Month: August 2014
4 Ways to Deal with Criticism
As freelancers, we get up close and personal with new acquaintances very quickly. We go from cordially greeting a businessperson and exchanging pleasantries to sending that person the work for which they’ve hired us in a dizzying space of time. Whether we’re designing graphics, preparing spreadsheets, writing copy, whatever ourRead More
5 Secrets to Stop Worrying
Worry is a very bad habit that keeps us trapped in anticipation, fearing that bad things may happen and expecting the worst. It is more than an aggravating tendency, it is a waste of good energy that could be put into more productive pursuits. The great American philanthropist Dale CarnegieRead More
7 Secrets to Faster Writing
One of the main qualities of a good freelance writer is their ability to not only write well but to write quickly. This is especially true if you are at the beginning of your writing career. You must learn how to write faster because you need to write more; you are getting paidRead More
3 Ways to Beat Decision Fatigue
Decisions, decisions. Sometimes it feels like our lives are one big set of decisions strung together between meals and sleeping. Maybe that’s because on average all of us are asked to make more than 100 small to medium decisions every day — just in our personal lives. If you areRead More
Trends: Office of the Future
In the last 50 years there have been dramatic changes in how working space has been provided to employees. Once, almost everybody who was somebody had an office and almost all of them had windows. Eventually this was winnowed down to open space design and cubicles. Now it appears weRead More
Is an MBA Still Worth it? 4 Ways It Helps
It used to be a given that getting an MBA degree was a sure way to also gain access to the executive suite. But times have certainly changed in recent years, and while an MBA is still an asset, it no longer has the cachet that it once claimed inRead More
5 Ways to Sleep Better
There is now a lot of scientific evidence that we are not getting enough sleep and not only is that making us grumpy in the morning, it is costing the global economy billions of dollars in lost productivity. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control has estimated thatRead More