It’s been a little over a year since I left my job to pursue full time blogging and freelancing. During this time, I’ve learned a lot about staying productive, avoiding burn-out, and keeping sane while working, mostly, from home. I’ve had my follies and trip ups but, for the most part, I’ve finally come to a workflow that keeps me productive. I think you could get a bit out of this post because...

Between March 3rd and the 8th, I’ll be in the thick of Mardi Gras. I’m heading back up to New Orleans for a (much needed) weeklong vacation. I didn’t want to leave you hanging so I’d like to share a few things that I’ve learned about travel over the last few months. I think it’s common to assume that travel is extremely difficult, expensive or dangerous. What I’ve found is that it simply...

Wherever you are in your online goals there’s one thing you NEED to do this very moment to guarantee this next year becomes your BREAKOUT YEAR. this kicks all kinds of ass Phase 1: Optimize Everything! Even though it’s 2011, it’s important to look back at 2010 and reflect on everything you had accomplished. For many, maybe you, it was the year you got started with your business or blog. Others...

Wow, time has been flying by so quickly that I didn’t even realize that I missed out writing about week 2 in the product creation journal; and now, week three is already in the wraps! How did I fare? Let’s find out. Week 2: I was in New Orleans Week 2 was a big down period in terms of productivity because I went to New Orleans for the week with my girlfriend. During the stay up there, we explored...

I’m sitting in front of my computer, looking at my projects I’ve created in Evernote, thinking to myself “dammit, this is entirely too much work”. I know you’re there too; every day feels like you’ve tacked on yet another item to your project. Welp, time to end all that and say ‘screw it’, it’s time to do it. Learn to let go Getting back from my...

What a week it’s been for me; I can’t even begin to describe how busy I’ve been with the product challenge, balancing work/life and a variety of other projects I’ve got going on under my belt … but I’ll try.

We have a dilemma on our hands. A question of ethical practices. A hard decision between online success and true, value driven communication. The dilemma of manufacturing social proof In an interesting discussion with Dino Dogan, the topic of social proof came into the lime light. As we both understood: Social proof is the process of building authority through transparent exposure of ones intent and...

Kevin, over at SmartIncomeBlog, has challenge us all to create a product within 30 days. With so much going on (including procrastination), you may be on the fence about finally creating your first product (it can even be a freebie too). But ya know what? I’m taking the challenge; I hope you do too.