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More Freelancers Feeling Secure

Small Business Labs

This is up from just 32% saying they felt more secure in 2011.  Due to layoffs, company failures, changes in corporate directions and a broader lack of corporate loyalty to their employees, they feel traditional jobs aren't secure and by comparison independent work is more secure.

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Chance the Rapper on Achieving Goals as an Independent Artist & Paying It Forward

Success

Since 2012, when Chance released his first mixtape after graduating from Jones College Prep in 2011, his promise has attracted attention from established artists eager to collaborate. What we ended up agreeing on was that merchandise would be the best way to monetize my music. That idea ended up snowballing,” Chance says. “I

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The Truth About Impostor Syndrome and How to Overcome It

Stephanie LH Calahan

Social media users have created a voyeuristic environment where we can easily get caught up in “comparisonitis.” For others, it can hold them up for their entire life. . Impostor Syndrome commonly shows up as either overperforming or underperforming. Cartoon by Lisa Rothstein. Under-Performing.

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The 2012 Productivityist Holiday Gift Guide

Productivityist

Well, if this person is a productivityist — or at least needs to look at becoming more productive — then you should give The Productivityist Holiday Gift Guide for 2012 a good look. The NeatDesk looks good, doesn’t take up a lot of room, and works great as well. The Ideaboard. This is a neat idea (pun totally intended).

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Spring cleaning the home office

Ian's Messy Desk

Documents piled up? It is now time to put things in order and implement a system that will keep this space organized until spring 2012 and beyond. File and organize: Once you’ve decided on what papers you will keep, set up a filing system that will be easy for you to follow. For the approximately 2.5 Dying plants?

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Review: The Information Diet by Clay Johnson

Productivityist

If there’s one book that is the ideal one to add to your 2012 reading list, it’s Clay Johnson’s The Information Diet. The book looks at several components of our information intake, such as drawing the comparison between what we tend to think of as a traditional diet (i.e. food) and an information diet.

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Asana vs ClickUp: Which Project Management Software is Best?

BMT Office Administration

Not only that, but keeping up with dozens of email threads is a remarkably inefficient way to handle task management, not to mention that it’s a huge hassle. ClickUp in a head-to-head comparison of their primary features, learning curve, customer support, and pricing. What is ClickUp? What is Asana? Recurring tasks. The best part?