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By: Made Redundant | Living in Debt

Made Redundant | Living in Debt — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:36:34 +0000

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By: Mghmg

Mghmg — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:19:29 +0000

Wow Nice Article

Thanks

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By: Pamela Hilliard Owens

Pamela Hilliard Owens — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:42:47 +0000

Excellent article! Since officially starting my business in July 2008, things have really expanded and grown into areas I never thought of before! Now I must bring more focus and discipline into my work-from-home schedule. Point in fact: it is a beautiful Saturday and I will be inside at my desk finishing a couple of projects that should have been done already. But they are due on Monday, so work I must.

This post is a keeper!

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My Freelance Journey: 12 Things I’ve Learned Along the Way … — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:54:51 +0000

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By: Nikhil

Nikhil — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:39:22 +0000

Hi Glen,

Can you tell me the link of your Tattoo Site??

By: Nikhil

Nikhil — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:36:24 +0000

One more point,

A MUST READ Article for all the beginners in freelancing business.

By: Solomon

Solomon — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:35:20 +0000

Hi Glen,
It’s a wonderful article! It’s one inspiring story, and thanks for sharing!

By: Vjekoslav Ratkajec

Vjekoslav Ratkajec — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:55:09 +0000

Hi Glen, great artice!

I know how you feel, I’ve been working and studying for 3 years now. It’s very hard when you have to choose which will you do first. My success on college has been determined a lot by choices I make in business area. Sometimes I was so swarmed with work that I had to drop things for college, or not to make to deadline. And it is hard to focus on one thing. Also I had, what I call “freelance breakdown”, when all the work was overwhelming, and caused me to do bad on college, and not to work for whole 2 months. I needed time for myself.

By: Laurie Phillips@Dead Company Club

Laurie Phillips@Dead Company Club — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:40:01 +0000

This post is great.

I’ve found that to keep solid relationships I have to make the effort to stay in touch. I also recognize that I’m pretty isolated working from home. So I meet with former colleagues or clients on a regular basis, at least two a week, for coffee or lunch. They give me ideas and perspectives that I don’t see in my little world.

I also have to work to “refill the creativity bucket” by reading all kinds of things: classics, magazines, non-fiction, blogs: many which that have little or no relationship to my work. I can apply some of this otherwise unused knowledge to my writing. For instance, I was reading Thoreau’s Walden while working on a blog post about managing expenses while unemployed. I wrote about his unusual sense of living on the cheap to inspire laid-off readers (http://www.deadcompanyclub.com/2009/03/18/brilliant-and-broke/) to look at their own living habits.

Finally, I need to take some time off and just do something different every so often. I’ll go thrift shopping and give myself a $5 limit, eat lunch in the park or go to a gallery opening. It helps me keep my tendency to over-focus in check.