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3 Ways to Become More Productive by Drawing on Your Inner Artist When most people talk about productivity, they speak of lists and priorities and contexts, but I've rarely heard anyone mention the possibilities of drawing. "Drawing?" you might be thinking, …

What do you know for sure that just ain't so? | Awake At The Wheel | Small Business | Personal Growth Open Thread: What Do You Wish You Knew When You Started? : Freelance Folder Do The Unthinkable – The Scott Rigsby Interview — mytropicalescape.com One of …

Last night I was up a little late and decided to browse through my RSS feeds before going to bed. Imagine my excitement when I discovered that Christine the Self Made Chick has just released a brand new ebook! It's called How I Built a Profitable Freelance Business for Under …

Photo by nattu (license) "It's not what you know…" Countless articles, books, and blog entries have been written on the subject of networking over the years. I've read my fair share of them. But many of them also make me a bit queasy. Even if the tactics …

Here is another list of great links from around the web. On Asking Questions — Jarkko Laine – Insanely interested If you're like me and hesitate to ask for things from other people, you need to read this post. Eric's Archived Thoughts: Resetting …

Photo by prakhar (license) Recently, I was reading about Leo's concept of Haiku Productivity at Zen Habits, and it occurred to me, "Wouldn't it be great if instead of Haiku Productivity, there was a whole collection of productivity tips in haiku form?" Yes, …

Announcement first. On Tuesday morning I will be publishing a collection of productivity tips. What's so unusual about that? First, they're all written in poetry. Second, one of them is a productivity poem by Leo of Zen Habits. Now on to the links… A Guide to …

Hey guys. Just wanted to let you all know that I have a guest post up at FreelanceFolder: Avoid Freelance Horror – 6 Lessons from Stephen King. I'm quite excited about it. If you aren't already subscribed to FreelanceFolder, you should go read it and look around the …

Photo by photocapy (license) Once upon a time, it was thought that having a familiarity with good fiction was an important part of being a well rounded individual. But many people now seem to deride this cultural literacy as unnecessary and irrelevant to the …

Here are a handful of links that I found interesting and useful over the past week or so. Web Worker Daily's new book looks especially interesting to me. A One Bucket System: The Ultimate Productivity Heresy at LifeClever ;-) Tips for Design and Life mytropicalescape.com …

Photo by Denn (license) Imagine standing at the foot of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Looking up at this enormous structure, it might seem impossible that human beings could do this all by hand. How did they do it? One block at a time. One very BIG block at a time. A lot of the …

Photo by gadl (license) Being the holidays, you might think that I'd take some time off. And you'd be right about that. But that doesn't mean that I haven't been productive. In fact, I find that holidays are often a great time to get a few of those nagging …

While catching up on my RSS feeds, I ran across a challenge from Shane of Shane & Peter. The challenge is pretty simple: interview yourself with some questions from Shane, and add an original question of your own. Shane, I accept your challenge. :-) What's your personal …

Finding domain names is getting harder by the day and is amongst the most frustrating things a person can do. You come up with a brilliant name that is going to be fabulous for marketing and branding, you start to get attached to it, then you search and find that either an obscure …

There are obviously a lot of questions that you should be thinking about when hiring a web designer, but here are three that you might not have considered yet. 1. Does the web designer just do code (HTML, CSS, etc.) or does he also design the visual aspect of the site? There are …