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How Freelancing Can Help Start Your Business

Productivity Bits

Negotiating. Freelancers, however, must negotiate price, deadlines, and other details of their jobs all the time. As a result, freelancers are masters of professional development–eager to learn and willing to abandon outdated ways. Please grab my free productivity ebook! Versatility. Image courtesy of photos.com.

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5 Reasons Being Self Employed Sucks

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This is especially true when it comes to finances, as many of the benefits that we take for granted were collectively bargained for through years of protest and negotiation. The most difficult part of dealing with an unsteady income is learning how to manage your money. Please grab my free productivity ebook!

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The Most Important Trait To Boost Your Productivity

Productivityist

The key to advanced productivity lies in the power of learning. Back in 2011, I took the time to learn new techniques in Microsoft Excel through a course. The methods I learned there have gave me greater confidence and speed (i.e. The methods I learned there have gave me greater confidence and speed (i.e.

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How I Get My (Blog) Ideas

The Marq

You need to have a regular schedule that's non-negotiable and dedicated to this activity. I have to at least bring back what I’m learning in each block of time and make some notes or actually write an article. This requires being curious about a lot of unrelated things and using various resources to learn about them.

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Taming Monkey Number 10: Talk Less, Do More

Brilliantly Better

That was the biggest lesson I learned by taming the 10th monkey. Since the lesson is learned, I think it’s safe to make a short recap of what I actually did during October. And, most important, learn to laugh at it, instead of controlling the outcome. If I feel I have to write 3 posts per day, I’ll do it. Life Unfolding.

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77 Things I Did In 2010

Brilliantly Better

Wrote 4 Ebooks In One Month. But the whole process was fun and I learned a lot about how to measure your effort when starting such a task. I confess now that the game took only 15 hours of coding (including some learning of Lua). I used mainly to learn and test the AppStore submission process. In no particular order.

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The Subtle Comfort Of The Discomfort Zone

Brilliantly Better

Over the years I slowly learned the subtle science of feeling good in my discomfort zone. For that, I had to learn Objective C from scratch and implement myself all the functionality I needed. For instance, in my social life (again) every day spent at the office is a day of learning. We’re somehow friends. Well, I dont.

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