Beyond the Rhetoric

Every small business owner has likely asked him or herself this question at some point: Should you work with and for your friends? Now, I’m not really discussing the matter of becoming business partners with your friends. Instead, I’m much more taking the perspective of a service provider like that of a consultant, graphic designer, [...]

What do you know now that you wish you knew then? It’s a question that gets asked of many people at many different stages in their lives and I’ve found myself looking in the mirror about this query. I’ve been a professional freelance writer for five years and, it makes me wonder, what would I [...]

Part of the reason why someone would want to be a freelance writer in the first place is that he or she would then be able to enjoy more location freedom and time freedom than someone who held a more conventional office job. At the same time, this relative lack of structure just may be [...]

Yes, I realize this is a somewhat strange request and that it is almost a rhetorical question, but just bear with me for a few moments. It seems that both I and Colin Dean are afflicted with the same condition: we don’t know how to relax. We just can’t do it. While it may appear [...]

Yes, the title to today’s blog post was heavily inspired by a certain song from the 1980s, but I feel that the core message behind the title is even more relevant today. As I’m sure you’ve already noticed, most of us spend the lion’s share of our days working. That seems like the nature of [...]