Productivity and Mindset

The biggest one? Finish what you start. If you want to learn, teach. I’d have laughed at the simplicity of that statement a few years ago, but I’ve found lately that every time I help someone else, I end up learning something myself. The 30 Days, 30 Queries course, the first session of which we […]

How’s how to keep the “free” in your career as a freelancer. Among the many reasons given by people who leave their full-time jobs to become independent freelance writers, the most common is to find more freedom. Independence from schedules. The ability to be one’s own boss. Being able to go watch a movie in […]

Questions to answer honestly so you can fix those patterns before the next year rolls around. At the start of this new year, like at the start of every new year, I came across dozens of articles about setting achievable writing goals, challenging myself to do new things, fixing measurable standards, and working towards them. […]

My top tips on how to give yourself a break, gleaned of course, from three decades of self-flagellation. I have a real problem with goal setting and accountability. It’s not that I don’t set goals or that I’m not accountable, it’s that I set goals that are too ambitious and beat myself bloody when I […]

If you want to elevate your career, you need the space and time to think. My sickness in early July meant I didn’t really have the time to think about plans, goals, achievements, and losses for the first half of the year. However, the moment I was back up on my feet again, I decided […]