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  • When it gets a little wacky!

    To give you an idea, here are a handful of things that help me stay on track or, in this case, get back on track.

  • Don’t look back

    In this instance, let’s look at one or two reasons why being a freelancer makes you stand out from the crowd.

  • Look again

    Still working for yourself, Charlie?

  • BY MARIA POPOVA Every night, for every human being that ever was and ever will be, the Moon rises to remind us how improbably lucky we are, each of its craters a monument of the odds we prevailed against to exist, a reliquary of the violent collisions that forged our rocky planet lush with life…

  • Help me, help you!

    Without question, the biggest obstacle to new business progress is overcoming the lack of confidence. Who can blame us? I hear you say.  After all, these past few years have been tough for many, especially those working for themselves … by themselves. Navigating an uncertain, fast-changing business landscape calls for a special kind of fortitude. Would you be surprised when I…

  • A FEATURE, guest contribution from The Marginalian by Maria Popova John Gardner on the Key to Self-Renewal Across Life and the Art of Making Rather Than Finding Meaning A person is not a potted plant of predetermined personality but a garden abloom with the consequences of chance and choice that have made them who they…

  • Isn’t that amazing?

    I must admit to being a little absent-minded recently. One project was taking up most of my thoughts and activity. In doing so, much of my routine ‘day-to-day’ assignments remained on the ‘back burner.’ Being ‘away’ from the routine has served a purpose though, it has shown me how much I get done each day! During…

  • Ditch the habit.

    easy in those shoes

  • Dip your toe …

    I clutched my bag of groceries as I clambered out of the car, just in time to meet the postie fast approaching, her own hands full of paperwork. I could tell she looked a little ‘troubled.” Before I could greet her I was handed the mail and asked … ‘Do you know the people around the…

  • Be you. The Shadow Elephant: A Tender Illustrated Fable About What It Takes to Unblue Our Sorrows and Lighten the Load of Our Heaviest Emotions BY MARIA POPOVA The strange thing about life, the wondrous thing about life, is that it is impossible to dull one hue of our emotional experience without dulling the entire…