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

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a person on a beach getting some serious rest

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.

Stop Whining and Start Grinding

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Dragon y Luna

Building your own skills is similar to building a character in an RPG (albeit far more complex and interesting). To improve your life, build your skills, and level up, you have to do some grinding. Read more…

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…

13 Things I Wish I’d Learned In University…

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North Korea is Dark at Night.

One thing I wish I’d learned at University: Without complementary skills, job prospects for liberal arts majors are as dim as North Korea at night. Click here to read 12 more…

Update from a Korean Work Camp

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Korea lanterns

Greetings from Yangpyeong County, South Korea.  I arrived here late Friday night after a 30-hour trip. As some of you know, I taught in Korea in 2009 before returning to Appalachia. Now I’m back on a six-week teaching contract. Forgive me if the title is misleading, but I couldn’t resist. I came here to work, [...]

How To Gain Two Weeks of Free Time Every Year

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Matches

Imagine you’re granted a magical power. You suddenly receive two weeks yo didn’t have before. You have no duties, no stress, no deadlines. Want to learn 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…

The Myth of Laser Focus

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During the month of September, I wanted to test the hypothesis that I would have greater focus and productivity if I only focused on one thing. Well, the results are in, and they’re not pretty. Click here to read more…

Developing the Completion Habit

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Image shows a car in a field

Generating ideas is great, but an idea never fully developed is like owning a car without wheels; it ain’t going anywhere, it’s just taking up space, and it’ll probably piss you off every time you think of it. I’ve written quite a bit about generating ideas for creative projects. The more ideas you have to [...]

One Important Question

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Working on projects and goals, it’s really easy to become bogged down in a labyrinth of tasks and actions that aren’t as important as they seem. Some of these tasks are so time-sucking, their value so miniscule, that they aren’t even worth doing. At the same time, they feel like they’re worth doing because, well, [...]

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