Five Hints to Help You Keep Going in the Face of Perfection
Have you ever started a project based on a clear-cut, well-defned goal, only to have that goal begin to mock you as you toiled away, despairing of ever reaching it? …
How Your Dream Crew can Help your Solopreneur Meetings
The dreaded M-word. No one really wants to go to meetings: A bunch of people droning on about targets and metrics, goals and actions, grinding axes and scoring points. (What’s that …
5 Tips for The 5AM Challenge
Has it really been over a year since I last wrote about getting up early? Well, in that time my overall success at the 5AM Challenge has been spotty. For …
Expecting to Disappoint Revisited: The Tug of War
It’s been a little over six months since Kelly Gurnett published my “Reader QUIT” about expecting to disappoint on her web log, Cordelia Calls It Quits. And in that time, …
Starting Small: One Space Marine at a Time
Facebook, if you’re subscribed to the right pages or people, can become a hall of positive thinking. It’s even better than those framed motivational posters you see on folks’ office …
Why You Need to Breathe Right RIGHT NOW, SOLDIER!
Even if you’ve never been in the military (I haven’t) you’vee probably seen a war movie or two. You know the bit when the new recruit turns up for his …
What Right Have I Got To Give Anyone Advice?
I spent a bit of time on Twitter last night with an old colleague who’s moved out of town. Things haven’t gone great form her perspective; her work situation is …
Three Things Rounders Can Teach You About Following Your Passion
I mentioned in my last post that I’d been thinking about the movie Rounders lately. I’ve been thinking about making it as a freelance writer, too. And making it as an author. …
Focusing on Fun
I keep trying to work this into a post about the movie Rounders, because I’ve been taking some inspiration from it lately, but the post comes out not saying what …
The Thing-A-Week Project Plan
You know, I’ve done an awful lot of talking about making fun since I re-branded my web log to Step One: Make Fun! Yet in that time I’ve not actually made all …