Productivity and Mindset

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 […]

The most prolific and productive writers have a few traits in common. Writers write. And productive writers write routinely, efficiently, and while having a whole lot of fun.  In the decade that I’ve been writing and interacting with writers, I’ve found that the most prolific and productive writers have a few traits in common. Do […]

No matter what your difficulty or weakness, I assure you there’s a way to turn it into an advantage. Here’s how. When I first started my career as a freelance journalist, I was convinced that the fact I was based in India was a huge disadvantage when getting assignments from US and UK-based clients. I […]

So you don’t end up working during your free time. When you work from home, there will be a million different things vying for your attention—the television, Facebook, your kids, your pets, the dirty laundry, the dishes in the sink you haven’t washed since yesterday, Facebook, the nice weather, and Zoom sessions with co-workers. Oh, and did […]