I hear from a lot of freelancing parents who have trouble getting it all done. How can I do an interview, they ask, while the house is falling down around my ears? How do I handle mountains of laundry and my writing when I have only two hours a day while my kid naps?
Sep 27, 2010 Advice, Organization, Personal yammerings, productivity
Here it is, Day 8 of the challenge to kick the compulsive e-mail habit! I’ve been doing pretty well, though I haven’t met my goal to check in just three blocks per day. Sometimes I need to check because I’m expecting an e-mail; for example, last week a source didn’t pick up her phone at …… Click here to keep reading…
Sep 15, 2010 Motivation, Observations, Personal yammerings, productivity, Self improvement
I don’t plan to post about this challenge every day, but I definitely wanted to talk about Day One! The challenge was to check and answer e-mails in three blocks during the day. I checked at around 7 am, and while there were a few e-mails, none of them were urgent. I checked again around …… Click here to keep reading…
Sep 8, 2010 Motivation, Observations, Personal yammerings, productivity
I got a great response to my post Kicking the E-Mail Habit, where I discussed my e-mail addiction and how I’m working to beat it so I have more time and mental energy to spend on things that really matter to me. And I discovered that many other writers have the same problem!
I’m proposing a …… Click here to keep reading…
Sep 8, 2010 Motivation, News you can use, Organization, Personal yammerings, productivity, Self improvement
If you’re like me, sending and answering e-mail is a big part of your freelance job — but it’s also a huge distraction. I recently figured that on a typical work day, I check e-mail every five minutes or so; that’s almost 50 times in a four-hour work period. And although I work — that …… Click here to keep reading…
Sep 6, 2010 Advice, Cool products, Motivation, Observations, Personal yammerings, productivity, Self improvement
