freelancing, I was pretty opposed to anything to do with time tracking. My reasoning was that writers and journalists can’t reasonably be expected to track every minute of every hour of […]