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14 Ways to Maintain Your Creative Output (During a 50 Hour Work Week)

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Even though creative work is fun and rewarding, it’s still work that requires a significant amount of time, energy, and focus. Here I share 14 strategies I use to maintain my creative output while maintaining full-time employment.

The Problem With Systems

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More of the same

Systems can make your microbusiness rock, but they can also lead to stasis. This post looks at a few problems and limitations with systems creation. Read on…

One Trick for Increasing Your Happiness

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One trick for increasing your happiness is this: Take action, even if you don’t see immediate results. Click here to read more

The Happenchance Guide to Overcoming Laziness

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Laziness is a habit, but it’s also a choice. Fortunately, most people can overcome laziness by taking responsibility for themselves, making a plan, and developing good habits. This guide tells you how. Click here to read more…

Why I Stopped Being Lazy

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The Ship that Never Comes In

I’m sad to admit that I used to be lazy, though not lazy in the ‘unemployed and living in mother’s basement and playing warcraft’ sense of the word. I just didn’t try very hard. In this post, the first of two on ‘How to Stop Being Lazy,’ I discuss why I was lazy and what compelled me to change. Read more…

Nanowrimo Begins in November

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Poor egg, his head exploded

Nanowrimo: a crazy event for crazy people. Writers, are you ready? Nanowrimo begins soon. If  you don’t know, Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month) is a free, unpretentious marathon writing session  The goal is to write 50,000 words of a novel in–you guessed it–one month. Participants spend a couple hours every day working on something that [...]

How I Became a Better Writer…and You Can Too!

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The money cow

If you want to become a better writer, you need to write everyday. That’s obvious. But how can you develop the daily writing habit? Read more to find out…

How Songkran is Like Writing

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Songkran attack!

What does getting drenched in the Thai New Year festival have to do with writing? Read more to find out…

A Day in the Life of a Korean Student

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Korean School kids

How does Korea end up with high marks in almost every educational category? They work their ass off. This article offers a brief glimpse into the typical day of a fictional student, and a couple lessons we can learn from this student. Click the title to read more…

Accidents of Birth and Early Success

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Politicians pay lip service to equality and opportunity. This rhetoric plays nicely in the media. However, the reality is muddier. Even in developed, first-world nations, we’re all born into vastly different circumstances. The accident of birth could drop us from the universal uterus to a starting point in a Colorado Christian compound, a Shanghai slum, or a palace in the Pyrenees. Read more to see how we can apply this to craft….

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